Use of the "C-word" on television.

[JonB]

BBC are to make a documentary about the C-word.

https://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds41715.html

I have noticed more and more people use it in the mainstream language nowadays, but probably does remain the only word in the language that can stop someone in their tracks or has the shock ability factor.
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[techierob]

will noel edmonds be hosting it?

[craigie b]

It seems to be a very english thing to be offended by the C word (I'm assuming you mean cunt).

Up north it gets thrown about far more liberally with little or no offense.

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[Mudskipper]

The most liberally I have heard it used is in Catholic Southern Ireland.

To be sat having a brew with my mate and hear her mild-mannered uncle casually say 'Ah that cunt at the cunting pub has only gone and bought a new cunting car' was both surreal and hilarious.

Seems to be everyday language there.

My view, it's just a word. How anyone can decide that a word, no matter which context it's used in, can be hideously offensive, is beyond me. Get the cunt onto the TV, i say...

Mudskipper
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[Black Knight]

I find the word 'bloody' used far too much on BBC radio these days.

IMO its un-needed.
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[Born2bVile]

Some interesting points on here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunt#Usage:_pre-20th_century

Worth a read, some of it had me in stitches

Cheers,

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[hellkat]

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Heared it being used in the new series of "ROME" on the bbc,


mark anothy: "l swear by junos cunt"
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