America - ****ing weird or what?

[swee'pea99]

My daughter pointed me in the direction of the seriously (or not so seriously) excellent History of Japan - if only school had been a bit more like this - but I was struck by one of the comments underneath:

Seriously? Surely dip**** isn't far above gosh ****it in the straight-to-hell profanities hit parade. Yet from the likes and following comments, people are taking this ********** at face value.

 

[Milkfloat]

 

[Globalti]

My brother has lived in Michigan for about 15 years and is married to an American nutter. Every few months I receive a long puzzling email from him, trying to work out the Americans, why are they so insecure and so obsessed with guns and so afraid of non-comformity. He reckons that a lot of the American psyche is due to the fact that only a few generations back they were fighting for space, expanding westwards and defending what they had taken and their insularity is simply down to the fact that the country is so massive that they don't need to travel overseas to find what they want.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

What if it's for younger kids? And anyway you can't say sh1t on this forum.

 

[swee'pea99]

shoot

 

[swee'pea99]

You're right!

 

[swee'pea99]

I suppose it's possible someone could have been contemplating using that with a class of 7 year olds - but very unlikely, I would've thought. Nope, seems to me it's more likely another illustration of America's weird 'Christian' obsession with the evil of the 'unclean'. Remarkable poor taste on the part of the big feller to make us have to shoot at all, pardon my American. (Whence, I've no doubt, the absurd prohibition software on CC.) If 'Christian' America witnessed the language used every day by the people it likes to think it's protecting, it would probably shut down altogether.)

 

[threebikesmcginty]

We've enough religious nutters in this country before we start criticising others.

 

[Levo-Lon]

This about sums them up


View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PbBB8QEbUtg

 

[mustang1]

What if it's for younger kids? And anyway you can't say sh1t on this forum.

Whut? I just posted that in another thread but I very cleverly changed the 'i' to an 'x'. This will baffle everyone for years who aren't "in the know". Sorry, "knxw".

 

[jefmcg]

OK, two that get to me.

1. The first time I saw Robocop it was in a edited for TV version, with *sshole replaced by airhead, and the unforgettable "mother-crushing". However, that film is deeply nasty (but good!), and I don't think it should be seen by anyone who isn't ready to hear the word "peanut"
2. "The bird". In the US, the single raised middle finger is so obscene they will blur it out. Like, what? Who is so fragile they are shocked by the arrangement of your fingers?

 

[swee'pea99]

The Wikipedia entry for 'Nipplegate' (excuse me a minute....ok, I'm alright now) during halftime at Super Bowl XXXVIII –- when, to quote the intro/summary "Janet Jackson's breast, adorned with a nipple shield, was exposed by Justin Timberlake for about half a second" is the longest I've ever seen, coming in at over 16,000 words.

[What in the world is a 'nipple shield'?]

Can I say 'nipple' on cyclechat? Let's find out...