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I actually agree, but I got the sense that the company being mormon was meant to bias the reader of that comment towards thinking that the company was in the wrong. I hoped to drive the conversation past that prejudice by conceding and dismissing it rather than pushing back against it, because I felt that on this forum pushback would likely prompt a religious flamewar rather than a discussion about digital rental.

Using EDL files to edit movies for my family is something I've actually done before. I think a superfluous sex scene is okay in most contexts, but when watching a movie with parents/grandparents it's generally too cringe for me and everybody else in the room. I used mpv's EDL functionality for this: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/DOCS/edl-mpv.r...

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Mormons have a well-documented refusal to assimilate while concurrently using devious and mono-social-mind power to cheat the systems they benefit from and complain about frequently. If there’s one home grown US group that embodies “have their cake and eat it too” it’s culturally ingrained in the definition of being a practicing Mormon.

Now if you object, replace the word Mormon with Skinhead regarding mentality of others not in the group, and maybe you’ll get the picture.

Source: non Mormon with about 10 years living in Zion (SLC)

I'm not a Mormon and I don't deny that I think the particulars of their belief system are often weird. But I don't think the nature of Mormons actually matters in this context, and speaking generally I don't think there is anything wrong with people choosing which media they and their families consume. If people want to fast forward over parts of a movie they don't like, I think that's understandable. And if their decision about which parts of a movie to skip is weird to me, so what?

Your just confusing the Mormons with Republicans. Both being the majority in Utah. You'll find little difference in other republican controlled states.

Skinhead? Holy. Sounds like someone is annoyed with the missionaries knocking on their door.

I like the reasoning given above — how you tried to short circuit the unwanted discussion.

A friend of mine used to make family friendly edits of films just for his own kids when they were little.

Sometimes I try to make family friendly versions of otherwise vulgar jokes. It’s an interesting art form. Very niche.

Your take on the setup for stereotypical situational humor about puritanical sensibilities and big expensive families invokes another stereotype about the puritanical sense of humor.

You've lost me. You'll have to tell me what you mean instead of beating around the bush.

I believe the only comment I've made about my take on humor is that anybody who laughs at TBBT must be under the influence of laughing gas. But you think this is because I have puritanical beliefs? Are you accusing me of that, or have I misread your comment? This earnestly is not clear to me.

I'm not beating around the bush.

The story is funnier because of stereotypes. That's the function mentioning the group serves. Taking a joke overly seriously and then having it explained to you is also a stereotype. It's just mildly humorous, and now it's slightly moreso.

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