I was watching the Showtime series, “Dead Like Me.”
The language is nasty. I spent a lot of time in drug recovery, so that doesn’t bother me.
In fact, the only thing that bothers me about it is that their dirty language is so BORING. The s word and the f word, over and over and over and over and over ad infinitum.
If you’ve got to be obscene, at least do a good job of it.
My father was the son of a Methodist circuit rider. When he started cursing, my mother used to laugh at him. He didn’t know any cuss words.
My mother would tell him that her older brother Bill knew how to cuss.
If my mother had been like a respectable conservative and shown the proper horror at my father’s evil words he would not have been upset. But she laughed at him. That got to him.
So while everybody else is upset at the toilet language on cable, I consider it pitiful. I laugh at it.
Now which do you think would really get to those who use pointless obscenity, the average respectable conservative’s horror and shock or my laughing in their faces?
#1 by Richard L. Hardison on 11/15/2004 - 10:17 pm
Note that most of the potty mouth types have a sophomoric sense of humor. I remember several years ago when Red Skelton, and Bob Hope criticized the quality of comedy at the time. I loved Red Skelton and have two DVDs of him and several of Hope, including two of the “Road” pictures. I don’t have anything of Eddie Murphy, one of Skelton’s targets, and I doubt I ever will. Life is too short to mess with a steady diet of bathroom humor. Needless to say, I don’t watch much TV anymore – it’s simply a large waste of time.
#2 by Don on 11/16/2004 - 11:35 am
Aw shucks. Even the cotton-picking bad language is passe now.
#3 by Don on 11/16/2004 - 9:08 pm
I did the same thing with my son. When he first used what he expected to be shocking language, I laughed.
No, I did not threaten hellfire and damnation. He does not fear those. Laughter was the best medicine for that problem. It worked.
#4 by Jay on 11/19/2004 - 2:33 pm
Good Lord, people cuss, they’ve always cussed and they always will cuss. Get over it.
I love the line from The Christmas Story, “Where other artists dabbled in oils or watercolors, my father dabbled in profanity.”
I do agree that a lot of cussing on t.v. is completely phony. Kevin Costner is about the worst.
It’s like, how do you not know how to cuss? It comes so naturally for me.