Quick! Everybody overreact!

Ung! Ung! Take that!

Well thank Christ we are banning VHS tapes. Up next, punch cards!

Klein contacted her assemblyman, Dov Hikind -- and he's now demanding that local libraries ban all VHS tapes.

Way to over react there sport.

Well, he was frozen for 30 years. He had to see if his bits and pieces were still working.

"ban all VHS tapes"

"unbelievable chutzpah,"

Not sure which statement is more hilarious.

Oh god, I bet she sounds exactly like Howard's mom in Big Bang Theory

Bored Horde: Oh god, I bet she sounds exactly like Howard's mom in Big Bang Theory

Okay, that made me laugh.

Gwendolyn: Way to over react there sport.

Not even close. I demand all libraries be closed at once! THINK OF THE CHILDREN!

I'm going to try to work in the word "chutzpah" in at least 1 conversation today. And do it with the proper pronunciation. And I'll bring a towel for my conversational companion. He'll need it.

But Hikind said that showed "unbelievable chutzpah," and added that therapists have warned that children can suffer lasting psychological damage from exposure to pornography.

I'd look for a citation on that, but my local library has been closed.

Mmmelonie Diaz

What's VHS?

/Seriously, I thought that they actually stopped producing any VHS devices sometime last year.

I still have sex over a telegraph.

TAPPITY TAP!

People still rent video TAPES? At libraries?

Holy crap.

Diogenes: But Hikind said that showed "unbelievable chutzpah," and added that therapists have warned that children can suffer lasting psychological damage from exposure to pornography.

I'd look for a citation on that, but my local library has been closed.

Welcome to the land of the stupid. Currently our population is you, Mrs. Hikind.

As if kids haven't seen animals fark since the beginning of goddamn time.

But Hikind said that showed "unbelievable chutzpah," and added that therapists have warned that children can suffer lasting psychological damage from exposure to pornography.

I had seen my fair share of scramble porn as a kid.

/may explain my skewed views

NewportBarGuy: Well thank Christ we are banning VHS tapes. Up next, punch cards!

My kids have been sending and receivng pornographic messages by telegraph! We must BAN all telegraph machines!

I didn't realize that Austin Powers was a children's movie to begin with.

In other news people still rent VHS tapes.

Things got weird, didn't they?

dead_dangler: I didn't realize that Austin Powers was a children's movie to begin with.

Oh, behave!!

I bet the person who did it used a car to drop the tape off, quick, ban all cars!

A Brooklyn grandma got more than she'd bargained for when she rented a copy of "Austin Powers" from her local library and found it spliced with long pornographic scenes.

1) How did she know that they were long scenes (note: plural) if she didn't watch the whole thing.

2) How "long" were they, grammy?

/Methinks she doth protesteth too mucheth.

mattharvest: What's VHS?

/Seriously, I thought that they actually stopped producing any VHS devices sometime last year.

Someone hasn't been to their local library for awhile. While you can check out semi-new DVDs and CDs, you can also step right into 1976.

Tyler Durden wanted for questioning.

Walker: In other news people still rent VHS tapes.

Well yeah, grandmas... But I don't know if we should really consider them 'people'...

dead_dangler: I didn't realize that Austin Powers was a children's movie to begin with.

according MPAA

Rated PG-13 for nudity, sex-related dialogue and humor.

so will the kids have to be put down now, i mean put to sleep, now that their entire LIVES have been RUINED by seeing people have sex?

or will they just have to have their eyes removed?

I see a Fox News Expose' coming up. It's the liberal elite library system holding down the rigid uptight grannies.

dead_dangler: I didn't realize that Austin Powers was a children's movie to begin with.

The tent scene in AP2 is especially geared toward children.

/laugh me child-like arse off at that one, when drinking.

dead_dangler: I didn't realize that Austin Powers was a children's movie to begin with.

Thats what I was thinking, you rented borrowed austin powers. Thats not exactly clean humour to begin with. Such whargarrble over it is kinda funny though

FTFA--therapists have warned that children can suffer lasting psychological damage from exposure to pornography.

NOW, Yes, NOW I know what has happened to me.

"Whut?"

I don't think that banning the VHS tapes is enough. Children might, one day, walk past a building that had once housed a VHS copy of a movie that contained some nudity. I think that it's clear what we must do...we must kill the librarians in their sleep (as they were accomplises in this travisty), burn the library to the ground, and then salt the earth so that nothing might ever grow there again.

mytdawg: I see a Fox News Expose' coming up. It's the liberal elite library system holding down the rigid uptight grannies.

Bill O'Reily wharrgarbl in 3...2...1...

'Rent' from the library? Way to go, free marketers!

Here, we just borrow things at the library. It's free.

therapists have warned that children can suffer lasting psychological damage from exposure to pornography.

This just in, girls have cooties and are yucky.
Everyone, be well.

