Poll started by: John Beyer of mediawatch-uk
Deadline: 20 May 2009
If there's one thing that John Beyer doesn't like, it's unnecessary language. But having said that, the title of his petition does look rather verbose. Let's see if we can improve on that.
BEFORE: ... make urgent representation to the Broadcasting regulator, Ofcom, the broadcasting institutions operating in the UK and film regulators, asking them to stop the use of unnecessary swearing and bad language in their productions (including those available for downloading from websites) and to urge providers of user-generated content to take similar action. (52 words)
AFTER: ... ban unnecessary profanity from films, TV and websites. (8 words)
There, that's better. Now all we need to do is find some way of distinguishing between necessary profanity and unnecessary profanity. In the meantime, here's a handy flowchart for concerned viewers who yearn for the good old days when the only thing on TV after 9 pm was the test card:
Notable signatories
- Cllr Frederick Thompson, London Borough of Havering
- FUCKSHIT CUNTFACE
Interesting - there are now *two* blogs commenting on the lunacy of the British government's ePetition site.
ReplyDeleteThe other one can be found at http://butsir.ghosthamster.com/ if you haven't seen it already. Might be an idea to pool your resources :)
D'oh!! Have they been hiding from the search engines? What sort of radar did you use to find their site? All I managed to dig out was umm-no10.blogspot.com, which hasn't exactly been a hive of activity lately.
ReplyDeleteI'll add them to the blogroll.
A co-worker gave me the link to the site. Don't know where he found it.
ReplyDeleteI think they say "make urgent representation to" when they know it's outside the PM's remit but they want him to do it anyway. Why he eschewed "tell" is another question.
ReplyDelete(I think I've got into their mindset by now -- I'm one half of But Sir". Hello!)
Wait, so it's safe to watch television at any time other than at n:00?
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