What the Fu**????

Would it bother you, as a parent, to know you were spending big tuition bucks for you child to earn credit for watching American Idol?

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Pug

 

I just received a private email from someone that was offended by my use of "Fu**" in the thread heading. I thought that by using asterisks it would convey my shock without actually using an off-color word. Not sure if the individual that emailed me was just being hypersensative or whether I was being insensative. Either way, I apologize. It was certainly not in keeping with Christian character.

Pug

 

I think that show is horrible anyway, and I have heard about the school that has a class in it. I won't go into why I think it's part of why other cultures can't stand America....

My first alma matter (Longwood U) has a class that's centered around Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin. Although being a guitarist I loved the class, I can see why people would think it's a waste of money.

 

There are many reasons to not like America, but that is not one of them.

To my eternal shame, American Idol is a British invention.

However, if you could manage to keep Simon Cowell over on your side of the pond for ever more, all your sins (including turning against cricket and turning rugby into your version of football) will be forgiven!

Angela

 

If you think American reality television shows are bad.... watch the English ones. Or the Japanese ones. Or the Mexican ones. You'll decide that our shows are amazingly tasteful and restrained!

Like them or not, anything that is so massively popular deserves to be studied critically. There's probably a lot of interesting social psychology involved.

 

You've been watching "I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here" and "Big Brother" and that truly awful Japanese show (er, Endurance, is it? It crops up here on late night cable every so often). We can tell ;-)

There's also a good bit of economics as well. Compared to making a prime time drama, these shows are quite amazingly cheap.

Angela

 

My favorite British show that never made it to the USA is Countdown
http://www.ukgameshows.com/index.php/Countdown

My favorite British show that did make it to the USA is Coupling (the UK version – the US version bombed)

 

I think celebs and athletes who wear FCUK clothing are showing poor judgement and bad taste.

 

What the Fu**! 0). For $2 million dollars, would any of you wear FCUK clothing for a day? I would


ray

A conservative baptist


P.S. Fu** may mean " Fudge"

 

I've never quite understood how Countdown didn't make it over to the US. It would seem absolutely made for a country that has spelling bees and local maths olympiads and all sorts of strangenesses of that type.

My husband is very fond of mentioning that Carol Voderman only got a third in maths at Cambridge. I'm equally fond of pointing out that being a TV celebrity pays even better than banking and fund management.

The UK version actually made it to air in the US? Wow! Let me guess that it didn't air quite as early in the evening as it does over here.

Angela

 

Anyone familiar with Normal Mailer's novel The Naked and the Dead knows you merely meant to say "fug."

Distance Learning trivia: Steve Taylor of the current version of The Fugs is a professor of writing at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado

 

I think they're doing wonders for my pension scheme and the UK economy as a whole, but then I don't have a job at the moment and the knowledge of my pension doing well keeps me feeling warm and happy.

Oddly enough, the non-FCUK-branded French Connection clothing is, as it always has been: understated, well-designed and really rather good.

Angela

 

Hi Pug, my friend,

Well, I wasn't offended but I was somewhat stunned when I saw your wording.

Oh well, it may not be acceptable in today's society and it is an awful, awful sounding word, but it actually was a real word at one time.

It's of Dutch (fokken) or Low German ( ficken) origin and means "to copulate" or "to penetrate." Some scholars trace it to Norwegian origin, fukka, which also means "to copulate."

There are many urban legends about the word. The most popular is that at one time intercourse was forbidden in England unless approved by the King. If approved, the couple would have sex with the acronym for Fornication Under Consent of King on their door.

 

We'll keep Simon only if you take back Robin Leach, and send David Frost over.

 

Well, the word is obviously of four letters and in context obviously stands for Fund.

 

You're more than welcome to David Frost (I'm never awake early enough to watch him crawling to politicos on a Sunday morning in any case, thanks be) but who the hell is Robin Leach?

Angela

 

So, if I'm told to take a flying Fokker I should be insulted?

 

Aaaaaarrrggghhhhh! I've looked him up!

We were responsible for Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous? And you didn't nuke us?

Actually, after all those years in Beverly Hills, he's hate it over here. We'll take him and dump somewhere that'll really appreciate him . . . back in Perivale (ugh) should do very nicely!

Angela

 

I was not offended by the swearing. However, I think it's disingenuous to hide behind the asterisks. Everybody knows what is behind the asterisks. Those who say, "Well, maybe he meant FUME, or somesuch, are either incredibly naive or think we are. I don't object to the swearing, I object to the asterisks and the pretense of civility. If you want to behave in a vulgar way, I won't object (although I fully understand that others may object). Just don't pretend to be protecting our sensitivities by writing FU**.
Jack

 

huh, My English teacher from HS said it stood for "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge", and was put on the stocks... Then again, what did she know?

I think it might be more appropriate to put WTF?? but then again i have a feeling that many of you don't know what that means either.... Oh, and this years american idol contenders are quite talanted. And I'm totally smitten with Kelly Clarkson, the first winner of American Idol.