Monday, August 13, 2007
Drawing the line
So what is it with people who believe a squiggle of pen on paper is just a squiggle, but if the it ends with a line crossed back through the body of the squiggle, then suddenly it's a signature? Did these people attend signature school? One would have thought that one's signature/seal/John Hancock/whatever you like to call it is supposed to be an personal inimitable mark, but these squigglers and crossers are ending up with signatures just like every other man and his dog.
It's drawing the line - just like the use of the F-Bomb in movies. An M-rated movie is allowed one, but an R16 could potentially not need to use any other word (although no-one needs to prove this for the sake of the argument; such a repetitive script wouldn't make for very exciting watching). This is all based on the perfectly reasonable assumption that kids will all miss the first utterance of it, or perhaps they won't know what it means and will immediately ask their parents. Movie censors have drawn the line early because either way, the second swearword will affect kids deeply the second time around.
Wow - two totally unrelated topics, a tenuous and clumsy segue to link them, and we have a post. Neither subject alone was worthy of a post, so I spent the better part of 30 seconds working on bringing them together. And then I wondered when I was done - "Was that worth it?"
It's drawing the line - just like the use of the F-Bomb in movies. An M-rated movie is allowed one, but an R16 could potentially not need to use any other word (although no-one needs to prove this for the sake of the argument; such a repetitive script wouldn't make for very exciting watching). This is all based on the perfectly reasonable assumption that kids will all miss the first utterance of it, or perhaps they won't know what it means and will immediately ask their parents. Movie censors have drawn the line early because either way, the second swearword will affect kids deeply the second time around.
Wow - two totally unrelated topics, a tenuous and clumsy segue to link them, and we have a post. Neither subject alone was worthy of a post, so I spent the better part of 30 seconds working on bringing them together. And then I wondered when I was done - "Was that worth it?"
