Money for nuthin,banned in Canada
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Re: Stupid on the loose
Politicaly lyrics???
Well I don't mean to piss you off with things I might say
So when I try to shut my mouth, they come out anyway
So when I speak my mind, that's when we connect
Yeah, but that's not politically correct
Your head's so filled with thought, you can't use your imagination
Like a sky so filled with stars; you can't find a constellation
And everyone's so sensitive to any bad vibration
You're so impressing, while we're regressing
Cuz I don't mean to piss you off with things I might say
But when I try to shut my mouth they come out anyway
There's nothing I believe in more than my own insignificance
So why does everybody think my words can make a difference?
I just don't have time to think up every social consequence
I just keep on talking, and you keep applauding
And I don't mean to piss you off with things I might say
But when I try to shut my mouth, they come out anyway
And if you spoke your mind, you might feel more connected
Until you stand politically corrected
You lean a little to the left or the right, but
You can only see who's on your side
And look a little like a deer in the headlights
A little blind and hypnotized
So you conform with the best of intention
Change comes from inside
And after all, that's what this country was founded on
Do nothing different, just fall in line
Tell me what happened to make us so afraid, that
You couldn't make a Mel Brooks movie today? No!
I saw Blazing Saddles yesterday
I don't mean to piss you off with things I might say
But when I try to shut my mouth, they come out anyway
And I don't mean to piss you off with things I might say
And when I try to shut my mouth they come out anyway... GO!
Politicaly lyrics???
Well I don't mean to piss you off with things I might say
So when I try to shut my mouth, they come out anyway
So when I speak my mind, that's when we connect
Yeah, but that's not politically correct
Your head's so filled with thought, you can't use your imagination
Like a sky so filled with stars; you can't find a constellation
And everyone's so sensitive to any bad vibration
You're so impressing, while we're regressing
Cuz I don't mean to piss you off with things I might say
But when I try to shut my mouth they come out anyway
There's nothing I believe in more than my own insignificance
So why does everybody think my words can make a difference?
I just don't have time to think up every social consequence
I just keep on talking, and you keep applauding
And I don't mean to piss you off with things I might say
But when I try to shut my mouth, they come out anyway
And if you spoke your mind, you might feel more connected
Until you stand politically corrected
You lean a little to the left or the right, but
You can only see who's on your side
And look a little like a deer in the headlights
A little blind and hypnotized
So you conform with the best of intention
Change comes from inside
And after all, that's what this country was founded on
Do nothing different, just fall in line
Tell me what happened to make us so afraid, that
You couldn't make a Mel Brooks movie today? No!
I saw Blazing Saddles yesterday
I don't mean to piss you off with things I might say
But when I try to shut my mouth, they come out anyway
And I don't mean to piss you off with things I might say
And when I try to shut my mouth they come out anyway... GO!
Re: Stupid on the loose
ABSOLUTELY!
Dire Straits is a great band, and this is just so idiotic.
I was planning on starting a thread on this myself, but you beat me to it.
ABSOLUTELY!
Dire Straits is a great band, and this is just so idiotic.
I was planning on starting a thread on this myself, but you beat me to it.
Re: Stupid on the loose
God damn it Unf, I've got stuff to do, but I had to come back and put my two cents in on this.
The censoring of this song on radio is moronic. This is not about disparaging gays, it's about representing a character through the use of language. The character in this case happens to be a bigoted warehouse worker referring to the Mtv generation.
This is what happens when we start censoring for the sake of hurt feelings. We cut words out of books, no matter what context they are used in. Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn is a benchmark book and in the context the "N" word is used is to identify the prejudice faced by black men in the South. What is evident about this conversation is that I can't even say a word in context of discussion because it is deemed offensive if I say it because I'm white.
This is the same insanity that tries to muffle unpopular speech, whether its the group who says Don Cherry should not be able to talk about soldiers in Afghanistan or the extremists who call someone Un-Canadian/American if they question foreign policy. This is why there should be no hate speech legislation, why there should be no Human Rights Commisions to attack comedians who disparage Lesbian Hecklers.
I will write to these people Unf, because I know that if they will come after Mark Knopfler, they will go after Quentin Tarintino, and eventually they might end up on my doorstep or yours because of something I said or you wrote on a forum.
Literature, Music, expression is the cornerstone of the freedom we enjoy and we should never surrender it.
Ever.
Mark
God damn it Unf, I've got stuff to do, but I had to come back and put my two cents in on this.
The censoring of this song on radio is moronic. This is not about disparaging gays, it's about representing a character through the use of language. The character in this case happens to be a bigoted warehouse worker referring to the Mtv generation.
This is what happens when we start censoring for the sake of hurt feelings. We cut words out of books, no matter what context they are used in. Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn is a benchmark book and in the context the "N" word is used is to identify the prejudice faced by black men in the South. What is evident about this conversation is that I can't even say a word in context of discussion because it is deemed offensive if I say it because I'm white.
This is the same insanity that tries to muffle unpopular speech, whether its the group who says Don Cherry should not be able to talk about soldiers in Afghanistan or the extremists who call someone Un-Canadian/American if they question foreign policy. This is why there should be no hate speech legislation, why there should be no Human Rights Commisions to attack comedians who disparage Lesbian Hecklers.
