RE: The Hero/Ninja turtles link below.
A more in-depth article on the reasoning (if you can call it that) behind the incomprehensible Nunchaku media ban in the UK.
James Ferman: The British Film Censor Who Hated Nunchucks
How the quirks of a conservative British censor led one of the most popular cartoons in history to appear in censored form during the height of its success.
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Good old obsessive censors
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seduction_of_the_Innocent#Criticism
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I always thought the lighted aerosols ban in Live and Let Die was due to it being aimed at an animal
I remember the Rambo knife stir in the press and also playing with shuriken in a friend's back garden. We both thought it was cool when you threw them at wooden doors as they'd stick right in; though not so cool when throwing one and it went over a wall into a neighbour's garden thankfully without ending embedded in the neighbour.
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Christ
Good old British Board of Film Censorship.
When I was a teenager, we'd make nunchaku out of sawn bits of broomstick, and that was Before Turtles. We made shuriken out of sheet metal too.
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Interesting
I first saw this when i was small but the nunchaku bit was cut out.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu1RZaFnkKs
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The bizarre effect of the cuts to Bruce Lee films
- was that I distinctly recall a moment where two big henchmen pounce out of Bruce, he does his trade mark glare ... and then they're just fucking dead! He's just walking away, all smug.
He like totally kills them with his fucking mind, man!
Saw it again much later, and the nunchucks sort of spoiled it.
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Invisible Wizard - 10th Level Nerf-herder, Tue 14 Jul 2020, 17:47,
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On a related note:
mobile.twitter.com/ErikReed/status/1282819937313198082
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Invisible Wizard - 10th Level Nerf-herder, Tue 14 Jul 2020, 17:59,
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