Rant of the week.. The F word on adult tv and violence in video games
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We should send you abroad.
I used to live in Germany if that counts, lol.
Are you lost son?
I think censoring the f word can only be a good thing. If it was used too frequently it might spoil it.
I agree. We need more censorship. It becomes more difficult to really offend someone and to curse while sounding like you really mean it if all the expletives are accepted as par for the course.
Soldato
swear words serve a purpose and should be kept. if we had no swear words we'd be lost and most probably end up making new ones
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German swear words are great, they have plenty of impact
If you swear in French, it still sounds romantic...My girlfriend's 4 year old niece, while sitting in their broken down car the other day, just turned around and said "****ing car!". Massive challenge for her mother and grandfather to a) keep a straight face and b) not react, as knowing it gets a reaction would only encourage her.
****ing kids
Man of Honour
broad,lol, that is old school
We do use the p word when were annoyed, exactly the same as you do, but you never see words being used like that on TV before 9PM. Unless its an American show,lol
Not exactly the same - there's no 'off' in the USA usage, which is what varies the meaning between 'drunk' and 'angry' in the UK.
Soldato
So do I but it didn't stop me getting a 1st last year in engineering at Loughborough.
Stop using it as an excuse and work around it. If you cannot spell, then copy and paste your post into MS Word and spellcheck before posting.
Man of Honour
Likewise, but I find asterisks on forums more annoying than both.
If I write "The way in which censorship is implemented here is ****ing pointless", then for any reader there are two possibilities:
i) They know that the asterisks are a crude word that can be used as a verb and they can assume that it's the one that fits best and is considered most offensive.
They know what the word is, so it doesn't matter if it's written with the normal spelling or as asterisks.
ii) They don't know what the word is. So it doesn't matter if it's written with the normal spelling or as asterisks.
Either way, it doesn't matter whether the word is written with the normal spelling or as asterisks.
It's a completely pointless form of censorship that serves only to be irritating and insulting. Are we all so stupid that we're fooled by asterisks, like spelling out a word so the dog won't understand it? W - A - L - K.
Man of Honour
That's what has happened in the past. 'Pintel', for example, was a very crude English word for a penis. It was stigmatised completely out of use. That did nothing to stop the existence of crude words for penises in English.
Man of Honour
i remember back when the C word was NEVER said on tv/film. now its up there with the F bomb.
it dosnt bother me the slightest, end of the day its only a word. it's up to the person to be stupid enough to get offended by a sound
Turn and turn about. It used to be acceptable enough to be commonly used for street names. Old records have been found in quite a few UK towns and cities listing it in the official records of who owned what. The records ho back as far as 1230, but no doubt the streets were called the same before then.
Soldato
We use it both ways with the same meaning. It doesn't matter if "off" is included or not. Sometimes "off" is used just to embellish it a little more. Either way, it is the same meaning. But thank you... at least now I understand the difference there.
Agreed. Why not the good old widely accepted comic book !@#$% instead? Only takes 1/2 second to type it.
Soldato
An episode of Two and a Half men had the word "retarded" bleeped the other day. Sometimes I dont think they even know what they're censoring
Soldato
And turn posting on a hobby forum into a chore? The guy didnt write incomprehensible crap, He wrote it out quite well with a few mistakes, christ some people need to remove the stick their crack.
Maybe because retard is offensive to some people? JUST A GUESS!
It's not bleeped for you.
Soldato
As it should be?
I think censorship is a good thing (in moderation).
Soldato
Live programmes are. Sitcoms aren't -- words aren't generally written into the script at all -- unless it is a very deliberate attempt to mask a very offensive word. It will be bleeped if it is a critical part of a movie that has been edited for television that they can't just knock out the whole scene. Yes, we definately have bleepage *sic* here.
While we're on a rant, I was just watching an infomercial for a cooking device. "With the energy savings alone the unit will virtually pay for itself."
Why "virtually"? That word means not real; doesn't really exist. I keep hearing it used over and over, when they really mean "nearly". If I was to purchase something for cost savings and I heard that it "virtually" pays for itself, I would assume that it doesn't at all. Is it used the same way in the UK?
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Soldato
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