Barely Legal
Readers who listen to BBC Radio Essex may have heard me on air this morning, talking about the US website that sets CCTV footage of a fatal stabbing to music. Nice.
On a 'what will they think of next' note, last night I watched the Sweden-England game with an old friend who works for an 'adult' (i.e. pornography, recut to remove the sex, as per British law) TV channel. After the game, s/he talked shop about a couple more paradoxes of modern life.
The first of these is that even though said channel's viewers would join anti-paedophile lynch mobs if required, in line with the national mood, ratings soar the moment a video with a title like Anal Schoolgirls 3 is shown on pay-per-view. Seems we do a nice line in hypocrisy here: hate the fiddlers, love the frisson.
The second such paradox concerns a disciplinary warning my friend received. In most jobs there are certain things you just don't send by email, hence the 'not work safe'/'not office friendly' subject line that should go out with any JPegs requiring a judgement-call . For obvious reasons, the intranet/email system at a porn narrowcaster can't be subject to the same rules. Nevertheless, when a colleague threw a sickie, my friend alerted everyone by email. As a flippant remark, s/he added a diagnosis: "X is off sick having caught a lurgy from kissing the boys".
Totally straight-faced, a reprimand was issued, saying that such comments could be construed as sexual harassment. Suitably chastened, my friend went back to scheduling Anal Schoolgirls 3 and its sequels for transmission.
On a 'what will they think of next' note, last night I watched the Sweden-England game with an old friend who works for an 'adult' (i.e. pornography, recut to remove the sex, as per British law) TV channel. After the game, s/he talked shop about a couple more paradoxes of modern life.
The first of these is that even though said channel's viewers would join anti-paedophile lynch mobs if required, in line with the national mood, ratings soar the moment a video with a title like Anal Schoolgirls 3 is shown on pay-per-view. Seems we do a nice line in hypocrisy here: hate the fiddlers, love the frisson.
The second such paradox concerns a disciplinary warning my friend received. In most jobs there are certain things you just don't send by email, hence the 'not work safe'/'not office friendly' subject line that should go out with any JPegs requiring a judgement-call . For obvious reasons, the intranet/email system at a porn narrowcaster can't be subject to the same rules. Nevertheless, when a colleague threw a sickie, my friend alerted everyone by email. As a flippant remark, s/he added a diagnosis: "X is off sick having caught a lurgy from kissing the boys".
Totally straight-faced, a reprimand was issued, saying that such comments could be construed as sexual harassment. Suitably chastened, my friend went back to scheduling Anal Schoolgirls 3 and its sequels for transmission.
posted by Graham | 7:14 am
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