"BRITAIN has become immune to swear words with broadcasters able to use the terms “poof” and “queer” any time they like, according to one watchdog," The Daily Express squeals today - and clearly so has that newspaper.
The Express says the report commissioned by "media watchdog" Ofcom concludes that 'derogatory words like “nutter”, “lezza” and the blasphemous exclamation “Jesus Christ!” [have] become socially acceptable.'
Thankfully, unlike 'poof' and 'lezza', some words are still most definitely not acceptable in The Express - published incidentally by the (almost) billionaire pornographer Richard "Dirty Des" Desmond - which tells us Ofcom concluded; "that after the 9pm watershed words such as “b****”, “w*****” and “s***” can be used."
Presumably without asterisks.
It gets worse; "The “C-word” and “F-word” were also found to be acceptable after the watershed but it was suggested people were even softening against this."
The Daily Mail were, but of course, similarly outraged and similarly self-censored.
They spelt out 'bum', 'loony', 'nutter', 'poof', 'queer', 'mental', 'lezza' and 'Jesus Christ'.
But thought it best to leave others to our fevered imaginations; 'w***er', 's**t', 'p**s', 'b****cks', 'a***', 'bum', 't***' and 'the F-word'.
A PDF of the 64 page Ofcom report 'Expletive Deleted' is available here.
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