I heard on the radio this morning that kids are exposed to adult sites more than any other children in Europe due to the prevalence of pop-up's here.
any idea why Swissie would have more pop-ups then those preverts in France or Germany?
this is perhaps following up from another thread where ...?... has to walk their child past an "adult novelty" store quite often....
How on earth can they measure that? Seems a technologically suspect observation to me.
ahhh, after a little investigative journalist ( i.e. actually reading the story ) it appears not to be a problem with systems as such but 16year old boys with mobile devices accessing the internet.
those naughty boys.
Pfft, kids have it so easy nowadays. I had to search for ages in my Dad's study to find his stash of "Entertainment for Men".
I don't get many pop ups but, then again, my settings block most of them.
Why can't parents tinker with the security settings of the devices? That should stop most of the smut. Maybe the French and Germans are just better at doing this.
why you were lucky mate... do the words "hedge porn" mean anything to you?
countless hours scuffling along the roadsides hoping to find a not too damp copy ( ) "what the butler saw."
because the kids are more computer savvy than many of the parents?
Censorship and attitudes are really hit and miss here - completely inconsistent, and lacking in any kind of thought.
Yesterday, on Swiss national radio (DRS3), at just after lunch, the female presenter thought it amusing to play and replay some tape taken from a live performance, of the male artist (American - but no idea who) talking to the audience.
Obviously, it was an adult gig (music or comedy?), as, for effect, every other word was f**k - and all possible derivatives, including muvver ----er, which is used for real offensive effect. Plus, at the same, every song played also included it's use several times.
In a 10 min walk it was probably used about 50 times - not a big deal for me, but I just couldn't see any point - the presenter reminded me of a small school boy who had just heard the word for the first time, and knowing it was wrong, just kept saying it when no one was around.
All right, DRS3 is the equivalent of BBC Radio 1, appealing to the pop culture generation, and plays any and all songs imaterial of the meaning of their English lyrics, but I can imagine a few of the older listeners (probably not elderly), felt a bit uncomfortable.
In between children's programs on Swiss TV they play a completely unsuitable preview to an adult content program or film, without any warning, and yet still insist on showing a not suitable for under 16's caption before The Simpsons.
Liberalism crossed with naivety.
It took me a while to get used to the fact that English swear words don't have the same impact in non-English speaking countries.
I often hear quite respectable ladies uttering the word "Shit" when they drop something, etc.
Tell that to her indoors, who always gives me a hard time, on the odd occasion I've reverted to the fluck word, for effect.
To go back to the porn issue, I've never noticed - but have pop-up and ad. blockers, and have also set them on my daughter's computer (must check that they're not disabled), but can't get close to her handheld gadgets, so who knows? (but she has seen - and owns - both the Hangover films )
Yep, happened to me just yesterday - very prim and proper older Swiss lady in front of me in the chemist, realised she'd left her purse somewhere, and proceeded to excuse herself politely in German, mingled in with "oh shit" as she got more and more flustered. I couldn't help grinning, the English swear words just don't have the same strength here at all.
As for 16 year old boys looking at pictures of naked ladies on their phones, who'd have thunk it?! There aren't many parents who are going to be able to stop that happening - it's the 16 year olds of the world who are developing this mobile technology after all.
are you serious??
how many people do you know who actually know how to do that?
No idea. But what's been annoying recently is that random words seem to have hyperlinks to adverts in stuff that I am really not interested in.
Anyone know if there's a way to switch this off?
Or, they don't know what those words mean, and just don't care.
Well try using the B word in conversation here. For some reason it means whore, and not how we use it in US english. There was a girl at work that I get along with(this is just a recent example of many over the last few years) well, and she seems to understand where I am coming from; most of the time. She was a bit cranky, the other day, and I said to her "why are you so bitchy today?".
She soon got real emotional, and I felt the need to apaologize, when I realized for her, I may have been saying she was slutty. And, throughout service, in view of the guests and in the kitchen, for almost nothing, she and others will say, "ah feck" with the u, like she was saying "ah damn". F seems to be quite the popular word now in German. Might've been for a long time.
Use the pop-up blocker and increase sensitivity to websites in the settings, you can also block any websites you don't want your kids to go to. I'm no expert when it comes to computers but I don't think it's rocket science...
Does anything in this thread look familiar?
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Despite some of the more complicated explanations, you probably just need an ad. blocker.
I'm not sure about pop-ups. But the print advertising standards here seem more relaxed. I saw a poster on the side of the road earlier this year that had two totally naked women making out (was for a strip club). This is definitely not something I'm okay with my child seeing.
"Bitch" in Brit English isn't something you'd use lightly for a woman (unless you were out of punching distance). Maybe its meaning has been diluted in American English but I wouldn't fancy your chances telling a grumpy woman in the UK she's a bit bitchy. Good luck with that one...
I agree. Bitch is not a word used lightly in reference to a grumpy woman in the UK!
If I said to my wife "why are you being so bitchy today" she would be upset too and put me rations!!!
I thought someone would mention the TV here! I think it has alot of soft porn.