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    Quote Originally Posted by struth View Post
    aparrently not. It was a question I got wrong today
    Which errs a question if Dr Who has ever landed the Tardis in China, or would that too be strictly forbidden?

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    In 2011, the State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television issued a blanket ban on all media portraying time travel on the grounds that it was disrespectful to history. This announcement hinged not so much on a sudden decades late hatred for Back to the Future, but for contemporary Chinese TV shows and films depicting time travel in China that altered timelines and allowed for a sense of escapism and belief in the potential for change.

    While Western films banned in China are typically banned based on political reasoning (as you can easily imagine, Seven Years in Tibet was banned instantly), there’s a long list of odd rulings. The Babe films are banned because they depict live-action talking animals. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest and Ghostbusters both got the ban hammer because of ghosts (portrayal of spirits is against the rules).
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    Mind you, classic single 'The Monster Mash' was banned by the BBC in 1962 for being 'too morbid.'

    It was re-released in 1973 and was a graveyard smash.
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    Most of this discussion is covered by the video I posted and far more. You are just talking filters, gents.

    The video is very cool. Watch and learn I say in a sort of derogatory fashion LOL.

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    Apparently there's a growing community that think we live in a computer simulation,so aliens are a mute point, well erm mebe not
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    Let's hope it's not running windows 8
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    Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?

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    “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

    "You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”

    “There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”


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    Quote Originally Posted by struth View Post
    Let's hope it's not running windows 8
    And who ever in charge of my character needs to buck up, I ain't winning!!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pieoftheday View Post
    And who ever in charge of my character needs to buck up, I ain't winning!!!
    Mine's some old hippy fixated on Steely Dan and 1970s television.

    If it is a video game it is some wank like 'Second Life'. Rather be in 'Jet Pack Willy' but what can you do?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Macca View Post
    Mine's some old hippy fixated on Steely Dan and 1970s television.

    If it is a video game it is some wank like 'Second Life'. Rather be in 'Jet Pack Willy' but what can you do?

    It's bollocks, really, isn't it?
    Probably, no more bollocks than God though
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pieoftheday View Post
    Apparently there's a growing community that think we live in a computer simulation,so aliens are a mute point, well erm mebe not
    I wrote the code.

    It gets very dodgy and sketchy the further away you get from planet earth and I just couldn't be arsed to do the aliens.

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