i heard this one on the radio this morning, apparently the average person swares “14 times a day” and this is somehow tv’s fault. how is 14 even excessive? if they were all c**t’s maybe, but i doubt thats what they mean.
Okay so the average person swears 14 times a day (apparently)… but what counts as swearing? Do they count mild swearing like hell and damn? Or just the big bad words?
I do have to admit theres something about how the express goes its own way with leading stories, even though it usually ends up as stupid as this!
Swearing doesn’t come under one banner though. Some programmes, like say The Sopranos, would be ridiculous and lack any believability. Others, like Curb Your Enthusiasm, use it to brilliant and creative comedic effect
(”the beloved aunt” being legendary). But unfortunately the Daily Express’ brain (they can’t have more than one, if that) can’t process non-binary, multidimensional thinking, and so they trot out lazy sensationalist bollocks for headlines.
There’s also a thing called the watershed, so if the “Hard-Working British Tax-Payer” (TM the right-wing press) lets their kids watch TV after 9pm without conditions then they only have themselves to blame.
As for “the blight of Britain”, surely there are more reasonable, if still totally wrong, contenders for that title in Express land.
On a side note, yesterday i attended a talk by the former Guardian journalist Nick Davies. He said that the Express was on the brink and would cease to exist in the next 6-12 months.
Thank flippin’ crickey for that!
Fuck the Express and its fucking shallow fucking self rightous fucking narrative.
There.
“How TV is degrading our public life”
Yes perhaps Richard Desmond can stop Channel X and his porn industry. The Media are gearing themsleves up for Rossy’s return. He says anything out of line they’re goigg to hop skip and jump on him. They can go screw themselves. Where’s Mock the Week when you need it?
Passage from the Guardian about Desmond’s infamous meeting with the Telegraph, prior to the paper being bought out:
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‘”Don’t you tell me to sit down, you miserable little piece of shit,” Mr Desmond said, before he launched what witnesses described as “a stream of foul-mouthed abuse, both personal and general”.
“After three years dealing with a bunch of crooks I’m starting to enjoy this,” Mr Desmond said, adding, “You sat down with that fucking fat crook and did nothing,” in an apparent reference to Lord Black. He also called the Telegraph directors “fucking cunts” and “fucking wankers” among other names in an expletive-ridden tirade.
When Mr Deedes said he didn’t think the discussion – a monthly meeting of West Ferry’s finance committee – was going to be productive, Mr Desmond paused before launching a fresh assault.’
“The Media are gearing themsleves up for Rossy’s return. He says anything out of line they’re goigg to hop skip and jump on him. They can go screw themselves. Where’s Mock the Week when you need it?”
Hopefully he’ll open up with something like “Welcome back evewyone, apart from the tabloid media who can go and fuck themselves with with a wusty scwewdwiver laced with sulphuwic acid”, or words to that effect.
I love this one. If you read the actual story, it states that most people say that they’re not really offended by swearing any more. In which case, most people aren’t that bothered if there’s swearing on TV. So… who does swearing “blight”, exactly? Is the Express ranting against TV here, or against Britain itself?
“i heard this one on the radio this morning, apparently the average person swares “14 times a day” and this is somehow tv’s fault. how is 14 even excessive? if they were all c**t’s maybe, but i doubt thats what they mean.”
this swearing thing has bugger all to do with telly – it’s all about upbringing. i was raised in a very polite household (my dad was a vicar and my mum was worse) and as a result i swear like a fucking sailor. so my solution to the problem* is to ban christianity – it would have brilliant side effects as well.
* of course it’s not really a problem – this lovely nation has enjoyed its swear words since fuck knows when – chaucer, shakespeare and pepys all used swearing fairly liberally, and they are revered as great writers. it’s not as if swearing has only suddenly happened – fucking express idiots.
Well, it’s a novel twist on the Dead Corner if nothing else.
Oh, for fuck’s sake
80 MPH GALES………DEAD DOG……PLANE CRASH and they go with a none story about swearing.
Seriously how shite.
TV, through all its faults, is not as bad as the majority of shit rags.
Fuck off
oh for fu-…
i heard this one on the radio this morning, apparently the average person swares “14 times a day” and this is somehow tv’s fault. how is 14 even excessive? if they were all c**t’s maybe, but i doubt thats what they mean.
TV – that evil of all evils. I’m surprised they’ve not narrowed it down even further to those minions of Satan himself…The BBC.
As Matt has already pointed out, how on earth did this get picked to be the main headline?
FUCK !!!!
Yes, some of Dirty Des’s channels are a fugging disgrace
Okay so the average person swears 14 times a day (apparently)… but what counts as swearing? Do they count mild swearing like hell and damn? Or just the big bad words?
I do have to admit theres something about how the express goes its own way with leading stories, even though it usually ends up as stupid as this!
Of course Dirty Des’ Television X channel is the example all should be following.
Dead Dog corner. Blonde or Brunette?
