Talk:Seven dirty words

I highly doubt the accuracy of this article, pure and simple. First of all, I can name many PG-13 movies that use the word "shit" more than once. Also, what about words like "cock" or "bitch" or "pussy"?? Surely they're worse than "piss".

Someone, please offer proof that this is indeed FCC (and MPAA) regulations!

Hmmm, are we sure about this? I'm not disputing this, I'd just like references...

When I googled this in the past, the only thing I could find the FCC having ruled was that it was inappropriate for the radio station to have played George Carlin's "Seven Dirty Words" sketch at 4 o'clock in the afternoon.

I have a horrible suspicion that the idea that the FCC has ruled these seven words unaccpetable for broadcast is one of those persistent myths.

Note that the subject of the sketch is the set of words that George Carlin imagines would be unacceptable to broadcast, and I imagine that this is the source of the confusion. I'd be highly surprised if the FCC had simply adopted George Carlin's list (which was, after all, compiled in jest).

Roy Badami 01:26, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)

This is a bunch of shit with Atheists and Cults.If we could make it mandatory to be of a Religous group existing before 1850 or from another culture, or have no Beliefs at all.-User:Z.Spy

Why is there a warning of obscenity on this page, but not on others where these words occur? Is there a policy on this? I suggest to remove the warning, or insert it with consistency where these words appear. The Fellowship of the Troll 02:30, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)

"In the 2000s, tits and piss are generally no longer prohibited from broadcast over public airwaves in the United States, with shit often allowed as well."

Shit is allowed?? Since when?

There was that one South Park episode, where the entire purpose was to see how many times they could use the word "shit". It was >150, if I remember correctly... 68.203.193.250 03:14, 10 Jul 2004 (UTC)

As a former FM radio station General Manager in Chicago, I can tell you that the seven words banned by the FCC are indeed the ones listed here. It is, unfortunately, no myth. However, during off-peak hours, aka "Safe Harbour" hours, you are allowed to air those words, depending on the kind of broadcasting license you have.

Tits

Is "tits" really that dirty a word in the US. In the UK its certainly vulgar but hardly in the ilk of the other words here. Dainamo 12:45, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)

In my opinion "tits" is probably considered to be the least vulgar of these words in the US. That said, I don't think I've ever heard it used on radio or broadcast television. Allen 20:22, Sep 29, 2004 (UTC)

I would say piss is the least vulgar, it's the only one of these words that my parents would ever let me say in front of them

I think the stuff about "tits" and "piss" being non-vulgar in the UK is POV and should probably be removed. Look at it this way: independent research conducted only four years ago ( http://www.ofcom.org.uk/research/consumer_audience_research/tv/tv_audience_reports/delete_expletives.pdf ) shows that clear majorities of the public still believe that "sodding" and "crap" are both swearwords (see the appendix). Only 7% said that "piss off" wasn't swearing (though I am unclear whether, in asking about "piss off" specifically, the researchers intended a distinction between "piss" and "piss off"). "Tits" wasn't included but I think it is just as vulgar as crap. 81.154.56.73 01:10, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

FUCK & MotherFUCKer

The word fuck is so bad the FCC put it on the list twice.

Other profanities

What is the FCC stance on racial swear words and profanities that are not obscene in themselves but are used in a racial context?

Also duel use words (EG Bitch, niger, faggot), gibberish swear words from television (Smeg, short for smegma, meaning penis fungus) or words imported into the US language from Spanish.

Watershed

"Cunt is the only word not allowed on British television after the 9pm watershed"... surely this should be BEFORE the watershed, right?

Answer: no, that's definitely after -- and actually, it's not true. After 9pm on British television, you can use any words you want provided they're justified in context; Ofcom will get complaints if someone just yells fucking cunts apropos of nothing, but if it's appropriate (and there's a warning before the program), it's absolutely fine.

Subarticles

This article is relatively small, so none of the seven words really merit a subarticle, unless they are notable and non-dictionary defintion enough alone. Six of them are either that or fine as disambigs. But cocksucker was a dicdef which was transwikied to Wiktionary and it was decided to just merge the considerably smaller text here. Unfortunately, Shoaler just reversed that without discussion, making cocksucker still just a small dicdef. The "Individual words" section is designed so we can give a quick definition of each word here, and that's already the entire text of cocksucker. So, I'm reverting the change. --Dmcdevit 18:05, 7 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

These "seven words" have little or no distinction as a group. They happen to have been allegedly banned from broadcasting at one time but I certainly wouldn't go to this article if I was looking for more information on the words. So they are certainly not subarticles to this one. And why is cocksucker less notable than any of the others? And isn't a dicdef a good place to start a stub? If you want to delete the article, I think you should go through the VfD process. Shoaler 19:02, 7 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Special Interest Group

Could someone find out which special interest group in particular is active here, and name it? Fieari 22:41, 16 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

blink-182

Would it be inappropriate to add that blink-182 released a song consisting of nothing but these words? It goes "Shit piss fuck cunt cocksucker motherfucker tits fart turd and twat" and is repeated a few times. -- Rediahs 20:22, 19 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]