Showing posts with label swearing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label swearing. Show all posts

Sunday, 13 July 2008

Shock... Horror.....Our PM Swears!


A new book, Howard's End, written by Dr Peter van Onselen says that Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd swears!!
Just like myself, many Aussies will be mortified to find out that Kevin cuts loose with some profanity. The shock of the revelations. What are we as a Nation to do? How indeed can we continue to have a Prime Minister who conducts himself well in the public eye and is seen as a regular church goer?
This is too funny. The author must be kidding himself if he thinks that Australians care if the PM uses the "F" word and has a temper in private. What Dr van Onselen is describing is a vast majority of Australians.
We should be pleased that we have a Prime Minister who can control himself in public and not swear. Kevin Rudd doesn't profess to be a god fearing, non-swearing Christian. It shows us that he is a normal everyday person.
Another attempt by a Liberal crony (Onselen co-wrote ex Pm Howard's biography) to hopefully sway public opinion back to the the pitiful Opposition Leadership of Brendan Neilsen which has dwindling numbers of support.

Thursday, 19 June 2008

Ramsay's Language to Stay

A federal parliamentary committee has rejected a push to ban swearing on television.

But the committee has recommended that classification codes be made clearer to better inform viewers of what to expect.

Senator Anne McEwen says some submissions to the committee called for offensive language to be limited.

But most Australians accept that adults should be free to see and hear what they want on TV, Senator McEwan says.
She also noted that the committee uncovered widespread concern about the language used by celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay on Channel Nine's Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares.

He reportedly used the f-word 80 times in one episode.

"People were offended by the way Ramsay directed his language to his restaurant staff in an abusive and aggressive manner," Senator McEwan said

"A number of people made the point that that was probably more offensive than the actual words used."

Liberal Senator Cory Bernardi says the committee never intended to push for any form of censorship.

But Senator Bernardi says he still has concerns about the language used by Ramsay

"No one has yet been able to convince me that an M-rated show such as an episode of Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares that contained the F-word - and I'm not referring to fondue - 80 times in 40 minutes is infrequent coarse language," he said.
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