Mom Outraged by Naughty Word in Countdown

[matrix3509]

Yes please tell of your world shaking views on how to be a good parent...seriously, I'm dying to know.

 

[K_Dub]

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

 

[yellowhead]

I'm willing to always defend videogames and 9 times out of 10 they are wrongly accused of being evil. But i do feel that this wasn't a responsible thing to put in a videogame. The game is aimed at the family and if you include mature words then you're just asking for trouble.

On the other hand, when you write to the sun and say "My husband Daniel had to rush him out of the room." THEN rush him back into the room so they could take a picture of him with the swearword it really does come across as a desperate cry for attention.

 

[Mikester1290]

I think she is a cun*&lap.

 

[Arehexes]

I don't think the 3 year old would know how to say shithead or know what it means.

 

[Clunks]

So she photographed her son beside the TV, then he asked what it meant...and then he was ushered out of the room? Oh, well good, as long as we've got the timeline sorted.

They do one for the viewers to do, between the ad breaks. One time I was watching it, tis came up:

LARGEBAPS

Of course I had a fair chuckle at that, because I'm a child at heart. Four-five minutes later, the answer appears:

GRASPABLE

In the immortal words of Glenn Quagmire, "that one was also sexual."

 

[Something Amyss]

For some reason, all I can think about is that episode of "The I.T. Crowd".

Never seen that one. "Street Countdown" needs more support.

 

[Tsaba]

First thing that comes to mind is,
On a side note, why the heck is a three year old playing countdown?!
Shouldn't the little prick be outside playing?

 

[Vrach]

"Oh dear Christ, my son might see a swear word, chase him out of the room with a fire hose or something!!!!!!"

A pretty innocuous one at that. These sorts of parents piss me off, kicking up a fuss over nothing, I'd just laugh it off and play the next game.

 

[AngloDoom]

...They "ushered him out the room"?

It's not a bomb, it's a word. Take away the controversy behind it and suddenly its just a boring word in general.

 

[Buleet]

This is proberbly one of the VERY rare times a mom has an actual acceptable problem with a game.Still amusing though.

 

[jigilojoe]

Stop putting things on this site that are from the Sun, it's probably a lie.

The Sun, The Daily Mail and other tabloids are not to be believed.

 

[Maze1125]

if you remove their power by using them in every day language they lose their strength and become a standard word,

Which is precisely what we don't want to happen. The value of swear words is their ability to shock and offend. If we remove that by using them constantly then they become nothing but pointless and redundant words, either meaningless adjectives or exact synonyms of other words that we already have.

Yes, we could remove swear words' offensiveness, but doing so would remove their entire point for existing and our ability to be verbally offensive or shocking in a succinct way. I personally don't see that as a good thing.

 

[Tipsy Giant]

if you remove their power by using them in every day language they lose their strength and become a standard word,

Which is precisely what we don't want to happen. The value of swear words is their ability to shock and offend. If we remove that by using them constantly then they become nothing but pointless and redundant words, either meaningless adjectives or exact synonyms of other words that we already have.

Yes, we could remove swear words' offensiveness, but doing so would remove their entire point for existing and our ability to be verbally offensive or shocking in a succinct way. I personally don't see that as a good thing.

It's the evolution of words to become acceptable, in their place new offensive words will appear

 

[Scott Guthrie]

i find this use of foul language fucking shocking!!!!!

the wankers shouldn't have been aloud to have such fucking shocking words in this fucking game!!!

 

[Maze1125]

if you remove their power by using them in every day language they lose their strength and become a standard word,

Which is precisely what we don't want to happen. The value of swear words is their ability to shock and offend. If we remove that by using them constantly then they become nothing but pointless and redundant words, either meaningless adjectives or exact synonyms of other words that we already have.

Yes, we could remove swear words' offensiveness, but doing so would remove their entire point for existing and our ability to be verbally offensive or shocking in a succinct way. I personally don't see that as a good thing.

It's the evolution of words to become acceptable, in their place new offensive words will appear

Well then you've just defeated your own point.
You were advocating that people should swear more often so that people stopped being offended by those words, but if there are always going to be words that people will be offended by, then there's absolutely no reason to try and stop people from being offended by these words.

If people are always going to find words to be offended by, why can't it be these words we have now? Why force an evolution into a different set of words?

 

[Tipsy Giant]

if you remove their power by using them in every day language they lose their strength and become a standard word,

Which is precisely what we don't want to happen. The value of swear words is their ability to shock and offend. If we remove that by using them constantly then they become nothing but pointless and redundant words, either meaningless adjectives or exact synonyms of other words that we already have.

Yes, we could remove swear words' offensiveness, but doing so would remove their entire point for existing and our ability to be verbally offensive or shocking in a succinct way. I personally don't see that as a good thing.

It's the evolution of words to become acceptable, in their place new offensive words will appear

Well then you've just defeated your own point.
You were advocating that people should swear more often so that people stopped being offended by those words, but if there are always going to be words that people will be offended by, then there's absolutely no reason to try and stop people from being offended by these words.

If people are always going to find words to be offended by, why can't it be these words we have now? Why force an evolution into a different set of words?

I'm not trying to "force" anything I am just stating that that is how it works

 

[Maze1125]

if you remove their power by using them in every day language they lose their strength and become a standard word,

Which is precisely what we don't want to happen. The value of swear words is their ability to shock and offend. If we remove that by using them constantly then they become nothing but pointless and redundant words, either meaningless adjectives or exact synonyms of other words that we already have.

Yes, we could remove swear words' offensiveness, but doing so would remove their entire point for existing and our ability to be verbally offensive or shocking in a succinct way. I personally don't see that as a good thing.

It's the evolution of words to become acceptable, in their place new offensive words will appear

Well then you've just defeated your own point.
You were advocating that people should swear more often so that people stopped being offended by those words, but if there are always going to be words that people will be offended by, then there's absolutely no reason to try and stop people from being offended by these words.

If people are always going to find words to be offended by, why can't it be these words we have now? Why force an evolution into a different set of words?

I'm not trying to "force" anything I am just stating that that is how it works

You said:

Yeah cos the word shitheads is the worse thing in the world, for fucks sake people they are JUST WORDS if you remove their power by using them in every day language they lose their strength and become a standard word, I hate cunts who think there are "bad words" fucking idiots

That is not "just stating that that is how it works". That is outright telling people that swear words shouldn't be considered offensive and anyone who does consider them so is a "fucking idiot".

Yes if everyone stopped getting offended by swear words then swear words would no longer be offensive. But so what? That is not likely to ever happen and it wouldn't be desirable even if it could happen.
And no-one is a "fucking idiot" just for being willing to recognise the offensiveness of particular words, even though that offensiveness is just a product of our society's belief that they are offensive.

 

[MarsProbe]

Funny stuff. But again, the source in this case happens to be The Sun, which for those who know, immediately destroys any credibility the story may have, even if it is true.

There's only one other thing I can think of saying on this matter and it's this:

That's one seriously unfortunate looking kid they've got there. They could at least start with a haircut!

 

[Hatchet90]

Here's a picture of a young happy gamer.