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Cullen TPIR on Buzzr?
Joe Mello:
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--- Quote from: BillCullen1 on October 14, 2019, 08:56:09 PM ---Contestants were bidding $1 higher than a previous bid even back then.
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I thought there were minimum bid increments on this version.
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Sometimes there were, sometimes there weren't, depended on the item.
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That same show had minimums for a different prize.
SamJ93:
The 4:40PM episode of Cullen TPiR today had some of the strangest censoring I've ever seen. The first IUFB, a mini-car, had the name of its manufacturer blacked-out every name Don or Bill mentioned it.
(The location of the manufacturer, Athens, OH, was left uncensored, though...through which it was fairly easy to determine that the car in question was a King Midget.)
gamed121683:
--- Quote from: SamJ93 on October 20, 2019, 05:34:13 PM ---The 4:40PM episode of Cullen TPiR today had some of the strangest censoring I've ever seen. The first IUFB, a mini-car, had the name of its manufacturer blacked-out every name Don or Bill mentioned it.
(The location of the manufacturer, Athens, OH, was left uncensored, though...through which it was fairly easy to determine that the car in question was a King Midget.)
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Obviously, someone at BUZZR despises all definitions of the word "Midget".
PPatters:
--- Quote from: gamed121683 on October 20, 2019, 05:39:10 PM ---Obviously, someone at BUZZR despises all definitions of the word "Midget".
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As a slur, I think all “definitions” are offensive. And, from their Facebook, it doesn’t appear that it’s one person that doesn’t like the word, but instead a policy agreed upon by many people.
jjman920:
--- Quote from: SamJ93 on October 20, 2019, 05:34:13 PM ---The 4:40PM episode of Cullen TPiR today had some of the strangest censoring I've ever seen. The first IUFB, a mini-car, had the name of its manufacturer blacked-out every name Don or Bill mentioned it.
(The location of the manufacturer, Athens, OH, was left uncensored, though...through which it was fairly easy to determine that the car in question was a King Midget.)
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The episode aired today was one that was included on the DVD set from '07, I believe. In fact, both of the first two episodes were. So, I recognized what it was and immediately realized what they were censoring.
I understand the tide is turning finally and the word is being considered a slur, but I believe that it should just be left in as a product of the time. I've felt that in seeing the Censored Eleven cartoons (and others with racial insensitivity) and the sitcoms of the 70's with uses of the N-word. It's a disservice to teaching why we shouldn't go back to what was normal. Air with a disclaimer if there's fear of major backlash.
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