That’s pretty much the extent of my rant. I’m wondering if an excessive use of “the s-word” will cause these shitheads to shrivel up like a slug getting salt poured on it.
Then sponsor a car, shitstains.
Championships have been decided by fewer than 10 points. Payout differentials, in the tens of thousands of dollars, have been decided by less than 25 points. 25 points can decide who does and does not qualify for a race.
You’ve documented no less than 5 instances of “profane” behavior. Then why the hell do you still watch? You should know to avoid it, if it offends you so. Fool you once, shame on us. Fool you twice, shame on you.
It’s pathetic enough that some people only watch NASCAR for the wrecks. But to watch, waiting for someone to swear? You fucks make them look good.
What’s next? Complaining because the broadcaster says the batter has two balls?
This is worth a pitting? Some uppity group says something uppity? Did they get NASCAR taken off the air? Do they have any effect on anything at all? If not, who cares what they say?
While I agree with you that this organization is a waste of time and resources, let’s be reasonable here. You can’t lambast them for continuing to watch despite knowing that they will find objectionable material, because that’s what they do. They have a job–admittedly, a ridiculous one–to watch TV and inform the offensible public about the evils therein. And they’re doing it; you have to give them credit for that.
They’ve posted the audio, complete with the “vulgar excretory term so grossly offensive to members of the public that it amounts to a nuisance and is presumptively profane,” on their website. With at least 4 different links.
This is amusing, really it is…basically, you’ve got what amounts to a conglomerate of overpaid gearheads and ridge runners, their gearhead mechanics, their gearhead mechanic crews, and the associated gearhead hangers on gathering every sunday to get their highly powered vehicles on a track and drive them at speeds no normal person could ever achieve in a normal vehicle. Now, every single gearhead I’ve ever known in my life (including myself) has been a drinkin’ swearin’ fightin’ carousin’ and generally rowdy individual. What in the holy hell do these people think NASCAR is? A church ice cream social? I don’t like anything remotely related to NASCAR, and I think that the “in-car feed” bit just invites this kind of thing.
Just like any sport (not that I believe driving is a sport, mind you) it’s meant to be seen, not listened to. We’ve become a nation of fucking busybodies who, now that we’re able to listen, are SHOCKED at what we’re hearing. Watch the race, cheer your particular hillbilly, and leave the scanner at home.
I think I heard the incident in question. A race car had just been in a crash, and FOX tuned into the in-car communications when the crew chief, or somebody, by way of saying they were done for the day, declared the car “a piece of shit.” He didn’t say it with a FOX microphone in his face. FOX was eavesdropping on the intra-team radio. The commentators immediately apologized for the rough language.
It is the cost of having mikes and cameras everywhere that you will see and hear a thing or two not suited for a 9-year-old. If I were a crew chief who had seen his hopes for winning big bucks reduced to a heap of crumpled steel that would cost a lot of overtime to repair by next Sunday, I reckon I might say something off-color.
Well, it’s pretty cut and dried, so I’m just going to add one thing…
How long? How freaking long have there been live in-car feeds? Only now two-thousand-freaking-six, these goobers manage to get off their butts and raise a stink?
The only thing worse than a priggish busybody group is a priggish busybody group several goddam years behind the times. The flap over the Haitian gansters in Grand Theft Auto Vice City also comes to mind.
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All this raises a bigger question: Are there really, honestly, truthfully actual real people out there who A) Don’t swear and B) Are offended by hearing swear words that, in the rest of the English-speaking word, people’s grandmothers would say if they dropped hot tea on the cat?
