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Decency Group Says "$#*!" Is Indecent
The Parents Television Council says the "$#*!" in the title of the upcoming CBS show $#*! my dad says is indecent. From the article: "'CBS intentionally chose to insert an expletive into the actual name of a show, and, despite its claim that the word will be bleeped, it is just CBS's latest demonstration of its contempt for families and the public,' declared PTC President Tim Winter. 'There are an infinite number of alternatives that CBS could have chosen, but its desire to shock and offend is crystal clear in this decision.'" By this logic Qbert was the filthiest game ever made.
First $#*!
Fuck the fucking fuckers!
no matter what you do some bed-wetting crybaby is going to bitch about it, so just ignore them and continue with what you want to do.
Politics is Treachery, Religion is Brainwashing
CSI shows chest cavaties that have been ripped open. Law and Order discussed horrible sex crimes. But heaven forbid you say a naughty word!
Didn't South Park already cover this?
Living With a Nerd
Kids should never be exposed to the symbols $#*!. They should have &^@%ed those symbols out.
Are these people so repressed that even the suggestion of a "naughty word" is enough to get them complaining ?
Have they really got nothing better to do with their time ?
I thought the Puritan movement died out in the 17th century, obviously I was wrong.
How have they missed the fact that "Shit My Dad Says" is the title of the source material? Complaining that CBS chose to "insert" the word into the title makes them look like the people who were horrified that New Line Cinema decided to use an obvious 9/11 reference in the sequel to "Fellowship of the Ring"..."The Two Towers."
(All that said, I could have sworn I read somewhere that CBS had retitled the TV show as "Stuff My Dad Says," but I guess I misremembered.)
Carlin were alive to appreciate this, since this is Number One on his list...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_Nrp7cj_tM
Seriously, I say fuck'em.
"I use a Mac because I'm just better than you are."
I'm sorry but would it be possible to systematically execute these people.
The nazi's had a workable system, just their direction was wrong.
Don't kill the minority groups, kill all humans who just naturally suck... like the members of the Parents Television Council.
All we need now is a charismatic leader to get us on our way.
It's indecent.
Half of what airs on TV is indecent.
And you are offended by a censored TITLE?
Perhaps if you watched any of the Soap Operas they air on daytime TV, you'd re-consider how decent you thought TV was in the first place.
is this #$(@ing $#*!?
http://www.chaotickingdoms.com
"...If you don't like the show, use the "OFF" button"
oh! ermmm... They didn't say that did they!
Sorry...
Laters Sol "Have you found the secrets of the universe? Asked Zebade "I'm sure I left them here somewhere"
completely agree. I know you can't please everyone, but people today just seem to go looking for things to complain about.
I teach sunday school, (and have taught 9th grade also).
I tell girls that boys will drag them as far down in the gutter as they will allow.
Its up to the girl to show disapproval when they have reached their tolerance level.
CBS is definitely trying to make a buck from shock. Kudos for calling them on it.
For me, I download everything, so I am immune to CBS and most ads for that matter!
I know this self-censorship will probably dwindle, but for now its heavenly!
Bored this summer, help a good cause
jp
How fucked in the head do you have to be for $#*! to be offensive... There's nothing there!
Sigs are too short to say anything truly profound so read the above post instead.
Not that I agree, but I understand where they are coming from.
If the 'F' word is banned in your school and the kids all of a sudden decide to say the word 'Squash' in lieu of the naughty word, eventually they become synonymous. Saying "Squash you, Mr. Teacher" is still potentially going to get you in trouble if the teacher knows what "Squash" means in that context.
So, the question really is, is the putting together of the letters F-U-C-K naughty, or the meaning and/or implied meaning of the word the naughty bit?
If it's the latter, then _any_ substitution of the word still implies the word and carries the negative connotation along with it.
Again, I don't agree with it and frankly, I think all words should be allowed. It's all part of the language and any negative feelings you have to a word are _your_ problem.
There are an infinite number of alternatives that CBS could have chosen but its desire to shock and offend is crystal clear in this decision.
I don't think we should take writing advice from someone who doesn't know the meaning of the word "infinite."
Well, unless a whole LOT of new words were added to human language without me knowing about it...
So THAT's the committee which decides which is a "bad" word? I've been wondering about them for years...
Yeah cause you never hear people say "shit" or much worse in about any situation I have ever been in during my life. I heard it at my Catholic primary school. This is what happens when "Christians*" live in little gated communities and become completely out of touch with reality and the wider community.
* I am a Christian. Most of the people that whine about this stuff aren't really Christians. They just believe in ritual and "decency", they seem to miss that Jesus was mocking this kind of Pharisaical behaviour. Well actually they generally miss most of what Jesus said or at least fail to apply it.
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maybe it's because $# looks like SH at least they didn't write it $#!+ then this would be obvious that they chose those symbol on purpose!
After all, nobody really likes Ninnle, and it's so appropriate.
is that the crankiest, dumbest, lamest voices are also the loudest voices, on any issue
this PTC group consists of a handful of assholes who have self-appointed themselves as spokespeople for the rest of us, for our common decency, when the only thing they represent is a small shrill fringe of intrusive overcontrollling twatstains
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
So, really, what the Parents Television Council is ultimately aiming to do is outlaw THINKING bad words or thoughts, right? If the symbolism doesn't matter, it must be the underlying thought or intent, eh?
Yeah... good luck with that. I suspect the principals behind the PTC will wind up being the first ones locked up.
This is the exact reason television developed a rating system: to give parents a relatively easy way to decide what material is appropriate for their own kids. If parents want to have their children sequestered from the world of human speech, they have that right. However, no group has the right to tell another group what they should or should not say in any medium. It's the entire point of the first amendment.
My other sig is clever.
While they're at it, shoot, darn, gosh-darn-it, and golly are just surrogates for other "unacceptable" words too. Perhaps the PTC should be going after "Leave it to Beaver" reruns as well for promoting this kind of potty-mouth behaviour in children. Gee-wilikers, hey don't even "bleep" those words!
Some bring out the best in others, some the worst. Some bring out far more.