Sin_City_Superhero: I don't think that banning the VHS tapes is enough. Children might, one day, walk past a building that had once housed a VHS copy of a movie that contained some nudity. I think that it's clear what we must do...we must kill the librarians in their sleep (as they were accomplises in this travisty), burn the library to the ground, and then salt the earth so that nothing might ever grow there again.

Ned: Excuse me, neighbor. I couldn't help but notice, you picked pretty much all of my flowers!
Homer: Can't make a float without flowers.
Ned: Oh, sure. But did you have to salt the earth so nothing would ever grow again?
Homer: Heh-heh, heh-heh ... yeah.

nobodys_goose: I still have sex over a telegraph.

TAPPITY TAP!

--. .. --. --. .. - - -.--

Rocket Balls: 'Rent' from the library? Way to go, free marketers!

Here, we just borrow things at the library. It's free.

Yeah...but does your library have movies on VHS, yet?

dead_dangler Quote 2009-07-14 10:41:32 AM
I didn't realize that Austin Powers was a children's movie to begin with.

THIS...FTFA she was showing it to kids as young as 7. So she was freaked out enough to call her assemblyman about the porn at the end, but I guess all the innuendo, sexual references, scantily clad women and a 95% naked Mike Myers were OK for her grandkids...dumbass. Sounds like a farkin busybody to me.

NewportBarGuy: Well thank Christ we are banning VHS tapes. Up next, punch cards!

Or 8-tracks.

Is this a library from the 80's?

Very shagadelic.

"No Granadma, NOOOoooooooooooo"

kids being 'damaged' by porn is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard of.

and yeah, go ahead and ban VHS rentals from libraries. You're only hurting yourself, everyone else has DVD players already. Besides, who 'rents' Austin Powers anyway? you can buy a vhs copy for $3 at Walmart.

kvinesknows: dead_dangler: I didn't realize that Austin Powers was a children's movie to begin with.

according MPAA

Rated PG-13 for nudity, sex-related dialogue and humor.

Sex-related dialogue????? Why wasn't she thinking of the children!!?!?!?!

Nick Nostril: --. .. --. --. .. - - -.--

You put in an extra "T". I think there's only one "T" in "GIGGITY".

Dov Hikind is now demanding that we ban VHS tapes?

Dov Hikind is the same cackbag who wants to ban inclusion of gypsies, gays and others from the Holocaust memorials.

Why don't we ban that piece of garbage Dov Hikind?

I wonder how long ago the porn got put on the tape. I'm assuming it wasn't literally spliced but someone covered up the write-protect hole and dubbed onto the tape. Classic prank, like 20 years ago. I doubt too many people are set up to copy VHS to VHS anymore.

Grandma should be shot in the head, and I know just who's up to the task.

I'll bet she was randy, baby. YEAH!

Before it's over, she'll want One Million Dollars for the damages to her precious snowflakes that she just corrupted. Not by showing them porn but by showing them an awful pseudo comedy. She should have to pay for having bad taste. I wouldn't show that to a kid I actually liked.

FTFA: "But Hikind said that showed "unbelievable chutzpah," and added that therapists have warned that children can suffer lasting psychological damage from exposure to pornography."

I think the Assemblyman is jewish. Or possibly has some jewish relatives or friends.

I guess we are going to have to ban books as well.. What's to stop from sicko jackass from taping porno pictures into a book?

nobodys_goose: I still have sex over a telegraph.

TAPPITY TAP!

Wanna see my straight key?



Seriously, I just used the identical key to talk with a fellow in Indianapolis, IN just last night.

Last week, I used it to talk to a guy in Romania and a couple of guys in Hungary.

I honestly haven't tried to have Morse sex, a primitive form of 'sexting' using Q and Z signals and prosigns, but apparently it has been done (still trying to find the page where I read about it).

ihatedumbpeople:
kids being 'damaged' by porn is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard of.

Maybe it fell on their heads?

Besides, who 'rents' Austin Powers anyway? you can buy a vhs copy for $3 at Walmart.

But then you're stuck with the movie when you're done. I think when you rent Austin Powers you are actually paying for the library to take it back when you finish. It's like a hooker...you don't pay for the sex, you pay her to leave afterwards.

A man flashed my children while they were walking to school. I had no idea humans could be so nude.

BAN... ALL... HUMANS...!!!!

I've had this happen to me before. I had to watch some obscure African independent film for a college course I was taking. Blockbuster and Hollywood Video had never heard of it, so I went and got it from the local place. About 2/3 of the way through, a pretty hardcore three-way jumped in and played for about two minutes before continuing back to the movie.

Me, the video clerk, and the guy behind me in line all thought it was hilarious when I brought it up as I was returning it. I have no idea what happened to the tape after that, but hopefully they rented it to this lady.

Probably just wasn't her bag.

Klein contacted her assemblyman, Dov Hikind -- and he's now demanding that local libraries ban all VHS tapes.

I know this has probably already been mentioned, but fark this guy.

dittybopper: nobodys_goose: I still have sex over a telegraph.

TAPPITY TAP!

Wanna see my straight key?



Seriously, I just used the identical key to talk with a fellow in Indianapolis, IN just last night.