I will write to these people Unf, because I know that if they will come after Mark Knopfler, they will go after Quentin Tarintino, and eventually they might end up on my doorstep or yours because of something I said or you wrote on a forum.
Literature, Music, expression is the cornerstone of the freedom we enjoy and we should never surrender it.
Ever.
Mark
Re: Stupid on the loose
Hang the **** on here.
CBSC isn't a government committee nor has it any affiliation what so ever with the government of Canada.
It's a membership group of broadcasters. They shouldn't decide what I am allowed to see and what I am not in my country.
That's like a group of insurance companies telling you that you can't go to the emergency room because they say so.
Hang the **** on here.
CBSC isn't a government committee nor has it any affiliation what so ever with the government of Canada.
It's a membership group of broadcasters. They shouldn't decide what I am allowed to see and what I am not in my country.
That's like a group of insurance companies telling you that you can't go to the emergency room because they say so.
Re: Stupid on the loose
Well they censored Mark Twain and the story was being against racism. So I disagree - Like TV you can always change the channel if you do not like it - or write the station but to ban the song - Overboard.
I think that every radio station in the country - regardless of what type of music they play, get together and play the song at least once per hour.
A claear example of how one sentence spoken in Canada or in England, and common usage in the UK is completely misunderstood in Canada. The result of such a spoken phrase would cause an uproar.
UK - Bar scene - Fellow stands up - states I am going out to bum a fag -
I am sure some older folk like myself wold know exactly what he was going to do.
Well they censored Mark Twain and the story was being against racism. So I disagree - Like TV you can always change the channel if you do not like it - or write the station but to ban the song - Overboard.
I think that every radio station in the country - regardless of what type of music they play, get together and play the song at least once per hour.
A claear example of how one sentence spoken in Canada or in England, and common usage in the UK is completely misunderstood in Canada. The result of such a spoken phrase would cause an uproar.
UK - Bar scene - Fellow stands up - states I am going out to bum a fag -
I am sure some older folk like myself wold know exactly what he was going to do.
ONE COMPLAINT !! and the song was deemed too ofensive to be played on Canadian radio.I am disgusted.one complaint.
What the hell is going on ?? Balls sure are getting rare.All of Canadas homosexuals should feel a lot safer now.
What the hell is going on ?? Balls sure are getting rare.All of Canadas homosexuals should feel a lot safer now.
Re: Stupid on the loose
Just don't call me cracker, unless your white..then its okay, but don't write any songs about it because blacks might hear it.
It's words man, words must be protected, even the ugly ones.
Just don't call me cracker, unless your white..then its okay, but don't write any songs about it because blacks might hear it.
It's words man, words must be protected, even the ugly ones.
Re: Stupid on the loose
So let us take a little trip on the logic train
Black is offensive
'Colored is offensive
Mixed race is offensive
So as they are the spoken, written or lyrics to a song we ban them.
yet we can take human bodies, fill them with plastic and that is an art form that is defended by all artists. i can come up with a number of others such art forms that have been defended as free expression, what an artist sees.
Yet we under your logic we would ban words, why, because they are used more often, more often in the public view that plastic bodies.
That is the only difference.
Now Mark Twain is being revised - Why - It is a written word - If it was a painting, a statue it would not be touched now would it.
So can someone please explain to a DDH - Dumb Down Homer - the difference between one art form and the other - Why one is restricted and the other is not.
The only difference is as I mentioned above - spoken, written or sung. So not difference exists as they are all art forms.
So let us take a little trip on the logic train
Black is offensive
'Colored is offensive
Mixed race is offensive
So as they are the spoken, written or lyrics to a song we ban them.
yet we can take human bodies, fill them with plastic and that is an art form that is defended by all artists. i can come up with a number of others such art forms that have been defended as free expression, what an artist sees.
Yet we under your logic we would ban words, why, because they are used more often, more often in the public view that plastic bodies.
That is the only difference.
Now Mark Twain is being revised - Why - It is a written word - If it was a painting, a statue it would not be touched now would it.
So can someone please explain to a DDH - Dumb Down Homer - the difference between one art form and the other - Why one is restricted and the other is not.
The only difference is as I mentioned above - spoken, written or sung. So not difference exists as they are all art forms.
My wife and I just read abouot this on Yahoo.
Dire Straits' 'Money for Nothing' should be censored, broadcast panel rules - Yahoo! News
An example of the idiocy of modern political correctness. Sometimes I am ashamed of the country of my birth...
Dire Straits' 'Money for Nothing' should be censored, broadcast panel rules - Yahoo! News
An example of the idiocy of modern political correctness. Sometimes I am ashamed of the country of my birth...
Didn't Mark Twain just lose the N word? The re-writing of history has to stop, otherwise there will be no history ... only a bunch of events interpretted through the "now". Actually, I seem to remember that was one of the things that concerned the West not too long ago ... that places like China and Russia had re-written their history to suit the "now". Now the West is doing it?
Wouldn't it have been enough to blank out the word and play the censored version regardless? That seems to be common practice.
And Political Correctness turns its head yet again, and wins. Good job on all the PC people and their supporters, for showing once again that tolerance doesn't exist and that the proper way of dealing with issues that are even the least bit offensive, or even the possibility of such, is to avoid it at all cost. What a good life lesson and moral value these people are teahcing children: got a problem? don't deal with it, avoid it.