tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post6370559556408368724..comments2024-02-13T10:20:04.888+00:00Comments on David Hepworth's blog: Do we have to revisit the sweary bits of Live Aid?David Hepworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973053694541321308noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post-83546237885694942512010-07-12T14:34:14.996+01:002010-07-12T14:34:14.996+01:00Re swearing being tiring to listen to... There...Re swearing being tiring to listen to... There's a good bit in Steven Pinker's excellent The Stuff Of Thought about swearing and why we say what we do. eg "oh shit" is easy enough, but why is "fuck you" an insult when it actually sounds like fun? The theory is that it hearing words forces them into your mind (a bit like the club whose membership involved standing in a corner and *not* thinking of a polar bear) - so hearing rude words makes you think of those acts / objects.<br /><br />ps I am sure Singing Detective was sweary - where's Kenith Trodd when you need him?matt_r_phttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07071616449387186783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post-23838309051653697532010-07-12T09:24:17.488+01:002010-07-12T09:24:17.488+01:00Talking of swearing quotas: there's a very fun...Talking of swearing quotas: there's a very funny recording of Peter Ustinov in conversation with Kenneth Allsop and Cliff Michelmore etc, in which he tells a tale of working on a military propaganda film during the war where the representatives of Army, Navy and Air Force fell to arguing over which service could lay claim to the one mild swearword permitted in military regulations. Well worth tracking down if you haven't heard it.MikePhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08589363260977274335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post-9814376785688087762010-07-12T09:01:18.690+01:002010-07-12T09:01:18.690+01:00Ah but @Lucas, perhaps by hearing it once, a child...Ah but @Lucas, perhaps by hearing it once, a child can learn that if you want to express an explosion of emotion, once, when you lose control of language because your feelings are so heightened, then you swear. If a character swears twice,it begins to become a commonplace, and loses its passion. We all know that when somebody swears continually, it becomes a meaningless and rather pathetic punctuation - isn't that an argument for restricting its frequency?Gerontiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07794068929768376891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post-70572965723187436402010-07-09T22:27:08.007+01:002010-07-09T22:27:08.007+01:00I've never understood the whole swearing quota...I've never understood the whole swearing quota thing. It seems to be perfectly acceptable for a 12 certificate film to contain one instance of the word 'fuck'; now, how is it ok for a 12 year old to hear this word once, but not twice? I understand that there's a spectrum to be observed, but either the word is ok for children to hear or it's not.Lucas Harehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09307807104038473162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post-43836182258853354592010-07-09T20:18:38.686+01:002010-07-09T20:18:38.686+01:00Why does it always seem to be the mis-quotes that ...Why does it always seem to be the mis-quotes that pass into history? "Play it again Sam' springs to mind.<br />I can just imagine Sir Bob sitting at home, watching the tv & shouting "I didn't fucking say that!"Andy Guntonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00402607157584209849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post-11997175304692701672010-07-09T12:07:38.274+01:002010-07-09T12:07:38.274+01:00I don't think it's a question of 'his ...I don't think it's a question of 'his achievement is being traduced to that one incident'. A few posts back we were discussing the nature of passion, and surely people feel that G.U.Y.F.M - or, as it is generally reported, 'just G.U.Y.F.M.' - summarises all of the passion, the simple directness, which Geldof put into the exercise. It's not actually about what was said, it's about what that phrase represents,Gerontiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07794068929768376891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post-53725516997844780812010-07-09T11:16:26.760+01:002010-07-09T11:16:26.760+01:00The Troggs Tapes with beeping must have sounded li...The Troggs Tapes with beeping must have sounded like a wall of Vuvuzelas.Roghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09780409453528524865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post-83597484850965962762010-07-09T11:09:22.005+01:002010-07-09T11:09:22.005+01:00I was at a lunch sitting next to Geldof not long a...I was at a lunch sitting next to Geldof not long ago and mentioned that I knew Dave and we talked about the incident. What seemed to annoy him, and he is a man annoyed by many things, was the fact that as Live Aid recedes in time, the G.U.Y.F.M non-line is becoming the most famous moment of the day. The fact that his achievement is being traduced to that one incident was getting his goat, and you can't blame him for that. Then again maybe he shouldn't have lost his temper in the first place.Phil Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16777445282811927114noreply@blogger.com