Hate speech on the public airwaves?  No problem. That’s free speech!  But use the F word while spewing hate?  Oh my!

This was on my tv this morning and I was in the room dicking about on the internet as usual and I totally missed it! I guess I’m just totally acclimated to the cussing, which does not surprise me.

(I like profanity. It makes me happy to be alive. People get confused when I tell them this, but it allows them not to be so offended when I use it so loosely.)

The thing is, you have to know how to use it.  I’ve heard people “fucking” this and “fucking” that and I’ve just wanted to tell them to shut the fuck up, you know?  Just stop cheapening the word with your piss-poor usage and delivery.

I would just like to say I fucking love you.

Fuck yeah!

Also, did you keep listening to the rest of the clip?  Especially the part where the woman interrupts to make it clear that Joe -meant- to say the letter, and they apologize if viewers heard it differently?

Good to know that it wasn’t actually Scarborough saying ‘fuck’ on tv, just my ears fucking up and hearing him wrong.

Fucking is the universal language? why yes, yes it is.

COPY EDITOR MODE: ENGAGED (skip if you don’t care, ‘cuz I don’t care you don’t care)

re: “<i>...ridiculous past time pearl-clutching over the word…”

BZZTT:  http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pastime

: something that amuses and serves to make time pass agreeably : diversion

Who the fuck cares?

New Rule:
People who are involved in iffy, quickly-swept-under-the-carpet masquerades posing as investigations into the bizarre death of young women in their offices don’t get to complain about swear words.

Drunk guy in a bar once introduced me to my all-time favorite phrase for whoever ails you:

“Fuck’em!  Fuck the fuckin’ fuckers!” 

I can’t remember the context, but I think it was the most beautiful thing I’ve ever heard.

I would just like to point out that the “fuck fuck fuck” scene of The Wire, first season, episode four, is a thing of absolute fucking beauty.

And Scarebrow can go fucking Cheney himself.

I would also like to jump on the “I fucking love cursing” train.  I work in a fairly laid back office and sometimes forget that “fuck” is a no-no word.

Look, DEMONcraps, you need to have a little compassion, ok?  The poor man is probably still stressed out over murdering his secretary, which is enough to make anyone forget themselves with regards to filthy talk.

So is Scarborough’s beef that Emanuel encroached on Vice-Presidential privilege or what?

I wouldn’t fuck Scarborough, not even with Mary Cheney’s strap-on.

My mother once bragged that I could “use fuck as an adverb”.

I’m sure that fuckingly went over well.

I am deeply offended.

Personally, I like the take of one of the commenters on the video:

Whoopee, he said the F word. Clutch those pearls, mothers, it’s time to get indignant!

Seriously, people expect us to get all up in arms over this while outright hate speech is defended?

No thanks, I’d like to stay consistent. I’d be a hypocrite if I got offended over this while simultaneously swearing like a sailor in my videos.

Random fuck examples, brought on (no doubt) by lack of sleep:

TurboDillo and I have been known to sing “fuckity fuck fuck fuckity fuck fuck” to the tune of “Frosty the Snowman”.

Some people at the place I teach have blamed our problems on the fact that some faculty members know how to use the word fuck, and have occasionally dropped it in class.  Said people have obviously never fucking listened in on student conversations.  We faculty may be somewhat more creative in saying “fuck”, but that’s an issue of quality rather than quantity.

I think it was junior/senior year of high school when I found this helpful piece of paper with English/Spanish profanity.  Once I knew ‘chinga’ meant ‘fuck’, I understood half of all the Spanish conversations in my tiny all-girls Catholic school.  It was a thing of fucking beauty.

Oh, fuck. Do I have to start “identifying” with Joe Scarborough now?

*Jumping off a bridge somewhere in Wisconsin*

The bridges in Wisconsin are generally not all that high - you’re just going to break your fucking ankle.

Once I knew ‘chinga’ meant ‘fuck’, I understood half of all the Spanish conversations

Chiefly in Mexico and Central America. In Spain, the word is “joder,” which makes Inigo Montoya’s opening “Ho, there!” in “The Princess Bride” such deliciously naughty lulz.

It’s one thing to use it in private conversation (as Rahm Emmanuel would likely do when twisting arms and nipples)…what’s Scarborough’s fucking excuse???

GODDAMN!!!

Fucking fuckingest fuck fucker, I mean Joe Scarborough, is worthless. Like you, Amanda, I sprinkle my sentences with the word fuck w/o even realizing it. My brother-in-law is “guilty” of this also. You should see how quickly my sister can cover her kids ears when we’re talking.

Standards for obscene words - words that, if you say them, you get in trouble for - change over time.

In the somewhat more distant past, many obscenities were religious references that were considered blasphemous. For example, characters in Shakespeare’s plays would say “Zounds!”, a euphemism for of “God’s wounds”, which was an obscene reference to the injuries Jesus suffered while being crucified. Similarly, if characters in the show Deadwood used the kinds of profanity that people actually used back then, they’d end up sounding like Yosemite Sam, as the profanity of that era has lost all power to shock.

In the more recent past, were usually sexual or scatological references. For example, “fuck” and “shit”. However, as courts have ruled, in an era in which the Vice President makes a nasty comment to a Senator in public that contains the word “fuck”, it is no longer obscene.

Today’s obscene words are racial slurs. Currently, the most obscene word in the English language is not “fuck”. It is “nigger”. If you say “fuck”, nobody cares very much. If you say “nigger”, you get in trouble. Only stand-up comedians can say “nigger” and get away with it, and then only some of the time.

This is fuckin’ awesome. Amanda, you fuckin’ rock! Wow, what a worthless douchenozzle.

Fuckin’ A!!!!!!!!!