The vocal minority of folks with too much time on their hands and no dignity beg to differ.
Go to any public meeting (especially if it's during working hours) and see what I mean.
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
Fine, then remove $#*! and put back the word "Shit". If they're going to be offended anyway, might as well make it count.
bah.
If you've got a stick up your ass, you might as well fuck yourself with it.
screw 'em
What do the decency groups know about indecency?
(. ) ( .)
Are these decent? I'm sorry, you can't wash out the filth out of my brain ... you can try, but I see the a-style logo and I see what I see, because of the filth in *my* brain.
If you see the same ... well *giggle*
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur
Dear PTC $#%, 345#$%#$ and $%#$%$#ers.
If you don't want to watch, please feel free to change the channel, otherwise leve me the f$#@ alone and let me enjoy my programming in piece.
P.S You busybody munch of f$#@@ing wanker eat $@#$ and die.
Love
A m$#@$%f$@er who's tired of your $#i@
Sorry. Maybe I'm getting old, but what is Qbert slang for? I know the game, BTW.
Think Deeply.
I block channels with religious programming, because I don't care to see it. If you are too sensitive to allow yourself to be exposed to implied vulgarity, feel free to block the channels that offend your delicate sensibilities.
Here's the gaff; YOU AREN'T CBS's CUSTOMER. Advertisers are. CBS is quite expert at attracting viewers. If you don't like their content, by all means DON'T WATCH IT.
This really isn't a difficult concept.
-Peter
and change the name of the show to Crap My Dad Says instead. That'll show 'em!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
"The PTC will wage an unrelenting campaign against every network advertiser that chooses to support this program; and in this instance, we will wage an unrelenting campaign against every local advertiser sponsoring the program at the affiliate station level," Winter warns.
And I will boycott any company that caves into these power hungry anti American pansies: against Free Speech = Anti American = Traitor.
And, I will put any company that tells these repressed sissies on the front of my purchasing list.
The PTC are a bunch of #^&@@*# and $&@((*$## swallowing ^$**##!
But PTC, because of the minority of people like you who can't take "harsh" words, I have stopped watching TV because it has become so infantilized to the point of being boring, vapid, and just a waste of time. Which is interesting because of those programs that are geared towards stupid people are perfectly fine to the PTC. The PTC likes stupid stuff and I guess that makes them stupid?
Never mind. I've wasted too much time thinking about those *&*@^# people at the PTC..
That's right Winter! I called you a *&^&*#$###! What are going to do about it you (*^(*(*@(*#**#####!!!
RIP America
July 4, 1776 - September 11, 2001
What's really offensive is that, in this day and age, we can't just say "shit" when we mean "shit". Queen Victoria may not be amused, but the Victorian age has been over for a long, long time.
Proud member of the Weirdo-American community.
"They're offended? Fuck, shit, asshole, shitfuck; they're just words...Fine. Shitfuck isn't a word, but you get my point."
How long has it been since Tim Winter last got laid? I wouldn't be surprised if he has no children of his own...
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
The $#*! stands in place of a word, in a particular context. It's the semantics of the underlying expression that is indecent, not the $#*! itself.
Let's ask this question: how can you fill in the blank in ``____ my dad!'' such that the sentence is decent, and yet the word filled in requires to be covered up with $#*!.
I do not think that adults who still talk to invisible friends have any right to make decisions for the rest of us.
Too many people have nothing to do!
these decency groups need to take the stick out of their as- and raise their own children their own way and leave everybody else alone.
Everybody knows saying !@#$^ is indecent, yet we do that to convey a concept like stubbing their toe in the shortest possible method.
If they are so offended they need to stop bitching, it used to be saying breast of chicken was indecent. Yet its used everyday and in fact
breast refering to female anatomy isn't really a stigma anymore.
Change channel, or get a life, get a job (or a better one), throw out your tv and have sex once in a while. Frig! How they "think" (and I use that word loosely refering to them)
asterix is offensive?
I had a teacher in third grade, who forbade the use of the word "superman" because it contained the word "super" (slang for drinking in Swedish.) I was the only one in class who had even a shred of sympathy for her. Later I realized she had Asperger's, without any self-insight whatsoever, and every goddamn psychiathrist I've met swears I have asperger's too. I'm still prone to orange-and-blue humanity-absolved morality like this; if it seems insane, could that be because it is "insane"?
Emotions! In your brain!
People with allergies say ragweed pollen makes them sneeze.
-kgj
Swearing is immoral and God forbid our children seeing any naked bodies (male or female) on the telly.
On the other hand, violence (Rambo-like caricature violence is still violence) and titilation is probably OK.
I recently read that family groups were all up in arms because the little girl in the movie Kick-Ass said the word "cunts" or something like that. They did not seem to mind the fact that she murders tens of people in the film, though.
(oYo)
See? Much better! (Yes, filth is in the eye of the beholder.)
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
So they should change the channel or turn off their TVs and leave our community standards in place.
-- Tigger warning: This post may contain tiggers! --
My observations on the subject...
An effect language communicates the very broad range of human emotions that are possible. Everything from euphoric happiness to blinding hate. And there are many, many of those spectrums.
This is where curse words come in. They help or allow us to communicate some of those extreme emotions or feelings.
Accepting those words in everyday speech, making them less taboo diminishes their effectiveness. And in the end, simply necessitates us arbitrarily marking new words as taboo so as to communicate these important feelings.
I think all members of the PTC need to be shot and their children sold to poorer countries for their constant freaking out over nothing.
And the first complaint we're going to send to the FCC is about the random unpronounceable symbols in the show title instead of using the more appropriate word "shit".
The PTC is an indecent group. To abuse a Twain quote, these people really do want to outlaw steak because babies can't chew it. It's even worse though... Their aim is to turn every television show into saccharin, content-less, right-wing Abrahamic-style "morality" approved, child-oriented programming, without exception. These are the same people who performed an automated letter writing campaign thing when Janet Jackson's nipple threatened to destroy the very fabric of society, thereby getting the massive increase in FCC "obscenity" fines a few years back.
On further thought, the steak and babies analogy actually fails with these people... after all, a nipple is one of the very first things a baby should see.