Last week, I used it to talk to a guy in Romania and a couple of guys in Hungary.

I honestly haven't tried to have Morse sex, a primitive form of 'sexting' using Q and Z signals and prosigns, but apparently it has been done (still trying to find the page where I read about it).

I will not contribute to your decline further. Why have another me out in the world? Make your own way, my son.

BenJammin: I guess we are going to have to ban books as well.. What's to stop from sicko jackass from taping porno pictures into a book?

One could have a field day with the Dr. Seuss book "Oh, The Places You'll Go!"

By KIRSTEN POWERS

"Heheh, you know who we should get to report on this Austin Powers story? HEY, KIRSTEN! GET OVER HERE! We need you over at Borough Park right away!"
"But... I'm about to take a call from a source who has cast-iron proof that a top-ranking official has been selling illegal weapons to the Middle East!"
"Forget that, this is loads funnier"

Actually im surprised no one actually mentioned this:

In a library, you can find books on anatomy AND (oh my gosh!) Sexuality including (gasp!) gay and lesbian sexuallity.

BURN ALL BOOKS!

/freakin hitler wannabe

You rent/barrow a VHS you get what you deserve.

Diogenes: But Hikind said that showed "unbelievable chutzpah," and added that therapists have warned that children can suffer lasting psychological damage from exposure to pornography.

That's bullshiat! I grew up just fi....maybe we should look into this.

PonceAlyosha:
Welcome to the land of the stupid. Currently our population is you, Mrs. Hikind.

Pretty sure Dov Hikind is a "he" - Dov is a common name in Israel meaning "Bear" IIRC

This is horrible - someone still watches Austin Powers? That movie is like a good fart - it's funny at first, but once the novelty wears off it just stinks.

She's complaining about pr0n at the end of the movie, and not about the movie itself?

also austin powers and a seven year old? Not sure he would fully understand the movie... Nor should he.

Why is she showing a PG-13 movie to a 7-year-old?

medius: therapists have warned that children can suffer lasting psychological damage from exposure to pornography.

Yeah, right. Like we gonna listen to The Rapists view of all this crap. Rapists should be keel-hauled in jello pudding.

Klein contacted her assemblyman, Dov Hikind -- and he's now demanding that local libraries ban all VHS tapes.

You know people can potentially write inside of books. Why not remove books from libraries to ensure children aren't possibly exposed to vulgarity or inartistic pictures of female breasts and genitalia or crudely drawn mustaches? What is my problem with mustaches? Why, the crudely drawn mustache is reminiscent of such villainy as Snidely Whiplash, who constantly glorifies bondage and sadism, what with tying attractive young women to train tracks.

But Hikind said that showed "unbelievable chutzpah," and added that therapists have warned that children can suffer lasting psychological damage from exposure to pornography.

Wait...therapists? If you're going to make an unsubstantiated and inaccurate claim you could at least use an authority with actual authority.

CeroX: BURN ALL BOOKS!

I think you're on to something here. Books can also have bad words written in them, have photos inserted between pages, etc. Better get rid of them books.

/Penis

That was "Austin Powers, Golden Shower".

I understand that it is possible to alter a VHS tape to include pornography. I also understand that books can undergo a similar process.

/this slope isn't very slippery

Vangor:

*shakes fist*

costas: By KIRSTEN POWERS

"Heheh, you know who we should get to report on this Austin Powers story? HEY, KIRSTEN! GET OVER HERE! We need you over at Borough Park right away!"
"But... I'm about to take a call from a source who has cast-iron proof that a top-ranking official has been selling illegal weapons to the Middle East!"
"Forget that, this is loads funnier"

It's about porn: They should have got Bridget Powerz to report on it.

ihatedumbpeople: kids being 'damaged' by porn is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard of.

and yeah, go ahead and ban VHS rentals from libraries. You're only hurting yourself, everyone else has DVD players already. Besides, who 'rents' Austin Powers anyway? you can buy a vhs copy for $3 at Walmart.

Not the directors cut like Grammy got

medius: Diogenes: But Hikind said that showed "unbelievable chutzpah," and added that therapists have warned that children can suffer lasting psychological damage from exposure to pornography.

That's bullshiat! I grew up just fi....maybe we should look into this.

Hey, just because I can't get aroused without porn....and a ball gag, back of clothespins, and latex butt plug....

Sorry. I'll be in my bunk.

Is it wrong that the thought of VHS porn made me kind of sentimental?

Oh yeah, and I could tell it was taped over by the pixels...

MBooda: Probably just wasn't her bag.

You know, whoever made that missed the joke. On the Penis Pump Enlarger in the movie the speech balloon on the box read "This sort of thing IS my bag, baby!" You know, to contrast with his embarrassed protestations to the contrary.

Grams should be tied down and subject to german shizer videos.

Nick Nostril: nobodys_goose: I still have sex over a telegraph.

TAPPITY TAP!

