Growing up, were you parents strict on what you were allowed to watch?
Like for instance, my mom WOULD NOT let me watch the movie "Rising Sun", she also banned me to watch certain channels...
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JarJarBoom · 41-45, F
@bowman81 its really interesting about generations...there was really nothing to censor a child back then...because there were literally only 3 channels.
bowman81 · M
@JarJarBoom Exactly, and they didn't even cuss, not before late night anyway. Most channels signed off the air at Midnight with a patriotic scene of fighter jets maneuvering in a grey sky with a flag in the background...(ONLY Black and White) while a guy recited the poem "High Flight"
"High Flight by John Magee
Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunwards I’ve climbed and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds – and done a thousand things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hovering there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air,
Up, up the long delirious burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace,
Where never lark, or even eagle, flew;
And, while with silent, lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of god."
"High Flight by John Magee
Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunwards I’ve climbed and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds – and done a thousand things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hovering there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air,
Up, up the long delirious burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace,
Where never lark, or even eagle, flew;
And, while with silent, lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of god."