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 GW
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fair enough or out of order?

What do you think?

<EDIT> Swear filter says No !! 😆 begins with "T" and rhymes with "shat" 😉


 
Posted : 10/10/2011 12:42 pm
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I think you might be a bit old to be watching CBBC.


 
Posted : 10/10/2011 12:44 pm
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Not sure what word you mean. Plenty of occurences of the *rap word in childrens TV these days, which I find unacceptable.


 
Posted : 10/10/2011 12:44 pm
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depends who it was directed at really. If it was the studio audience of Blue Peter being marshalled into chanting at a naked fat kid who was being poked with sticks, then being played out live to an audience of millions, there may be an issue?

Is that what's happened?


 
Posted : 10/10/2011 12:45 pm
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I can't believe they used that word for one minute.


 
Posted : 10/10/2011 12:46 pm
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Justin gangsta rapping again, he's a foul mouthed ####


 
Posted : 10/10/2011 12:46 pm
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Realman - I rarely watch TV at all nevermind CBBC but I recently told off a 9yr old within a group of 2-10yr olds for singing (what I deemed) a rude song, and was surprised to find he'd heard it on CBBC.


 
Posted : 10/10/2011 12:47 pm
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Hmmm... not sure I'd like t**t to be used in kids programmes, since I'd consider it a derogatory term for female genitals.

cr*p though, I'd be perfectly happy with.


 
Posted : 10/10/2011 12:47 pm
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did he sign it too?

[img] [/img]


 
Posted : 10/10/2011 12:47 pm
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Drac - Moderator

I can't believe they used that word for one minute.


Why not? iz it coz U iz a mod?


 
Posted : 10/10/2011 12:49 pm
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Justin's on CBeebies you ****s


 
Posted : 10/10/2011 12:49 pm
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It looks like he already is.


 
Posted : 10/10/2011 12:49 pm
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Ah've bin rappin' f'twenty year, so ah naw what ah'm rappin' aboot.

More seriously, I'd be surprised if it actually was that word, but there are others that I dislike ( see coffeeking, above...)


 
Posted : 10/10/2011 12:50 pm
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Swear filter says No

URL says Yes. 🙂


 
Posted : 10/10/2011 12:50 pm
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What was the context of the song GW?

And was it the same song you told off the 9 year old for singing, or was that something else??


 
Posted : 10/10/2011 12:51 pm
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Those of us old enough to remember Fawlty Towers will recall that one of the pseudo-anagrams used on the hotel sign at the start of each episode was 'Flowery Tw&ts'


 
Posted : 10/10/2011 12:51 pm
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[i]URL says Yes.[/i]

🙂


 
Posted : 10/10/2011 12:51 pm
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cr*p though, I'd be perfectly happy with.

I'm not sure why the world is going soft on language like this. When I was a sprog I'd have had a smack round the ears for using that word. To me it's unacceptable in kids TV, and it's not necessary - there's far more acceptable words they could use. I accept that swearing is a useful tool at times and in more extreme situations it's fine for adults, but there's no need for introduction in childrens TV.


 
Posted : 10/10/2011 12:53 pm
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What was the context of the song GW?

pretty much your standard british play on words style humour song ending with an insult, I'll find out the exact lyrics for you after School and post them up if want.


 
Posted : 10/10/2011 12:55 pm
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One bloke on a biking forum says he heard it and the outrage mob are lighting up already?

*fetches pitchfork and hangin' noose*

🙄


 
Posted : 10/10/2011 12:55 pm
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Begins with T rhymes with shat...

That?


 
Posted : 10/10/2011 12:56 pm
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Hang on, was it the 9 year old that told you he heard the song on the BBC, or have you since heard it on the BBC or had it verified on the BBC?

May be gulable comes to mind? 🙂


 
Posted : 10/10/2011 12:56 pm
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could be worse.......


 
Posted : 10/10/2011 12:57 pm
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TSY here's a link with a clue in it;

[url= http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/the-word-****-in-a-song-on-cbbc#post-3045610 ]http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/the-word-****-in-a-song-on-cbbc#post-3045610[/url]

(not swear filter evasion - it's the url of the thread so it's been through the swear filter)

[edit] oh, the filter kicks in if you try and link to a thread with a swear word int he title.


