Great Swears Of Our Time #1
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Swearing is cool.
You’re either with me or against me on this.
There are some people who believe that swearing is a sign of a poor vocabulary. I’ll quite happily challenge any of those fuckchunks to a spelling bee, any time.
There are others who seem to believe that there’s something intrinsically wrong about certain words, and get really offended when they are used. These people are cunts.
Graham Linehan, writer of some fine, fine British sitcoms, has this to say: “I’m not against swearing! I just hate it when it’s pointless and cheap or used to make a weak joke ‘funnier’.”
(Linehan who’s responsible for introducing and popularising “feck”, an Irish swear previously virtually unheard in the UK.)
Ever since he blogged the above words, commenting on a mild creative disagreement he has with Charlie Brooker, Linehan has been apologising whenever a new episode of The IT Crowd contains a “fuck”. Like last Friday’s episode.
But what a fuck. What an amazing fuck.
The situation in the clip below is so ludicrously clichéd, the cluster of religious leaders introduced apropos of nothing, at first I thought Linehan had just phoned in the script.
But the fuck, the fuck is what confounded the expectations and had me weeing myself. This scene does not work without the fuck.
It’s immediately gone into my top ten fucks.
Here it is:
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