Monday, September 12, 2011

This week in totally unnecessary censorship...

Last night, Easy A was playing on Sony Pix. Reasonable people might describe this movie as sharp-tongued; only a puritan would call it profane. It began at 11.15 at night, not an hour at which innocent young ears need to be protected. Nevertheless, Easy A was subjected to a barrage of bleeps (blanks, actually – they’ve stopped using bleeps) that might have been appropriate if the movie in question was Reservoir Dogs. Anyone else getting the creeps over the gratuitous use of silencer on TV screens in this country?

On the evidence of last night, words we’re being protected from:


Bitch


Balls


Slut


Whore


Promiscuity


Sex


Twat


Ass


Tit


Pork


Half-assed (they cut ‘assed’)


Shit


Screw


Gay


Cat


I can’t decide which of the last two is more shocking.

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