FCC panties in a wad over this Olympic ceremony show.....pic

[ElsewheresDaughter]

The Federal Communications Commission (news - web sites) has asked for a tape of NBC's broadcast of the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics (news - web sites) after it received at least one indecency complaint. The Aug. 13 tape-delayed broadcast, featuring the history of Athens and Greece, also included male performers representing ancient Greek Kouroi, life-size stone figures of naked young men dating to the sixth century B.C. It wasn't clear whether the images were broadcast. (Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters)

[TrogL]

1. I saw the show - they weren't

I would have noticed :evilgrin:

[Guarionex]

2. umm...

how come their dicks are EXACTLY the same size?

Is that fake dicks?

[ElsewheresDaughter]

9. yes they are costumes of ancient Grecian stone statues

[qanda]

3. Oh, good grief!!!!!

Someone needs to get a grip.

[Burma Jones]

6. Ha Ha....Get a Grip.....Very Funny..................n/t

[Burma Jones]

4. They were shown on the HDTV broadcast

As were the lovers and the other steamy stuff.....

The Wackos want to make people that don't mind this kind of stuff pay extra, if not eliminate it altogether.

[RubyDuby in GA]

5. For the love of pete

Who are these stupid ass people that complain???? I want names and addresses. I volunteer to personally go to these people's homes and slap some sense into them.

This is ridiculous! Can we complain to the FCC about the stupid complaints?

[alvis]

7. Careful now!

Down with this sort of thing!

[Bridget Burke]

28. Let's hope this "protest" works as well as Father Ted's....

I tuned in late to the Olympic opening ceremony & didn't get a good look.

Now I have! Very good; I've always loved the classics.

[BiggJawn]

8. Mikey Bowell sure wants that Freedom Medal, doesn't he?

Why not? they gave it to a LOSER like Bremer...

The BFEE wants to harrass the networks until they're so shilly-shally that the ONLY thing they feel safe airing is the NBA and the Evil Emperor and Jerry Foul-Well.

[sam sarrha]

10. what freaked them them out was all those potentially gay agendas..

[hlthe2b]

11. Yet another gift to world opinion....

Yes, world, we really are idiots! (or at least made to look that way by the Bush Administration)

[imax2268]

12. oh my god...

that is rediculous...I bet these people who complain blush when they see their own bodies in the mirror...

I'm telling you...nothing is safe with these fundie wackos running around...

[democracy eh]

13. be afraid of the penis!

ahhh life imitates art, the episode of the simpsons with the David debate, heh heh

[annabanana]

14. you must admit, though..

that IS a damn disturbing pic
(I think it's the baldness)

[marc_the_dem]

15. the secret is out

guys have dicks...

[leftynyc]

16. What is wrong with these people

When was the human body declared obscene??!! Haven't any of these people been to a museum. I'm getting disgusted by their twisted version of morality.

[rman]

17. "at least one complaint"

so the vast majority of people have no problem with it.

[Spacemom]

18. Are we really surprised?

Remember Ashcroft and his fear of an uncovered breast on a statue?

I guess you can be a dick, as long as you don't have to look at one. :P

[newyawker99]

21. Hi Spacemom!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Endangered Specie]

19. Penis envy.

[Nordic]

20. hm, do all penises look exactly alike?

what an odd costume.

[Guarionex]

22. yeah...

that's weird...exact size penises?

and they are quite small.

[Bridget Burke]

29. They aren't real penises!

In the art of Classical Greece ('tho these guys look a bit Archaic), the smaller penis was considered more tasteful.

When it comes to penises many cultures have considered bigger to be better. But in classical Greece delicate and small penises were the best. Big sex organs were thought to be ‘coarse and ugly’. During this time young athletes worked out in the nude. As protection for his private parts a man pulled his foreskin over the head of his penis, tied it with a ribbon and then fastened the ribbon ends to the base of the shaft. This precursor to the modern jock strap was known as a dog knot.

www.tantra-sex.com/ummsummer01.html

Of course, things changed in the Hellenistic & Roman eras. And the popular arts were not as polite as the fine arts.

http://www.art-and-archaeology.com/roman/pom5.html

[Viva_La_Revolution]

32. oooh... I bet Repugs don't like you much, do they? :titter: n/t

[LeftyMom]

23. What the hell is the point of covering up penises

with underpants with built in penises?

[muriel_volestrangler]

26. Well, at the time I thought

"they've given them fake penises so that the Americans won't be able to object". But now it turns out that wasn't good enough anyway.

[donheld]

24. The Federal Communications Commission

Needs to chill out

[frogfromthenorth2]

25. I knew it !!! I knew it!!! I knew it!!!! Once I saw these images on TV

I quickly went to see on NBC to see if they were showing it and to my surprise they did but the editing was different than the one I saw from Canada.... But now I am not surprised to see that people complained.... People, do you realize how DOOMED your country is because it FULL of morons like this?

[Logansquare]

30. Yes, we do realize it. Will you adopt me?

I'm very cute for a 46 year old.

[frogfromthenorth2]

34. Hummm, intriging proposition... but.... I'll pass

[CornField]

27. Sorry, can't have dildos on parade in the US of A

Idiots.

[maveric]

31. I'm surprised Ashcroft wasnt there dressing them in mumu's

These assholes have no sense of culture at all.

[against all enemies]

33. Time to close down the museums. I saw a breast in a painting.

[Runcible Spoon]

35. heh heh heh Allll Right

giggity giggity GIGGITY.