The “F bomb” after the SuperBowl

[Tim Wilson]

[Mark Suszko] ” the Founding Fathers and the biblical ancestors”

Not to go too far down this road, but, feeling a need to clarify a misapprehension that was already taking hold, the Senate voted unanimously, and President Adams signed into law in 1797 a proclamation that included the observation, “the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.”

That said,

[Mark Suszko] “There is nothing wrong with a baseline level of civility”

Quite so. 🙂

I save my incivility for my Twitter feed and my posts in the Film History & Appreciation forum. LOL

[Mark Suszko]

You know, there’s an expression in some biblical passages that is translated as “he slapped his thigh”.
This was a polite re-write of a practice that ancient people had of swearing oaths on the thing most precious to them: their heirs. “Slapping the thigh” is, however, I agree, more poetic than grabbing your (deleted) and vowing to lose them if you’re not telling he truth.

[Bill Davis]

Quote: Teach kids to love language, and they’ll use curse words as thoughtfully as I swear (ha) I do. Er, usually do. Mostly.

Well, except for that few month stretch in elementary/middle school when their peer group discovers RAP.

Nothing more disconcerting than a bedroom full of middle class kids trying to beatbox against a rhyming litany of terms like “ho’s” and “bitc*es” –

I believe that week was more complicated then the one with the tech talk about babies – largly because the
Rap lyrics talk wasn’t confined to just me and just my kid – but a whole damn neighborhood posse.

Parenting. There ought to be medals (or at LEAST cirtificates of achievement) involved…

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[Nick Griffin]

I think Bill exhibits a lot of common sense and has, as have a couple of others, made the point that this discussion can be more about our kids’ development than our own freedom of speech.

I have two daughters, one a freshman in college and the other a senior in high school. While I believe that they are technically old enough to be exposed to HBO’s The Wire (widely regarded as one of, if not the best TV series ever created), I have deliberately been keeping them from it. Not for the “F bombs,” but for the ghetto realism of it’s all too casual use of the “N word” and most of all its reflection of a society with so little respect for so many of its citizens. I simply don’t want my kids,at a highly impressionable age, exposed to such a harsh and brutal view of the world. These sentiments are all that’s undesirable about rap music’s lyrics magnified many, many, many times. For me an accidental “F bomb” borders on meaningless in comparison.