 
Posted : 10/10/2011 12:57 pm
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Why not? iz it coz U iz a mod?

No because it just wouldn't be allowed. Just because your kids says he heard it on there doesn't mean it's true. Maybe he misheard or god forbid he's the first child ever to lie.


 
Posted : 10/10/2011 12:57 pm
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When I was a kid, you couldn't even say crap on the radio 🙂

[Goes off for a bit of a pogo]


 
Posted : 10/10/2011 12:59 pm
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[i]When I was a kid, you couldn't even say crap on the radio[/i]

although Paula Yates and Jules Holland always seemed to manage to swear just as they did their live promo for TheTube on Channel 4 just before the ITV news at 5:45.


 
Posted : 10/10/2011 1:01 pm
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When I was a kid, you couldn't even say crap on the radio

not true; no watershed on UK radio. 🙂


 
Posted : 10/10/2011 1:04 pm
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No because it just wouldn't be allowed.
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it def iz coz u iz a mod
Just because your kids says he heard it on there doesn't mean it's true.
Not my kid but I'm 100% sure he wasn't lying, didn't mishear and did hear it there.


 
Posted : 10/10/2011 1:04 pm
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I'm not sure why the world is going soft on language like this. When I was a sprog I'd have had a smack round the ears for using that word.

I just don't consider "crap" to be a swear word.

If something is crap then it is a bit rubbish. If someone talks crap then then they are talking nonsense. I find that usage perfectly acceptable and not a bit sweary.

If on children's telly Mr Bloom suddenly announced [i]"Right tiddlers, look after the veggies, I'm off for a big crap. Pass me the paper."[/i] then yes it might raise more of an eyebrow as that is clearly the scatological meaning of the word.


 
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Posted : 10/10/2011 1:09 pm
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Not my kid but I'm 100% sure he wasn't lying, didn't mishear and did hear it there.

Sorry misread your post or did I? 🙂


 
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If on children's telly Mr Bloom suddenly announced "Right tiddlers, look after the veggies, I'm off for a big crap. Pass me the paper."

He hasn't listened to Bob Flowerdew, 'personal liquid waste' only on the compost heap 🙄


 
Posted : 10/10/2011 1:12 pm
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Ok, everyone, you've heard the evidence. Now it's time to vote.

Do you think someone sang the 'tw' word on the radio?


 
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GW.. you come across as a bit of a nob on here sometimes but admitting publicly that you've had the wool pulled over your eyes by a 9 year old is daft even by your standards..
but quite amusing


 
Posted : 10/10/2011 1:46 pm
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When I was a sprog I'd have had a smack round the ears for using that word.

I wouldn't use it in front of my mum [i]now[/i], and I turn 40 in three months.


 
Posted : 10/10/2011 1:52 pm
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You wouldn't say "crap" in front of your mum??? Mental.

Maybe different areas associate different strengths of meaning to words, but it honestly just means something like "rubbish" to me (unless used in the particular sense of "going for a crap").

I believe "rubbish" is the original meaning, with the scatological interpretation only appearing after Thomas Crapper invented the flush toilet.


 
Posted : 10/10/2011 1:59 pm
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I remember saying "fart" as a nine year old in a temper and I was mortified.

I absolutely love swearing now though. The more the 'kin merrier I say.


 
Posted : 10/10/2011 2:25 pm
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Except Thomas Crapper didn't invent the flush toilet.

Still, swearing in front kids is always a crapshoot.


 
Posted : 10/10/2011 2:33 pm
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Except Thomas Crapper didn't invent the flush toilet.

Okay, so he only "popularised" the flushing toilet and invented the ballcock (also not rude).

Point is that branding like this:
[img] [/img]

May have led the existing word "crap", meaning rubbish, clutter, or nonsense to take on a second toilet-based definition.


 
Posted : 10/10/2011 2:39 pm
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I vote Nope.
Reason? easy, I find the word offensive.


 
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May have led the existing word "crap", meaning rubbish, clutter, or nonsense to take on a second toilet-based definition.

