I haven't forgotten the TV meme also SWEAR WORDS AHEAD
I promise! I'm going to start work on it again soon, I still have like 5 more to do.
Anyways last night I had the TV set to the documentary channel. I was too lazy to turn the channel after playing my video game, and there's no telling how the TV originally ended up on that channel. Anyway, back to point, on the channel at that time was a documentary about the word Fuck. I was interested to see what they were going to talk about.
Honestly from what I watched I went back and forth from extreme rage, and then shaking my head in agreement. Problem is my anger and agreement is going towards BOTH sides of the argument.
I hate the argument that the FCC needs to make sure no swear words are on TV at all until well after 10, and even then you still can't even say fuck. Why do I have issue with this? Easily you can have TV shows that are killing people, blowing shit up, destruction left and right, but it's the word fuck that gets everyone's panties in a knot.
However, I'm not against having the word fuck off the air until after 9pm. Simply because swear words aren't something kids necessarily need thrown in their lap. Why? Because kids are parrots. They say things, they say words and have no idea what the hell they are saying. So no, a kid doesn't need ready access to swear words because they have no idea what those words mean. Kids have no idea what the consequences of those words have, for them it's a word no different than ice cream.
So it comes down that no one IS fighting for a middle ground. You have one group trying to pretend swear words don't exist, and another group who use swear words as though they are going out of style. Where's the medium?
I don't believe that if you swear you are automatically uneducated, and I hate this assumption that if someone swears then they are obviously trashy and have no education. On the other side of the coin, if every other word out of your mouth is a swear word it's hard to refrain from offering someone a thesaurus and dictionary so they can learn new words. Not because I'm offended, but because there's a hell of a lot of words in the english language that you CAN use to express yourself, sticking to something so you seem "edgy" and "unapproachable" is just stupid.
It also brings me to one of my pet peeves, people who rail against words like fuck, yet use "cute" words to swear. Why does this bug me? Not that they are using cute words (ok, that is part of it), but because they get "offended" at me for saying fuck when the word THEY choose instead of fuck means the same fucking thing! It's the intent! If you intend something to be a swear word it's a damn swear word, end of story. Whether is fudge, darn, shoot, dangit, cheese and crackers, son of a biscuit eater, or whatever else you use in place of swear words.
So yes, it's hard not to punch someone who wants to fight for the betterment of children that looks down on me for swearing (but NOT doing it in front of kids who should not be hearing it) yet sit and use cute words for swear words. Intent means everything, and this is lost.
In the end, I agree and disagree with both sides. However I still find swearing to be cathardic in nature. So I leave you with this...
"I love words. I thank you for hearing my words. I want to tell you something about words that I uh, I think is important. I love..as I say, they're my work, they're my play, they're my passion. Words are all we have really.
We have thoughts, but thoughts are fluid. You know, [humming]. And, then we assign a word to a thought, [clicks tongue]. And we're stuck with that word for that thought. So be careful with words. I like to think, yeah, the same words that hurt can heal. It's a matter of how you pick them.
There are some people that aren't into all the words. There are some people who would have you not use certain words. Yeah, there are 400,000 words in the English language, and there are seven of them that you can't say on television. What a ratio that is. 399,993 to seven. They must really be bad. They'd have to be outrageous, to be separated from a group that large. All of you over here, you seven. Bad words. That's what they told us they were, remember? 'That's a bad word.' 'Awwww.' There are no bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad Intentions.
And words, you know the seven don't you? Shit, Piss, Fuck, Cunt, Cocksucker, Motherfucker, and Tits, huh? Those are the heavy seven. Those are the ones that will infect your soul, curve your spine and keep the country from winning the war.
Shit, Piss, Fuck, Cunt, Cocksucker, Motherfucker, and Tits, wow. Tits doesn't even belong on the list, you know. It's such a friendly sounding word. It sounds like a nickname. 'Hey, Tits, come here. Tits, meet Toots, Toots, Tits, Tits, Toots.' It sounds like a snack doesn't it? Yes, I know, it is, right. But I don't mean the sexist snack, I mean, New Nabisco Tits. The new Cheese Tits, and Corn Tits and Pizza Tits, Sesame Tits Onion Tits, Tater Tits, Yeah. Betcha can't eat just one. That's true I usually switch off . But I mean that word does not belong on the list.
