Don't turn this thread into a discussion of 5billionof5billion please. Back to Paramount and ownership and swearing.
Does Paramount no longer own Star Trek?
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^^As long as fucking CBS fucking allows them, as I fucking understand it.
@5billionof5billion , I don't know about your home jurisdiction, but in Canada, counselling someone to kill themselves is an indictable offense, under section 241 of the Criminal Code, and is punishable by a maximum of 14 years imprisonment. Just FYI.
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Oops, sorry, I guess I should have read the next page before replying.
Um, how about... All that ****ing corporate ownership bull**** is confusing as ****!
(Sorry... I'm from the part of Canada that doesn't swear a lot!
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Oops, sorry, I guess I should have read the next page before replying.
Um, how about... All that ****ing corporate ownership bull**** is confusing as ****!
(Sorry... I'm from the part of Canada that doesn't swear a lot!
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I'm reminded of the punchline of an old joke involving a soldier returning to his barracks after a 24 hour pass, and telling his buddies (in the thickest of "Army Creole," of course) about his experiences thereon, including one young woman with whom he got really friendly, and they asked him what happened next.
"What the fuck do you think happened, you fuckin' idiots?" he replied. "We had sexual intercourse."
"What the fuck do you think happened, you fuckin' idiots?" he replied. "We had sexual intercourse."
Newfoundland?(Sorry... I'm from the part of Canada that doesn't swear a lot!
I'm thinking they actually swear a fair bit in Newfoundland!
I was just really referencing earlier posts in the thread. In reality, sure, people around here swear. I just personally don't normally do it. If I'm writing something, and I think it fits the character/situation to have that character swear, then I have no problem with adding it in. It's just something that I don't generally include in my own speech. (Occasionally, though....
)But I also don't generally get offended when others swear, either. (Although I have to admit I find it inappropriate when someone drops an f-bomb in the office.)
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We saw Tommy Turin at the Cat Laughs a couple of years ago and his use of the word cunt was most impressive.
I know. Being from the Atlantic provinces myself, it's just common to think of Newfoundland whenever anyone talks about something different from the norm. It's our in-joke. Though truth is, I typically pick on Cape Breton (my dad and several relatives are from there) but figured in this case Newfoundland probably was the more well-known of the two.I'm thinking they actually swear a fair bit in Newfoundland!
Actually, the Atlantic provinces in general are havens of profanity. But then you just need to watch Trailer Park Boys (filmed and set in Nova Scotia) for proof.
So did Deb on DEXTER.
The way I see it, a word like "fuck" is just one more crayon in the box, to be used when called for. You're not going to color everything puce, or use it in every drawing, but sometimes puce is exactly the color you need.
It's like Scotty said: the right tool for the right job.
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Maybe we should.
Just to bring this back around to Trek for a second are ENT: Kobayashi Maru and VAN: Precipeice still the only Trek books to have the word fuck in them?
EDIT: As for swearing in general, I swear like crazy when I know I'm not going to offend anyone. If I'm not sure how people feel about it I always ask first.
EDIT: As for swearing in general, I swear like crazy when I know I'm not going to offend anyone. If I'm not sure how people feel about it I always ask first.
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I remember being pleased to discover that you could apparently use the word "fuck" in a TERMINATOR novel. In retrospect, it's possible I may have gone a little overboard in that book but then again . . . post-apocalyptic freedom fighters waging war against unstoppable killing machines are likely to swear like, well, soldiers.
A related silliness: According to the closed-captioning, there was a "Fuck!" in this week's episode of WYNONNA EARP, but I rewound the scene twice and never heard it. Maybe it was in the script but didn't make it onto the air?
A related silliness: According to the closed-captioning, there was a "Fuck!" in this week's episode of WYNONNA EARP, but I rewound the scene twice and never heard it. Maybe it was in the script but didn't make it onto the air?
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For me I don't mind curse words but it is always about context and appropriateness (for want of a better word). Fuck is fine in something like Fifty Shades of Grey but when it appeared in Vanguard it seemed wrong and out of place. I know that was probably part of the intent but for me it took me out of the story.
Heck, same thing happened to me when I heard bastard and shit in the Trek movies. One way the movies always defined themselves as different to the tv shows was the required use of the word bastard.
