I Must Be Getting Old Or Something, Oscenity No Longer Amusing

I know I’ve bitched about this before, but I gotta do it again. I caught most of the Pamela Anderson roast on Comedy Central, and it was nothing but genital and fellatio jokes. Seriously, I don’t have a problem with crude language or risque jokes, but they’ve got to be used sparingly and have some thought put into them. (Does that make any sense?) I remember watching some bald forty-something-looking guy’s stand-up routine about sexual activity after a heart attack. He was really dirty, but he was funny. Jimmy Kimmel and his girlfriend, etc., saying “penis” and “vagina” every five minutes, however, just doesn’t crack me up. Right now this “Lisa Lampanelli” is on, doing her uncensored gig. I’m really not too fond of people like her who have to pick on retarded folks and/or the audience members. If she’s trying to be a female Andrew Dice Clay, she’s succeeded. Totally tasteless, only occasionally funny.
Hey, I just noticed something else. The Valtrex (Herpes medication) commercial came on right after that “Girls Gone Wild” crap. That can’t be coincidence!

It's not just you.

I find non-stop raunchy jokes and the like not only offensive but unimaginative (kind of like Madonna using sex to shock and sell her merchandise over and over and over 'til she became a total joke, and it wore very thin).

I can tolerate dirty jokes up to a point, but if it's done continually, and if they're really, really "X rated" types of jokes and gags, I don't care for them.

I also don't like sit coms that rely on cheap bathroom humor (including gas jokes - they are also in a lot of movies for kids, and I never found them funny, even as a kid - other bodily functions), or sex jokes.

I caught part of a new sit com the other day called "The war at home," and it was mainly the dad yelling at his daughter about not wanting her to go on a date with a boy who owns a car.

In this show, they cut to a shot of the girl's mom (as a teen) having sex in the back of a car (it's implied, i.e., they show her legs sticking out through the car roof, with the car rocking back and forth, but still, it's tasteless), then the girl yells at the dad that she can 'just as easily lose my virginity in my bedroom in the middle of the day as I can in the back of a car.'

Now, I've seen far worse stuff on cable and in movies, but this is still tacky stuff, and it's on before 10:00 pm - and it's supposed to be funny. From the 5 - 10 minutes I saw of that show, it didn't make me laugh even once. If they're going to toss smut in, the smut should at least be funny.

It's not because you're getting old. I don't find an endless supply of poorly-timed raunchy jokes funny, either.

I like a good raunchy joke once in awhile. But not if that's all that's being said. Personally, I prefer some political/social comic relief to bathroom humour.

Same here. It's just everywhere now, so much so that it's not funny.
Anyone else watch Ghost Hunters on Wed nights on Sci Fi? They show commercials for some really filthy cartoon that's on afterwards. I wouldn't watch it if it were the only thing on.

I think you mean Tripping the Rift. I watched it once, at least for about ten minutes, and had to flip the channel. Another smutty show that's supposed to be funny, but it's not. I don't even like seeing the commericals for it.

I think we're supposed to find the Tripping the Rift show funny and unique because it's computer generated, computer animated smut. I'm like:

The following has been cross posted to a couple of other threads in this forum-

Take the musical test -- when did you get old?


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100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About

There are some things in this world that will never be forgotten, this week’s 40th anniversary of the moon landing for one. But Moore’s Law and our ever-increasing quest for simpler, smaller, faster and better widgets and thingamabobs will always ensure that some of the technology we grew up with will not be passed down the line to the next generation of geeks.

That is, of course, unless we tell them all about the good old days of modems and typewriters, slide rules and encyclopedias …

Audio-Visual Entertainment

# Inserting a VHS tape into a VCR to watch a movie or to record something.
# Super-8 movies and cine film of all kinds.
# Playing music on an audio tape using a personal stereo. See what happens when you give a Walkman to today’s teenager.
# The number of TV channels being a single digit. I remember it being a massive event when Britain got its fourth channel.
# Standard-definition, CRT TVs filling up half your living room.
# Rotary dial televisions with no remote control. You know, the ones where the kids were the remote control.
# High-speed dubbing.
# 8-track cartridges.
# Vinyl records. Even today’s DJs are going laptop or CD.
# Betamax tapes.
# MiniDisc.
# Laserdisc: the LP of DVD.
# Scanning the radio dial and hearing static between stations. (Digital tuners + HD radio b0rk this concept.)
# Shortwave radio.
# 3-D movies meaning red-and-green glasses.
# Watching TV when the networks say you should. Tivo and Sky+ are slowing killing this one.
# That there was a time before ‘reality TV.’

