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Not only did they change the title for the UK, but it censored the American show too, bc they got tired of having to cut out scenes of Michelangelo using nunchucks & replaced them with a grappling hook in later seasons.

The fact that this cover censors nunchucks, and the word "ninja", but is perfectly fine with the kid's comics heroes using KNIVES AND SWORDS paints a interesting picture of the priorities here. There was, specifically, a widespread moral panic against nunchucks, which ran so deep they cut a scene from TMNT II where someone spun sausages in a way too akin to nunchucks. Love how that article can't even explain why they were obsessed with ninja weapons, since nobody actually knew how common they were at the time. They just leapt to banning this sick filth in the proud British tradition

Apparently the ban was just something they did pre-emptively after Enter the Dragon came out, and it was enforced by a censor named James Ferman. Who cracked down harshly on weapons like nunchucks and shuriken, but did nothing to touch, like, normal knives and swords and guns

I thought cutting someone twirling sausages like nunchucks was absurd, but apparently he was so fanatical about it he demanded they cut a shot from the Dragnet movie...bc you could see nunchucks in the background on a Enter the Dragon poster

That piece quotes a writer named Justin Wren who points out the elephant in the room: they were fanatically banning...what was probably the least violent weapon in the cast, versus the big stick, the literal sword, and sai, which I have been corrected are pronged metal batons you can stab people with and not knives. Apparently by the time the film came out everyone on the British Board of Film Classification besides Ferman agreed: that focusing on them over more dangerous weapons made no sense

Apparently he wanted to prove nunchucks were super dangerous, actually, so he pulled some out at a meeting and swung them around and promptly managed to nearly strangle himself. When told no one had used nunchucks in a crime in years, he attributed this to his own ban on them in a movie about turtles

also a sai isnt really like a baton you can stab people with i mean you can stab people with it but its a melee weapon designed specifically to break swords and or disarm sword users thats why another common name for them is sword breakers its closet relative is probably the ranseur

youd think maybe a polearm with billhook because theyre much more similar in design but billhooks were more used for pulling riders off horses whereas the ranseur was similar to the sai used specifically to assist in deflecting and disarming people with swords

sais are typically more affective at this task however because the space between the prongs is shorter and because they are short range instead of long range weapons giving you much more ability to quickly turn the handle with a sword caught in between and snap that thang in half

so often feminine men are solely depicted as white or white passing, and are stripped of their more masculine features in order to seem beautiful or feminine, or their masculinity are at odds with their femininity, which can perpetuate traditional gender roles, racism, and even transphobia and transmisogyny.

in reality femininity and masculinity aren’t competing opposites, but go hand and hand, and same is the case with blackness and beauty

lethal company guys. They are cute when they do a little dance but to me they are grown human(?) theys with jobs and shit. Not a pet

Peak scouts. They are cute but they are also just weird multicoloured children & children also aren't pets. I'd give them lollipops and let them play on my phone though

Big Walkers. Theyre so cute and theyre just weird animals .... thats birds. They eat seeds i think. Docked points because based on the landscapes they explore theyre probably human sized .. a little awkward

REPO bots. SO cute.. id definitely keep one and it would waddle around.

MECCHA CAMELEON hiders. Theyre literally small and cute. I want one. I would try to take it to the vet and it would paint itself the colour of my wall to hide from me

YOU DO IT ON ONE OF THESE! OBVIOUSLY!!!

and that brown end? the hard bit? pencil sharpener. or sharpened with a blade. are you following me? now, attach six of those to a harpy.