Well, now that's two things I have in common with the Taliban. I friggin' hate soap operas too!!
With suicide bombers in the capital, spiralling opium production and half the country prey to Taleban guerrillas, Afghanistan's spiritual guardians have discovered a dangerous new peril: Indian soap operas.
In an echo of the strict religious laws of the Taleban era, the Islamic Council of Scholars won the backing this week of a powerful government minister in its campaign to get dozens of wildly popular Bombay dramas off Afghanistan's television screens.
The Minister of Information and Culture has written to television executives to threaten prosecution if they show footage that offends morality. He is particularly concerned about Indian soaps.
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Dammit girl...what's wrong with prettier than normal boys and girls in a pretend world? Those watching such things understand. Shame on you.
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Hmmm, so which one is your daily ritual Tommy??
General Hospital, One Life to Live, All My Children?? :p
Although soap operas are offensive to me, the banal have rights too.
My favorite offend story comes from an animal shelter that was having a "sale" on black animals recently. Some people felt that they were being "racially insensitive."
Jan, I HAVE to track that story down and post it. That is too good to pass up lol.
All soap operas offend my senses and insult my intelligence.
But maybe a taleban soap might actually be an improvement:
"Oh Ishmeal, I feel so stirred with sternly appropriate affection that I long to tear this black scarf-thing right off and show you my chin."
(Organ crescendo.)
Soap operas make me want to puke.
Brent ~ Same here, and they give me a weird rash on my...oh never mind hehe. ;)
Kimchi ~ that's funny, everytime you are at my place you beg to watch soaps on my 60" plasma.
But the bathroom does smell funny when you leave, heh. :p
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