And people wonder "where were the parents" when kids go bad. I can pretty much point to the commenters to this thread and say "They were here"
I have a rich contempt for families and the public too, where do I sign up to show my support?
Wont someone think of the children?! ... maybe parents should step up and actually do some parenting instead of having some agency...
Sounds dangerously close to the #! line in UNIX shell scripts specifying the required interpretor.
Wonder if this same group will now find the shebang indecent.
Morons.
Money, a sink, a rock and potion. How is that indecent?
-Magnus
I'd think programmers would understand that the value of a label is independent of the label's semantics, and two labels with the same value have, well, the same value. Whether the label is "shit" or "$#*!", we all know that both are used as conduits of the same meaning - although the latter does so by referencing the former. If someone is offended at the meaning of the former, they're offended at the meaning - and using a reference to the former does nothing to alleviate the meaning.
BTW, I'm amused at how many people express outrage or shock at someone else using obscenities, then spend a prolonged period talking about it with lots of quotations thereof in an apparent excuse to use the word themselves - somehow thinking that by using a reference they are absolved of the content referenced. "He said 'shit'! Isn't he bad? Yeah, he said 'shit'!"
Can we get a "-1 Wrong" moderation option?
I'm kinda saddened by the comments I've read in regards to this story. Its obvious that the Slashdot crowd for the most part does not have children.
-- If we don't stand up for our rights, now, there will be no right to stand up for them later.
its desire to shock and offend is crystal clear in this decision
Heaven forbid we have things that "shock and offend". Martin Luther King Jr shocked and offended many people when he spoke out for civil rights, Rosa Park shocked and offended many people when she didn't give up her seat, Patrick Henry shocked and offended many people when he shouted "give me liberty or give me death" and yet we still call those people "heroes"
The fact is, shocking and offending people should be a right because without it, our nation would not exist.
You have no right to not be offended, the right to offend, however, is paramount.
Taxation is legalized theft, no more, no less.
So wouldn't about fifteen billion cartoon strips from the papers then be indecent too? Fucktards.
...to my intelligence. Blanking out cusses is pointless, because we decode them on the fly. Who looks at f*** and doesn't read fuck? Either don't swear at all or do it fucking properly.
Seems appropriate.
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CBS President: So let me get this straight - you're condemning the show for having "$#*!" in the title?
Head of PTC: Absolutely. It's clearly indecent!
CBS: And you've sent press releases to every news organization and major blog across the country affirming that this is your position?
PTC. That's right. And what are you going to do about it?
CBS: (stifles a giggle) What am I going to do? Cartwheels all the way back to the office!
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Prisencolinensinainciusol. Ol Rait!
$#*! is not a valid regular expression. And are there really an infinite number of possibilities? There are people out there who think that if enough people meditate, world peace will happen. So, not surprisingly there are people who think that if too many f-bombs are dropped the planet will explode.
not sure if anyone has posted this yet but the show is based off a popular website of the same name. Something to consider when marketing dollars are taken into account...
CBS is trying to be "edgy" by pulling this stunt. They could have called it "Crap My Dad Says" but instead did this because they knew it would be controversial and therefore raise awareness of the new show. Those clever CBS execs got this show mentioned on Slashdot.
The PTC is right that everyone knows what "$#.!" really means because of the "... My Dad Says" at the end. Sure it appears harmless, but I don't think it sends the right message to children who are too young for the show in the first place. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind the show existing on regular television. However, knowing how CBS operates this show will be promo'd during "family friendly" shows via those damn "pop ups" and 15 second commercials.
What if CBS made a show called "The @#&^%#$ of Harlem"? Wouldn't the PTC be right to protest such a title for a show? It doesn't explicitly say the word, but I bet you know what it may mean. It could mean "The Princes of Harlem", but they would be counting on people interpreting it as something controversial (and racially offensive).
In the end, this will probably bite CBS in the ass. The show will suck (most do) and the advertisers won't like the negative attention the group can organize toward their brands.
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They have a lot of swear words in them They begin with a #!
And you all bloody idiots should fucking learn from our superior civilization and do all just like us!
then they should use the ACTUAL letters. SHITAKE only without the extra 3 letters that time time and mushroom spores add.
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Does this pass the smell test?
Prove anything by multiplying Huge Number times Tiny Number
If a small group of people really really cares about something, and the rest of us don't care too much, it's basic social wisdom to compromise in favor of the people who really do care.
I am offended by the material that FOX news spews out, but I always thought that as part of a free society that they had a right to express their view of things. Were I to complain about their content and organize people to bury the FCC in letters, I would be censoring them and denying their freedom of speech. Unlike the socially conservative right, I do not infringe on other's rights to express themselves when I don't like what they have to say. I want to see swearing on TV. I want Kevin Smith writing shows. I want to see George Carlin's old shows run on TV.
Your 'social wisdom' is simply caving to a small minority of vocal bullies that want to control what others see and do.
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
is ahead of this as usual.
What I find really frakking funny about "frak" is that there are people who have never even seen the show using it as an expletive. I first remember hearing it outside the context of BSG sometime in the late 80s; then it seemed to die out for a while but it's back and seems even more common now.
Languages change, indeed...
SB
It's old. The more humans I meet, the more I like my cats. At least they are honest.
However, the shows you mentioned portray murder and rape as "bad things", while "shit my dad says" glorifies it. There is a difference. They're retarded to try to protect their warped view of American culture, but so are the asshats who hate me for using the word "retarded"
It's all in your mind anyway. Get over it.
Here, watch some Sesame Street that is surely safe for you and your kids...
The "PTC" is simply trying to get publicity for their beliefs. If the OP thinks their point is ridiculous (as do I), then sadly he just gave them exactly what they wanted. Better to just ignore them and move on, otherwise they're just going to feel empowered and possibly start getting the attention of people who think this is worth-while.
It is more productive to voice thoughtful opinions (reply) than to judge (moderate) others.
Should the word "stuff" be illegal?
No, because "stuff" meaning "to fill [an orifice] with a penis" is not a common meaning.
