Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Ramsay's in your face again!


Gordon Ramsay, the television cook, was on the screen once more a few days ago, and was obnoxious as ever. He seems to have a language block that refuses to allow him to put too many comments between the swearing, using the 'f' word, according to Media reports, no fewer than 132 times during the programme. He was not alone in this, for the additional foul language from others on the show raised the total to in excess of 235 times according to reports.
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Of course, Channel 4, who put this poor example of an 'educated' member of society on our screens, insist that it's all harmless, even trying to convince us that it's acceptable because they screen it after the 9 pm watershed. Of course, we've learned to expect nothing less than this type of rhetoric from those in the high places of this particular TV station. However, no matter how much they protest their innocence, they are to be judged for their foolhardiness and their blatant disregard for the senses of the viewer.
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If he is incapable of stringing his sentences together without profanity and the blasphemous outbursts as he breaks the commandment regarding the use of the Lord's name, then it's best that he is assigned to where his language is best suited --- in the sewers and gutters in the bowels of the earth.
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So why does it matter? After all, it is argued that you are not compelled to watch the programme and that you do have an on/off button. So do the TV chiefs think that it makes this sort of thing acceptable then. Perhaps they use exactly the same language in their homes to their partners and children as they lap up the trash that they expect others to watch.
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The real answer to all of this is, of course, that simply because something is done repeatedly it doesn't make it any more right or any more acceptable. Isn't it time that all decent people complained sufficiently to excise this type cancer from the body of society?

1 comment:

  1. AMEN!!!! I cannot tolerate the way that man speaks!! It is so unnecessary to use such words when there are so many more choices available.

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