Government to make swearing illegal?
February 16th, 2006
Now that the Government has decided to get rid of inconvenient elections, and decided to bypass the tedious business of getting parliamentary approval for new laws, it is good to see them using their new powers to crack down on swearing.
(PS Only one of these is a spoof …)
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Owen, this would be funny were it not for the number of documented ASBOs where people genuinely have been prohibited from swearing.
[...] Excellent spoof on the ‘Respect Agenda’ on (Labour backing) Owen’s blog with news that the Government is set to ban swearing and install EDS run swearboxes in every town. Made me giggle. [link] [...]
Will they exempt anyone swearing because EDS cocks up?
Currently on British TV, the show with the biggest swear count is The Thick of It, a painfully funny update of Yes Minister for the Blairite generation. Peter Capaldi is excellent as the toilet mouthed spin doctor. Estelle Morris said that she was amazed at how accurate it was, and that she thought someone (Alistair?) had given some insights to the writers.
Cunts. Fucking cunts the lot of ‘em.
It’s a spoof no longer.
Government to Outlaw Swearing – via OMB NEWS
*UPDATED*…
Government to Outlaw Swearing – via OMB News.
A ‘Hat Doff’ to Owen
UPDATE
When truth is stranger than Fiction:
Four-letter word spells £80 fine for student
By David Sapsted
Filed: 22/02/2006)
A teenager who used the F-word while chatting with fri…
How long are you chicken**** clowns going to keep taking it in the ass before you emigrate off out of it? Sure, it’s part of Blair’s
cunning plan to drive out indiginous Brits and replace with Labour-voting immigrants. Bitch Boy Blair wants you to go; you
want to fly the coop. Sounds like a win-win solution to me. Britain, a good country to be from, a long way from.