Should the very word "intercourse" be illegal, as it has exactly the same meaning as "fuck"?
No, because "intercourse" is a medical term.
Should it be illegal to say "a child without a father", since it is synonymous with "bastard"?
No, because "child without a father" is accepted legal language, as is "child born out of wedlock".
Just call the show "2 Girls 1 Cup". No one could say that name is indecent.
...really must be Devil spawn!!
just call it "Shat my dad says".
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Stay tuned for some shock and awe coming right up after this messages!
And made the title "53484954 My Dad Says"
Just need to grow up. In America a company can (or should be able to, as was the framers of our country visioned, respecting the rights of man) do whatever it wants. If what it sells is deemed indecent by the people, then that company will go belly up (unless they get bailed out and propped up). Moral of the stry, CBS can do wahtever the fuck they want, and if you don't like it don't watch that show, or the network at all. Problem solved.
Captcha: Tolerant - The liberal bible-thumping pansies are anything but tolerant
Been following this one for a year or two now.
http://twitter.com/shitmydadsays
I hate rehashed shit. Way to go CBS, way to not be original....
With all due respect, the 'Decency Groups' can eat my $#*!.
Beloved Muppet Beaker has provided a well stated response to the school board.
You tell 'em Beaker!
--sabre86
But this DOES sound like a load of carp!
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
To be fair, it's not the bleeped out expletive that's offensive; but the context. The show title is clearly showing an extremely hostile view of the show's father, and phrased generically. Show titles are not just something that shows up once in a show. They're what everyone knows the show as, and get reprinted continually. Would a show called "All women are $*&^$" get air time? Or "@#&^$ those (&^$^ black (*&*&(ers"? I think not.
The (in)decency group should practice the free will God granted them and cease the sin of passing judgement.
The plan is to control the fucking message. See TX textbook shit.
I wonder what that stands for? Oh, sure, they SAY it stands for "Parents Television Council", but we all know what it REALLY means.
After years of reading what passes for writing on blogs and forums, I'm not at all surprised to discover that the public actually finds punctuation offensive.
> By this logic Qbert was the filthiest game ever made.
By the same logic, Winnie the Pooh was the filthiest children's book ever. "Oh bother."
Parenthetically, why "republicans" in the tags? According to the PTC website, the filthiest network is Fox. Which side is supposed to be republican? Just wonderin'.
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
I know I am in the minority in this, but it's not like we don't know what it stands for. (Or well, maybe we don't? I thought it was "shit" but I see a lot of "fucks" in the comments.) Personally, I don't really care if my kids cuss since I did a lot of that as a kid myself. However, I don't see the point in half-censorship. Pretending like $#*! isn't "shit" and @$$ isn't "ass" is just nonsense, so just say SHIT or FUCK or whatever cuss word you want or omit it entirely. (Ditto for s*** and f***.) Now, if you can't say these things on TV, then why allow the bullshit pussy semi-censored versions? It's not like we aren't all automatically doing the transliteration in our heads. I remember swear words getting edited out of movies showing on TV when I was a young child, and even at that age it was always pretty obvious what the original line was. It is inconsistent to allow one but not the other. Again, I am on the they-should-just-allow-cussing side of that argument, but it is a different (though related) argument.
... that that's the variable for determining what the comment character is. perl... is there anything you can't do? ;)
When FOX first aired The Best Damn Sports Show Period! It was such a big deal. The word damn used to be lumped in with shit and fuck as too obscene for TV. Now I hear "shit" on regular TV shows after 10 pm. We all hear the word every day in our daily lives and in just about every movie we watch that isn't G rated. I just have to laugh when these groups feel it necessary to think for the rest of us when they shouldn't be allowed to think for themselves.
The only group here showing contempt for the family and the public is the Parents Television Council.
Anyone got a light for my sig?
The PTC has been trying to make themselves relevant for some time now. They are more worried about making headline, rather than doing some good in the world. It is not like CBS is actually implying that people should engage in sexual intercourse/sodomy with their own fathers.
My girlfriend is approaching deaf and we watch TV and movie with Closed Caption enabled. When certain words on certain channels, such as "shit, fuck, damn, ass, asshole, goddamn", etc are used by the actors, we usually see "s---, f---, d---, a--, a------, g------", etc. Where is this crazy group's feigned outrage on that?
Wisdom for CBS:
"Stop trying so hard. He doesn't like you. Jesus, don't kiss an ass if it's in the process of shitting on you."
5:03 PM Apr 26th via ShitMyDadSays.com
$#*! - ok, obviously this is obscene - can't you people see this?
Simply put these 4 symbols are saying:
"For money, POUND the "Star"(fish)" with an exclamation point for emphasis. Promoting anal sex for money on the public airwaves is obviuosly indecent. Frankly, I'm shocked this made it past the CBS censors. Thank god some do-gooder group alerted the world to this!
According to Google image searches ... it's not only a word ... but an activity as well!
L'esperienza de questa dolce vita (The experience of this sweet life) - Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
I forgot which Russian author stated this, but I can see how the statement "swear words are weapons of the intelligent as opposed to sticks and stones of the masses" can be true. And if you do not dilute your language with "fucks" and "shits" (like college students and drunken sailors do), then swearing will underline your emotions. Unfortunately too many people do not realize it and instead of teaching their kids how to swear properly, they demand censorship of TV and radio programming. As a result we raise mindless generations who will overuse swear words which in its turn will prompt more parents to ask for censorship. I guess this is done by the same people who have not read anything outside their high school English curriculum...
What is this world coming to? I remember a time when all the words in a TV show's title were spelled with legitimate, God-fearing letters. I blame the Internet with its overtly sexual use of the @ symbol, which my grandson tells me has something to do with sodomy. My word! Millions of email addresses, all of them carrying a subliminal advertisement for taboo intercourse!
Let us begin with these-
http://www.indopedia.org/index.php?title=List_of_fictional_curse_words
Everytime I hear one of them I run to the nearest child and cover their little child ears. It is only then that I feel I'm helping society in any meaningful way.
