[Newsbot]

Title: 'Money for Nothing' slur inappropriate, council says
Category: Showbiz
Posted By: Strutz
Date: 2011-08-31 10:33:26
Canadian

[Canadian_Mind]

Nice to see some sanity in the beaurocracy...

[raydan]

This again.

[DanSC]

Whenever I've heard this song on the radio, the word in question is censored or changed to something like yuppie.

Quote:

The council also noted that that panel that banned the song was not aware that alternative versions of the song without the word "f****t" have been available since 1985. My own censoring

Way to do your research guys.

[BartSimpson]

Freedom of speech, eh?

[ShepherdsDog]

Britain, what the hell has happened to your sense and sensibility?

[Gunnair]

BartSimpson wrote:

Freedom of speech, eh?

Are rap songs with 'nigger' allowed on mainstream radio?

[ShepherdsDog]

Mr. Clemens books are banned from schools because of the word nigger. You have to wonder when the terms Jock, Paddy, or Taffy(Trog) are going to be deemed inappropriate.

[Gunnair]

ShepherdsDog wrote:

Mr. Clemens books are banned from schools because of the word nigger. You have to wonder when the terms Jock, Paddy, or Taffy(Trog) are going to be deemed inappropriate.

I do. Sometimes I think it should happen and soon. I can go to work and tell a joke in an Irish accent and get some laughs. Do it in a native or East Indian accent and watch out.

Some groups are fair game, some groups are not.

[BartSimpson]

Gunnair wrote:

BartSimpson wrote:

Freedom of speech, eh?

Are rap songs with 'nigger' allowed on mainstream radio?

Yes, but only if a black person says it. Go figure.

[Gunnair]

BartSimpson wrote:

Gunnair wrote:

BartSimpson wrote:

Freedom of speech, eh?

Are rap songs with 'nigger' allowed on mainstream radio?

Yes, but only if a black person says it. Go figure.

Really? So your average FM station plays songs with 'nigger' in them or are you referring to satellite?

[1Peg]

Maybe gayrod would be more fitting?

[Lemmy]

What's "inappropriate" is untalented, cardboard, tight-ass bureaucrats evaluating art.

[ShepherdsDog]

some self proclaimed artists don't have much of a grasp on the idea either.

[Batsy]

ShepherdsDog wrote:

Britain, what the hell has happened to your sense and sensibility?

What's this story got to do with Britain? The story concerns Canada.