23 replies on “Creativity, Uniqueness, Nerve, and Talent”
that’s nice:)
What? No-one’s head exploded?
That may cause the universe to implode, finishing the job begun by the big particle accelerator at CERN.
Not once, but twice! Hooray!
I watched this twice; the second time with Whitney Houston’s rendition of “Greatest Love of All” playing in the back of my mind.
Our future is so bright, so bright indeed!!
Geez, didn’t a producer read the text messages before the show? The poor girl could have had a heads up to not say it out loud. I’m surprised she even knows the word.
@6, really? You’re surprised a 13-year-old girl knows “cunt”?
she probably doesnt even know its a “bad” word. its not used much on tv to get bleeped or anything. i honestly didnt know it was that bad of a word till late highschool, cuz before i’d only heard it from Trainspotting and The Vagina Monologues…maybe people back home just dont use it much?
Dan,
Somebody beat me to the punch but Jane Fonda once uttered the word while being interviewed by Viera. Viera’s been “bitten” twice by that word on her show. Ouch!
I saw this yesterday, and actually thought it was kind of sweet. The kid obviously had no idea that she’d said anything bad, and Meredith handled it perfectly.
George Carlin would be proud!
@10, yeah, it was really sweet when she fingered her friend so her boyfriend would know who to kick the shit out of, leaving her in a coma with brain damage. She’s a sugarplum, all right.
Classic – a totally underused word that now makes for great shock value. Seems to me that “cunt” was bandied about much more regularly decades ago….. Apparently its a much bigger deal now. Who’d a thunk it?
@5 *clapping hands* Sexual Chocolate everybody, Sexual Chocolate!
I had a similar experience when I used the word bastard in front of my mother knowing nothing about its meaning after hearing it on the playground.
I listened 3 times, and I could NOT hear “cunt” enunciated clearly enough to identify it–I don’t know WHAT word she used.
This kind of stuff confirms for me that adults exaggerate the severity of curse words.
I like using “cunt” during sex. Not all the time, but I do like it. Unlike “pussy” it’s raw and primal. And it’s been interesting how women I’ve been with have reacted to it. Some have liked it (and have also used it) but most have not. Those who have not liked it can’t seem to separate its use as an insult from its sexual use. Those who have liked it can.
She’s a psychopath who nearly got her “friend” killed and you give a crap she’s swearing on TV? And oh, how cute she is? Really? Really?
Yucca flower nailed it. Who cares what she did, she’s cool because of what she said on a tv show. Wow.
Dan, love the title, but it’s CHARISMA, uniqueness, nerve, & talent! Unless you were going for a deliberate misquote for some reason.
@12, 19, 20: The girl deserved a beatdown. Not as bad as she got, but how was her friend supposed to know how far her boyfriend was going to go? Anyone who texts a dude who recently discovered his brother’s hanging corpse and tells him to “just go visit your dead brother” deserves to get the shit kicked out of them.
Wait, we can’t say “cunt” on TV? But “fag” and “bitch” and “spic” and “nigger” and “kike” are okay (I’ve heard them all on broadcast TV, all as parts of news stories, though there could potentially have been fines levied as a result; I was impressed that the stations had the balls to do accurate reporting)? When did this happen?
Of course, I’ve never understood censorship in the context of news-reporting. If the text message says “cunt” and you’re reporting on the contents of the message, then report that they said “cunt”. If it offends people, good; it is offensive, and the way you report and convey that offense is by being accurate and not euphemistic. Of course, I don’t really think people have a right to live in self-imposed ignorance about the ugly parts of the world, so I don’t really support any kind of censorship. Show me the scientific study that causally links childhood exposure to swearing and antisocial behavior later in life (CAUSALLY linked, not correlated) and I’ll grant that perhaps we should have some limited censorship on broadcast television in the public interest. Otherwise it’s just another instance of Puritanical values insinuating their way into our legal system, and the FCC can go fuck itself.
that’s nice:)
What? No-one’s head exploded?
