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Only a conservative would not be unable to understand this.
Somewhere along the line somebody decided that "sh*t" was a bad word for feces and "poop" was ok.
Believe it or not they are both harmless sounds and spellings.
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Originally Posted by eddie gein
Well I see we have another conservative that doesn't "get it". (However mostly I was just dogging Venice to stir him up!! So your point is well taken).
However, there is nothing "common" or "decent" about stigmatizing sounds and spellings that do no harm to people.
"sh*t" is a word for feces. That's all it is.
Certainly there are other words that have implied threats and the like. Sh*t is not one of them.
My mom is a Democrat, my dad is an atheist. They don't agree with you, at. all.
You censored yourself in the first paragraph of your post. Or you knew it would be deleted if you wrote the word, so why are you worried about a radio station doing the same thing?
Charlie Daniels' The Devil Went Down to Georgia was censored a couple decades ago. So was another song, rock, that I can't recall right now. I want to say it's a Janis Joplin song.
"Louie Louie" was censored many years ago; in fact, lots of songs have been censored. They need to totally delete most of the rap "music" that seems to be popular these days.
Decency standards have slacked off a bit over the years, but there's no place for musical profanity in a department store. What's the point of having it anyway?
I can understand that they would censor out naughty words but when it comes to more common words like cocaine it is also censored. There is that song with Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow that was very popular in the 90's, "Photograph" I think it was called. It is a cute song but when Kid sings that he was fueling up on cocaine and whiskey, the drug reference is skimmed over.
In another Alanis Morrissette song she is angrily lamenting a lost lover and asks "if she would go down on you in a theater?". It is censored to "would she go ----- in a theater?"
Oh well the censoring ruins the songs intent but when you start considering what the kids are listening too today drug use and sex acts are pretty mild.
The oddest act of censorship that comes to mind is the Eagles "Life in the Fast Lane." For years, the song, released in the late 70s, was not censored.
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She said, "Listen baby, you can hear the engine ring
We've been up and down this highway, haven't seen a GD* thing"
Then sometime in the 2000s as I recall, radio stations began to censor that line, which says both words. Only they oddly censored the "God" part and not the "damn" part.
* Yes, I censored myself.
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