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Complaints to Ofcom about C4 ident!

(April 2007)

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NM
nate mate
nodnirG kraM posted:
Not sure I've seen one since those kids were dressed up as the sun etc... what was the dangerous activity?

Quite right - and while they're at it, you could have someone's eye out with those dangeroud kites on BBC One.


IIRC, one complaint was made of the Christmas BBC One ident for 3 people being rolled up into that giant snow ball...
MI
Michael
I'm sure someone needs a slap for having BBC2 - shaped wing mirrors on their car...surely a breach of DVLA rules...
RM
Roger Mellie
Of course that lady who rides down the road on her bike at night for ITV idents, ought to be wearing a safety helmet (come to think of it, does she have lights on that bike?)

Well if she does end up brain-end, at least she would be able to appreciate Peter Andre's & Jordan's show on ITV2.
GS
Gavin Scott Founding member
tvarksouthwest posted:
Well I ask you...

An ident has made it into Ofcom's latest broadcast bulletin (issue 82), though mercifully in the "Not in breach/out of remit" section. The symbol in question? C4's Trafalgar Square ident, about which two complaints were received on the grounds of animal welfare!

Wonder who the idiots were that made the complaints, and how else they spend their obviously large amount of spare time? They both deserve an extra-large helping of pigeon waste... Laughing


Pigeons are vermin.

Surely no one is suggesting vermin are a protected species?
SA
saturdaymorning
Janner south west posted:
Also, you could kill yourself doing those bike stunts on BBC 1.

This is absolutly barmy! Another complaint a while back to ofcom, was that they wanted to edit all off the Tom and Jerry cartoons, because they contained slapstick violence, dynamite and explosives, smoking and fighting. This woman said it was a bad influence to her children Razz Surprised


Those kids must be naive. They can't even watch Power Rangers without copying what they do on there and it's because of them that it was banned in New Zealand.
JO
Jonny
That Blade 2 must've had extremely sharp edges...
The boiling water for Steam was a scaulding waiting to happen...
The paper 2's for the Diary 2 could have easily caused severe paper cuts...
Didn't anyone think of that poor butterfly in Predator...
A fire safety assessment should have occurred when playing with Catalyst 2's...

Deary me it's no wonder L-N switched to computerised robots Exclamation
RR
Ronnie Rowlands
And I wouldn't advise anyone, including a Robot-2 to go underwater frightening off fish without the appropriate snorkel gear or oxygen, or bounce around the place, or do a cicus act without a safety net Razz
KA
Katnap
Janner south west posted:
Another complaint a while back to ofcom, was that they wanted to edit all off the Tom and Jerry cartoons, because they contained slapstick violence, dynamite and explosives, smoking and fighting. This woman said it was a bad influence to her children Razz Surprised


Argh. I hate people like that. They were either very naive as children themselves, or they've forgotten what it was like to be a child.

Miserable twits. They're the sort who send little Jack and Charlotte to the best schools (even if that means a twenty mile round trip), feed them nothing but organic food and make sure that the darlings have a regimented timetable of extra-curricular activities. Then they wonder why, despite carefully dictating every aspect of little Jack and Charlotte's lives, the ungrateful brats end up as junkies.
IT
InventThamesValley
AH! So that 'thing 4' squashs the birds on that ident? I never really got that ident. It is all CGI so why should they have to complain. What I do know is that the 'thing 4' is on the 4th plinth, get it? A no arms or legs woman is really on that plinth.
JR
jrothwell97
Ooh careful, technically the people complaining about this are breaching safety standards by ACTUALLY USING THEIR COMPUTER which has a 1000000:1 chance of exploding in front of them...

and no doubt they were drinking tea which was kept warm by a tea cosy, which has a shockingly high death rate of 20000000000:1!!!

What part of CGI do they not get?
ST
stevek
I've got a black eye from a child at school jumping up to changes seats and smacking me in the head with his big head

life's dangerous, just live with it.
NE
Netizen
When I saw the thread title I thought someone may have complained about the visual reference to drugs in the Sofa ident, perhaps being inappropriate to show in the daytime. Certainly didn't expect anyone would be dumb enough to complain about a vermin trap that defies the laws of physics!

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