--. .. --. --. .. - - -.--



Such vulgarity from you will not be tolerated...I demand the admins ban you for your NSFW dashes and dots

Now, someone tell me again how those of us in flyover country are a bunch of reactionary prudes unlike the oh-so-cool denizens of the Big Apple.

/"Our Bodies, Ourselves" was GOLD back in the day before one in three girls decided to get nekkid on the intertubes.

tuna fingers: mattharvest: What's VHS?

/Seriously, I thought that they actually stopped producing any VHS devices sometime last year.

Someone hasn't been to their local library for awhile. While you can check out semi-new DVDs and CDs, you can also step right into 1976.

Depends where you live. In my town, we have a *great* selection of DVDs (rented out for a week each, max 3 at a time), including most BBC releases, Penn and Teller BS, and a selection of other videos I enjoy. We have almost as many CDs, however, those tend to be religious or holiday themed. We have 0 VHS. No room, since we have the DVDs and CDs.

HugeMidget: Now, someone tell me again how those of us in flyover country are a bunch of reactionary prudes unlike the oh-so-cool denizens of the Big Apple.

/"Our Bodies, Ourselves" was GOLD back in the day before one in three girls decided to get nekkid on the intertubes.

You're a bunch of prudes because you think "Our Bodies, Our Selves" is sexxay, meanwhile New Yorkers are splicing pr0n into PG-13 movies rented out by the public library.

Newt13: I had seen my fair share of scramble porn as a kid.

/may explain my skewed views



/relevant

dittybopper: nobodys_goose: I still have sex over a telegraph.

TAPPITY TAP!

Wanna see my straight key?



Seriously, I just used the identical key to talk with a fellow in Indianapolis, IN just last night.

Last week, I used it to talk to a guy in Romania and a couple of guys in Hungary.

I honestly haven't tried to have Morse sex, a primitive form of 'sexting' using Q and Z signals and prosigns, but apparently it has been done (still trying to find the page where I read about it).

I'm not into CW yet, but I'm going to guess there's a few uses of QRU QRP and QRQ involved...

/Studying with the koch method
//heh heh... koch.

"...therapists have warned that children can suffer lasting psychological damage from exposure to pornography."

Or at least hairy palms...

mofomisfit: rented out by the public library

Pet peeve -- you don't 'rent' from the library -- rent is either the money paid in return for use of an item, or the action of paying for the item.

Libraries are free. You borrow, or check out from the library. If your library is renting out materials, they are doing it wrong.

Gwendolyn: Klein contacted her assemblyman, Dov Hikind -- and he's now demanding that local libraries ban all VHS tapes.

Way to over react there sport.

He initially wanted to nuke the libraries from orbit...but no one was going for that.

Am I the only one who can see this ladies point? It comes down to the fact that they can't guarantee the tape hasn't been dubbed over whereas it's highly unlikely that a DVD would have that done. Keep the educational stuff but if people want to get a movie for enjoyment tell them to get a $30 DVD player.

Simple solution, and probably would save a library money in the long run.

Um.

What the hell? I mean...what the hell? She has an opportunity to go watch a movie for free,(albeit in a format two generations old). Someone pulled a prank. That's it. Do we ban toilets if a kid drops a firecracker in one at school?

Actually yeah. Everyone stop using toilets and send your turds to Esther Klein and Dov Hikind immediately. Its your way of showing support!

Uh, no, Granny, what you rented was Ed Powers: International Man in Miss Tory.

I would love to see a news outlet actually ask someone to produce material supporting their claims that pornography / nudity / sexuality can cause damage to children. It's no wonder people just assume that that's the case. They have had all these talking heads on TV and random guys in papers going back to WW2 talking about how psychologically scarring porn is without any real evidence to back any of it up.

kpottruff: Am I the only one who can see this ladies point? It comes down to the fact that they can't guarantee the tape hasn't been dubbed over whereas it's highly unlikely that a DVD would have that done. Keep the educational stuff but if people want to get a movie for enjoyment tell them to get a $30 DVD player.

Simple solution, and probably would save a library money in the long run.

I have a pen. I can write obscenities in books. I don't even have to check them out, or take them anywhere special -- I can do it right in the middle of the library, and there is nothing the library can do to guarantee it has not been done.

Keep the educational stuff but if people want to get a book for enjoyment tell them to get a $300 netbook.

Igor Jakovsky
dead_dangler Quote 2009-07-14 10:41:32 AM
I didn't realize that Austin Powers was a children's movie to begin with.

THIS...FTFA she was showing it to kids as young as 7. So she was freaked out enough to call her assemblyman about the porn at the end, but I guess all the innuendo, sexual references, scantily clad women and a 95% naked Mike Myers were OK for her grandkids...dumbass. Sounds like a farkin busybody to me.

Her name is Esther Klein. I'm thinking fat law suit in the making.

kpottruff: ...It comes down to the fact that they can't guarantee the tape hasn't been dubbed over...

Phase 1: Take Austin Powers out of the library
Phase 2: Dub pr0n over the ending
Phase 3: Profit

Came for the Be Kind, Rewind reference and am very happy...