"Crapping ken" as a toilet was recorded in 1846, apparently. Thomas Crapper was 10 at the time, I doubt he had much to do with it 🙂


 
Posted : 10/10/2011 2:44 pm
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Yep I read the OED definition too. 🙂 But I'll bet few people said "I'm going to the crapper" in 1846.

The actual etymology of crap is fairly vague. [url= http://www.chambersharrap.co.uk/chambers/features/chref/chref.py/main?query=crap&title=21st&sourceid=Mozilla-search ]Chambers suggests[/url] that it comes from the 15 century, as [i]crappe[/i] chaff, from Dutch krappe.


 
Posted : 10/10/2011 2:58 pm
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You wouldn't say "crap" in front of your mum??? Mental.

Sorry, no, I meant the word that's the subject of the OP.


 
Posted : 10/10/2011 3:24 pm
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Ah right. Mmmm I think that would depend on context. I probably call someone "a tw*t" in front of me mum, but I wouldn't use it anatomically, i.e. "ooooh he kicked her in the tw*t".

That's just rude 🙂


 
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i would call my mum a **** but only if she was being one


 
Posted : 10/10/2011 3:40 pm
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GW.. you come across as a bit of a nob on here sometimes but admitting publicly that you've had the wool pulled over your eyes by a 9 year old is daft even by your standards..
but quite amusing
[b]****[/b]

was said in a song by Dick and Dom on CBBC.


 
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****
was said in a song by Dick and Dom on CBBC.

Oh excellent move, well played!! Anyone searching for the phrase Dick and Dom along with ****, will spend a lifetime on google. Like painting the forth bridge.


 
Posted : 10/10/2011 4:36 pm
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was said in a song by Dick and Dom on CBBC.

aaaah.. well that's me told..

sorry sir.. 😳

was this in a dream that you had..?


 
Posted : 10/10/2011 4:37 pm
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😆


 
Posted : 10/10/2011 4:37 pm
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Did you get the lyrics GW? I'd be interested to hear the context to see if it justifies it (not sure how it could though)


 
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Did anyone see Stephen Fry talking about swearing on telly last night?
Suggested that swear words are an evolutionary adaptation whose use inbit violence.
The example they gave was toddlers biting as a reaction to negative events though this behaviour receeds when they learn to say * *.
They also had Fry and Brian Blessed put their hands in an ice bath for as long as they could without swearing; Fry, who is not a swearer, repeated the task but was allowed to say * * * and doubled his time, Blessed on the other hand, who swears like a trooper performed worse despite the use of F B W** B*******, suggesting using swear words too often reduces their magic powers.

It'll be on catch up and was far better than I describe it, they also had a Tourets super hero, complete with cape.


 
Posted : 10/10/2011 9:23 pm
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bollocks 😉


 
Posted : 10/10/2011 9:33 pm
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What a bunch of Dick and Doms you lot are... 😉

CBBC is there to teach our bairns and Horrible Histories has more crap in it than any other. My 8 year old son and I regularly sing along!

[b]'I'm the king that brought back partying'![/b]


 
Posted : 10/10/2011 10:11 pm
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they also had a Tourets super hero, complete with cape.

BISCUITS..!!


 
Posted : 11/10/2011 11:36 am
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Ah right. Mmmm I think that would depend on context. I probably call someone "a tw*t" in front of me mum, but I wouldn't use it anatomically, i.e. "ooooh he kicked her in the tw*t".

Of course this being the BBC they ought to have said "thwaite".

Disappointing drop in standards.


 
Posted : 11/10/2011 12:00 pm
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All Chant after me..[b]"Am..Wah..Tat..Wah..Tie"[/b] .. ..[b]"Am..Wa..Tat..Wa..Tie"[/b]..

and again.. c'mon now, all together?

Faster?

He he.. 😆


 
Posted : 11/10/2011 12:43 pm
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I do like Dick and Dom 😉


 
Posted : 11/10/2011 12:44 pm
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we prefer "William Wallace Scottish rebel" or the four georges in my house. Horrible Histories should be watched by adults just superb


 
Posted : 11/10/2011 12:45 pm

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