FCC APPROVES USE OF THE "F" WORD ON TV AND RADIO!

American Family Association** ^ | Donald E. Wildmon

[hchutch]

Hey, nothing really wrong with the F-bomb...

It has its uses.

[sauropod]

Before you were born ;-).

[feedback doctor]

Now talk radio can say what Clinton really did to this country!

[sauropod]

oy...

[OldEagle]

Isn't it typical? The gpvernment won't let you use the word in its proper meaning.

[vladog]

The F word has been in use in the English language since at least the time of Shakespeare. The word come from the old Anglo Saxon fick or ficken, which is much the same word in modern German.

Its no big deal the use of the F word, thousands of people say it, millions of people think it!

Here is what my spell checker has to say about the word fick, Etymology: akin to Dutch fokken to breed (cattle), Swedish dialect fokka to copulate
Date: 1503

[finnman69]

The FCC said the word can be used whenever desired except in sexual situations!


So i can Say FU but not Come F me?

[diamond6]

VERY good point!!

[WackyKat]

When I was in the Army in Germany, we did a training exercise with some Dutch soldiers.

One day when we were sitting around talking, they asked me, Why do Americans say f*** so much? It's always "f*** this" and "that f***king thing! "You say f*** all the time, why?"

I just laughed and explained that it was a useful word that could be used in a lot of different ways

[dcwusmc]

When were you in my Marine Corps? I was there '67-'93 with a couple broken periods... but I went to the REAL boot camp, Parris Island. :^)

I learned the same words... in fact, a whole new vocabulary! It was great! Then I spent years trying to UNLEARN it and succeeded until my ex finally wore me down to the point where I started using "salty" language again...

[WackyKat]

So i can Say FU but not Come F me?

Exactly. As long as the word is not referring to sexual or excretory functions, it is not "obscene"

No one(except Don Wildmon perhaps) interprets "F*** you!" or "My f**king car won't start!" as referring to sex or excretion.

[diamond6]

The AFA website is awesome! It does everything for you, even pick your senators and congressmen, their emails, everything. No one has any excuse this time for not getting involved. I am definitely going to use this site often.
Thanks for posting this.

[EveningStar]

Why do so many people accept "Snopes" as Gospel?

[Doctor Stochastic]

Sexual acts can still be described by innuendo (or fireworks or clouds or indirect comments; just like under the Code.)

Gangster's Moll: "I was blue while you were away."

Gangster: "Fifty thousand dollars for an education and she still can't get the particples correct."

[HungarianGypsy]

I was on the bus with my children (three under them under the age of 6 at the time). After hearing the f* word far too much, I asked the guy behind me if he could not swear around the children on the bus. His answer was, "Why don't you sit your a** up front, then." Gladly if there weren't seats.
His friend had the same reaction as you, "They'll hear it in school anyway." Probably not. They're homeschooled. So, unless mom gets really mad....
Pn mentioning this to an acquaintance she said her children really didn't hear that kind of language in school.

[Texasforever]

Why would anyone need a vulgarity to express his or her thoughts? Why is a childish obscenity put forward as "adult" speech? Do any of those advocating the unbridled use of the basest of words use them in front of their mothers, their wives or their kids? If not, why not?

[tdadams]

I was on the bus with my children (three under them under the age of 6 at the time). After hearing the f* word far too much, I asked the guy behind me if he could not swear around the children on the bus.

Well, that's a different story. I don't blame you. I would have done the same thing and have. There's no excuse for being a rude foul-mouthed jerk around women and children. Anyone who is ought to be put in their place.

[Rightly Biased]

"It's just a word."

If you just type the word here in a reply.(Try to tell some one to F---off) Someone will hit abuse and the post will be deleted but its just a "word"?.

Change the language and you win the argument.