Has The Bbc Changed Its Rules On Bad Language?

[sandyRoe]

Listening to The News Quiz just now I heard someone use the word, s***.

Have their standards gone completely down the drain?

[Peter Pedant]

no it  is like  here - rules for some and other rules for the  proles

Language changes and I am sure Sir Ian McDonald ( or even eye boggler Myrie) wd explain that coarse  language becomes common and accepted

renter is now used for tenant which  has ME boggling

Chaucer write of the shotten shepherd ( meaning dirty) 1375 that is !

and the Danish prime minister described one of our  lot as "drittsec" - the cognates are dirt-sac or sack of dirt.  - Now in Danish dritt is flushed down the  bog. yes that stuff. The danish gasped

 

 

[sandyRoe]

It seems that nobody but us gives a fiddler's **** for the decline in standards.

O tempora O mores!

[barry1010]

I've heard the c word on a BBC panel show (Jack Dee, HIGNFY)

[bednobs]

yep, i heard see you next tuesday on the bbc before

[naomi24]

Whether it's BBC or otherwise, I think there's too much swearing on television anyway.  

[10ClarionSt]

So do I, Naomi but peope will say I'm just a prude and it's more acceptable now because it's commonly used. Unnecessarily used, I'd say.

[barry1010]

I don't like swearing on TV but I do admit to using a particular swear word a lot when I'm alone and things go wrong 🤬

[Ken4155]

Would that be 'hecky-thump', Barry

[barry1010]

I'm not from ooop north, so no

[Hopkirk]

I used to enjoy the News Quiz, but gave up on it. It is too forced and scripted. It is also like a party political broadcast for the Remainer Party.

[10ClarionSt]

Thet nort from topper yon.