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.