I can’t figure out why we should have to watch people throw up on television shows and in movies. I enjoyed the movie “Super 8” until a character got sick. That ruined it for me. Sure, it’s a part of being human, but back in the old days people put their hands to their mouths and exited the scene, and we got the picture. Have we grown so jaded by the sensationism we get onscreen that we need to be exposed to such disgusting behavior?
Of course we have many euphemisms for the act of vomiting, such as throwing up, hurling, puking, talking to Ralph. It’s strange how we try to skirt around unpleasant things in life when talking about them, but put them out front visually in movies and shows and call it entertaining. I’d prefer being bored to watching somebody else’s stomach discomfort in living color.
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