Originally posted by HappyHammer1977@Oct 20 2005, 10:32 AM
I'll give you a couple of examples of what I'm getting at -
If a child is allowed to say 'poo' or even 'crap' (nowadays), why can't he say 'shit' when it means the same thing?
You can say and talk about sex, vaginas, penises et al all day on TV, but you can't say 'fuck', 'cunt' or 'cock' before 9pm (on British TV), even in context.
I'm not talking about people with a poor vocabulary, who just put swear-words into sentances to fill a silence, or like other people say 'very', they say 'fucking'.
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I have an uncle who finds these forms of censorship hilarious. He's always sworn a blue streak, even after the birth of his children. One of the first phrases his daughters learned was, "Fuck You!!"
He has several eccentricities, other than language. He always eats his meals one item at a time, after a round of pre-testing. His opinions are always off the wall, slightly akilter, always honest.
So, two weeks ago, he had a stroke. Lost some mobility, doing rehab. The medical staff frequently took his wife aside to ask her personal questions: Did he always swear this much? Did he always eat like that? Did he always speak in such an abrupt manner? -Turns out a lot of his normal behavior was consistent with commonly observed after-effects of a stroke. I ventured that perhaps this wasn't his first stroke, and got a reassuringly healthy stream of invective in return.
At the same hospital, a harsh but honest attempt to avoid bland euphemisms: if a patient dies in their care, the nurse or doctor filling out the report is not allowed to use words like "expired", "passed away", etc...they have to say "died".