F'in Offensive Swearing

[evooo]

Hey guys,

I am intrigued into the level of sensitivity americans have on swearing/offensive words.

In Australia, we have access to all things American - songs (duh), radio programs, tv series etc. So much so, that I feel a lot of american culture rubs off on us.

My intrigue comes with the american perception of what is considered swearing - what is now everyday common speech, or what words still need to be bleep'd out.

Obviously the derogatory ones are still bleeped, but I notice that the word 'ass' is bleeped on songs.

Some things I hear on aussie morning radio - peak time when parents send their kids to school - ass/arse, butt (not swearing), penis, vagina, brazilian (not really swearing), and yes, shit. Actually, 'shit' is used quite frequently on prime-time aussie radio and tv.

no F word yet, but we seem to be getting there. Do you find any aussies living where you are swearing more than you're used to in everyday conversation?

How's it over there? I'm not doing any sorta research or thesis, just trying to get a perspective. :)

Cheers!

[brickhardmeat]

I'm not sensitive about it at all. I have a very fowl mouth.

I often say things like, "Jesus Fucking Christ"

[ChinoCharles]

You know what?

This web site is going to explode.

Yep, thats it.

It is going to blow into a million itty bitty teeny tiny weeny teeny pieces.

:bonk:

[brickhardmeat]

oh, goddamn:laugh:

[hasher22]

i really like the c word........i use it prob everyday.....i dont know why everyone gets so offended by it......

[ChinoCharles]

I hate the c word and the n word. If I hear those I'll chastise you. Other than that... let 'er rip.

[Kaotic Lazagna]

"C" word?

[ChinoCharles]

Counted

That does not count by the way.

[brickhardmeat]

cuntcockchrist?

n word? hmmmmmm, pondering

[Kaotic Lazagna]

Counted

That does not count by the way.

oh, rhymes with blunt? never considered that a cuss word, then again, that's the only think i don't (even when i'm venting :tongue:)

[Kaotic Lazagna]

cuntcockchrist?

n word? hmmmmmm, pondering

yeah, i'd consider that one a cuss word.

[PetersRedYaris]

"C" word?

Ever seen the Vagina Monologs? I didn't but I hear there was a whole act dedicated to it.

[evooo]

i might not be asking the right question :P

I'm wondering not about everyday conversation, but rather what is allowed to be said on air/in the media.

[brickhardmeat]

i might not be asking the right question :P

I'm wondering not about everyday conversation, but rather what is allowed to be said on air/in the media.

not much is allowed in the mainstream media

flip over to cable channels and you'll hear it all, satellite radio-everything but mainstream tv and radio is very censored

bitch is ok, but other than that just a few damns and what not

[Kaotic Lazagna]

yes, the "B" word is said, ass is said, the "S" word is said when it's past midnight (hahaha), bastard is said...all referring to television. however, when it comes to the radio, even ass is censored...like in that one rap song..."shorty got looks, shorty got class. shorty got hips, shorty got ***."

[Kaotic Lazagna]

Ever seen the Vagina Monologs? I didn't but I hear there was a whole act dedicated to it.

is there sarcasm in this? if not, i've never heard of that before. the title kinda makes me want to laugh.

[ChinoCharles]

Ever seen the Vagina Monologs? I didn't but I hear there was a whole act dedicated to it.

I actually have. Don't ask me why. :laugh:

[evooo]

yes, the "B" word is said, ass is said, the "S" word is said when it's past midnight (hahaha), bastard is said...all referring to television. however, when it comes to the radio, even ass is censored...like in that one rap song..."shorty got looks, shorty got class. shorty got hips, shorty got ***."

ahh, ok thanks. that's what i was after. that's quite censored compared to here. I wonder if this has any relation to the amount of people being sued for anything and everything - USA's media seems to be required to be much more politically correct than Aust.

[Ferret_san]

LOL....as an aside, I once wrote a proposal document that was spell checked, peer reviewed, internally reviewed and distributed to exec management for comment.

It passed all of the above and was eventually distributed out to clients......with a small typo.

Everywhere I used the word 'account' [all 87 occurrances] I misspelt it by leaving out the 'o'.... <sigh>

:laugh:

[Kaotic Lazagna]

hahaha.

[eTiMaGo]

hmmm doesn't walmart or some other big chain store only distribute only censored version of CDs where swear words are bleeped or replaced? I remember reading about that, but it was quite a few years back, and I heard some of those reworked songs, they're usually hilarious because they make no sense :laugh:

[brickhardmeat]

hmmm doesn't walmart or some other big chain store only distribute only censored version of CDs where swear words are bleeped or replaced? I remember reading about that, but it was quite a few years back, and I heard some of those reworked songs, they're usually hilarious because they make no sense :laugh:

yes

[nsmitchell]

Ever seen the Vagina Monologs? I didn't but I hear there was a whole act dedicated to it.

Don't you mean the "HOLE" act... hehe

Did anyone ever see the SNL skit about Colonel Angus? It was a scream!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYoM481QE4A

Not really about cussing but it's still funny as hell!

