Hard News: Swine flu and swearing
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Yes, that's all from one episode. What must his mother think?
Well it's certainly quantity, but it's not really quality swearing. For that you can't go past The Thick of It. Armando Iannucci has a swearing consultant to whom he sends his scripts to make them more, um, colourful.
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Quality swearing is so important. Take the novel Q. I don't know how if they got Iannucci's guy for the English translation, but in Italian it fell over due to the poor quality of the swearing. It was sad, really.
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I'll second "The Thick of It". Both quality and quantity.
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a swearing consultant to whom he sends his scripts to make them more, um, colourful
What a cool job! I know some people who are gold-standard, bet they didn't know it was a career option.
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Before long they'll be putting motors on those bikes, then giving them four wheels and doors...
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For a true masterclass in swearing and scriptwriting, check out this gem from The Wire. There's precious little dialogue, exempting prefixes and suffixes, outside glorious f-bombs.
cheers,
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Graeme just delivered a masterclass in why you shouldn't spend a few minutes to edit posts.
Dang.
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Before long they'll be putting motors on those bikes, then giving them four wheels and doors...
Extra wheels and (sometimes) doors come with the Velomobile
Or with a motor-bike, comes a real side-car
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Always enjoyed Shameless for their attention to swearative detail as well.
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What does Kevin Bloody Wilson's mother think? Does your Dad own a brewery?
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Swine Flu....
Might have it. I'm at home at the moment with mild flu like symptoms and I had the flu shot back in May. My partner came back from Wgtn a couple of weeks and ended up in bed with it for a week. Her nephew from Wgtn, currently staying with us, is also ill.
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So … has anyone had it?
Haven't had it, but the case of Zachary Wilson is a bit close to home for us, his dad works for a close relative's business. Very sad all round.
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So … has anyone had it?
Robyn has had a swine cold.
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What will they think of next? One of these, maybe: http://www.spinadvertising.co.nz/ecogo/
(but what would my local mechanic think of it?)
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Robyn has had a swine cold.
Wow. i think I had the exact same bug on the exact same days . It did make the MJ news that little bit more surreal.
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A new bike?
Woohoo! You'll be riding over the harbour bridge in no time, with Mr Slack tucked in behind for some aero draft action on the descent. Slack by name, slack by nature and all that...
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Go Sacha.
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Ahem. I give you possibly my favourite poetic swearing line ever:
'I may have fucked my life up flatter than hammered shit, but I stand here before you today beholden to no human cocksucker.'
Thank you, Ellsworth from Deadwood. Thank you.
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Swearing on TV: unfortunately Censor Bill has no jurisdiction, it's the Broadcast Standards Authority you should invite.
Swine flu: can we get rid of this moniker? If it's good enough for the Spanish it should be good enough for the Mexicans. BTW Aljazeera is never calling it by its porcine name, always H1N1 -
Swearing on TV: unfortunately Censor Bill has no jurisdiction, it's the Broadcast Standards Authority you should invite.
Quite so. They do occasional research on "Acceptable language: swearing and blasphemy on radio and television", trying to measure public standards. I did such research for them years ago--it was kind of fun asking people what they thought of the use of sh*t and f*ck and the like.
Still, Censor Bill is likely to be entertaining.
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After Bathing at Baxters...
Our government has ordered 300,000 doses of an experimental swine flu vaccine from an American company. The vaccine will arrive within a month, but, barring emergency, won't be approved for use until around December.
That'd be the same Baxter International that earlier
this year sent out live avian flu virus mixed with
vaccine material would it...?Deerfield, Illinois-based pharmaceutical company Baxter International Inc. has just been caught shipping live avian flu viruses mixed with vaccine material to medical distributors in 18 countries.
Talk about drumming up business...
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Jefferson EarPain
Bros against the Empire -
Thank you, Ellsworth from Deadwood. Thank you.
Right, _Deadwood _ - that show elevated swearing like no other.
There was a great discussion a few years back on the ABC's Australia Talks Back , on Radio National, hosted by Sandy McCutcheon, on the subject of the f-word. A guy called with a story about how he'd been a fire warden in a small North Coast NSW town as a teenager during WW2. He was given a tin hat emblazoned with the letters FW. Everyone he met on his rounds would smirk, and he'd smirk back. The ones he enjoyed most were the little old ladies whose vocabularies one wouldn't assume would have included the word f*ckwit.
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No-one swears like Ray Winstone. I forget which movie it was in which he called someone a "f*cking sh*tc*nt", but it changed my life(asterisks for the benefits for those with work filters).
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Swine flu: can we get rid of this moniker? If it's good enough for the Spanish it should be good enough for the Mexicans.
Don't think so. First spotted in the States and if memory serves, a visit to Mexico does not a State make.:)
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