Turns out they're all run by closeted gays.... Let's do some TV shows about that... See if that doesn't shut 'em up for half a second.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Fuck CBS. They knew the rules before they decided to air this show. The source material has a near constant barrage of words that have been off-limits to CBS since the inception of the network. IMO this gives the show zero chance to be as funny as the twitter. That old guy is hilarious. Shatner would probably be great in the role. But let's face it, an integral part of what makes shitmydadsays funny is the language that he uses. Do it right, put it on HBO....and get off my lawn. I have no opinion about the decency fuckheads.
By this logic Qbert was the filthiest game ever made.
Q*bert was the filthiest game ever made. Just look at the appendage on that guy. I think you and I both can imagine what that thing was made for.
"I don't care about the Constitution!" --Bill O'Reilly, November 17, 2009
Only the lunatic fringe right cares about this. They make a lot of noise so they continue to be funded by the conservative lunatics. The sad part is that they get equal airtime.
I hate being bipolar; it's awesome!
... at least they didn't decide to go with a pictogram showing a photo of a freshly pinched-off and steaming turd as part of the title.
Perhaps CBS's mistake was not starting with something much more vulgar like that and then bartering down to $#*!.
8==8 Bones 8==8
The game is not filthy. However, what I tended to say while playing it was.
--- What?
It says right here !@$%^&*() ! !
As the author of an acceptable use policy for dozens of employees I feel a sudden urge to hire more lawyers.
Dan Savage (gay sex columnist) has managed to more-or-less successfully associate a name of some target prig with an act/thing with which that prig would be publicly horrified to be associated. For example: santorum So to make mention of PTC ("Parents Television Council") should now refer to some indecent act involving shit: "oh man, he's probably into PTC or somesuch shit"
by similar logic Microsoft have themselves a contraction of the word fucking and called their phone it.
'kin hilarious if you ask me...
If TV were more like the internet, you could just choose the content right for you without a fucking committee..
Oh, wait.
You can get 15 minutes of fame, but you can go down in history for infamy.
Apparently, "Pharisaical" is on average only used twice in a sample of every 100 million words, which is probably why I had to look it up.
Fork them. Those mother forkers have no forking idea about what the fork they are talking about. Any forking word can be used as an expletive, and if they can't forking take it, then they should forking close their eyes or move to a forking cave. Mother forking ice holes like them deserved to be forked with a rusty spoon up their bible.
Fork this.
I get so tired of these moral hate mongers trying to control what happens in the rest of the country, we already have corrupt politicians for that. Let them ban it in their own little corner of the world, STFU, and leave the rest of us alone.
I thing that $#*! is perfectly acceptable in polite society, %&@# on the other hand.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
You Americans(the USof variety) are becoming quite indecent, can the rest of the world vote on banning YOU?
. . . that such an advanced society as ours is saddled with a small set of practically ancient expressions to express our contemporary feelings. Words that rhyme with duck and sit and hunt and tips for such profoundly emotional moments such as when the IRS sends an audit notice or your ex-wife publishes You Tube video of her and your former best friend copulating while she moans "finally a real piece of meat" or when your boss informs you that your job has moved to India and left you here alone. These "lifetime memories" deserve something more than the same short guttural epitaphs used by 19th Century cattlemen or, even worse, "$#*!" that cannot even be pronounced. After all, we are in the Third Millennium, the age of Urban Dictionary and Wiktionary. Let's try to come up with something more original and certainly more profane than "$#*!"
When they said it, though, they didn't have testicles in mind: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=balls+out Steam power, all the way!
Nothing new. There was outrage when a 1960s kid's program said Oh sod it! the fucking thing's stuck again.
With notes on a trombone.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
$&%*!!! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!3
I suggest change from "$#*! my dad says" to "PTC* my dad says".
* Parents Television Council
can go get f#@ked as far as I'm concerned.The attempt at censoring everyone's speech is patently obscene.Piss off,NPC and you can kiss my red hairy A$$
Geek Hillbilly
something like: U2hpdCBNeSBEYWQgU2F5cw== see how long it takes for groups to figure it out.
With a 9 year old in my house, we simply do not watch Prime Time TV any more. Even if the show might be OK, the commercials are NOT! TV sucks anymore.
Stop protecting kids from reality and making them unable to live their own lives...
and do yourself a favor: go to youtube and watch "child worship" by george carlin
The MAFIAA is a bunch of mindless jerks who will be the first up against the wall when the revolution comes
Trying to think of more titles that would p*** them off...
How about ****
No, too subtle.. how about
Erection in Peniston and Scunthorpe with Libshitz' Shitake Mushrooms
Which of course would be a show about construction and cooking.
It's clear why it's Indecent, how is the shell script going to grab variable # and then multiple it with bang? This is clearly a case of bad programming, I'm offended to.
Clearly this is really a case of yet another group getting mad at the fact someone had some fun with a title. Just give it a break, they can't prove what S#*! is going to mean, hell why doesn't the company just make it up, maybe it means sand. They being offended about that.
Well since these guys over this "Parents Television Council" like to write letters and complain I think they should receive some calls and letters back.
Here is their contact info:
Mailing Address:
707 Wilshire Boulevard #2075
Los Angeles, CA 90017
Phone:
(213) 403-1300
(800) 882-6868 (Toll-Free)
Fax:
(213) 403-1301
Hmmm from TFA... To speak with a representative from the Parents Television Council, please contact Kelly Oliver (ext. 140) or Megan Franko (ext. 148) at (703) 683-5004.
Their anti-free-speech stance is unamerican. When do we start deporting them?
I don't have a problem with the show's title but I do have a problem with the attempted association between the show's title and the sayings of Qbert. If I recall, Qbert merely let out a sequence of characters with no context (other than it was obvious that he was unhappy). It wasn't something like "@!#*$ snake!". Had they bleeped out the entire title I believe it would be comparable, but as it stands it is not.
SHUT YOUR $#*!ing Face Uncle $#*!er!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk1vAFOhL-4&feature=related
Change the fucking channel.
I am Bennett Haselton! I am Bennett Haselton!
And this destroys family values?
