TV OBSCENITY IS BORING | 2004-11-13
I was watching the Showtime series, "Dead Like Me."
The language is nasty. I spent a lot of time in drug recovery, so that doesn't bother me.
In fact, the only thing that bothers me about it is that their dirty language is so BORING. The s word and the f word, over and over and over and over and over ad infinitum.
If you've got to be obscene, at least do a good job of it.
My father was the son of a Methodist circuit rider. When he started cursing, my mother used to laugh at him. He didn't know any cuss words.
My mother would tell him that her older brother Bill knew how to cuss.
If my mother had been like a respectable conservative and shown the proper horror at my father's evil words he would not have been upset. But she laughed at him. That got to him.
So while everybody else is upset at the toilet language on cable, I consider it pitiful. I laugh at it.
Now which do you think would really get to those who use pointless obscenity, the average respectable conservative's horror and shock or my laughing in their faces?