posted on November 29, 2003 01:32:20 AM new
Right now, I'm watching the South Park movie on the Comedy Central channel. They are running it uncut with "F" words in every other sentence and they are not bleeped out. I'd expect that on HBO but not on a regular cable channel. It's 1 am, but I'm sure that there are plenty of kids with cable tv in their rooms watching this adult movie.
Standards are getting lower and lower and I'll bet that soon, "F" words and other adult content will be considered ok on cable tv at 10 pm. Eventually, we'll be hearing "F" words on tv during daytime hours.
posted on November 29, 2003 06:30:14 AM new
I heard it recently on MSNBC or CNN during a live interview.
There is a slowly evolving use of profanity. Offensive words in Shakespeare's era were based on religious curses. For example, he used words like "zounds" or "gadzooks", referring to God's wounds and gadzooks, refering to God's hooks (crucifixion). Now, only biological curses equal the offensive intensity of the religious curses in Shakespeare's era.
I wonder if someday, the "f" word will be used and few will know that it once meant to copulate.
posted on November 29, 2003 09:09:01 AM new
The FCC has just issued an order that opens the door for the use of the F-word on network television!
In response to a formal complaint to the use of the F-word on an NBC broadcast earlier this year, the FCC ruled that the word “f---ing” is not obscene. According to the FCC, the F-word “in the context presented here, did not describe sexual or excretory organs or activity. (Click here to read the entire FCC statement)
http://www.grassfire.net/39/ruling.asp
This means that as long as the F-word is used as an adjective, the FCC approves its use!
posted on November 29, 2003 09:17:32 AM new
So are the rest of the '7 Dirty Words you Can't Say on TV' (George Carlin) allowed now too?
I haven't noticed anything yet. I did see one thing on regular network tv, the kids watch like Law and Order and those, that they say b*tch or p*ssed off
And they STILL CENSOR THOSE on this board???
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posted on November 29, 2003 03:12:32 PM new
Can you imagine Casablanca or Andy of Mayberry using swear words? A good film/show doesn't need ANY swearing to have impact. Tarzan fought tigers & rhinos bare handed and never swore. The Stooges were hit with frying pans aand hammers and had their eyes poked out repeatedly, but never swore. Those were the good days...
posted on November 29, 2003 07:19:13 PM new
I have an illustration in an old history book that shows an 18th century advertisement for a ship that "fuchs" certain ports, i.e., the ship goes in and out of these ports.
