What the f***!

muncybob
muncybob Posts: 3,227
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There have been a number of decent movies and series in the last few years that have kept us entertained. But what has been a real turnoff for me is the continual use of f-bombs that fly around unnecessarily. I get that they are needed here and there to perhaps emphasize a point but many times they are used in places where it becomes so redundant that the use of them doesn't add anything at all.

Anybody else feel the same or is it just me?
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  • billbillw
    billbillw Posts: 7,445
    Unfortunately, I think that is the way many people talk in real life these days. The shows just portray that. I agree that it is excessive and I don't really care for it either.
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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,499
    I don’t watch much TV but I did get into
    The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. It was funny at first, but The excessive f-bombs got annoying

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  • daddyjt
    daddyjt Posts: 3,028
    I find the obligatory sex scene much more annoying. Especially when it’s HBO, Prime, or another pay service, where they feel obliged to really push the limits.
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 29,384
    You do not, under any circumstances, want to watch "the departed"
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  • tratliff
    tratliff Posts: 1,762
    Go watch Deadwood and let us know what you think. Keep in mind it’s 20 years old.
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  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 17,979
    Monsters-Ed Gein.
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  • Emlyn
    Emlyn Posts: 4,619
    An alternative approach...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv8tVxk6Nj4
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 26,922
    Johnny Dangerous?
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  • BlueBirdMusic
    BlueBirdMusic Posts: 2,736
    BritBox and the old series are great.
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  • kevhed72
    kevhed72 Posts: 5,125
    All this has, over the years, replaced real quality writing and film making to a large extent. Not a a morals commentary but a fact. Since my kids have grown up I find myself dropping the F bomb more in the house, but they all know that is unacceptable outside the house. One more coffee talk note - how many F bombs are dropped in the greatest movies of all time?
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  • skipshot12
    skipshot12 Posts: 1,772
    In @ 23
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  • agingboomer
    agingboomer Posts: 255
    In contemporary social interactions, F-bombs have lost most of their shock value and are now little more than F-squibs.
    The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.—Martin Luther King Jr.
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  • audioluvr
    audioluvr Posts: 5,865
    I mean if the President of the United States can drop F-Bombs on national television it should be acceptable for children in elementary school right?
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  • daddyjt
    daddyjt Posts: 3,028
    audioluvr wrote: »
    I mean if the President of the United States can drop F-Bombs on national television it should be acceptable for children in elementary school right?

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  • audioluvr
    audioluvr Posts: 5,865
    daddyjt wrote: »
    audioluvr wrote: »
    I mean if the President of the United States can drop F-Bombs on national television it should be acceptable for children in elementary school right?

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    Were you not aware?
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,967
    I dunno, in NJ, profanity is a first language.

    I think y'all need to stop clutching pearls and go touch some grass in the sun.
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  • daddyjt
    daddyjt Posts: 3,028
    Jstas wrote: »
    I dunno, in NJ, profanity is a first language.

    I think y'all need to stop clutching pearls and go touch some grass in the sun.

    I mowed the lawn (for the last time this year) today. It was sunny. Does that count?
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  • gmcman
    gmcman Posts: 1,839
    pitdogg2 wrote: »
    Johnny Dangerous?

    No sir.....


    Dangerously

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  • muncybob
    muncybob Posts: 3,227
    There are a few things about the English language that that just gets under my skin. Over use of profanity kind of defeats the purpose of using it. An f-bomb was once used as an exclamation mark to the message....now it's just another word in the sentence.

    Another under the skin situation is just how lazy many people are when speaking. At one time you might say the car needs to be washed but now it's the car needs washed.

    I'm just a cranky old man I guess, now excuse me while I get the the f***ing kids of my grass!
    Yep, my name really is Bob.
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  • Jimbo18
    Jimbo18 Posts: 2,347
    I agree about too many f-bombs when another adjective or adverb would work better.

    But there's a scene in an episode of The Wire where McNulty and Bunk investigate a murder scene in a kitchen and almost the only thing they say are versions of F. It worked amazingly well and it's available to stream on YT.
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  • invalid
    invalid Posts: 1,441
    It's a very versatile word, can mean many different things, some of them being totally opposites and everything in-between.
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 26,922
    edited October 30
    Well, you can go swive yourself just doesn't roll off the tongue as silky......
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  • muncybob
    muncybob Posts: 3,227
    I've heard some Irish folk use both the standard f-bomb and also feck. I kinda like go feck yourself.
    Going out for a few beers and some wings tonight, I'll have to give it a go.
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  • billbillw
    billbillw Posts: 7,445
    edited October 30
    You can always go full on BSG and just tell people you don't give a frack.
    (that's Battlestar Galactica for those who don't embrace scifi)
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  • Tony M
    Tony M Posts: 11,566
    edited October 30
    muncybob wrote: »
    I've heard some Irish folk use both the standard f-bomb and also feck. I kinda like go feck yourself.
    Going out for a few beers and some wings tonight, I'll have to give it a go.

    Reading "feck" makes me think of MMA's Irish Conor McGregor speaking. ;)
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  • Viking64
    Viking64 Posts: 7,504
    Tony M wrote: »
    Reading "feck" makes me think of MMA's Irish Conor McGregor speaking. ;)

    It makes me think of Father Jack Hackett on the TV show "Father Ted". :p

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzjKeRyNJro&t=4s
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  • daddyjt
    daddyjt Posts: 3,028
    Tony M wrote: »
    muncybob wrote: »
    I've heard some Irish folk use both the standard f-bomb and also feck. I kinda like go feck yourself.
    Going out for a few beers and some wings tonight, I'll have to give it a go.

    Reading "feck" makes me think of MMA's Irish Conor McGregor speaking. ;)

    Makes me think of this scene in Almost Famous…

    https://youtu.be/QCrg78KEWzI?si=hlQi8vct0Jk2vojZ
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 34,908
    As George Carlin said (vigorously abstracted): they're just words.
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