Missed the story the first time around, but it's still googleable. (I tend to be fairly news-averse; news is entertainment, and I prefer entertainment that's, well, entertaining. I look up stuff I want to know about, and figure I will hear through the grapevine about stuff that's actually relevant or interesting to me.)
I've always thought it was interesting that some Americans have semi-adopted "bloody" as a milder alternative to "fucking", but in Britain, it's apparently "bloody" that is more offensive.
(I could segue into a comparison of the relative views in the two countries on the appropriateness for children of depictions of violence vs. depictions of sex, and how those views might lead to the relative shock values of related terms, because one of the great joys in my life is hearing myself talk. But I won't, because another of the great joys in my life is spending my paycheck.)
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Date: 2007-01-22 05:51 pm (UTC)I've always thought it was interesting that some Americans have semi-adopted "bloody" as a milder alternative to "fucking", but in Britain, it's apparently "bloody" that is more offensive.
(I could segue into a comparison of the relative views in the two countries on the appropriateness for children of depictions of violence vs. depictions of sex, and how those views might lead to the relative shock values of related terms, because one of the great joys in my life is hearing myself talk. But I won't, because another of the great joys in my life is spending my paycheck.)