There are plenty of families that have values, even if some censoring family-institute doesn't see this. - Unless of course, you think a family has to look like the Waltons.
In 1985 I decided television itself was $#*! and I got rid of mine. For 25 years almost I have not watched television, will not even stay in the room if there is a television running. And I am the better for it. How wonderful to be free of the torrent of advertisements for useless $#*!, the stupid programs, the newscasters who spewed nothing but bull$#*!. Ten years ago, I got rid of that noisy box known as radio. Life is much more peaceful now. Yeah, I keep a windup radio around in case there is a disaster such as nuclear war where I might receive useful information from it. Glance at the headlines on the internet, that's about it. Will not watch videos on the internet either. It is not an occasional naughty word that is bad for children. It is Mass Media that is bad for both children and adults. Cut yourself off from Mass Media for a couple of months, or at least minimize your exposure, and you will see what I mean.
Belgium man!
I fail to see the fallacy in the GP's statement. Either he's right and there are 'real Christians' and (by extension) 'fake Christians' (like there are real Rolexes and fake Rolexes) or each group has a different definition of what constitutes a real Christian, in which case each group is correct based on their understanding of the definition of the word (like a Hummer driver might call a Caravan a 'fuel-efficient vehicle' but a Prius driver would not).
It amazes me how a post like this brings out streams of profanity and vindictive attitude. If anyone suggests some self-control or possibly a little civility, there is huge moral outrage as though the mere suggestion will somehow ruin everything. Most profanity/vulgarity has a negative implication. Things spoken in anger or to harm. It amazes me that so many people defend it as though it were some kind of virtue. How about a little self-control? Can you string together a sentence without inserting an irrelevant adjective? Do you people honestly believe that conversation would be unbearable sans-cursing? Personally I find it irritating that culture tends towards the mundane and vulgar. It is not mentally stimulating to listen to some idiot explain what he did over the weekend while using one rude word as an adjective, noun, and verb. Our language is dying, and people defend conversations that leave individuals wondering if they were really insulted or if it was just a joke. Everyone is devoid of consequences for their choice of words. Well guess what? You may feel you should be allowed to use every profane term, but you also have permission to exercise self-restraint, respect for others and the advanced vocabulary that sets you apart as an intelligent species. I've said my piece, now I'll leave you to continue with your IQ identifying invective.
So many people are mistaking $#*! for the word "fuck", when it really is intended to stand for "shit". Given that the latter word is generally viewed as being less offensive than the former, and the punctuation stand-in for the curse word is invoking an even "worse" word than what is intended.
Therefor, I think in order to prevent this from occurring, we should dump the $#*! and just say Shit, for the sake of the children who will think it's the wrong word.
That's right, "Shit" for the children!
The Wikipedia article cannot be titled properly, due to technical limitations in the wikitext;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleep_My_Dad_Says
Tolkien referenced the 'two towers' long before 9/11, so he clearly knew about the plot. Any fool can plainly see that he was behind the whole thing.
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
At least they didn't say Meekrob!
You call them bullies because you don't agree with them, but other people do agree with them. You say they are wrong, they say you are wrong. Who can be the ultimate judge of what is right and what is wrong?
I call bullshit. We aren't speaking about their social views vs. mine, so don't give me that whishy-washy 'opinions are relative' crap. This is about respecting other people's rights to express themselves.
I call them bullies because they try to control what others do, NOT because I disagree with the views that they support.
They are violating the constitutionally protected freedom of speech, and that is wrong.
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
So Im a parent. I have 3 kids. I don't let my 12yo son watch Southpark or Family guy. I don't need a PTC orginization to make those decisions. Maybe if they stopped going to the stupid meetings and payed attention to what their kids were watching they wouldn't have so many issues.
--- Always remember. 99.36% of all statistics are inaccurate.
So, does "Shatner" then mean, "one who shats? Or "one who shattens"?
Ba dum, ...
Cheers,
"What in the name of Fats Waller is that?"
"A four-foot prune."
If CBS is smart about it, they won't even acknowledge it. All a response will do is provide the PTC momentum in the media. FOX never (or rarely) did acknowledge them, and they've taken the top spot from the historic big three U.S. networks. Most people don't care that family-friendly American Idol is on the same network as Family Guy, so I doubt this will harm CBS one bit.
Charisma is the measure of someone's ability to lie with a straight face.
Why do these people hate America so much? Freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought, freedom of movement, freedom of choice. Didn't they get the clue that FREEDOM is what America is based on?
Fuck your children. Today belongs to me.
Furries make the internet go.
FCC rules actually view substitute words as the same as if you said the real word. By the regs if you can figure out what they meant its obscene. So BSG can't legally say Frak on the air. Of course with the FCC nothing exists till someone files a complaint. You could air "one guy one cup" if no one complained. Of course they might notice when 50% of the population throws away their TV the next day.
All my scripts are safe, you insensitive $#*!
The perl thing is getting out of hand. The PTC is now campaiging for CPAN to be blocked at ISPs.
CPAN is the most smut ridden site I've ever seen. It is disgusting that this filth is freely available on the web.
I completely agree that turning anything into a no-no tends to make it into a big deal, however I agree with your grandfather as well. He does/did have a very good basis for his position.
Matthew 15:18 "But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person."
"I'm far more concerned with..." and "It's only music..." and "What's the harm in watching..." are all phrases that I have recently been covering in my Sunday school and discipleship studies recently. As Christ followers, the things you list, nudity, violence, mindless "culture", should concern us greatly, but so should the lesser things as well.
Matthew 5:19 "Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven."
Philippians 4:8 "Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things."
I am certain my geek card will be revoked for quoting scripture on /. Oh well. It's worth loosing if so.
Ignore it.
Stupid nannys.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
Which is why we need to do away with bleeps entirely. Leaving it up to the viewer to interpret what the bleeped word could be is far more dangerous. For instance, when you saw my subject, how did you read it? I forget where I heard it, but that was used as an example of why some words are bleeped while others aren't. But as we can clearly see from the other postings here, the current list of bleeped words is still too large, if the title of this show is being interpreted as worse than it really is.