Actually, none of the words belong on the list, but you can understand why some of them are there. I am not completely insensitive to people's feelings. You know, I can dig why some of those words got on the list...like cocksucker and motherfucker. Those are...those are heavy-weight words. There's a lot going on there, man. Besides the literal translation and the emotional feeling. They're just busy words. There's a lot of syllables to contend with. And those K's. Those are aggressive sounds, they jump out at you. CocksuckerMotherfuckerCocksucker. It's like an assault, on you. So I can dig that.
And we mentioned shit earlier, of course. Two of the other 4-letter Anglo-Saxon words are Piss and Cunt, which go together of course. But forget about that. A little accidental humor there. Piss and Cunt. The reason Piss and Cunt are on the list is that a long time ago certain ladies said 'Those are the two I am not going to say. I don't mind Fuck and Shit, but P and C are out. P and C are out.' Which led to such stupid sentences as 'OK, you fuckers, I am going to tinkle now.'
And of course the word Fuck. The word Fuck, I don't really...well, this is some more accidental humor, but I don't really want to get into that now. Because I think it takes too long. But I do mean that. I mean, I think the word fuck is an important word. It's the beginning of life, and, yet it's a word we use to hurt one other, quite often. And uh, people much wiser than I have said, I'd rather have my son watch a film with two people making love than two people trying to kill one other. And I of course agree. I wish I know who said it first, and I agree with that. But I would like to take it a step further. I would like to substitute the word fuck, for the word kill in all those movie cliches we grew up with. 'Okay Sheriff, we're gonna fuck ya now. But we're gonna fuck ya slow.' So maybe next year I'll have a whole fuckin' rap on that word. I hope so.
Uh, there are two-way words, but those are the seven you can never say on television. Under any circumstances you just can not say them ever, ever ever, not even clinically. You can not weave them in the panel with Doc and Ed and Johnny, I mean it's just impossible, forget those seven, they're out.
But, there are some two-way words. There are double-meaning words. Remember the ones your giggled at in sixth grade? 'And the cock crowed three times.''Hey, the cock the cock crowed three times. It's in the bible.' There are some Two-way words, like it's okay for Curt Gowdy to say 'Roberto Clemente has two balls on him.' But he can't say, 'I think he hurt his balls on that play Tony, don't you? He's holding them. He must have hurt them by God.' And the other two-way word that goes with that one is prick. It's okay if it happens to your finger. Yes, you can prick your finger, but don't finger your prick. No, no
I miss George Carlin :(
Anyways last night I had the TV set to the documentary channel. I was too lazy to turn the channel after playing my video game, and there's no telling how the TV originally ended up on that channel. Anyway, back to point, on the channel at that time was a documentary about the word Fuck. I was interested to see what they were going to talk about.
Honestly from what I watched I went back and forth from extreme rage, and then shaking my head in agreement. Problem is my anger and agreement is going towards BOTH sides of the argument.
I hate the argument that the FCC needs to make sure no swear words are on TV at all until well after 10, and even then you still can't even say fuck. Why do I have issue with this? Easily you can have TV shows that are killing people, blowing shit up, destruction left and right, but it's the word fuck that gets everyone's panties in a knot.
However, I'm not against having the word fuck off the air until after 9pm. Simply because swear words aren't something kids necessarily need thrown in their lap. Why? Because kids are parrots. They say things, they say words and have no idea what the hell they are saying. So no, a kid doesn't need ready access to swear words because they have no idea what those words mean. Kids have no idea what the consequences of those words have, for them it's a word no different than ice cream.
So it comes down that no one IS fighting for a middle ground. You have one group trying to pretend swear words don't exist, and another group who use swear words as though they are going out of style. Where's the medium?
I don't believe that if you swear you are automatically uneducated, and I hate this assumption that if someone swears then they are obviously trashy and have no education. On the other side of the coin, if every other word out of your mouth is a swear word it's hard to refrain from offering someone a thesaurus and dictionary so they can learn new words. Not because I'm offended, but because there's a hell of a lot of words in the english language that you CAN use to express yourself, sticking to something so you seem "edgy" and "unapproachable" is just stupid.
It also brings me to one of my pet peeves, people who rail against words like fuck, yet use "cute" words to swear. Why does this bug me? Not that they are using cute words (ok, that is part of it), but because they get "offended" at me for saying fuck when the word THEY choose instead of fuck means the same fucking thing! It's the intent! If you intend something to be a swear word it's a damn swear word, end of story. Whether is fudge, darn, shoot, dangit, cheese and crackers, son of a biscuit eater, or whatever else you use in place of swear words.
