If that is a big deal, then what the hell was up in this thread where England gathered in a circle to shake their heads over the fact that there was a mild reaction to a US newscaster saying ‘fuck’ when she didn’t know she was on the air? It was too early in the day? I thought y’all were way too sophisticated to notice.

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Well yeah, there's a "watershed" over that sort of thing.

I'll be perfectly honest: Most people don't give a shit, and most of the people who do give a shit would claim they weren't personally offended but that "people might find that offensive". Probably, anyway. But I don't know, while we'll all get over it if someone says a naughty word, I like that some words are still naughty or inappropriate at times. The world would be no fun if someone couldn't ruinate their career by, say, naming their Ready Steady Cook meal "A Big Fucking Pile Of Cunting Dead Jews" or whatever

But no, it probably isn't "a big deal" really. Just mildly interesting and kind of annoying that I sat through god knows how many episodes of Loose Women in the uni bar in which nothing even remotely interesting happened, but missed this one in favour of something as deeply mediocre as an episode of The Lone Gunmen.

lol ready steady cook i love that shit

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Well, that’s pretty much what it’s like here. Although apparently Sue Simmons was of some interest because she periodically has to be treated for alcoholism but never actually permanently stops drinking which I didn’t know until I had dinner with my father the other week and it came up (in the interest of describing a ‘real reaction,’ we as a group rolled our eyes, I said hadn’t she been around since I was a little kid, and Dad said yes, and every now and then she has to go away to get dried out, so pretty much anything could happen with her live on the air. At some point before or after my stepmother reported her amusement at the panhandler she’d seen that day with the sign that said ‘Just Give Me Some Fucking Change Already.’).

Now, The Lone Gunmen show is seriously offensive to me, because they insisted on not actually making it a show about the trio I enjoyed so much on the X-Files, despite the fact that no one who hadn’t liked them on the parent show would even consider watching the spin-off.

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Yeah, but Jimmy Bond was pure all_American dumbass rapecandy.

Mate of mine recently showed me some off-air footage of Bill O'Reilly screaming and cursing like a docker about the fact that the phrase "to play us out" was on his autocue (apparently he's never encountered it in all of the 230 years he's been alive). But he didn't do it live so it was okay? It was annoying, I'm just itching for that cunt to slip up rather than (apparently) staying just the right side of the line.

But yeah, realistically, I don't know why anyone would book Joan Rivers for a midday show. I mean, even if she was able to go a whole hour without swearing, you're still dependent on her being willing, and asking her to play nice would be like a cunt rag to a shrivelled old bull on HRT.