Ok, the talk of dog anuses reminded me of a Native legend. Yes, it’s a real Native legend, albeit a silly one.
Ever wonder why dogs always sniff each other’s assholes?
One day all the animals were called to the lodge for a council meeting. As the animals were entering the lodge, the dogs were stopped. They were told that they had the smelliest assholes of all the animals and might offend the others in attendance, so could they please hang their assholes up at the door? The dogs were a little offended but did as they were told.
During the meeting a spark popped out of the fire and landed on the wall of the lodge. Nobody noticed until smoke started coming out. Everyone panicked and headed for the door. In the confusion, the dogs just grabbed a random asshole on the way out without checking to see whose was whose.
So today, when you see a dog sniffing another dog’s ass, he’s really saying, “Have you got my asshole?”
The last time I was shoulder deep in a cow or horse was back in vet school. Even back then (mid 80s) we had shoulder lenth gloves, however at the end of the day the odor had transgressed the barrier. I do not miss having a right arm that reeked of cow shit.
Here’s how I see it. If you weigh someone’s need to see dog genitals on TV against the possibility someone’s gramma might be offended. I say err in favor of gramma. But of course that’s just me.
The way I see it is that TV shouldn’t worry about causing me or gramma offense, but rather that I or gramma should rely on ourselves to protect our own sensibilities. People have a hard time growing up if culture insists on over-parenting them.
I still think I could make a fortune marketing dog anus snoods, though.
I don’t entirely agree. Television is a business, and your dollar is as good as your gramma’s dollar. A television has every right to go after whatever audience it thinks is most lucarative, and if they decide that there’s more money to be made from the audience that doesn’t want to look at a canine anus than there is from the audience that doesn’t mind seeign (or actively wants to see) a doggy butthole, then they’re well within their rights to go after that more lucrative audience.
In short, TV does need to worry about offending their audience, if they want to keep that audience. It’s the government and the professional busybodies like James Dobson and Jack Thompson who need to mind their own business, and let the media cater to the demands of whatever audience they think they can most effectively reach.
Blast business! Whatever happened to caring about peoples feelings.
If said gramma is cruising along watching said program, the genitalia pop up and what? Now she changes the channel.When it’s too late? :rolleyes:
I watched that episode of Dirty Jobs last night. The shaving didn’t bother me but watching him take care of a dog’s anal glands made me ill. I’m quite glad that they blurred that out, didn’t really need to see anal pus getting squeezed out and squirted all over the place.
Then perhaps you shouldn’t watch a show called Dirty Jobs. I don’t know how’d you deal with the myriad segments involving some new and exotic form of shit.
Me, I like to watch episodes of Dirty Jobs and Mythbusters during dinner.
Boy doggies have nipples? Heck, our female dog at three years old doesn’t seem to have any. (I’m guessing early neutering has something to do with that.)
But yes, it does seem odd that they can show a turd floating in the sewer, but not show a dog’s butt.
It’s not that I go looking for pictures of dog dick, I just think it’s silly to blur it out. They could put a warning on after the commercial break, saying, “OMG they might totally have nekkid animals with like boners and stuff!!!11!!! Change the channel if you are a l4m3r 5|_|xx0r!!!11!1!”
I am cowed by your cunning use of faux-leetspeak. Your inane mixture of letters, numbers, and random punctuation has roundly defeated my secret puritanical scheme to sanitize American media by removing any hint of animal nudity from television. Had my plan proceeded beyond pixelated dog cocks, I would one day have realized my ultimate goal of putting pants on Donald Duck. Well, you win this round, Mr. sturmhawke. Enjoy your victory… while it lasts!
Many moons ago, I saw a comedian who showed a short clip of an amoeba undergoing asexual reproduction, while “Let’s Get It On” (or some such song, I forget which) played in the background. The comedian went on to explain that that clip had been censored from a TV special he had just done. Apparently the network was concerned about inciting the lustful desires of amoebaphiles.
Er, thanks? I wasn’t aware we were sparring, I was more making fun of the network. But if you were to put pants on Donald Duck, what kind would they be? I’m thinking something like this.
Which reminds me, they need to pull those Charmin ads showing bears in the woods. Next thing you know, they’ll show them wearing bishop’s mitres
sorry…
Seriously however, I’ve always been amazed they could use bears to advertise toilet paper, due to the obvious allusion to a saying and a joke that are quite coarse to say the least.
One thing I found rather amusing is that they went through the trouble of blurring out the stallion’s erection, but didn’t do anything about the mare’s vagina.
You heard it, folks- downright sexism by the Discovery Channel! Apparently you can show a man fisting a mare, but not masturbating a stallion.
