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HoS on Daily Show

July 29th, 2007 at 9:48 am by David Farrar

The Herald on Sunday has run a story on the Daily Show video mocking the parliamentary ban on satire.

I didn’t think they would be allowed to use the word “anus” in the HoS but they were.  However the word “shit” had to be “sh*t”.  Heh quaint little rules.  Nice not to have them here.  I do have one self imposed standard.  The c word has only been used once or twice, and that in quoting someone else.  It’s the only word which I regard as too over the top for normal use.

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14 Responses to “HoS on Daily Show”

  1. Whaleoil Says:
    July 29th, 2007 at 10:06 am

    I can’t believe you refuse to use the word “communist”!!!

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  2. Marcus Says:
    July 29th, 2007 at 10:21 am

    If you ever see someone use the “C” word you should ban them permanentley.

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  3. frederico Says:
    July 29th, 2007 at 10:21 am

    Whats wrong with C***k????

    Answers on a 60GB hard drive.

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  4. Graeme Edgeler (2,904) Says:
    July 29th, 2007 at 10:47 am

    “It’s the only word which I regard as too over the top for normal use.”

    Not my sort of thing, but you really are asking for people to chance their arm aren’t you :-)

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  5. kisekiman (224) Says:
    July 29th, 2007 at 1:17 pm

    Roger nome was called one in a comment thread once, I’m reserving judgement as to it’s appropriateness although it wasn’t entirely uncalled for.

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  6. Dead Duck Dux Says:
    July 29th, 2007 at 1:28 pm

    It’s your blog – your rules. But what a lot of over-precious nonsense. No word should be banned – IMHO. Not only is it pointless (it doesn’t actually stop people using the words), it’s also counter-productive because the very acting of banning it gives the word power and significance.

    Our’s is a marvellous language full of wonderful phrases, epithets and delicious curses. We should embrace the full breadth of our language and leave the puritans to play in their morally infused narrow lexicon.

    The whole c word debate sets off interesting questions about gender politics for me. Isn’t interesting that people are routinely called dicks, or cocks or dorks and yet it’s a word associated with female genitalia that provokes a reaction. It’s just a pussy boys, you don’t need to fear it.

    I watched the great little documentary “FUCK” the other weekend. I thought it was a laugh. The rabid moralists (including the egregiously slimy, Pat Boone) exercised puerile arguments mostly derived from inferred Biblical exhortations. That’s it. That’s the sum total of the argument. Oh, that and “swearing makes you look low class”. Well, I am low class, so I am not too worried about reputational damage.

    The great Lenny Bruce had many a good line about censorship (you will recall he was arrested for saying the kinds of things you can routinely find in virtually any thread of this blog) but my favourite quote is:

    “Take away the right to say ‘fuck’ and you take away the right to say ‘fuck the government’.”

    Like I said: It’s your blog, David, but seriously the whole banning certain words?!

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  7. A prize C**t Says:
    July 29th, 2007 at 2:42 pm

    Not using the “c” word? Caving in to the feminist mafia ain’t we David? Pitty Key got rid of National’s PC eradictor. I’m sure reinstating the use of the “c” word would have been one of their top priorities!

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  8. reid Says:
    July 29th, 2007 at 3:11 pm

    How about the K word, as in “K-WHAT? Unbuilt Maui TV station lands questionable call letters. Alarmingly similar to a word the dictionary says is obscene, the call letters were among a 15-page list of new call letters issued by the Federal Communications Commission and released this week.”

    http://starbulletin.com/2007/07/26/business/engle.html

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  9. Rudebaiter Says:
    July 29th, 2007 at 3:53 pm

    Marcus: Cunt.

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  10. Adolf Fiinkensein (2,445) Says:
    July 29th, 2007 at 6:10 pm

    Hey David, you got a plug on Prime news tonight! Well done.

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  11. barry Says:
    July 29th, 2007 at 8:44 pm

    Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis had fun repeatedly using the c**t word in the 1991 film “Thelma & Louise”. That was 16 years ago David!

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  12. Charlie Tan Says:
    July 29th, 2007 at 11:40 pm

    So that’s why you haven’t called me that!

    But “anus”? Why the surprise? Surely as a scientific term it isn’t banned.

    Modernise, my man.

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  13. MikeE (552) Says:
    July 30th, 2007 at 9:28 am

    Another good film on the subject is This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006)
    http://imdb.com/title/tt0493459/

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  14. Mike Readman Says:
    July 30th, 2007 at 12:23 pm

    At my work, that would just means “guy”. Even the nightshift boss of my factory uses it all the time.

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