[eTiMaGo]

Colonel Angus, that's a good one... though personally I'd rather be a cunning linguist than a master debater... :iono: :laugh:

[kurokoma-kun]

LOL....as an aside, I once wrote a proposal document that was spell checked, peer reviewed, internally reviewed and distributed to exec management for comment.

It passed all of the above and was eventually distributed out to clients......with a small typo.

Everywhere I used the word 'account' [all 87 occurrances] I misspelt it by leaving out the 'o'.... <sigh>

:laugh:

I did that once...mine was "so-and-so is PUBIC relations director..."

[Blenjar]

I use the word douchebag, fuk and skank a lot recently...but i control my mouth =]
and ofcourse, yes its okay for me to use the n word

-- Blen

[SailDesign]

and ofcourse, yes its okay for me to use the n word


Why? I ask from iggerance, rather than anything else. It's also OK for you to use the word "honky", which is the really the same thing backwards, isn't it? So you're allowed to use the insulting word for "white folks" as well as the insulting word for "black folks". For some reason, white folks don't get the same priviledges. Sounds racially-biased to me :wink:

[Kaotic Lazagna]

^ go to Vallejo and you'll find that out the hard way!

[Black Yaris]

What the Fuck.... was this thread brought on my my "Fuck all the winers" thread?
By the way this is a classic quote
that's right.

*points finger at random person* fuck you!

*points finger at another random person* fuck you!

*more finger pointing* you're cool

*and more finger pointing* fuck you!

[jclo3313]

Holly fucking shit! why in the hell did this one ever go away. Prafanity makes the world go round.

[GeneW]

Hey guys,

I am intrigued into the level of sensitivity americans have on swearing/offensive words.

In Australia, we have access to all things American - songs (duh), radio programs, tv series etc. So much so, that I feel a lot of american culture rubs off on us.

My intrigue comes with the american perception of what is considered swearing - what is now everyday common speech, or what words still need to be bleep'd out.

Obviously the derogatory ones are still bleeped, but I notice that the word 'ass' is bleeped on songs.

Some things I hear on aussie morning radio - peak time when parents send their kids to school - ass/arse, butt (not swearing), penis, vagina, brazilian (not really swearing), and yes, shit. Actually, 'shit' is used quite frequently on prime-time aussie radio and tv.

no F word yet, but we seem to be getting there. Do you find any aussies living where you are swearing more than you're used to in everyday conversation?

How's it over there? I'm not doing any sorta research or thesis, just trying to get a perspective. :)

Cheers!


I haven't met any Auckers over here, except guests at one operation. Pity because Australian women are lookers and are allegedly "easy". The Auckers tended to be soft spoken and educated, not those boys from the stations and outback who probably can cuss as good as any.

At work we use every cuss word copiously except "nigger". We're all scared of it. On the production floor there are only three black guys, all of them rural blacks who have heard from Klansmen and other white cracker trash. They probably wouldn't care but I figure I won't be the first to incur the wrath of HR. Besides, I get along well with all of them and don't see the need to make them uncomfortable, or to associate me with some cross burnin' inbred who can't get along in life and has to blame others.

Just the other day a coworker, whose name is Richard but whom I call "Dick" said, "Hi, Homo". I said, "Hi, Dick". We then exchanged accusations of who was the better cocksucker. Dick has a pharaoh style beard that I call his "cum gutter" while he said I'm clean shaven because my boys like a bald beaver. Both of us are straight males but banter back and forth.

I've been accused of being a queer, a Nazi and a homicidal maniac. I've told younger guys I am their Dad or at least was tapping their Mom while they were in utero (hence their misshapen ugly heads). One dude brought his Mom in on family day and we hit it off, sorta. He squelched that fast, as she is single and might have been willing. Nobody wants a guy who is tapping their Mom working with them.

So amongst the common folk its cool.


In the US the Federal Communications Commission, aka FCC, has a kind of "Community Review" period for a radio station's license. Any race baiter, bed wetter, overly sensitive twat, freak, or other species of meddling dripping hole, can file a complaint that denies a radio station license renewal. The station has to "defend" against the claim or lose its license. As a consequences of this unvarnished horseshit we're reduced to a Romper Room mentality.

I'm told its even worse in Canada, where Pastors who preach sections of Leviticus that frown upon homosexuality can be fined and jailed by the Human Rights Commission. That kind of censorship is grotesque and will only invite reaction from some who would otherwise live and let live with gays.

Incidentally, I have a gay couple living next door to me. Their sexuality doesn't bug me, their love for Keystone light beer and cooking meat outdoors gets on my nerves some times. They also have a piss contest going with a thirty something curvaceous young thing in the adjoining home, who I'd like to nail to the mattress given half the chance. Her dog attacks them sometimes. He goes after me too but I don't make a case out of it, must be my dick thinking again.

Gene

[ChinoCharles]

I just got finished watching the Cleveland Browns football game. Allow me to add to this thread.

FUCK SHIT ASS DAMMIT COCK GOBBLING GUTTER SLUT AHHHHHHH FUCK FUCK FUCK!!!!!!!!!!