"I'm not sure I like the fugnutish tone you used in your post!" -RogL (608926)-
Back in 2004, Ars Technica reported that the PTC was responsible for 99% of the complaints that the FCC receives and was seeking to get auto-generated complaints (aka spam complaints) accepted as valid by the FCC. (Source: http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2004/12/4442.ars )
I don't know if they're still generating most of them, but whenever someone is complaining about indecency on TV, it seems to be the PTC. In my mind, they're just a bunch of stuck up whiners. (Though they do seem to be for ala carte cable* so they're not all bad.)
* Granted this is so they could ditch channels that show "dirty" programs like Friends or *gasp* Family Guy and only have channels that show clean programs like Everyone Loves Raymond.
My sci-fi novel, Ghost Thief, is now available from Amazon.com.
That's a dangerous attitude. The problem with those groups is that they have no interest in anything else, they have a limited mind.
If someone has a healthy mind, he will have interest in many things, not an obsession with one single issue. There's a difference between caring about something and suffering from a monomania.
a offensive word can only have power if theirs some cry baby out there willing to take it as offensive. the word nigger is a great example it was misused and turned into a race offensive word wile in realty it only meant ignorant person,. wile the word over the last few years has been losing its power to offend people its still there. i mean this if you called a black guy a nigger 20 years ago you better have your grave ready. if you did it now he probably would look at your like you lost your mind or just ignore you. or like my buddy blaze does laugh at you. if tv shows all started using fuck and not cencering it after all the cry babys finished with there fits guess what happens to the power of using the word fuck it loses its power alot. as i said a word can only be offensiv couse some nutbag thinks it is. as people have said theirs shows on most networks that show mangled body's in all kinds of crazy ways man you rember that csi ep with the wood chipper and they showed it. but if they sware they go to far.
Violence is awesome and heroic. The human body is obscene. Welcome to America.
Then, when the parents complained, change it to $%! or whatever.
I'm really surprised to read of so many people who embrace swearing like this, and encourage it.
We are not setting the right example for our children. A few years ago 'bitch' became acceptable on TV and every show, including the most light-hearted comedies, sling around that word heavily.
Where does it end? Rap music made the N word acceptable to say in public across multiple ethnicities. Violence against women has made 'whore' and 'bitch' substitutes for 'woman'.
The kneejerk response is to say some moral group is having a fit over something minor. It's a slippery slope. How low do we go until it stops?
Consider this: the most ignorant and uneducated of us are the ones that use the most profanity and hate speech. Should we make their level of discourse the norm for this entire nation?
I hope Penn and Teller take on this one.
Responsibility is an addiction
Virtue is a temptation
Community is a cartel
The Stranger: Do you have to use so many cuss words?
The Dude: What the fuck you talking about?
This is excerpt of spam message I got and this is one of the methods spammers are trying to pass the spam filter. I think what they are saying is "Ordering mega doze online to prevent flaccid male member..."
None of this refers to works only the intent behind the words. So using "shit" as an equivalent of "stuff" most definitely does not infringe upon your quotes.
Don't forget that those words were written by men. even bible scholars generally agree that something like 80% is the word of man 17% is the paraphrased words of deities and less than 3-5% is word for word. Then again english or moden languages weren't spoken back then so what we've got is religious interpretations of what the intent is beind the originals.
I tend to think of it this way. Words only have the power that people to them otherwise they're just a string of random characters. If words like shit and fuck entered common use (and they've been trending towards that) they lose theire power and even their definition.
I think you mean you read English literature *from* the last 400 years, rather than having read *for* the last 400 years. The latter would make you rather old. While a fair number of people like reading literature from 400 years or more ago and there's some good stuff out there. Bloke called Shakespeare for example. Push it back a couple of hundred years more and Chaucer's a good read. Some fine bits in "The Wife of Bath" for starters. Tends to be read under compulsion by most 17 year olds studying English Lit. in UK schools.
Me, I just go down the British Library on the occasional days off. Can't afford the books myself but you can flip through some right nice old books with just a loaned pair of white gloves.
it is just CBS' latest demonstration of its contempt for families and the public
As a parent that believes in not being excessively protective of children (because over protection does more damage once they hit the real world), and believes that parents are responsible for both teaching and enforcing socially acceptable language use by their own children, I have two choice words for the Parents Television Council:
FUCK YOU!
If you don't want your kids getting near bleeps, let alone profanity which is commonly heard just about anywhere but Church, then I suggest you remove your TV set from the house, along with anything else that gets your panties in knots. The right to not being offended by someone is not a constitutional right, and like it or not, your kids will be exposed to it eventually. Actually, they probably already are exposed to this if they are any older than 7, and think you are a douche bag (and likely a hypocrite too) for being so anal about profanity on TV, or anywhere else for that matter. Either way, I feel sorry for your kids.
Frankly, I'd much prefer my kids hearing this stuff and just learning to play it cool, instead of getting all hyped up with "He just said the F word!!" And when they use the word, they will get a healthy slap up the side of the head. (That's politically incorrect? Well guess what, I'm in the school of thought that non-damaging physical punishment is a necessity, in chosen situations, for children that need to learn a lesson. It's both natural, effective, and doesn't leave any wounds or injuries (I said SLAP, not PUNCH) provided they still know Dad loves them.)
All that aside though, this is just down right stupidity. $#*! is not a profanity, it is just suggestive of a profanity. Much in the same way like gosh-darned. (Which is another expression that gets on my nerves... just say "goddamn". If you feel that it is inappropriate to say that, then use an appropriate word, not a suggestive watered down version of the same thing.) And anyone that finds $#*! in the title of a TV show increasing interest in said show, has the maturity level a few notches lower than my 14 year old son. CBS and the Parents Television Council are playing Dumb & Dumber.
'There are an infinite number of alternatives that CBS could have chosen but its desire to shock and offend is crystal clear in this decision.'
The entertainment industry trying to shock and offend in order to boost ratings? That's never happened before! Outrageous!
"I don't care about the Constitution!" --Bill O'Reilly, November 17, 2009
As long as kill has a value other than zero, the loop will run forever because the expression value of (bad=kill) is the value of kill.