What's a VHS? Is that anything like a newspaper?

nobodys_goose: I still have sex over a telegraph.

TAPPITY TAP! --. .. --. --. .. - -.--

Merlin Macuser: Came for the Be Kind, Rewind reference and am very happy...

What's a VHS? Is that anything like a newspaper?

Not really. I can't imagine why anyone would try to line a bird cage with VHS, or wrap a fish in one.

kpottruff: Am I the only one who can see this ladies point? It comes down to the fact that they can't guarantee the tape hasn't been dubbed over whereas it's highly unlikely that a DVD would have that done. Keep the educational stuff but if people want to get a movie for enjoyment tell them to get a $30 DVD player.

Simple solution, and probably would save a library money in the long run.


Actually COST the Library money in the long run. The reason that Libraries have VHS tapes? Because that is what was sold for many years. Yeah lets have them wasting money going and replacing all those VHS with DVDs because DVDs are so impossible to add stuff to. Better yet, normal DVDs are on the way out, better go full retard and spend the entire library budget on blu-ray disks.

kpottruff: Am I the only one who can see this ladies point? It comes down to the fact that they can't guarantee the tape hasn't been dubbed over whereas it's highly unlikely that a DVD would have that done. Keep the educational stuff but if people want to get a movie for enjoyment tell them to get a $30 DVD player.

Let's explain life for you: you can't guarantee anything. OK, there are things that you really, really, really want to make sure are right, like nuclear power station software and that the guards at the White House aren't whackos, but changing things based on freak events with little impact is just crazy.

Merlin Macuser: Came for the Be Kind, Rewind reference and am very happy...

What's a VHS? Is that anything like a newspaper?

Yep... along with T.V.s with manual dials to change channels - and phones with plastic/metal disks with holes in them to stick your finger in, and rotate clockwise to 'dial' the number you want to call.

/ that last part seems a bit 'racy' in it's description
// it wasn't

mattharvest: Seriously, I thought that they actually stopped producing any VHS devices sometime last year.

You can buy them with a usb plug so that you can upload all your 80s porn films to your hard drive.

amanogowa: kpottruff: Am I the only one who can see this ladies point? It comes down to the fact that they can't guarantee the tape hasn't been dubbed over whereas it's highly unlikely that a DVD would have that done. Keep the educational stuff but if people want to get a movie for enjoyment tell them to get a $30 DVD player.

Simple solution, and probably would save a library money in the long run.

I have a pen. I can write obscenities in books. I don't even have to check them out, or take them anywhere special -- I can do it right in the middle of the library, and there is nothing the library can do to guarantee it has not been done.

Keep the educational stuff but if people want to get a book for enjoyment tell them to get a $300 netbook.

But granny could flip through the book first if she was worried about that, with a VHS tape she would have to watch the whole thing first, just in case. I am just saying that DVD's are much more secure and there is no reason to keep VHS tapes around instead of DVD's now.

Klein contacted her assemblyman, Dov Hikind -- and he's now demanding that local libraries ban all VHS tapes.

Kinda like cutting off your nose to spite your face?

But Hikind said that showed "unbelievable chutzpah," and added that therapists have warned that children can suffer lasting psychological damage, carpal tunnel from exposure to pornography.

FTFE

kpottruff: amanogowa: kpottruff: Am I the only one who can see this ladies point? It comes down to the fact that they can't guarantee the tape hasn't been dubbed over whereas it's highly unlikely that a DVD would have that done. Keep the educational stuff but if people want to get a movie for enjoyment tell them to get a $30 DVD player.

Simple solution, and probably would save a library money in the long run.

I have a pen. I can write obscenities in books. I don't even have to check them out, or take them anywhere special -- I can do it right in the middle of the library, and there is nothing the library can do to guarantee it has not been done.

Keep the educational stuff but if people want to get a book for enjoyment tell them to get a $300 netbook.

But granny could flip through the book first if she was worried about that, with a VHS tape she would have to watch the whole thing first, just in case. I am just saying that DVD's are much more secure and there is no reason to keep VHS tapes around instead of DVD's now.

Sure there is. Money. Keeping those existing discs around is pretty much free. Replacing them would not be, and there are much better things to spend donations on.

Besides, she could have fast-forwarded through the movie first and done just as accurate of a job as with a book.

Redwing: Klein contacted her assemblyman, Dov Hikind -- and he's now demanding that local libraries ban all VHS tapes.

Kinda like cutting off your nose to spite your face?

But Hikind said that showed "unbelievable chutzpah," and added that therapists have warned that children can suffer lasting psychological damage, carpal tunnel from exposure to pornography.

FTFE

Don't forget blindness and kitten killing...

NewportBarGuy: Well thank Christ we are banning VHS tapes. Up next, punch cards!

Gwendolyn: Klein contacted her assemblyman, Dov Hikind -- and he's now demanding that local libraries ban all VHS tapes.

Way to over react there sport.

If you live here in Brooklyn, you'd know that this is all this guy every does.

mattharvest: What's VHS?

