Have any of you seen CBeebies Bedtime stories?

[Apache Raccoon]

It's nice being read a bedtime and I find it quite impressive the celebs they have come on to read the stories including Dolly Parton and Steve Carell and more.

 

[Little Cub Pants]

Hi Ashy! Big hugs!♥️🤗

[Apache Raccoon]

7 minutes ago, Spider Boy Diaper Boy said:

Hi Ashy! Big hugs!♥️🤗

*Hugs back tight*

[Little BabyDoll Christine]

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[Stroller]

3 minutes ago, Little BabyDoll Christine said:

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I think it'll only be available in the UK.  I can view it OK.

[Apache Raccoon]

7 hours ago, Little BabyDoll Christine said:

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6 hours ago, Stroller said:

I think it'll only be available in the UK.  I can view it OK.

Thanks for letting me know.

It's silly how YouTube blocks people from watching it outside the UK.

[Little BabyDoll Christine]

1 hour ago, Apache Raccoon said:

Thanks for letting me know.

It's silly how YouTube blocks people from watching it outside the UK.

You cam thank Disney for that: Not Walt; the Corporation. For some r. The coeason, in order to keep Micky Mouse as a private "icond", rather than trademark it, Disney keeps getting Congress to add more years to the life of a copyright, which has now reached 73 years. While it abuses its content creators, YT butt-smooches any collection of 7 drunks that form a club and file a "strike" on someone without even checking into the matter. This happened to the wonderful music library of MusicProf78 at the hands of some clack of nobodies that called itself "the Gramophone Socieity" or the like. For my money, the copyright should end either in 50 years or upon the death of the actual creator. Why should people who had nothing to do with the creative process be allowed to cash in on it?

[~Brian~]

6 hours ago, Apache Raccoon said:

Thanks for letting me know.

It's silly how YouTube blocks people from watching it outside the UK.

@Apache Raccoon

Yes it can be quite silly when youtube does whatever it does. I still have a bone to pick with youtube because what they do is they arbitrarily decide that something is wrong, they don't tell you what it is, and you have to guess whatever it is that you think it is, and they won't tell you why something is way it is because they're afraid someone is going to skirt the rules. If there would be more forthcoming with the rules and more specific rather than generalize everything else, it'd be a lot easier to keep on the good side of Youtube than on the bad side. Blocking certain content is there right I guess, but it does cause a problem, because if you want to listen to a particular song, or you want to watch a particular video and it's blocked in your country, then you have to find a way to get access to this video or do whatever it is that you want, and sometimes it's hard because the video isn't bad, it's just been copyright blocked or something like that or it's just been blocked in a geographical location.

I'd prefer that youtube be more open about the way they make decisions why they make the decisions they make and how they decide what is more important. Use some sort of Southern Baptist or some kind of crazy Law Center to decide what is appropriate content for youtube, and what is not. When you have something you know is appropriate, and they strike it anyway, you have to fight for weeks and weeks and weeks to get it back, so having them block a video is almost the same as saying we don't want you on youtube goodbye!

This is why I don't post very many videos on you tube! The reason I don't is because there's too many people that would see that as an attack on the whole entire Google organization, or what it is that they are trying to do. I would rather have a place where I can post videos without having to be worried about what people are gonna do what people are gonna say and what people are gonna think. Obviously you don't want to put pornographic stuff or bad things on YouTube, or things that make a tax or otherwise put people down! Those types of things obviously we don't need, but we also don't need a system where youtube knows why they took it down youtube knows when they took it down, and youtube can strike you or do whatever they want to you, but you can't fight back, And you can't ask them to be more specific because they're afraid that somebody is going to use that against youtube. Sometimes I wish that someone would use something against youtube that was illegally binding to make them reverse decisions in an easier context. But that is what we have in these types of days where anything is allowed to be made but some things are retracted and not allowed to be posted, simply because of somebody's opinion, and the only thing that happens is they just block it! And if they don't like you, they could immediately just strike you down or immediately terminate your channel!

