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submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (5 children)

When I was a kid, I honestly thought that SBS stood for "Sex before Soccer", because that was the running gag when the channel started.

Today, I learned that it actually stands for "Special Broadcasting Service". I have known for some time that it couldn't actually stand for sex before soccer, but I had never bothered to learn what it did stand for.

Anyway: These recommendations are pretty much what SBS has always been famous for.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

To be honest, SBS for me has always been "the channel you go to in July and at no other time, to watch the Tour de France and nothing else".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Y’all missed out. Sure SBS had nudity but fuck some of the foreign movies on there could be bangers. Most with a more indie/artsy feel. They could be complete nonsense but still. Also Inspector Rex!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Side note: Liquid Television/Evangelion Saturday nights were awesome.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

We used to call the erotic films the "SBS Friday night pornos" since they always seemed to air on a Friday night.

[–] Outsider9042 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Sex and Bloody Soccer was what we used to call it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Do you know why it was 'bloody soccer'?

[–] Outsider9042 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Because soccer is on all the bloody time

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Ohh lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if that was because the football was on the tele after the late night foreign films. Would make sense if so.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Well, yes.
That's the entire point of the running joke in the 80's. It's just that I was a kid and when everyone agrees on what SBS stands for, you don't really question it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Got it. I was confused at first. I thought seeing as you mentioned you were a kid you meant an actual kids game or practice which would be happening during daylight hours. I've had that kind of day.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I mean, just cause its a horny foreign feel doesn't mean people are necessarily jackin it. ok, I mean, MOST of them are.