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Previously on "no Faggots in Fairytale of New York"
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What a load of pants - the song has been around for years...
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Ah, here it is...Originally posted by BBCBBC Radio 1 lifts ban on faggot lyrics
After due consideration of messages on the Contractor UK website, a valued organ specialising in sensible and authoritative public opinion, the BBC censor has relented and will no longer blank out the word faggot in that song by The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl.
The Director General of the BBC said: "Faggots will just have to put up with it. Whites don't object to Bing Crosby's Christmas song, and Sir Alex Ferguson seems quite happy about Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. We can't have one rule for them and another for faggots.
"There's a dog called Faggot in the film The Eiger Sanction" he added helpfully.
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Madness gone mad, but unfortunately par for the course these days.
I notice they're quite happy with "slut" though.
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I like this reply on the Newbeat have your say page:
"mark phillips
I'm a maggott and find reference to me in a song utterly offence. Can you please pay some halfwit 50k per annum to look after us fly offspring?????? I know some scumbags who aren't best pleased either!!"
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Originally posted by lilelvis2000 View PostGosh, I thought they removed faggot so they would not be construed as Manchester United supporters.
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Originally posted by expat View PostBBC Radio 1 management should object to the word "scumbag" since it is insulting to them.
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Originally posted by lilelvis2000 View PostGosh, I thought they removed faggot so they would not be construed as Manchester United supporters.
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Originally posted by syn View PostWell done BBC, you've opened up a right can of worms here.
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Gosh, I thought they removed faggot so they would not be construed as Manchester United supporters.
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Originally posted by syn View PostThe BBC have banned the word without there actually being any complaints. Isn't that just the darndest thing? Well done BBC, you've opened up a right can of worms here.
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Originally posted by Bagpuss View Post
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