I noticed Storyteller would say"p***ed off" in a few episodes. Is this phrase generally
not offensive in America? I was quite surprised because I would have thought this show would have been aired early evening or perhaps weekend afternoons.
7:30pm timeslot for Australians.
I...drink...your...MILKSHAKE!
I DRINK IT UP!!!
It's a fairly tame term. Maybe a less offensive term than d@mn or he11. (I'm assuming you mean Stottlemeyer.)
Thanks for the reply. Yes, that must have been auto-spelling that changed his name when I typed it using my word processing programme.
How about religious profanity like J**sus or G*d. Was that used in Monk?
I am conscious these days to avoid as much as I can shows that use this type of language.
It is shocking that Pixar movies use this type of language. By removing this language, it would not take anything away from the film/show, and it would not alienate many people.
Religious profanity has been used. Not as much as in many shows.
shareEnglish speakers have been saying Jesus and God regularly for decades. It's no longer considered taboo. Kind of like it's now okay to say 'jazz' despite it apparently originating from the word 'jizz'.
I've heard Monk say 'God' a few times on the show, and it never felt out of place. He's not a religious person, so it doesn't really mean anything.
Actually, to Christians/Catholics, saying Jesus or God as a replacement for swearing, or just thoughtlessly is considered either using the Lords name in vain, or maybe blasphemous, so to some people it's not swearing, but to others it is.
Other characters have said God/Jesus in that way, aside from Monk.
Randy said "Jesus" in Old Man, Sharona said it in the Sharona episode, and they all said OMG in the Ballgame episode, in turn...
As I said, it bothers some people, some people don't care. I think Monk is probably one of the tamest shows on television, language/content wise.
I don't like profanity especially religious profanity I wish they could just use different words I mean people make a big deal about preferred pronouns and triggered by Merry Christmas and stuff like the word Retarded but I get To hear words that are more offensive to me in almost every new show and pretty much told it's not a big deal get over it that's why I watch older Television when they didn't want to offend Christian and Catholic viewers many SJW people would complain if a show was offensive to Muslims and Jewish people and I hope The Christian Faith is still the Dominate one in America because it's not bad to be a true Christian.
shareIt's funny. In the UK, I don't think religious profanity is seen as that bad a thing. Obviously, some people are religious here, and might not take well to that sort of language. But, at the same time, I don't think that's as widely held in society as it is in the US. I know in America saying; "hell" is considered quite a bad word, but in the UK I don't think many people would care if you said that.
Saying the word; "pissed" in the UK is probably harsher than taking the Lord's name in vain these days. Or at least would be to the majority.
Really I thought the UK was up there for language much like here in Australia, like now F-ck can be said from 8pm onwards on Free To Air TV (think US NBC, CBS etc., UK Channel 5, ITV etc.,) and even C-nt gets in from 8:30pm onward. Pissed or pissed-off is said as early as 6pm like on Neighbours and etc., have a feeling conniptions would be had in the US if they heard Alf Stewart in Home And Away at 7pm there. Do they edit pissed or pissed-off out on Channel 5 in the UK with Neighbours on at 5:30pm and Home And Away at 6pm, because it is said at times even crap is.
Don't get me wrong. I don't think saying "pissed off" is the harshest thing you can say over here. It's not F-Word bad, or ever S-Word bad.
But it's probably harsher than the religious ones, as a general rule. Like I said, it is probably dependent on a person's religious beliefs. I'm sure there are people who are offended by blasphemous swearing. But I'm talking about what more generally.
Ah okay, yeah the blasphemous ones don't have much impact here at all, pissed and shit are in the same field as that very low on the scale and then the rest come in C-nt depends on how it's used and can cause a ruckus.
https://tvtonight.com.au/2019/02/actually-yes-you-can-use-the-c-word-on-tv.html
Context is everything in such situations. Media watchdog the Australian Communications and Media Authority does not have a list of naughty words that can or cannot be used. It all comes back to the situation, how it was used and the number of times. Last year ABC was given the all clear over its use on Tonightly with Tom Ballard because Greg Larsen used it with humour.
https://tvtonight.com.au/2018/08/tonightly-cleared-over-c-word-insult.html
The ACMA has found no breach by the ABC, noting the comedic context rather than being used for attack, including Larsen breaking ‘character’ because Bailey had refused to be interviewed.
It's the same here in the US. Some, like the OP and another poster, are religious and find it offensive. It surprised me to read this thread, because I never thought a thing of it; it didn't even register with me and no one I know has ever complained about "bad language" in Monk.
Hell isn't considered a particularly bad word here. It's on a par with damn. Mild swearing.
Doesn't pissed mean drunk in the UK?
Yeah similar to here in Australia, it can be drunk as in I'm going out tonight to get pissed/drunk or man I was so pissed/drunk last night can't remember getting home.
Can also mean annoyed. Say at the cinema you could say: Those people chatting on their phones are making me really pissed/annoyed or they're pissing me off/annoying me. Even man I was so pissed at those people on their phones last night I was ready to grab the phones and smash them.
That's what I thought. I didn't know, though, it can also mean the same as in the US: angry, very annoyed.
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