Political Correctness still alive and well in the UK

Does the word "Bloody"offend you?

Published on March 10, 2006 By zergimmi In Current Events

This week in the UK Britain's advertising regulator says it had no choice but to block a TV advertisement in the UK promoting tourism in Australia.
Broadcasting Advertising Clearance Centre managing editor Paul Denham says swear words like "bloody" are specifically banned and they can offend by appearing in the middle of programs without such material.
I am inyerested to hear whether people find the word, and or the add offensive. I personally don't find the word "BLOODY"to be offensive, but maybe I out of touch, I don't know. What I do know there is plenty of other things on TV that are far more offensive and yet they seem to get through the censors.

Comments

Rightwinger

on Mar 10, 2006

"Bloody" doesn't bother me, and after all, it's a word rather carelessly tossed about by Ron Weasley, one of the main characters in the "Harry Potter" books and movies.
But you have to remember that times change; when we hear someone say "Blast it!", for example, well....way back in the Day, that used to be quite the swear word, almost an abomination.
Someday, "fuck" will be spoken with the same blase, casual carelessness that we see "bloody" and "blast" used with today. "Fuck, mom!" Will be used by children to express mild exasperation. Indeed, it almost is now.

Another PC note from England:

"Baa, baa black sheep, have you any wool?" has been officially changed.
Now, English nursery schools, in the interest of inoffensiveness, multi-culturalism and diversity, have been told to change the wording. It's now "rainbow sheep".
No kidding; it was on the Glenn Beck program the other morning.

The nuts are takin' over the asylum, man.

Dr Guy

on Mar 11, 2006

Pretty much what RW said.

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