/Seriously, I thought that they actually stopped producing any VHS devices sometime last year.

Stand alones, yes, but they still make the DVD/VCR combos.

I could see some damage being done to the kids if they spliced in 2 Girls 1 Cup!!

A few months ago someone in my apartment complex threw out 3 totes full of VHS porn.....since I still have a VCR (why?...I don't know) I grabbed a few to check out......they were horrible....I don't know the last time I had watched VHS porn but technology has definitely advanced significantly. I will never watch VHS pron again. Let see there was "Boob man of Alcatraz", "Million Dollar Snatch" and one other I can't remember.....they were terrible.

brainiac-dumdum: Quick! Everybody overreact!

Over in one..

ps69: Dov Hikind is now demanding that we ban VHS tapes?

Dov Hikind is the same cackbag who wants to ban inclusion of gypsies, gays and others from the Holocaust memorials.

Why don't we ban that piece of garbage Dov Hikind?

The guy is so pro Jewish he makes Tatsuma look like a nazi.

Better ban all of those paper paged books too.
You never know how many chilrens could be damaged if someone slipped in some pronography in between the pages.
Ban them all. From now on only books on disk or kindles.
Yep, that'll do it.
They'll never be infected with teh pron that way.

"The bottom line is that the local library can be unsafe for young children. It's pretty sick stuff."

Hey Grandma, Austin Powers international man of mystery is not a film for young children.

So, in summary:
1. It's a VHS tape.
2. It's from the library.
3. It's not a children's movie, even without the extra editing.
4. The extra bits ran during the credits at the end.

Statistically, there's a very very good chance that the scene in question will never been seen again.

Guys, please.. the only practical solution here is laser discs.

You can't dub them like VHS, and you can't fit them into a disc drive for tampering. The peace of mind more than makes up for the additional space required to store them, and they're practically future-proof.

dittybopper: nobodys_goose: I still have sex over a telegraph.

TAPPITY TAP!

Wanna see my straight key?



Seriously, I just used the identical key to talk with a fellow in Indianapolis, IN just last night.

Last week, I used it to talk to a guy in Romania and a couple of guys in Hungary.

I honestly haven't tried to have Morse sex, a primitive form of 'sexting' using Q and Z signals and prosigns, but apparently it has been done (still trying to find the page where I read about it).

See, if i did Morse, i wouldn't do "80-meter sexting" or whatever you might want to call it...just because if the FCC thing, you know? I'm afraid they'd pull my ticket.

kpottruff: amanogowa: kpottruff: Am I the only one who can see this ladies point? It comes down to the fact that they can't guarantee the tape hasn't been dubbed over whereas it's highly unlikely that a DVD would have that done. Keep the educational stuff but if people want to get a movie for enjoyment tell them to get a $30 DVD player.

Simple solution, and probably would save a library money in the long run.

I have a pen. I can write obscenities in books. I don't even have to check them out, or take them anywhere special -- I can do it right in the middle of the library, and there is nothing the library can do to guarantee it has not been done.

Keep the educational stuff but if people want to get a book for enjoyment tell them to get a $300 netbook.

But granny could flip through the book first if she was worried about that, with a VHS tape she would have to watch the whole thing first, just in case. I am just saying that DVD's are much more secure and there is no reason to keep VHS tapes around instead of DVD's now.

I can EASILY... take a DVD from the Library, crack the protection, copy it to hard drive splice the movie with whatever I want, burn it back to a new DVD print a label and slap it on the DVD and return it. No one will be able to tell until that moment they hit the spliced in stuff.


Much easier, I can print out a piece of paper using the same font as whatever book in front of me and glue it into a book. Someone flipping throught the book will not even notice unless they read every single word.

Filth Paste: Igor Jakovsky
dead_dangler Quote 2009-07-14 10:41:32 AM
I didn't realize that Austin Powers was a children's movie to begin with.

THIS...FTFA she was showing it to kids as young as 7. So she was freaked out enough to call her assemblyman about the porn at the end, but I guess all the innuendo, sexual references, scantily clad women and a 95% naked Mike Myers were OK for her grandkids...dumbass. Sounds like a farkin busybody to me.

Her name is Esther Klein. I'm thinking fat law suit in the making.

What does her being Jewish have anything to do with wheather she will sue?

farkeruk: kpottruff: Am I the only one who can see this ladies point? It comes down to the fact that they can't guarantee the tape hasn't been dubbed over whereas it's highly unlikely that a DVD would have that done. Keep the educational stuff but if people want to get a movie for enjoyment tell them to get a $30 DVD player.

Let's explain life for you: you can't guarantee anything. OK, there are things that you really, really, really want to make sure are right, like nuclear power station software and that the guards at the White House aren't whackos, but changing things based on freak events with little impact is just crazy.

This reminds me of when I used to work in a video store in high school. Some old lady came in to complain that she had a bad tape (most likely she couldn't figure out the tracking button). We did the usual give her a free rental. But then she actually asked if we had some sort of regular testing program to make sure the bad tapes are taken out of circulation. Even though it was pretty clear we had thousands of tapes, and even if someone was watching movies full time to make sure there were no problems, it still wouldn't guarantee that each tape worked properly. She couldn't really grasp the concept.

