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I'm interested in peoples thoughts on Chris' use of the word in his show. It doesn't bother me, but I do wonder if it bothers parents. If I wasn't a measly student and was a parent doing the school run with Chris' show on, I'm not sure how comfortable I would be with my kid hearing crap on the radio and possibly picking it up.

As I said, I don't care. Just thought I would bring it up for kicks.

[SAV1OUR]

"They need me to come and kick the station up the arse, that's what they hired me to do. What do I bring to the station? Me and my little world, everything that goes with it including big breasted women, crap competitions, the word crap - been missing for far too long.."

Moyles on Radio One, Deluxe Magazine Interview - May 1998

That's pretty much it as far as I understand, he just brings some of the real world to his shows, crap isn't even a word I'm bothered about, theres far worse. If the wee kiddies have a look on their faces of "What do you mean father christmas doesn't exist?" then that's life, it's like those awful parents who won't stop rabbiting in their kids ears when they accompany them on a scary theme park ride. Wrapping them up in cotton wool springs to mind.

[MrAndee]

i think some of the words in the songs R1 play are farr worse

how 'the lazy song' gets no editing is beyond me...

[Travis Bickle]

how 'the lazy song' gets no editing is beyond me...

Couldnt agree more.

[swaddon1903]

For years, Radio 1 played a song by Usher with the line "all the shit she put me through", and nobody ever complained.

[dreamer1978]

Yeah there is loads of songs with worst words that crap. I think at one point they played on Radio 1 One Republics song "Good Life" it has the word bullshit in it. It got through the censor police.

[foot-loose]

Some people get massively worked up over words. While there is a line, people need to watch they aint too sensitive as well.

lol

[a-moron]

lol

Rofl

[bmstinton93]

Lmfao

[a-moron]

Lmfao

Ouchy, IMHO best get a sticky substance on there and get it reattached.
GSOH?





I'm running low on abbreviations TBH




False alarm, still got it. DFS

[Johnny 1989]

For years, Radio 1 played a song by Usher with the line "all the shit she put me through", and nobody ever complained.

I remember that, Chris made a point of highlighting it on one show by declaring he was going to censor the word so he played back the part of the song & always pressed the bleep before or after the word, I think at one point he even remarked that he was surprised they hadn't censored it yet.

To be honest crap doesn't bother me, however kids speaking in that "street lingo" threatening to "pop a cap in yo ass" annoys me more than anything because it sounds so bloody moronic. Sadly now when I call certain firms (whether it be suppliers or customers we're installing for) there have been instances where the person the other end has spoken like that, it's bad enough when it's the "office junior" but when it's a manager (like for a particular London Borough local office) it's shocking in some respects. I have a fairly strong London accent, however I do tone it down when I speak to people I don't know over the phone.

I know language evolves but when manners disappear it's highly annoying & rude.

[Johnny 1989]

Lmfao

Ouchy, IMHO best get a sticky substance on there and get it reattached.
GSOH?





I'm running low on abbreviations TBH




False alarm, still got it. DFS

WWTBAM, OFAH, HIMYM, TBBT, DW, RD, HIGNFY, TTIAO, BTVS, SJA

See if you can guess that lot (I have seen all these used as abbreviations on the internet over the years)

[Nicola_Red]

Enough with the abbreviations or I'll be issuing you all with stern warnings

As for the word crap, it is interesting how it's worked its way down from being quite a controversial swear word to barely qualifying as swearing at all. Do kids still get in trouble for saying it? Do we have any parents who can comment (Tim. Yuds)?

[dimtimjim]

Crap is an acceptable Junior expletive in our 'ousehold..... And, if I deemed the situation suitable, i'd let 'shit' slide too..... Thats about the limit though. I accept they hear, and probably use worse than that, but as long as they are learning time/place acceptability.

[bmstinton93]

Enough with the abbreviations or I'll be issuing you all with stern warnings

I better get using a few more then...

[Yudster]

I have never had any problem in giving my kids an understanding that some words that you hear aren't words that you should use. As such, I don't censor and my kids didn't swear. I'm not sure why simply hearing certain things should automatically mean that children will say them. I think its my job as a parent to teach that, why would I leave it to the media?

Of course the downside to this is that I have a seven year old who tells me off for swearing...

[bmstinton93]

I was never too censored as a child and yes i swear but never around my family and only really when its right to

[MK Chris]

Even now when I'm 27, I think the worst word I've ever heard my mum use is 'crap' - unless she was quoting something (and that was only once, where it was required). But I think that's just the way she is, she just doesn't swear - my dad on the other hand, has a mouth like a sewer, but I don't swear in front of either of them still - it just feels a bit disrespectful.

[dimtimjim]

it just feels a bit disrespectful.

Dunnit....

[novalinnhe]

I'm interested in peoples thoughts on Chris' use of the word in his show. It doesn't bother me, but I do wonder if it bothers parents. If I wasn't a measly student and was a parent doing the school run with Chris' show on, I'm not sure how comfortable I would be with my kid hearing crap on the radio and possibly picking it up.

As I said, I don't care. Just thought I would bring it up for kicks.

Mmm, no, it annoys me. I'm aware that I've started swearing more now that I've switched colleges, but I'm trying to train myself back out of it again. Partly because my holiday jobs are always around children, and partly because I just think there are other ways to express your fustration other than using a curse word. It's hilarious that it's my little brother that actually imparted that bit of advice to me... xD

And someone brought the Bruno Mars song up - they do often let weird things through the filter. Katy Perry's 'Hot 'n' Cold' got put on the A-List and she says bitch at least once during the song. Maybe the "censoring" is often weighed out with how much money it would cost to actually censor it?

[MrAndee]

there was that other Katy Perry song.. where a rampant Kanye states the beauty of Alien Sex, with disrobing and probing et al..

[a-moron]

The thing with songs is you really have to be paying attention to catch the full lyrical content. Sure we could sit down and disect every little detail, what permutations we could derive from them and wonder if children are going to be affected by it but thats bollocks. To them it's more catchy tune, catchy chorus, sing some made up words that sound a bit like the actual lyrics and finish.

[Boboff]

The one Lilly Allen sings about her bloke coming really quickly, even after shes blown him off for ages really takes the bisucuit, as for that noah and the whale song about a bird who always a gobblin' LIFEGOESON, I tell you Radio one are one bunch of Phalatio endorcing pervy wervy's

[MrAndee]

I agree with you but my examples feature sentences that are Prominent.

Bruno Mars and his really nice sex line will always catch your attention, and although I'm not one for stringent censoring I also don't think its appropriate for songs like that to be played on a morning show.

to the original point though, no I dont think 'Crap' is a word to be worried about. hear it on telly all the time.

[a-moron]

My son thinks he's having really nice eggs, he also thought the socks were on fire. Kids hear what they want to hear and if they have no knowledge of their meanings it ain't going to harm them. If they do know of their meanings, they'll just snigger.