That may cause the universe to implode, finishing the job begun by the big particle accelerator at CERN.
Not once, but twice! Hooray!
I watched this twice; the second time with Whitney Houston’s rendition of “Greatest Love of All” playing in the back of my mind.
Our future is so bright, so bright indeed!!
Geez, didn’t a producer read the text messages before the show? The poor girl could have had a heads up to not say it out loud. I’m surprised she even knows the word.
@6, really? You’re surprised a 13-year-old girl knows “cunt”?
she probably doesnt even know its a “bad” word. its not used much on tv to get bleeped or anything. i honestly didnt know it was that bad of a word till late highschool, cuz before i’d only heard it from Trainspotting and The Vagina Monologues…maybe people back home just dont use it much?
Dan,
Somebody beat me to the punch but Jane Fonda once uttered the word while being interviewed by Viera. Viera’s been “bitten” twice by that word on her show. Ouch!
I saw this yesterday, and actually thought it was kind of sweet. The kid obviously had no idea that she’d said anything bad, and Meredith handled it perfectly.
George Carlin would be proud!
@10, yeah, it was really sweet when she fingered her friend so her boyfriend would know who to kick the shit out of, leaving her in a coma with brain damage. She’s a sugarplum, all right.
Classic – a totally underused word that now makes for great shock value. Seems to me that “cunt” was bandied about much more regularly decades ago….. Apparently its a much bigger deal now. Who’d a thunk it?
@5 *clapping hands* Sexual Chocolate everybody, Sexual Chocolate!
I had a similar experience when I used the word bastard in front of my mother knowing nothing about its meaning after hearing it on the playground.
I listened 3 times, and I could NOT hear “cunt” enunciated clearly enough to identify it–I don’t know WHAT word she used.
This kind of stuff confirms for me that adults exaggerate the severity of curse words.
I like using “cunt” during sex. Not all the time, but I do like it. Unlike “pussy” it’s raw and primal. And it’s been interesting how women I’ve been with have reacted to it. Some have liked it (and have also used it) but most have not. Those who have not liked it can’t seem to separate its use as an insult from its sexual use. Those who have liked it can.
She’s a psychopath who nearly got her “friend” killed and you give a crap she’s swearing on TV? And oh, how cute she is? Really? Really?
Yucca flower nailed it. Who cares what she did, she’s cool because of what she said on a tv show. Wow.
Dan, love the title, but it’s CHARISMA, uniqueness, nerve, & talent! Unless you were going for a deliberate misquote for some reason.
@12, 19, 20: The girl deserved a beatdown. Not as bad as she got, but how was her friend supposed to know how far her boyfriend was going to go? Anyone who texts a dude who recently discovered his brother’s hanging corpse and tells him to “just go visit your dead brother” deserves to get the shit kicked out of them.
Wait, we can’t say “cunt” on TV? But “fag” and “bitch” and “spic” and “nigger” and “kike” are okay (I’ve heard them all on broadcast TV, all as parts of news stories, though there could potentially have been fines levied as a result; I was impressed that the stations had the balls to do accurate reporting)? When did this happen?
Of course, I’ve never understood censorship in the context of news-reporting. If the text message says “cunt” and you’re reporting on the contents of the message, then report that they said “cunt”. If it offends people, good; it is offensive, and the way you report and convey that offense is by being accurate and not euphemistic. Of course, I don’t really think people have a right to live in self-imposed ignorance about the ugly parts of the world, so I don’t really support any kind of censorship. Show me the scientific study that causally links childhood exposure to swearing and antisocial behavior later in life (CAUSALLY linked, not correlated) and I’ll grant that perhaps we should have some limited censorship on broadcast television in the public interest. Otherwise it’s just another instance of Puritanical values insinuating their way into our legal system, and the FCC can go fuck itself.