Yeah, this is exactly it. At that time, G was seen as just for kids, and R was seen as just for adults. So PG was the standard. I’m not sure why the author of the article is so confused about how it got a PG rating. I guess you had to be there to understand!

Also worth mentioning that it’s funny now to think that The Sound Of Music was rated G in spite of largely being about the rise of Nazis. It just simply meant “this film is fine for everyone”. But they were still trusting that people would actually know what kind of movie it was and what it was about. Clearly a mistake!

Ahhhh, the good old days….

Well I haven't read any details of the case. It did say a court, but I'm thinking there would have been some kind of inquiry into the case. Perhaps a criminal case against the lab owners and operators too. Idk. I'm thinking of reading that book.

Wow , a real TIL for a change

I think the International Dateline only effects the time and doesn’t impact whether Alaska is in the Eastern Hemisphere or not.

Flew there with Pop(father's side) back in the 70's in his little plane. He told me that it was were my "mother's people" came from, surname Crockett. Yep, lots of Crocketts.

The fun thing about flying there was just looking down to see if there was anyone else on the runway before dropping in.

Do you know when the UK's rating system was established?

(I'm sure I could google it, just lazy, haha.)

That came out way back in 1975, but maybe it was what planted the seed in their brains.

That seat was freaking premium when we would go on camp trips when I was a kid. We would just watch the world go by, and sometimes try to mess with the driver behind you.

I don't watch those films but in my experience, Americans in real life sound nothing like they do in films/tv. All the Americans I've met talk at volume and at a high nasally pitch. If I imitate an American accent, it's very much through the nose.

I won't respond to British people not pronouncing Rs because I've already explained Britain is 3 different countries with huge differences in accents and that probably just relates to one small section of England that I am not familiar with at all.

The "Brits" you see in Hollywood films tend to cater to the American audience of what they think a British (specifically English) person sounds/acts like and resembles no one in England. The portrayal, at best, invokes eye rolling and, at worst, is offensive.

King Charles is the King and the Royal Family have their own distinct accent. I wouldn't call it nasally but more blustery, back of the throat.

You still get that chemical in pesticides.

Lol I'm a gamer that predates the esrb rating and I'm an ex movie buff I used to love movies. It was always fun to find something that didn't quite match the rating system. There was a jacket Chan movie operation condos 1 or 2 I think. Had a half naked woman having her tits painted in preparation for a human sacrifice. Oh no "brief nudity" in the description

>Apparently he was found not guilty after his death by a court

I was going to say this makes zero sense, but then I realized British

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I don't know anything about it. I'm just sharing a source that says he wasn't at fault cause someone asked.

Also I could envision a case where he was the boss of the lab, but had not been given adequate resources to make the lab safe, and had actively been trying to get them? Idk that's a made up scenario, I'm just saying there could be some way he wouldn't be at fault.

I thought PG-13 was because of Jaws?

Won’t be around much longer, one way or another. Younger generation is moving away for jobs, and island is being slowly washed away by normal processes as well as the effects of global warming. Nevertheless a cool place to visit.

The idea that the ruling class needs to keep the workers busy is why we have the pyramids in Egypt.

>Apparently many of the original settlers were from the Cornwall area of SW England.

And they're isolated and inbred?

Quelle surprise!

Yeah, that was the scene that messed me up as a kid watching this movie.

That and Robbie's clown doll.

> If I meet someone with my great-grandmother’s maiden name as a last name, I know to avoid mating with them.

That far removed, and that being the only familial connection, you would very likely be fine. Unless your great-grandmother also happened to be her own aunt/cousin, I guess.

>Animal House

I dp not know this film would have assumed it to be a nice wholesome movie for kids, based on the title.

People now don't realize that Jaws, which features horrifying, onscreen body dismemberment, is only rated PG. I like to ask people what they think it's rated and they're usually guessing R.

Imagine if that movie came out today.

To an archaeologist, the term “Druid” is a bit like physicists and “Dark Matter”. It’s a catch-all term coined by Victorian antiquarians to basically sum up anything vaguely Bronze Age and/or “Pagan”. There was never any single culture called “Druids”

The parties in 169,000 B.C. were wild, though