My wife used to work at a video store. One day a woman rented a DVD of Cinderella for her daughter, who was having a slumber party, and after the movie started they realized an employee had put the DVD for "SINderella" in with the kids movies instead of the "back room" where it belonged. Needless to say, hilarity ensued.

amanogowa: kpottruff: amanogowa: kpottruff: Am I the only one who can see this ladies point? It comes down to the fact that they can't guarantee the tape hasn't been dubbed over whereas it's highly unlikely that a DVD would have that done. Keep the educational stuff but if people want to get a movie for enjoyment tell them to get a $30 DVD player.

Simple solution, and probably would save a library money in the long run.

I have a pen. I can write obscenities in books. I don't even have to check them out, or take them anywhere special -- I can do it right in the middle of the library, and there is nothing the library can do to guarantee it has not been done.

Keep the educational stuff but if people want to get a book for enjoyment tell them to get a $300 netbook.

But granny could flip through the book first if she was worried about that, with a VHS tape she would have to watch the whole thing first, just in case. I am just saying that DVD's are much more secure and there is no reason to keep VHS tapes around instead of DVD's now.

Sure there is. Money. Keeping those existing discs around is pretty much free. Replacing them would not be, and there are much better things to spend donations on.

Besides, she could have fast-forwarded through the movie first and done just as accurate of a job as with a book.

Exactly, I mean it is not like libraries are known for having massive budgets, and with the limited money they have I would rather they spend it on new books, rather than replacing the VHS copy of Austin Powers or whatever with a DVD copy.

Iowan73: My wife used to work at a video store. One day a woman rented a DVD of Cinderella for her daughter, who was having a slumber party, and after the movie started they realized an employee had put the DVD for "SINderella" in with the kids movies instead of the "back room" where it belonged. Needless to say, hilarity ensued.

Wow, I did not expect a VHS-bashing thread. I actually prefer to rent VHS from the library rather than DVDs, because the DVDs (especially children's DVDs) are usually scratched up beyond watchability and the library doesn't do crap about it.

And also some things still aren't on DVD yet.

/My lawn, get off it.

Latinwolf: Gwendolyn: Klein contacted her assemblyman, Dov Hikind -- and he's now demanding that local libraries ban all VHS tapes.

Way to over react there sport.

If you live here in Brooklyn, you'd know that this is all this guy every does.

Don't you just love living here?

/Chutzpah.
//Just wanted to say it.

mattharvest: What's VHS?

/Seriously, I thought that they actually stopped producing any VHS devices sometime last year.

No, they still make them. It was a major VHS tape manufacturer who stopped production last year, but you can still find product from smaller manufacturers.

Lurkerbunny: Wow, I did not expect a VHS-bashing thread. I actually prefer to rent VHS from the library rather than DVDs, because the DVDs (especially children's DVDs) are usually scratched up beyond watchability and the library doesn't do crap about it.

And also some things still aren't on DVD yet.

/My lawn, get off it.

Why don't you demand your 'rental' fee back? Oh, that's right IT WAS FREE.

crimsin23: Latinwolf: Gwendolyn: Klein contacted her assemblyman, Dov Hikind -- and he's now demanding that local libraries ban all VHS tapes.

Way to over react there sport.

If you live here in Brooklyn, you'd know that this is all this guy every does.

Don't you just love living here?

/Chutzpah.
//Just wanted to say it.

It has it's moments.

Maybe we can live without libraries, people like you and me. Maybe. Sure, we're too old to change the world, but what about that kid, sitting down, putting in a VHS tape, right now, from a branch at the local library and finding pee-pees and woo-woos in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery? Doesn't HE deserve better?

I guess its a good thing she wasn't watching Goldmember.

/DRTFA

discospinster: Maybe we can live without libraries, people like you and me. Maybe. Sure, we're too old to change the world, but what about that kid, sitting down, putting in a VHS tape, right now, from a branch at the local library and finding pee-pees and woo-woos in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery? Doesn't HE deserve better?

*Heh heh*

Came for 'Bookman' ref.

/leaving satisfied.

amanogowa: Lurkerbunny: Wow, I did not expect a VHS-bashing thread. I actually prefer to rent VHS from the library rather than DVDs, because the DVDs (especially children's DVDs) are usually scratched up beyond watchability and the library doesn't do crap about it.

And also some things still aren't on DVD yet.

/My lawn, get off it.

Why don't you demand your 'rental' fee back? Oh, that's right IT WAS FREE.

kids VHS and DVDs are free in our city, Anything from the Not kids section costs $1 per rental to cover damages and such.

It was a warm, humid day at the state fair. Despite eating several corn dogs and a deep fried candy bar, I was still hungry. I made my way to the other end of the fairgrounds, the sweat beginning to make my clothes stick to my skin.

