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[thirty2flavors]

So um. What's with the magical "you are about to view content that may only be suitable for adults -- oh you're not 18 stfu!" thing that has suddenly appeared in my flist? How's lj working this one? Is it something you do or just something they've implemented, er, somehow?

I am unusually irritated, considering it's not even like I actively seek out adult content, really. I mean, whatever, I'm 18 in a month and I can just change my age on LJ, but still, hey, fuck off, livejournal.

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[lady-ceky.livejournal.com]

Exactly! I've been the same, only I now have like, a year and a half till I'm eighteen. And I'm pissed because sometimes people use the wrong ratings, or there is only one scene in the whole fic that is "inappropriate" so the whole fic gets banned. And the fact that I am actally over the age of consent (because it's 16 in NZ), yet I'm not allowed to read sexy-time fics really annoys me...
/rant

[http://users.livejournal.com/_thirty2flavors/]

Yeah I'm 18 in literally a month - the 29th of December -- so it's not a *big* deal, but it reminds me of how back in the day I always used to lie about being 13 in order to sign up for websites, lol. And I just tweaked my age so now I'm apparently turning 19 in a month, but still. It sort of irks me that I had to do even that.

Ratings are screwed up. I don't understand. They're different across every country and the FF.net ones are retarded. Plus what some people consider "harsh language" might not be what I consider harsh language. *shrug*

And technically yeah, I'm above age of consent too - it's like 14 or something here, lol. Good old Canada. While I understand it's because LJ is presumably an American site, it annoys me that they impose the American sense of "what is appropriate".

I recently watched the British version of The Office online, and it astounds me the sort of things they can say on TV that we in North America can't. It also irritates me. I don't get what North America's problem with sex is. We can show TV shows like CSI on prime time that have bloody corpses and brutal, messed up murders, but we can't say "vagina"? Wtf?

*dies*

[lady-ceky.livejournal.com]

OH! it's just annoying. Like I say, what really annoys me is that I'm over the age of consent and yet b/c I don't life in the States...
And I know what you mean RE:british TV, like here we can say so much more, Americans are always amazed when they get here and are all "what?! all you can't say is fuck and cunt?!"

[http://users.livejournal.com/_thirty2flavors/]

I forget what it is we can't say here -- I say "here" because while I'm Canadian, the American + Canadian television is inextricably linked and to be honest most Canadians watch American television only because Canadian tv sucks -- but it's ridiculous. George Carlin, if you've ever heard of him, did a routine about it called 'seven words you can't say on television' or something. They might've changed since his day, not sure.

But seriously. Censors need to chill out. They take no issue with violence but if it mentions sex, HOLY SHIT, get the children out of the room. Ignore the fact that sex is (primarily) healthy and normal while murder and extreme violence is entirely the opposite, but you know...

[lady-ceky.livejournal.com]

Yeah... I know what you mean.

Fuck You Censors, justSTFU!