14 times a day? I just swore 14 times in a minute on reading that sorry excuse for ‘news’
Swearing doesn’t come under one banner though. Some programmes, like say The Sopranos, would be ridiculous and lack any believability. Others, like Curb Your Enthusiasm, use it to brilliant and creative comedic effect
(”the beloved aunt” being legendary). But unfortunately the Daily Express’ brain (they can’t have more than one, if that) can’t process non-binary, multidimensional thinking, and so they trot out lazy sensationalist bollocks for headlines.
There’s also a thing called the watershed, so if the “Hard-Working British Tax-Payer” (TM the right-wing press) lets their kids watch TV after 9pm without conditions then they only have themselves to blame.
As for “the blight of Britain”, surely there are more reasonable, if still totally wrong, contenders for that title in Express land.
I’m sure there’s not one curse word uttered in the Express newsroom either.
‘Private Eye’ regularly reports the language used by Desmond about his staff.He seems very fond of a four letter word beginning with ‘c’………..
On a side note, yesterday i attended a talk by the former Guardian journalist Nick Davies. He said that the Express was on the brink and would cease to exist in the next 6-12 months.
Thank flippin’ crickey for that!
All together now….
FUCK YOU EXPRESS!!
I’m surprised they haven’t blamed the fucking muslim gypsy asylum seeker cunts.
I’d miss ‘The world’s greatest newspaper’ but the staff could perhaps get themselves new jobs as journalists so it’s not all bad news………
Fuck the Express and its fucking shallow fucking self rightous fucking narrative.
There.
“How TV is degrading our public life”
Yes perhaps Richard Desmond can stop Channel X and his porn industry. The Media are gearing themsleves up for Rossy’s return. He says anything out of line they’re goigg to hop skip and jump on him. They can go screw themselves. Where’s Mock the Week when you need it?
Passage from the Guardian about Desmond’s infamous meeting with the Telegraph, prior to the paper being bought out:
—
‘”Don’t you tell me to sit down, you miserable little piece of shit,” Mr Desmond said, before he launched what witnesses described as “a stream of foul-mouthed abuse, both personal and general”.
“After three years dealing with a bunch of crooks I’m starting to enjoy this,” Mr Desmond said, adding, “You sat down with that fucking fat crook and did nothing,” in an apparent reference to Lord Black. He also called the Telegraph directors “fucking cunts” and “fucking wankers” among other names in an expletive-ridden tirade.
When Mr Deedes said he didn’t think the discussion – a monthly meeting of West Ferry’s finance committee – was going to be productive, Mr Desmond paused before launching a fresh assault.’
“The Media are gearing themsleves up for Rossy’s return. He says anything out of line they’re goigg to hop skip and jump on him. They can go screw themselves. Where’s Mock the Week when you need it?”
Hopefully he’ll open up with something like “Welcome back evewyone, apart from the tabloid media who can go and fuck themselves with with a wusty scwewdwiver laced with sulphuwic acid”, or words to that effect.
I love this one. If you read the actual story, it states that most people say that they’re not really offended by swearing any more. In which case, most people aren’t that bothered if there’s swearing on TV. So… who does swearing “blight”, exactly? Is the Express ranting against TV here, or against Britain itself?
Bollocks it is. The biggest problem facing this country is either:
a) the EU ban on the Great British lightbulb, or
b) people not having their dustbin emptied every half hour
depending on whether it’s dark or not.
Now fuck off and get me some proper news, ya gobshites.
Swearing?
I thought certain newspapers were the blight of Britain….
Since my mum still thinks bloody is a swearword i’m not suprised
“i heard this one on the radio this morning, apparently the average person swares “14 times a day” and this is somehow tv’s fault. how is 14 even excessive? if they were all c**t’s maybe, but i doubt thats what they mean.”
the daily express are all cunts, though
You know what I’ve just noticed….that photo of the plane makes it look like those people are walking on water.
There are only two things that really make me swear.
Coding – with a daily amount of about 100 swears.
Mail readers – which accounts for about 20 ‘fucking cunts’ in the space of 10 mins.
TV doesn’t make me swear at all.
I guess we need is some kind of “nanny state” to make sure we don’t use naughty words.
this swearing thing has bugger all to do with telly – it’s all about upbringing. i was raised in a very polite household (my dad was a vicar and my mum was worse) and as a result i swear like a fucking sailor. so my solution to the problem* is to ban christianity – it would have brilliant side effects as well.
* of course it’s not really a problem – this lovely nation has enjoyed its swear words since fuck knows when – chaucer, shakespeare and pepys all used swearing fairly liberally, and they are revered as great writers. it’s not as if swearing has only suddenly happened – fucking express idiots.
Now they want to stop your swearing in case it offends Muslims! PC gone mad!
“You know what I’ve just noticed….that photo of the plane makes it look like those people are walking on water.”
Don’t be daft, everyone knows that only Diana and Maddie can do that.
The word fuck doesn’t originate from the 15th century after all, it was created in 1970 by TV.
NJH, ring the Express. We may have found them. Together.