So what I do is I usually use my youtube for the purpose of being able to watch youtube videos. I don't post very much anymore, in fact I don't think I've posted since about 2018. The reason is is because it's obvious: YouTube just doesn't like the content some people post, and I don't want to take the chance that what I say could result in a termination of all Youtube services! I'd rather just keep playlists and favorites of my shows that are on Youtube so I can watch them and have them available. Sometimes being alone, youtube is my friend at night because sometimes it's very hard to sleep especially with my neck being the way it is. Hopefully in the next few weeks we'll be able to tell what the hell is going on with my neck hopefully in October we'll know what we can do about my neck, and I hope by December 1st I will at least have a lot more of an idea of what we can do moving forward, and I will have a neck that doesn't hurt a lot sooner than that.

Brian

[tuffy]

5 hours ago, Little BabyDoll Christine said:

You cam thank Disney for that: Not Walt; the Corporation.

Techdirt has a t-shirt design that summarizes the whole thing:

They sell that one and other stuff at https://techdirt.threadless.com/ and the money goes to a good cause.

[~Brian~]

@tuffy

Mickey Mouse has been a staple of the Disney franchise for a long time! My main concern is that they turn innocent things into political statements, or they turn somebody's innocent artwork into something that turns into a political statement! I'm not trying to be political here, but for all intents and purposes Mickey Mouse has become a staple for every kid that I've known since I was born! I had a Mickey Mouse, and I had plenty of fun things with Mickey Mouse, which included a view master and a toy phone! Many times there have been people who take innocent and turn it into political ridiculousness. I think Mickey Mouse and Walt Disney would be shocked if they realized what was going on today. And everything that's innocent into something that is not so innocent, and make it a political statement.

That's why kids had cartoons, that's why they had good friends and good parents and people like that. Kids are only kids once, and the screwy thing is when a company decides to extend the copyright of something As iconic as Mickey Mouse to at least 2023, that screams of somebody wanting to protect copyright, which is their right, but Mickey Mouse is a staple, just like Captain Kangaroo or any of these other shows like Sesame Street Mr Rogers Electric Company and zoom! Those were staples when I was a kid, and I learned a lot from each one of them, and each one of them was specific, they had a specific audience involved, and you always learn something good for it. When they turned around Sesame Street, when I was a kid it was appropriate for somebody that was six years and under. Now they've dumbed down Sesame Street for example, so that people that are about 2 1/2 years old can follow it, and it's just not the same. Since I'm 51, I've seen the cartoons they had when I was growing up, I've seen cartoons that they had before I was born, and I've seen these cartoons that they have now that I'm 51 and older. The cartoons in the characters in the situations and the storylines all change over the time, but the thing is a kid is a kid, and the thing is kids only have a small amount of time between the time they are born and the time they are like 10 to be able to enjoy being little and being able to be kids common be able to get away with things that kids get away with! If they're constantly having to worry about what the political spectrum wants them to believe, then they end up getting a very interesting and mixed up interpretation of the world. I'm not saying that kids don't have the feelings they do, because they do, and I'm not trying to say that being who you are is wrong, but when you have people that are politicizing things and making something as innocent as Mickey Mouse into a political statement or something as easy as maybe the Smurfs or maybe the Flintstones or something like that, it really makes no sense! When you're a kid you wanna be able to come home after school and you wanna be able to eat an Apple, you wanna be able to sit down, you wanna be able to play or you wanna be able to read or do something that's fun, but where's the fun when you end up having everything around you turned into something and spun because the news makes it sound worse than it actually is when it isn't, and they make everything into some sort of statement. Ron de Santis for example: he makes all these statements about things as innocent as Walt Disney, Walt Disney World and all of his properties, and if Walt Disney wears alive today he'd be spinning his grave upside down because of these stupid little arguments that he gets involved with with Disney World and Disneyland and all these other places!