The original code is indeterminate. The correction is incorrect for saying "never", as most possible definitions of "kill" would be non-zero unless bad was extremely negative and kill were more positive than bad.
If you are going to be pedantic, be definitively pedantic.
(Presuming "C" of course.)
Innocent people shouldn't be forced to pay for inferior software development.
--"Code Complete" Microsoft Press
dude, as long as kill is not zero, the loop will run forever because the second assignment would be true.
Innocent people shouldn't be forced to pay for inferior software development.
--"Code Complete" Microsoft Press
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excuse my german and french but thats my friendly reply to you "indecentcy" "$#!" is indecent just translate that listed above and compare that to my friendly response to them.
The Fucking Shit my Dad says. or The Poop my dad says.
I think that the Supreme Court may have something to say about that.
... a F#CK is out of the question?
Bitter and proud of it.
The Parents Television Council can go fuck themselves.
For all you idiots going for the "funny" tag here, this is NOT a joke. This coven of fundamentalist idiots has a HUGE amount of clout with the FTC. More than they deserve. So while you all sit here making jokes and trying to get tagged "Funny", or invoking the frankly idiotic "Flying Spaghetti Monster" trying to be smarter than the lowly, deluded Xtians, THESE people are influencing policy and dictating what you see and hear.
Real fucking funny. Why not try opposing them for once?
Oh squash you, you squashing squasher.
By this logic Qbert was the filthiest game ever made.
Not at all, young human; games like Rogue and Angband consist almost entirely of characters like @, #, *, ...; thus they are made entirely of filth.
They used the "actual name" of the Twitter feed and book, so the PTC apparently doesn't feel like even knowing the name of what they are planning to "wage an unrelenting campaign" about. I think that this kind of ignorance is indecent.
#!/usr/bin/perl
The mother of all swears...
--- I am known for the ones who want to find me on the net. Is that a privacy risk or a privilege? One might wonder..
Nothing disturbing, just plain old male masturbation. But since it is such a common act it might catch on easily.
FRA: STFU GTFO
US series, e.g. the continous swearing of the OCC guys, is translated into actual words in the german voice over. So you hear the bleeps in the background and nice cool words in german. Funny.
Vulgar words will always exist and they have their role and place. Sometimes their role is to insult someone, sometimes to confirm that you are in a relaxed familiar environment with guys that you thrust, sometimes to make a statement more bold and attract attention.
But everything at the right time and place. You won't go running to random people on the street and yell vulgar words at them unless you are looking for trouble. Tell the same word to your best friends while drinking and it may be funny. You will choose to not use some words while speaking to your mother or grandmother out of respect for them, etc, you get the point.
Like the rest of the language, vulgar words evolve. That means what yesterday was a curse word today may be ok or vice versa, and new words (containing letter, numbers or special characters) are rising to wear the brave title of vulgar terms. In the end what matters is the intent of the person using it and how the environment interprets it.
For example, if I start using 'HTRT23' as a vulgar term for a someone that is so desperate for publicity that will do anything, even degrading - and the new term catches on and a very large amount of people in the world starts using it, 'HTRT23' it is a vulgar term. Same story with "$#*!".
Like everything else in life, television needs some language restrictions as well, because of the very large and uncontrolled audience. And the same old story will repeat ad nauseam: someone always tries to probe the limits, like kids, exploring boundaries. CBS had bad intent and you know it.
I don't work for any censorship organization and I'm not looking to apologize for them. For the matter of fact, I’m quite a potty mouth myself. I'm just stating the common sense - and I think you know it already. But it's not as flaming or as funny as other posts, of course, so feel free to mod me the fuck down.
We in Europe can only shake our heads and turn our eyes skywards when we see and hear of the US-American bigotery. On the one side there is every blank piece of human flesh "hurting and endangering society" on the other side an terror organisation like the NRA is praised for their support of fireweapons in childrens hand ?-(
CU
"Let your yeah be yeah and your no be no"
http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/hardertheycome/letyouryeahbeyeah.htm
...If only there was this way to, you know, make sure that the content blasted onto a TV that I dislike isn't displayed on the screen or pumped through the speakers... A switch or knob, perhaps.... Hmmm,
He shouldn't be allowed to have children, he clearly isn't an adult himself.
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
better $#!^ to do.
A show called "Dollar Pound: Star Bang" does sound pretty vulgar. I imagine it's like "Dancing with the Stars" only instead of dancing with B-list and washed up celebrities for money, you're doing something even better with them for money ;)
ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI
Pity the fool!
Ignore the post; it reminds me of the troll groups that would hijack usenet threads.
They're extremely indecent themselves! Not to mention outright violent. I mean - look at that name.
The Parents Television Council
That's just an anagram to cover up their actual name
Cunts Shiv A Lipton Electioneer
The bastard!
They just wanted attention, like the trolls they are... And you all fell for it...
Oh, wait... so did I...
Why is the human race still so barbaric. Fart jokes and swearing to nudity. See barbarians and little kids are the ones that care about those, everyone else accepts a fart as natural, does not get offended by a random work (a set of random letters determined by random people to mean indicate some random thought).
Living in Utah is a laugh. People say shoot or crap instead of shit, but if cussing is so bad, then the idea is bad not the word, so saying crap in it's place is just as bad because it is the same though.
Vulgarity is not in the word but in the person using the word and intent behind it, and most importantly by the person who thinks it vulgar.
I ask you is it worse to say fuck you in anger, or I am going to kill you in anger? One is a statement of an idea about killing someone, the other (considered vulgar) is just angry words.
So I wish the human race would grow up get rid of silly ideas like swearing to be bad, and stop thinking the human (natural body) is anything more than it is.
It is like prejudice, until we stop tracking race there will always be a seperation, same idea, as long as we give a specific word more meaning that it has, we will always have vulgarity.
kfuc is the worst of all the words.
I am offended by some people faces. Should I cut their head off, in order not to be offended?
George Carlin must be rolling in his grave at close to the speed of light. Will the pussyfication of America never end? political correctness is going to destroy the world!
"When in doubt, use brute force." Ken Thompson