Faggot

[hovis]

the best xmas song, ever, has been edited as not to offend people

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/news/newsbeat/071218_fairytale.shtml

i find it offensive its been edited

[keithd]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e1/Mr-Brains-Faggots-Pack.jpg/711px-Mr-Brains-Faggots-Pack.jpg

[wyrdness]

Hovis,

Please do not use such offensive language on this forum.


I am, of course, referring to the H**** word in your avatar.

[Luckypants]

PC ********! Grrrr!

So what if faggot offends some folks, in the context of the song it is meant as an insult and therefore offensive.

I never listen to purile radio 1 anyway

[Biker Biggles]

Brilliant bit of PR for the record though.
I bet the record company complained to the thought police about themselves.

[Paws]

good ol radio 2 though are playing it un-cut :)

[G]

:smt046 very amusing, gotta love it when stuff like this comes on the radio.

There was a time when crap like this was only in the papers and on the radio on April 1st

[Lissa]

As if it's not bad enough that I'm forced to listen to the drivel that is Radio 1 at work, they now go completely beyond all bounds of common sense and censor one of the best Christmas songs ever.

What a bunch of faggots!

[Biker Biggles]

The decision has just been reversed.They are now going to play the original version as the general derision from the Great British Public has forced someone to see sense.

Still a great PR coup for the record though.:rolleyes:

[Tiger 55]

They've de-censored it now.

Having generated enough publicity presumably...

[northwind]

That horrific toothless sanitised Ronan Keating version changed that bit as well didn't it? "You're cheap and you're haggard"

Still, "I could have been someone" "Well so could anyone" is the best lyrical comeback ever, even when it's being sung by an anonymous pretty-boy and some nobody out of Clannad.

[philipMac]

You just don't have the requisite Celtic soul, man.

[gettin2dizzy]

I find the song offensive on my ears.

I went to see the Pogues once, he didn't turn up.
Did I get my money back? no.... because he hadn't turned up to any of the UK ones on that tour so far. Riiiight.

It was just like going to a ceileidgh.

[Daimo]

Its all a bunch of gay faggot mohammed muslim pompus dimwitted black white nigga asain halfcast paki hippycrap.

That politically incorrect enough a response? Should it be editted?

[Spiderman]

Its all a bunch of gay faggot mohammed muslim pompus dimwitted black white nigga asain halfcast paki hippycrap.

That politically incorrect enough a response? Should it be editted?

Yes.



I'm offended by the use of the word "pompus" :lol:

[Stig]

Just listening to it on Radio one now. All back to normal.

[the_lone_wolf]

Faggot. n. A bundle of sticks and branches bound together. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faggot_%28unit_of_measurement%29)

[wyrdness]

You scumbag, you maggot, you cheap lousy bundle of sticks and branches bound together.

Doesn't quite work as a lyric, does it?

[Pedrosa]

The Pogues and Kirsty are permanently on my desk top as I absolutely adore this song for so many reasons.

[TimTucker]

This reminds me of a joke Jack Dee used to tell.

A hi-fi salesman is waxing lyrical about some top of the range, saying,

"You put a CD in this and it sounds like the band are in the room with you!"

"I listen to the Pogues," replies Jack, dourly, "I don't want them in the room with me."

[hovis]

You scumbag, you maggot, you cheap lousy bundle of sticks and branches bound together.

Doesn't quite work as a lyric, does it??


You scumbag, you maggot, you cheap lousy meat based product consisting mainly of offal and all the dead pigs inards, brain, eyes and all the bits scrapped up off the floor


sounds better

[sv-robo]

FAGGOT FAGGOT FAGGOT FAGGOT FAGGOT FAGGOT FAGGOT FAGGOT FAGGOT FAGGOT FAGGOT FAGGOT FAGGOT...can,t see the problem really,its only a word
sticks n stones and all that.

[JessicaRabbit]

good ol radio 2 though are playing it un-cut :)

I :smt055Radio 2!!! (That's coz I'm ooooold....:smt098)