Because of political ridiculousness, he is going to result in having every single possible fun thing that kids look forward to driven right out of the state of Florida because that is what he thinks is appropriate. He turns innocent bliss an innocent childhood into something that is a political boiling pot, and it doesn't need to be that way. I've always stated for example that kids should be kids: a kid is a baby and then it grows up, and as a baby it learns how to do things, and it learns what its mother and its father and good people are, and it learns that there are certain people they recognize by voice and they end up perking up, and they're just allowed to grow up. When I was a kid, the world was a easier place to live in, we didn't have political rightness leftness centerness or any of this, we just had the ability to be kids. For example it took me a long time to be able to walk: I took my first steps on assisted at age 10, and then I was able to learn how to do that, and I was very happy with that. All through my life, I was allowed to be a kid I was allowed to enjoy the nuances that were accorded to a kid, because as you get older you are given more and more responsibility, and you are also given respect because you give respect. When will people understand that if you start messing around with properties like Walt Disney, Mickey Mouse and everybody else that goes under that banner, and then you end up adding all this political strife, all that's going to do is make a kids life hell because they're one time when they can escape the humdrum world around them is to be able to slip into the ability to watch cartoons, or the ability to be who they want to be. It's a wonder that there are not more adult babies around here or people that want to regress more. The reason I say that is because with all the world's problems, people want to be able to get away from it: basically they end up getting driven right into it right into the sandwich of crap in life: it's really really disheartening that these companies take innocent childhood staples and visual cues shirts and things that make Kids happy and turn them into something that can use as a wedge.

To me Walt Disney and all the cartoons and all of the things that we look forward to his kids are staples. Like when you watch Warner Brothers cartoons like Mary Melodies and Sylvester and Tweedy, and speedy Gonzalez and the Roadrunner and the coyote and everything else. They turned that into political ridiculousness when they would not allow kids to see the the characters falling off the cliffs. They said that the reason why they did that is because they were afraid kids were going to do exactly that. I was a kid way back then and I know better and I knew better and I would never ever ever want to fall off a cliff push someone off a cliff or do something that's stupid.

These are cartoons these are things that we have because they are funny or because they allow us to be kids again they allow us to be able to step back and be able to enjoy what we loved when we're kids, but now because of what they do, we can't see the guns being used like for example Elmer Fudd and Bugs Bunny or Yosemite Sam and Bugs Bunny, or something like that, because they're afraid kids are gonna take guns and start shooting people, or they're gonna push people off of cliffs! Come on people that's ridiculous these are cartoons.

I do say and I do agree with one point: when you're dealing with Beavis and Butthead for example: I used to watch them a little bit here and there, and they were kind of funny for a while but then it got really stupid. Like a sick joke that keeps on getting worse, it's not funny anymore. They used to say the words fire fire fire fire fire fire! They used to say that all the time, and that was Beavis, That's what his style was but Mike Judge had to make changes to what he was doing with his programming because kids were setting things on fire, and when the police were asking these kids why they would set something on fire, one of them apparently said that Beavis told needed satin on fire or Beavis kept on saying fire! Because of that, Mr Judge had to change what his characters were saying, and he does have the ability to do that because he is the creator of the series. What I don't understand is they take these particular situations like our beloved WB cartoons, and they make them into something that they weren't they weren't intended to be somehow censored, they were intended as diversion from a world that was not really a good place at the point. I used to love watching cartoons, now you can't even find them unless you actually go out and purchase them on Amazon or somewhere else, because no place actually shows cartoons anymore except of me TV possibly!

I just hope that people understand one thing: politics aside: I am all for a cartoon that I've always like to watch, and I love to watch cartoons and I'll admit it right here! Just like I love to wear diapers and I like to relax and enjoy myself and be the person that I am. No one is going to force me to take a gun and shoot someone, push somebody off a cliff or do something ridiculous simply because someone tells me to do it, or I see while E coyote go flying off of a cliff or get smashed by a rock! I know the difference between what is real and what is fake and what is fantasy and what is reality, and Mel Blanc was the best of the best, he was the man of 1000 voices, and I missed that man so much sometimes: if he was alive today, he would probably be spinning in his grave as his son Noel Blanc somehow continues his father's legacy, but the thing is cartoons are changing so badly that you don't even recognize what it is that you're watching anymore: you're not watching something that you grew up with, you're watching something you grew up with that's been doctored because somebody doesn't want you to see something that is funny! How many times have you seen the Bugs Bunny and daffy duck cartoon that was a back and forth yelling match saying duck season rabbit season duck season rabbit season I dare you shoot me now shoot me now and they end up seeing something about pronoun trouble, and they shoot each other over and over again! How many times have you seen that, and that's funny because Bugs Bunny gets up on his friend Daffy, that's what makes it funny! I'm not gonna take a gun and go out there and start having an argument because of something that's there, but that's what everybody's afraid of I guess!