Computers and Videogaming

# Wires. OK, so they’re not gone yet, but it won’t be long
# The scream of a modem connecting.
# The buzz of a dot-matrix printer
# 5- and 3-inch floppies, Zip Discs and countless other forms of data storage.
# Using jumpers to set IRQs.
# DOS.
# Terminals accessing the mainframe.
# Screens being just green (or orange) on black.
# Tweaking the volume setting on your tape deck to get a computer game to load, and waiting ages for it to actually do it.
# Daisy chaining your SCSI devices and making sure they’ve all got a different ID.
# Counting in kilobytes.
# Wondering if you can afford to buy a RAM upgrade.
# Blowing the dust out of a NES cartridge in the hopes that it’ll load this time.
# Turning a PlayStation on its end to try and get a game to load.
# Joysticks.
# Having to delete something to make room on your hard drive.
# Booting your computer off of a floppy disk.
# Recording a song in a studio.

The Internet

# NCSA Mosaic.
# Finding out information from an encyclopedia.
# Using a road atlas to get from A to B.
# Doing bank business only when the bank is open.
# Shopping only during the day, Monday to Saturday.
# Phone books and Yellow Pages.
# Newspapers and magazines made from dead trees.
# Actually being able to get a domain name consisting of real words.
# Filling out an order form by hand, putting it in an envelope and posting it.
# Not knowing exactly what all of your friends are doing and thinking at every moment.
# Carrying on a correspondence with real letters, especially the handwritten kind.
# Archie searches.
# Gopher searches.
# Concatenating and UUDecoding binaries from Usenet.
# Privacy.
# The fact that words generally don’t have num8er5 in them.
# Correct spelling of phrases, rather than TLAs.
# Waiting several minutes (or even hours!) to download something.
# The time before botnets/security vulnerabilities due to always-on and always-connected PCs
# The time before PC networks.
# When Spam was just a meat product — or even a Monty Python sketch.

Gadgets

# Typewriters.
# Putting film in your camera: 35mm may have some life still, but what about APS or disk?
# Sending that film away to be processed.
# Having physical prints of photographs come back to you.
# CB radios.
# Getting lost. With GPS coming to more and more phones, your location is only a click away.
# Rotary-dial telephones.
# Answering machines.
# Using a stick to point at information on a wallchart
# Pay phones.
# Phones with actual bells in them.
# Fax machines.
# Vacuum cleaners with bags in them.

Everything Else

# Taking turns picking a radio station, or selecting a tape, for everyone to listen to during a long drive.
# Remembering someone’s phone number.
# Not knowing who was calling you on the phone.
# Actually going down to a Blockbuster store to rent a movie.
# Toys actually being suitable for the under-3s.
# LEGO just being square blocks of various sizes, with the odd wheel, window or door.
# Waiting for the television-network premiere to watch a movie after its run at the theater.
# Relying on the 5-minute sport segment on the nightly news for baseball highlights.
# Neat handwriting.
# The days before the nanny state.
# Starbuck being a man.
# Han shoots first.
# “Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father.” But they’ve already seen episode III, so it’s no big surprise.
# Kentucky Fried Chicken, as opposed to KFC.
# Trig tables and log tables.
# “Don’t know what a slide rule is for …”
# Finding books in a card catalog at the library.
# Swimming pools with diving boards.
# Hershey bars in silver wrappers.
# Sliding the paper outer wrapper off a Kit-Kat, placing it on the palm of your hand and clapping to make it bang loudly. Then sliding your finger down the silver foil to break off the first finger
# A Marathon bar (what a Snickers used to be called in Britain).
# Having to manually unlock a car door.
# Writing a check.
# Looking out the window during a long drive.
# Roller skates, as opposed to blades.
# Cash.
# Libraries as a place to get books rather than a place to use the internet.
# Spending your entire allowance at the arcade in the mall.
# Omni Magazine
# A physical dictionary — either for spelling or definitions.
# When a ‘geek’ and a ‘nerd’ were one and the same.