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The “F bomb” after the SuperBowl
I find it hard to believe that winning quarterback and MVP Joe Flacco is being criticized for being caught on audio sayings to a teammate, “We won the F***ing SuperBowl!” (Only, like Ralphie in A Christmas Story didn’t say “fudge,” he didn’t have the asterisks.)
First, the NFL is an organization that, with the possible exception of a few medical personnel, appears to be essentially 100 percent male. Some men talk to other men using four letter words. Many say things in private that they would never say around people they don’t know. So big F***ing deal. It’s also highly unlikely that Flacco had given any thought to the fact that CBS was using live mics around their post-game conversations. These guys are constantly being boomed by NFL Films, only that’s not live, so it’s likely they are de-sensitized to seeing microphones. Probably more likely that Flacco never even saw the mic. Rant off. Oh, and did I mention that the Ravens won the SuperBowl?
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[Nick Griffin] “Some men talk to other men using four letter words. “
The only people who drop the F bomb more than me are my wife and Kylee Wall. LOL And I drop it a LOT. The times, they are a’changing Nick. LOL
Not that I think that people should be flinging it all over prime time or anything, but I confess I didn’t do more than chuckle a little. I liked Joe’s exuberance.
Got some thoughts on commercials coming up, but there are my priorities at a glance: taking a break from a thundering deadline to lend my hearty endorsement to the F word on TV, saving something on topic for much, much later….
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There is an audio delay with a big red dump button, and a standards and practices person for a reason. Censor failure.
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Who fcuking cares?
I sometimes wonder at americans. On one hand so crazy and open minded, then on the other so anally retentive. At least there wasn’t any bare nipples this year.A picture is only as good as the glass it comes through. And the person using the camera has something to do with it too.
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[Bob Zelin] “https://www.eventide.com/AudioDivision/Products/BroadcastProducts/BD600.aspx”
[Trevor Asquerthian] “AirCleaner”
Or the US as a country and a culture could just grow up and realize that an “F bomb” or a “wardrobe malfunction” is a ‘so what’ occurrence. Sh*t happens and anyone who doesn’t realize that they should have more important things to worry about doesn’t have much of a grasp on reality.
Just because the US was originally settled by Puritans doesn’t mean 300 years later we have to think the way they did.
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[Nick Griffin] “Or the US as a country and a culture could just grow up and realize that an “F bomb” or a “wardrobe malfunction” is a ‘so what’ occurrence. Sh*t happens and anyone who doesn’t realize that they should have more important things to worry about doesn’t have much of a grasp on reality.
Just because the US was originally settled by Puritans doesn’t mean 300 years later we have to think the way they did.”
Well, in mild defense of the standard (and it’s mild because I largely agree with the pervailing attitude…)
It wasn’t that many years ago I was trying to explain to my young son why some words were inappropriate to sprinkle into public conversations. It’s a LOT harder to deliver the message that one needs to develop language that doesn’t RELY on swearing, if the kid isn’t confronted with a world where F-bombs are the cultures default modifier.
Plus, if those “special” words become TOO commonly used, then I’ve got to figure out NEW ones that *I* can use when I want to truly PUNCH UP my ire or exuberance in a conversation!
So I guess I’m as OK with sequestering some language in public use – as I am with defending someones personal right to pull out the F-bomb when they think it’s called for.
It’s like fast driving, to me. It’s not inherently bad. But if everyone does it ALL the time, then it changes the very nature of public driving.
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[Tim Wilson] “The only people who drop the F bomb more than me are my wife and Kylee Wall.”
Me? Nooo.
Each F bomb I deploy is precious to me. I am a great lover of language, and I enjoy the musicality of prose and conversation. I think people who get freaked out by swearing in prime time should be more concerned as to why their children are so impressionable than by a couple of F bombs from a football player who just won the biggest game of his life. Teach kids to love language, and they’ll use curse words as thoughtfully as I swear (ha) I do. Er, usually do. Mostly.
Assuming protection of children is the goal, anyway.
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[Nick Griffin] “Just because the US was originally settled by Puritans doesn’t mean 300 years later we have to think the way they did.”
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
–John Adams
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I will guarantee you that the Founding Fathers and the biblical ancestors they studied, knew and used many of these same words, or their historical analogues, but they were self-regulating as to how often they were uttered in the company of impressionable children or women. There is nothing wrong with a baseline level of civility, just to be sociable, and those things tend to find their own level in every generation and epoch.
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