ToddlerMaeve™ has added Oswald the Octopus to her tv viewing palette. I sure as hell don’t get the interest, it makes the Wiggles seem like engaging viewing, but that’s a different thread.
So I’m checking out the Nick Jr website, because you can print out coloring pages of the characters…cool 'nuff.
Then I notice they have an Oswald message board. I was hoping they had an Oswald version of the Pit (That damn Weenie is such a ho dog I tell ya) but no such luck.
Well, I was taught the same way as that dimwit’s post. However, I don’t allow my kids to say “Oh my God” and they are to substitute it w/gosh or “Oh man” or something else.
Well, Jimminy Christmas, much as she’s overreacting she may well have a point.
A bad one, but a point nonetheless. I’m sure somebody will be along shortly with the derivation, but I’d be shocked if it wasn’t actually shorthand for blasphemy.
The degree to which this is something to get upset about, of course, I leave as an exercise for the reader.
beagle: Years ago, I had a friend who was a bit of a fundamentalist. He was also teaching himself Spanish (from magazines, newspapers, comic books, etc.). Well, one of his favorite comics was Peanuts. The Spanish translation that comic used for “Good grief!” was “Dios mios.” Poor guy was stunned when I told him what it meant.
Well, YEAH, gosh is probably a euphemism for God. In that parents heard their kids saying “OmiGOD!” and smacked 'em, so they said “OmiGOSH!” instead.
It’s meant to be a mild expletive, a substitute for a word people find bad. What would she prefer?
“Oh, sugar!”
"Dear Nick Jr:
I am deeply saddened and appalled by the use of a certain expletive on one of your children’s television programs. I am, of course referring to the use of the word “sugar”. Not only is this word a reference to a word I will not even dignify by repeating it here, a word I believe is a reference to excrement, it highlights a dreadful substance that rots the teeth and MORALITY of today’s youth.
If such profanity on what I believed was a family television show continues, I will be forced to find some other station to watch. I am running out of options, however, as everyone knows that Disney has subliminal messages encouraging licentious, unGODly behavior in its viewers, and PBS’s “commercial-free television” is unabashedly liberal and, as they so happily advertise, free of commercials – thereby cheapening free trade and capitalism, both of which are the cornerstones of this fine Christian country.
This is my third time trying to reply to this and if it doesn’t go through I am going to go nuts!!!
In my opinion~
I have looked at the provided links and I am just dumbfounded that people would truly take offense to this. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion but come on.
First off~ This parent has way too much fucking time on her hands and should be worrying about much worse things her child will be exposed to in the next 5 years. Get a life lady!!!
I was born and raised LDS(mormon for those who don’t know what LDS is) and have been around these over protective mothers and the kids until I was 16. I think it is disgusting to think that by keeping your kid from the real world they will grow up better than other children. And that goes for all bible thumping anal retentive psycho parents. NOT JUST MORMONS!!!
In all reality~this ladies kid will have heard all the cuss words there are in the next five years if they like it or not. Not to mention all the violence and sex to understand what those things really are. If you take offense to such things than teach your child that these things are wrong. That’s it. Ultimately the child will decide what they feel is right from wrong. And by shielding your kid from such exposure, eventually they will see it and it will be too much for them or in a more likely state be intrigued by such things. I’m sure everyone knows somebody who had over protective parents and when they got their freedom and went off to college or moved away got way out of control.
I’m not saying that it’s wrong to censor what your young child is watching but when the phrase “oh my gosh” is under attack you have gone too far.
Further~I don’t believe there is one person out there who has NEVER cussed before. And if there is by some way there is such a person there would have to be numerous times the person has used phrases such as “what the heck” and “oh my gosh”.
I think the parent should be more worried about explaining the horrors of death/murder/rape/theft/racism/persecution than cuss words. I mean when was the last time you saw “god” smite someone for saying fuck?
To sum it all up~ Stop being the “Frown Town Good Time Police” and fucking relax!!! You’re kid will only be “innocent” for so long and decided what they find to be acceptable.
You think that’s something? I swear I’m not making this up:
I overhear one co-worker (two spots down) talking to my next-door neighbor. She’s talking about having been to “some meeting” (the nature of which I do not recall) which pretty much said that “Oh, gosh!” is just as bad as saying “Oh, God!” She went on to say that some other euphemisms (which she enumerated) fit the same bill (like Jeez!).
But the one that really had me scratching my head was “hectic.” She said that that came from “heck,” which is a euphemism for “hell,” of course. Saying that your day is “hectic” was like saying your day is “like hell.” When I heard this (I overheard all this and was not a part of the conversation), I picked up my trusty Merriam-Webster (didn’t think I’d need the OED for that) and quickly confirmed that she was full of horse hockey.
Never said a word. It’s like trying to teach a pig to sing: It’s a waste of your time, and it bothers the pig.
<Checks forum - hey!> I think this is a fucking stupid issue, and anyone with a problem is a goddamned idiot. Nothing Bugs Bunny ever said was ever a problem; we’ve got enough real ones to last forever without inventing more. :rolleyes:
Nothing Bugs Bunny ever said was ever a problem; we’ve got enough real ones to last forever without inventing more. :rolleyes: