Author: simon
That F’ing Band Gets Us Banned!
Friday, 22nd February, 2008 at 2:36 pm, Isle of Wight
The Isle of Wight Council contacted us today to let us know that they couldn’t see VentnorBlog. Given the lack of access to the site, we can only assume that they imagined a mass walkout of council staff if we didn’t fix it, given VB’s apparent popularity there, both inside and outside the press office.
The Council’s Internet content filter had kicked in after we wrote a piece about a band that will be playing at Bestival that contained an Anglo-Saxon word.
We capitulated and changed the reference to the band name to something … more ‘acceptable’ to content filters, with the well-trodden path of a judicious use of stars.
Truth be known, we did spend some time discussing if we should use the name anyway - settling on putting it in the body of the story after a clear warning.
Remember children, there’s nothing big or clever about swearing, but if you’re not fully familiar with the word and its usage, there’s a relatively amusing instructional video to watch. If you don’t like swearing, then steer clear.
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February 22nd, 2008 at 8:23 pm
It doesn’t surprise me that swear words are now becoming part of our everday vocabulary. For instance the word f–k, can be a strong expression of anger. f— off, means go away. f— up, means to make a mess. to not give a f—, means not to care at all. The word nowadays has many harmless meanings.
February 23rd, 2008 at 9:07 pm
Take care to use f–k only in selected places to give extreme punctuation to your speech. As soon as it becomes commonplace as for “like” and “yer-know wat I mean” etc, folks will just think you have a small vocabulary. Then there will be a need to invent another swearword to use on those special occasions,ie the f–king swearword will be f–ked.
February 24th, 2008 at 7:35 am
IMHO to have to use swear words to make a point or in every day speech (oral or written) shows a complete ignorance of one’s mother tongue, or down right lazyness.