I slowly opened the door of the toilet, and went inside. I made sure not to lock the door. It was much warmer inside, but I welcomed the shade from the hot sun. I lifted up the seat and gazed down to find a nearly filled tank. Without thinking twice, I slowly eased one foot through the porcelain gateway.

The liquid was a warm delight. The blue cleaning chemicals tingled my skin with such an incredible sensation, while pieces of soft feces became embedded in my hair. As I sat with knees up to my chin, I could feel the soft mud between my toes, and smell the heavenly fragrance all around me like the perfume of a goddess.

Suddenly the door opened, and I patiently waited. I remained absolutely silent, daring not to breathe. As the light from the porthole above diminished, I knew the time was right. Golden droplets sprayed down like rain on a pale spring morning. I closed my eyes and lifted my head.

Even in the most peaceful shower there's always a chance for thunder, and this was no exception. Softly at first it came, but then it was much more pronounced. My face was hit with a fine mist embedded with soft, brown grapes. My mouth was opened wide, and I was determined to catch as much as possible. It was very spicy, but that was nothing the cleaning agents couldn't handle. I washed down the chunks with a quick gulp of my surroundings.

While she may not have enjoyed her lunch, I sure did.

Who does No. 2 work for?

Klein contacted her assemblyman, Dov Hikind (D-umbass) -- and he's now demanding that local libraries ban all VHS tapes.

"This is unbelievable," Hikind fumed. "The bottom line is that the local library can be unsafe for young children. It's pretty sick stuff."

But Hikind said that showed "unbelievable chutzpah," and added that therapists have warned that children can suffer lasting psychological damage from exposure to pornography.


This is why I hate Politicians!


unbelievable chutzpah

"The X-rated footage appeared as the credits rolled at the end."

Wait, what??? Who watches the credits???

Almost everyone watches credits now since movies started adding either deleted scenes to them or even outright new content in the case of some cartoons.

Unless the scenes in question came from a German I doubt she figured out who Number 2 worked for.

Nem Wan: I doubt too many people are set up to copy VHS to VHS anymore.

The rig I've got set up can still copy VHS to VHS, VHS to DVD-R, DVD-R to VHS, and DVD to DVD-R with a homebrew DVR and two JVC SVHS tape machines. I've been working on it awhile, and use it to pull movies that probably will never come out on DVD, especially flicks from the 80's I get from... the library.
/has no life

rewind2846: Nem Wan: I doubt too many people are set up to copy VHS to VHS anymore.

The rig I've got set up can still copy VHS to VHS, VHS to DVD-R, DVD-R to VHS, and DVD to DVD-R with a homebrew DVR and two JVC SVHS tape machines. I've been working on it awhile, and use it to pull movies that probably will never come out on DVD, especially flicks from the 80's I get from... the library.
/has no life

Redundant slashie was redundant.

Morton_toes:
/has no life

Redundant slashie was redundant.

Don't I know it.
/sad

Diogenes: medius: Diogenes: But Hikind said that showed "unbelievable chutzpah," and added that therapists have warned that children can suffer lasting psychological damage from exposure to pornography.

That's bullshiat! I grew up just fi....maybe we should look into this.

Hey, just because I can't get aroused without porn....and a ball gag, back of clothespins, and latex butt plug....

Sorry. I'll be in my bunk.

If that's your plan for a Tuesday afternoon, I'd love to be a fly on the wall for your Friday night.

ravenlore:
See, if i did Morse, i wouldn't do "80-meter sexting" or whatever you might want to call it...just because if the FCC thing, you know? I'm afraid they'd pull my ticket.


You'd use Q and Z signals:

QRL?
NO
QRV?
C
QAB?
QAB
QAQ?
NO
QCH LANDING STRIP?
QCH
TKS
QRQ QRQ QRQ
OK
[a short pause]
SRI SRI SRI HR QRU QRT SRI
LID

In this case, the female station is italicized, the male bolded.

Q signal list is here.

Prosigns and other abbreviations can be found here.

Why on earth would someone let a seven-year old watch Austin Powers?

schadenfreudian

/vomit

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Gwendolyn: Klein contacted her assemblyman, Dov Hikind -- and he's now demanding that local libraries ban all VHS tapes.

Way to over react there sport.

No, that's cool. I don't have the tools to splice tape, but I could burn a "special" DVD and crank out a label on the inkjet very easily.

amanogowa: mofomisfit: rented out by the public library

Pet peeve -- you don't 'rent' from the library -- rent is either the money paid in return for use of an item, or the action of paying for the item.

Libraries are free. You borrow, or check out from the library. If your library is renting out materials, they are doing it wrong.

Libraries are not free by definition. There is a strong institution of free libraries in the U.S., yes, but it's not inherent.

As for the particular case, it is indeed possible she was renting. Some public libraries rent AV materials. AV is considered in these cases to outside the library's core mandate, which makes charging for them a way to scrape up some money to help support the core literary collection in a generally hostile funding climate.

Maybe if all movies had porn at the end, more people would watch the credits.