Dire Straits "Money For Nothing" waaay too offensive for Canada

[HenryDorsetCase]

Yes folks, 25 years after it was released, the Canadian Broadcasting Standards people have ruled the unedited song is offensive to gay, lesbian, transgender and I forget the other (bisexual) people because it uses the word "Faggot" three times.

Having heard and enjoyed the song these past 25 years, I now intend to cut off my ears, AND Complain to our broadcasting standards people because obviously I too am a terrible person.

this would be hilarious, except its serious.

http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/Broadcasting+council+rules+Dire+Straits+tune+offen sive+radio/4100642/story.html

[cbfb]

Yes folks, 25 years after it was released, the Canadian Broadcasting Standards people have ruled the unedited song is offensive to gay, lesbian, transgender and I forget the other (bisexual) people because it uses the word "Faggot" three times.

Having heard and enjoyed the song these past 25 years, I now intend to cut off my ears, AND Complain to our broadcasting standards people because obviously I too am a terrible person.

this would be hilarious, except its serious.

http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/Broadcasting+council+rules+Dire+Straits+tune+offen sive+radio/4100642/story.html

Seems like a lot of fuss, I know British cuisine isn't brilliant but I didn't realise we upset people that much with our cooking. (http://britishfood.about.com/od/eorecipes/r/faggots.htm)

[idb]

Yet again those Homer Cycles have taken over a perfectly good English word for their own nefarious purposes.
'Gay' used to be acceptable to use in polite conversation as was 'faggot'.

[oneofsix]

Seems like a lot of fuss, I know British cuisine isn't brilliant but I didn't realise we upset people that much with our cooking. (http://britishfood.about.com/od/eorecipes/r/faggots.htm)

guess you will just have to call it meatballs :bleh:
Metal work rules though, not only do they have bastard files they also have Faggoting (metalworking), forge welding a bundle of bars of iron and steel:niceone:

[cbfb]

guess you will just have to call it meatballs :bleh:


'balls' will never be acceptable, being a euphemism for bollocks

[Virago]

It's a constant swinging pendulum, and the PC nonsense is having a resurgence - mainly around the Gay Rights hysteria.

Before Christmas I was rather surprised to hear The Pogues' "Fairytale of New York" on the radio, with the entire "Merry Christmas you maggot, you cheap lousy faggot..." verse edited out.

[wysper]

Imagine what they would do with The Pogues 'Fairytale in New York'

Probably wouldn't hear a single word!

edit: Sorry Virago, I see you got in well before me, guess I should read the thread before posting DOH!

[idb]

Is Santa still allowed to say "Ho, Ho, Ho"?

[Virago]

Is Santa still allowed to say "Ho, Ho, Ho"?

http://www.rense.com/general79/ho.htm

[Big Dave]

Pogues! Pogues?? Where's my ferkin' razor blades. Yeah they should be banned - or Knighted for services to depression.

[slofox]

Canada can be like that - as Kevin Bloody Wilson found out...I'm sure everyone knows this...

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[p.dath]

Lets try and see the positive - sales of Dire Straits will probably rocket in Canada now.

Probably the best PR they can get for a 25 year old song!

[avgas]

what a bloody (bundle of) stick fight

I would have thought that the word "money" would be more evil these days

[Big Dave]

Microwave ovens give you cancer.

[HenryDorsetCase]

Microwave ovens give you cancer.

Who are you? Wesley Snipes?


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[mashman]

and chicks for free will outrage the night walking community...

[Big Dave]

Nope - I paid my GST this afternoon.

[boman]

Well, I can only presume that 'Friggin in the riggin' by The Sex Pistols, dose not get alot of play time on Canadas airwaves then....


Dire Straits huh..

PC gone mad I think..

:weird:

[PrincessBandit]

'Gay' used to be acceptable to use in polite conversation as was 'faggot'.

I was using a website recently for research into musical theatre (as gay as you can get, equalled only by men's figure skating) - the site is owned by a guy who is a self-proclaimed theatre queen - and he claims the word "gay" was already being used by homosexuals back in the late 1800's/ early 1900's, when the rest of the population was oblivious to it's alternative meaning. The underground vernacular was already alive and well back then.

As for faggot, my music students roll hysterically on the floor when it comes to instruments of the orchestra, as that is what bassoon is in German. Are they going to outlaw bassoons now? (I could imagine some thinking that wouldn't be half bad...)

[Mully]

I don't remember hearing the full song on commercial radio (in NZ) anyway.

The whole "See that little faggot" verse is gone completely.

Damn Canadians. Maple Sucking Puck Slappers, the lot of them, eh?

[Daffyd]

Is Santa still allowed to say "Ho, Ho, Ho"?

I heard a standup comedian on the radio around Xmas time, doing a track called "PC Xmas". In it he mentioned that Santa said, "Lady of the Night, Lady of the Night, Lady of the Night."

[scumdog]

Fuck those PC faggots, I hate limp-wristed soft cock PC twats that whinge their sorry arse off.

Loosers...

They make light-in-their-loafer faggots look macho!:angry:

[rapid van cleef]

I was using a website recently for research into musical theatre (as gay as you can get, equalled only by men's figure skating) - the site is owned by a guy who is a self-proclaimed theatre queen - and he claims the word "gay" was already being used by homosexuals back in the late 1800's/ early 1900's, when the rest of the population was oblivious to it's alternative meaning. The underground vernacular was already alive and well back then.

As for faggot, my music students roll hysterically on the floor when it comes to instruments of the orchestra, as that is what bassoon is in German. Are they going to outlaw bassoons now? (I could imagine some thinking that wouldn't be half bad...)

youre a music teacher? snap!

[Swoop]

Loosers...
Or, losers.

But, then again, if the join is rather loose, eh?:devil2:

[scumdog]

Or, losers.

But, then again, if the join is rather loose, eh?:devil2:

Down here it's looooosers.

But if you ain't TOO bad it's only loosers...

[HenryDorsetCase]

one canadian station said a hearty "Fuck You" to this decision, and played the unedited version, non stop, for an hour.

Now, what's worse?

http://www.k97.ca/index.asp?mn=5&cc=2&id=474

It does have a great riff though Dah Dah da da da dah dadda duh da duh dah da da dahhhh

[fliplid]

Well, I can only presume that 'Friggin in the riggin' by The Sex Pistols, dose not get alot of play time on Canadas airwaves then....


Dire Straits huh..

PC gone mad I think..

:weird:

Not heard "My Ding-a-Ling" get much airplay either :innocent: Bl**dy Mary Whitehouse (you had to be there :shifty:)