So yes, it's hard not to punch someone who wants to fight for the betterment of children that looks down on me for swearing (but NOT doing it in front of kids who should not be hearing it) yet sit and use cute words for swear words. Intent means everything, and this is lost.
In the end, I agree and disagree with both sides. However I still find swearing to be cathardic in nature. So I leave you with this...
Click to view"I love words. I thank you for hearing my words. I want to tell you something about words that I uh, I think is important. I love..as I say, they're my work, they're my play, they're my passion. Words are all we have really.
We have thoughts, but thoughts are fluid. You know, [humming]. And, then we assign a word to a thought, [clicks tongue]. And we're stuck with that word for that thought. So be careful with words. I like to think, yeah, the same words that hurt can heal. It's a matter of how you pick them.
There are some people that aren't into all the words. There are some people who would have you not use certain words. Yeah, there are 400,000 words in the English language, and there are seven of them that you can't say on television. What a ratio that is. 399,993 to seven. They must really be bad. They'd have to be outrageous, to be separated from a group that large. All of you over here, you seven. Bad words. That's what they told us they were, remember? 'That's a bad word.' 'Awwww.' There are no bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad Intentions.
And words, you know the seven don't you? Shit, Piss, Fuck, Cunt, Cocksucker, Motherfucker, and Tits, huh? Those are the heavy seven. Those are the ones that will infect your soul, curve your spine and keep the country from winning the war.
Shit, Piss, Fuck, Cunt, Cocksucker, Motherfucker, and Tits, wow. Tits doesn't even belong on the list, you know. It's such a friendly sounding word. It sounds like a nickname. 'Hey, Tits, come here. Tits, meet Toots, Toots, Tits, Tits, Toots.' It sounds like a snack doesn't it? Yes, I know, it is, right. But I don't mean the sexist snack, I mean, New Nabisco Tits. The new Cheese Tits, and Corn Tits and Pizza Tits, Sesame Tits Onion Tits, Tater Tits, Yeah. Betcha can't eat just one. That's true I usually switch off . But I mean that word does not belong on the list.
Actually, none of the words belong on the list, but you can understand why some of them are there. I am not completely insensitive to people's feelings. You know, I can dig why some of those words got on the list...like cocksucker and motherfucker. Those are...those are heavy-weight words. There's a lot going on there, man. Besides the literal translation and the emotional feeling. They're just busy words. There's a lot of syllables to contend with. And those K's. Those are aggressive sounds, they jump out at you. CocksuckerMotherfuckerCocksucker. It's like an assault, on you. So I can dig that.
And we mentioned shit earlier, of course. Two of the other 4-letter Anglo-Saxon words are Piss and Cunt, which go together of course. But forget about that. A little accidental humor there. Piss and Cunt. The reason Piss and Cunt are on the list is that a long time ago certain ladies said 'Those are the two I am not going to say. I don't mind Fuck and Shit, but P and C are out. P and C are out.' Which led to such stupid sentences as 'OK, you fuckers, I am going to tinkle now.'
And of course the word Fuck. The word Fuck, I don't really...well, this is some more accidental humor, but I don't really want to get into that now. Because I think it takes too long. But I do mean that. I mean, I think the word fuck is an important word. It's the beginning of life, and, yet it's a word we use to hurt one other, quite often. And uh, people much wiser than I have said, I'd rather have my son watch a film with two people making love than two people trying to kill one other. And I of course agree. I wish I know who said it first, and I agree with that. But I would like to take it a step further. I would like to substitute the word fuck, for the word kill in all those movie cliches we grew up with. 'Okay Sheriff, we're gonna fuck ya now. But we're gonna fuck ya slow.' So maybe next year I'll have a whole fuckin' rap on that word. I hope so.
Uh, there are two-way words, but those are the seven you can never say on television. Under any circumstances you just can not say them ever, ever ever, not even clinically. You can not weave them in the panel with Doc and Ed and Johnny, I mean it's just impossible, forget those seven, they're out.
But, there are some two-way words. There are double-meaning words. Remember the ones your giggled at in sixth grade? 'And the cock crowed three times.''Hey, the cock the cock crowed three times. It's in the bible.' There are some Two-way words, like it's okay for Curt Gowdy to say 'Roberto Clemente has two balls on him.' But he can't say, 'I think he hurt his balls on that play Tony, don't you? He's holding them. He must have hurt them by God.' And the other two-way word that goes with that one is prick. It's okay if it happens to your finger. Yes, you can prick your finger, but don't finger your prick. No, no
I miss George Carlin :(