[jclo3313]

Fuck yeah! Thats the kinda shit you want in a thread like this!
Can any list all of the FCC's forbidden words?

[m911gt]

I just got finished watching the Cleveland Browns football game. Allow me to add to this thread.

FUCK SHIT ASS DAMMIT COCK GOBBLING GUTTER SLUT AHHHHHHH FUCK FUCK FUCK!!!!!!!!!!


I just finished watching the Packer's game...they made the Colts look like a bunch of shit house bitches. That's my irrelevant post for the moment.

[GeneW]

Hey guys,

I am intrigued into the level of sensitivity americans have on swearing/offensive words.
Cheers!

Our "sensitivity" is colored (if you'll pardon the term) by political consideration.

Consider this gem, uttered on US Television by Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia.

"In a March 4, 2001 interview with Tony Snow, Byrd said of race relations:

They're much, much better than they've ever been in my lifetime... I think we talk about race too much. I think those problems are largely behind us... I just think we talk so much about it that we help to create somewhat of an illusion. I think we try to have good will. My old mom told me, 'Robert, you can't go to heaven if you hate anybody.' We practice that. There are white niggers. I've seen a lot of white niggers in my time. I'm going to use that word. We just need to work together to make our country a better country, and I'd just as soon quit talking about it so much.[35]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd

I saw this, uncensored, on TV. Nobody came to call on Senator Byrd, nor demanded his resignation from the Senate, nor as far as I know even demanded an apology. Byrd gave one anyhow.

In his youth Byrd was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, founded as a mutual aid society in the South for Confederate Vets which changed into an ugly racist organization. He resigned from it and apologized.

I think it's ironic - Senator Trent Lott can "congratulate" a former Segregationist Strom Thurmond on his birthday and "hail his achievements" and be forced to step down from his leadership position in the Senate.

Jim Crow has been dead for over forty years, many people alive today could not imagine an Apartheid in America. Yet we have to keep this infamy alive for a Republican like Strom Thurmond.

A Democrat can join and leave the Klan, and say "Nigger" on TV. It's okay. Byrd kept his seat and committee assignments. He continues to support Harry Reid and others in the Senate.

Trent Lott was "anti-Progressive". Bobby Byrd was "Progressive".

We call this "Selective Outrage".

Gene

[dvlnblkdrs]

educational.. in more ways than one.. and gosh damned fucking hilarious too! :thumbup:

[specialeducator]

oh, rhymes with blunt? never considered that a cuss word, then again, that's the only think i don't (even when i'm venting :tongue:)

Then maybe you want to think "demeaning to women?"

[talnlnky]

Hey guys,

I am intrigued into the level of sensitivity americans have on swearing/offensive words.

In Australia, we have access to all things American - songs (duh), radio programs, tv series etc. So much so, that I feel a lot of american culture rubs off on us.

My intrigue comes with the american perception of what is considered swearing - what is now everyday common speech, or what words still need to be bleep'd out.

Obviously the derogatory ones are still bleeped, but I notice that the word 'ass' is bleeped on songs.

Some things I hear on aussie morning radio - peak time when parents send their kids to school - ass/arse, butt (not swearing), penis, vagina, brazilian (not really swearing), and yes, shit. Actually, 'shit' is used quite frequently on prime-time aussie radio and tv.

no F word yet, but we seem to be getting there. Do you find any aussies living where you are swearing more than you're used to in everyday conversation?

How's it over there? I'm not doing any sorta research or thesis, just trying to get a perspective. :)

Cheers!

its all political, you can blame it on the christian conservative right. The conservative right attracts christians and so called, "family values". That right has been in power the majority of the time in recent US history. Regan, Bush, Then Clinton broke that up for 8 years... but then Baby Bush came in for 8 years.

I don't think many americans ever think about why they think what they think. They just hear something, take it for fact/truth, and then go do it, and believe fully in it without ever questioning.

The christian church has been shouting, NO SWEARING for quite some time now.... Why? I can understand the whole "taking the lords name in vein" part. That makes sense, (tho it shouldn't be a part of any kind of official public law or policy). But the other words, the 4 and five letter words... who cares. The only reason why certain words are found offensive is because someone convinced the society that they were offensive.

why is "shit" bad? Why is it worse than "crap", or "poop", why isn't bowel movement bad?


they are all words, which are societal creations, we give them the power... Change the way the mind thinks, and the word changes its value.



EDIT: I worked with many aussies when I lived in Osaka, Japan. I also worked extremely closely with one for 9 months when I returned from Japan. I don't think Aussies cuss anymore than american's do, but maybe I only think that because I've never watched Aussie TV, or read an Aussie newspaper.... cause we know the media is what determines how much people of a country actually swear. (that was heavily sarcastic for anybody who didn't catch it)

[rg570lvr]

Mentioning Walmart and the edited cd's makes me wonder, why do they sell only edited cd's, but they sell dvd's FULL of "F"words and nudity and everything. Is it just me or does that make no sense at all?