Do You Swear Too Much ?

[rareboy]

To the original question.

Fuck no.

 

[eastofeden]

Mother Fucking Asshole is my favorite.....

My favorite comedy is Curb Your Enthusiasm and this is maybe my favorite scene from ANy comedy..ever.....

LOTS of swearing!

 

[unloadonme]

I swear --don't know how to measure too much---but like to say cunt---but in this country----around the wrong people (namely sisters or friends that are girls) it is considered the worst word ever--not politically correct----I think in Britain it is used all the time to describe all kinds of people and sorta just rolls off the tongue---when I have said it here I caused eyebrows to raise. Guess I should move to England because fuck the cunts who can't take a joke.

Yes England is full of them.

Well fuck you very much Bender you Scottish knob jockey.

 

[eastofeden]

Oops...

 

[blackbeltninja]

I do. I'm good about keeping it down around people who don't appreciate it, though, and I rarely name-call directly; mine are mostly adjectival, and fuck features frequently. Arsehole, twat and wanker get regular usage in rhetorical and non-specific cases - "who is the colossal twat who spilled coffee all over the place?" etc, as opposed to telling someone s/he is an arsehole directly, even though s/he is.

I rarely use cunt out loud. I find its effectiveness is greatly diminished by over-use, so it only gets an airing on special occasions when I am almightily aggrieved.

Attention any passing Britons: Is it true that cunt is the only word banned from the air under any circumstances whatsoever by the BBC?

-d-

 

[unloadonme]

Attention any passing Britons: Is it true that cunt is the only word banned from the air under any circumstances whatsoever by the BBC?

This page from the BBC site:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/editorialguidelines/page/guidance-language-full/

mentions "cunt" specifically and says that the BBC does not ban any words or phrases. So I guess it's not banned in theory, although I can't remember ever hearing it used in practice.

 

[Vitamin]

The BBC is full of cunts.

 

[pat grimshaw]

The BBC helped Jimmy Savile get a lot of groping.

 

[refujiunderground]

The BBC is full of cunts.

why not just say the media?

 

[pat grimshaw]

why not just say the media?

The BBC is especially sanctimonious and pretentious.

 

[EuroSoccer]

I heard JB likes to hang out with lil-twit WHOOpps...twist

No, no, it's not twit or twist.............it's Twat the word you are looking for

 

[Adrock-JD]

Are you fucking kidding me?

On this goddamn cock sucking gay porn site I do. I'll say whatever the fuck I wanna say, cause this ain't some mothafuckin high class shit up in here.

 

[blackbeltninja]

This page from the BBC site:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/editorialguidelines/page/guidance-language-full/

mentions "cunt" specifically and says that the BBC does not ban any words or phrases. So I guess it's not banned in theory, although I can't remember ever hearing it used in practice.

I recall Sean Connery on Parkie, telling a story and asking whether he could quote somebody verbatim. Parkinson gave him the go ahead, and Connery said cunt in his tale and of course it was bleeped out in the transmission. Parkinson laughed at the time and said "you've just used the only word the BBC will never air."

It was in the same interview when Sean Connery told the world that he doesn't necessarily believe it's wrong to hit a woman. When pressed, it was obvious he didn't mean only in self-defence, either...

-d-

 

[blackbeltninja]

The BBC is especially sanctimonious and pretentious.

Really?

Did you see Green Wing, Misfits or The Inbetweeners*? Standards are slipping, clearly, because those were beyond risque.

-d-
*The original, not the MTv Americanised version.

 

[pat grimshaw]

… those were beyond risque.…

They claim to be responsible and less vulgar than the commercial stations but they screen that puerile fangirl—Graham Norton.

 

[crimsonpaine]

I won't swear on it (lol a pun :/) but I might have gone all today without cussing. I only say that because I don't remember. Cheers

 

[LilBit]

I always thought "thundercunt" sounded like some sort of superhero/villain. I'm picturing what she would look like in a comic book right now, and it's hilarious.

Jason is my superhero. :~D

Shut your mouth. Your breath smells like cock.

It took me a little bit of time to understand this, Joe.

But yes, I would indeed love to meet Lil-Bit. I like him very much.

You just wanna see me nekkid. :~D

 

[bankside]

The BBC is especially sanctimonious and pretentious.

I'm surprised at that.

I had a great time in Australia watching news programs there. Much more to the point and where journalists feel entitled to ask whatever the fuck they want of anyone if it will actually provoke the person to answer instead of just dancing around the question. Canadian news has lost that capacity. Our dictatorial Prime Minister said he didn't much feel like answering any questions. He forbade even his own Ministers from answering questions unless the PMO approved each reply. And no one is allowed to go off-script.

So what was the media's response to being used as the mouthpiece for nothing but scripted photo-ops and press conferences? "Douhhhhhhh Okay…….."

I think Australian reporters would have ripped him apart. Which is why I find your comment strange: I get exactly the same impression from the BBC. Stephen Sackur on Hard Talk? I crave that kind of journalism.

 

[pat grimshaw]

^ The ABC (and I'm assuming the BBC) are in strange positions. They were set up years ago when there wasn't much media and they were supposed to present impartial factual information. But they're also pressured to get ratings so they try to do both.

The ABC (and I'm assuming the BBC) still has reputable documentary programs but they also have a lot of trash.

I see that the BBC has 8 TV channels and the ABC has 4 and most of them are indistinguishable from the commercial channels.

 

[blackbeltninja]

All Channel 4 shows, though they probably aired on BBC America.

Ah, ok.

BBC Prime formerly, now BBC Entertainment here in .za.

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