Boiling this all down: Mickey Mouse and all of the cartoons that we have grown up with are still around: they'll never be the same as they were back in the day when they were shown in there entirety undoctored unedited unpoliticized and everything else. There's times that I would give Anything to be able to escape the ridiculousness of this world. the government has politicized and contaminated the entire world including children's programming, children's cartoons, children's advertising and everything else. There are limits and they should be limits, nobody should be messing around with Bugs Bunny Daffy Duck Porky pig speedy Gonzalez, tweety and Sylvester the Roadrunner in Wiley coyote! Those cartoons are classic, and when they decide to doctor them or they add things to them or they mangle em by adding this weird idea that they want to add, it dilutes the ability for everyone to enjoy it. A cartoon for God's sake: as I said way back when let a kid be a kid: parents want to run their kids through the ages of birth to about two and a half so fast that their life spins in reverse, and they're not allowed to be a kid and they're not allowed to learn at their own speed, I've had friends of mine that were in diapers until there were about 4 and 1/2, but that was because they were given the opportunity to move at their own speed, and their mothers and fathers were giving them that opportunity: because you're only a kid once! Mickey Mouse and all of our friends have been staples in kids lives for many many many years: I hope that they live on forever and ever and ever, but I have a feeling that when we get done the simplest thing that's funny will be turned into a political statement and then it won't be funny anymore, it won't be enjoyable anymore and the world around us will just be one spinning globe that will be spinning so fast that we won't even know what the heck is going on and we'll be spinning ourselves right out into space and then it will be just like being pulled into a black hole!

This is why half the reason people like us want to regress! We don't like the world around us or we don't want to deal with the world around us: we want to be able to be who we are, we have to live in some semblance of adulthood, or a hybrid existence between both When you take something as simple as a simple Saturday morning cartoon and description with that plate make it something that people don't expect, then it ruins people's enjoyment. Give $1000 right now if I could go to the original manufacturers of all of these cartoons, and make them a deal which we could get all of the cartoons that we wanted, that way we don't have to worry about it. I'm not sure exactly if that would ever be something that we could do, but if somebody's screwing around with Mickey Mouse, there's something wrong with that Walt Disney created him and Walt Disney will always be remembered because he created him and all of his friends! We should always remember Mickey is Mickey, and these stupid copyrights in the copyright laws should be looked at, because even though people have copyrighted things, how long are these things supposed to be in existence until 3023? I doubt that, but somebody needs to take a good look at the laws we have and adjust the copyright laws so that they don't end up impacting people's ability to enjoy what it is that we can't find any more: there are times that there are things on youtube that you tube has struck down because they don't have the ability to post it, because of copyright, because this stuff is old enough so that I don't think copyright law applies, and there's also fair use, but with copyright laws changing because somebody can pay off a legislator or a senator or a representative, that's really bad. I'm not saying that that happens, but you never know in this stupid time. With our government being able to be bought based on lobbyists

I can't wait until there's time when people will understand that there's certain things you don't mess with. You don't mess with cartoons, and you don't make kids so concerned and confused that they don't know what's going on let them be kids! They have plenty of time to experience adulthood, and Even so some children don't even get to be adults and then they tragically lose their life, for whatever reason! Kids need to be kids, and they didn't sometimes ask for some of the stuff that they're being thrown into, but that's why our parents and our loved ones protect them, but in this case government can sometimes be overreaching, and totally silly.

I'm sorry to be political, but this one is something that really bothers me! Leave these cartoons alone! They are classics they are there because somebody decided in their wise days, to create Something fun that everybody can agree on, everybody can get along with, most kids know about today, but with all of the things that happen and it happens so fast it's a wonder that we sometimes realize what we're dealing with! Maybe I'm getting too old, but Mickey Mouse is the first character that I learned about, and so it kinda is disheartening to find out that someone is trying to extend the copyright of something that is always been a part of our lives like a mcdonald's restaurant or maybe Ronald mcdonald or something like that exclam

Brian