who? (sorry couldnt resist)

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"The good thing is in a club situation, most of the patrons are trashed and really can't tell the difference."

Now, let me git this strait.....

Mark Knophler, and English man, is in trouble for talking about english meat balls in the song and he is now banned?



This make no since at all.

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But in the end, all you really want is a Club and a Spade.

whats their problem with bundles of twigs wearing earrings and makeup?

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What I find absolutely silly is that the twit who complained to the CRTC in the first place missed the whole premise of the song.Money For Nothin' was written from the standpoint of a biggoted redneck and if anything was written very tongue in cheek and in banning the song the CRTC also showed how out of touch they are.It's not like people haven't missed the whole meaning of songs before like John Lennon's Imagine-people got their knickers in a knot over the phrase "Imagine there's no Heaven" and took the whole point of the song out of context.There's also the glaring example of George Bush Jr. telling Bruce Springsteen that Born In The USA was one of his favourite songs,I guess that he paid as much attention to the lyrics as he did to his college classes.

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Mate what really scares me is that we didn't have the option to choose between Bush and Gore. Which lets face it ain't a lot of choice at all. Had Gore won, we'd all be mindwiped automatons now. Subject to the tender mercies of Tipper. All them CD's would end up being a continuous beep, probably with some subliminal message layered underneath. Hypnotically commanding us all to be good unquestioning citizens.
Despite my previous jaded sarcastic comment. I really think anyone impairing freedom of choice does not deserve life. Let alone someone claiming to be Christian and doing that. When according to Christianity we were created with free will, the freedom to choose. Dunno about anyone else but I don't recall ever being asked if I want to give up my freedom to some domineering organization.

Still muchos gracias on the magic bullet developments. I'm very impressed with the cut of Canada's jib, for that.

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[quote="nikininja}When according to Christianity we were created with free will, the freedom to choose.[/quote]
.....yet, if you consider the various schools of thought with respect to the issue of predestination, the outcomes differ. Hence, there are internal pressures limitiing choice due to fear of damnation, or no choice at all.

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Yet the choice to obey or disobey remains, consequences aside.

Fear isn't really a good motivational tool for obedience is it? If it were no body would smoke these days, heroin and alcohol wouldn't be problems. If anything the fear tactics used by many organizations warning us against such abuses are actually usurping their agenda.

I've done plenty of things knowing the consequences would be bad, but that I'd enjoy doing it anyway. It never put me off. I really don't think that a gospel of 'your all going to hell' is responsible for many joining one of the various religions.
I'm more enticed by a nice cup of tea and a few biscuits.
If said religion was running around hysterical, arms flapping wildly and screaming. I'd stay away.
The same can be said of these censorious organizations. When I was a kid, if something was banned I wanted to know why. Then I wanted to find worse offenders.
As a adult them things don't matter to me. But now I'm also fully aware of all the offensive words that can be used. It doesn't shock me in the slightest. I even have a dictionary of such words that I read for a giggle.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/tag/profanisaurus
What continually shocks me are the offensive actions by those proclaiming our freedom, whilst seeking to mother us to a extent that would render us all incapable, prissy, apron hanging, thumb suckers.

Whilst I don't agree that we should be constantly bombarded by such profanity. We see much more offensive actions taken daily. Yet we've become completely desensitized to it. I've even seen it in my own attitudes and actions this weekend. Looking at the news from Tunisia and all I could think was 'here we go, the next lot of asylum seekers'. How abhorrent a attitude to take eh? Far worse than someone using a profane word in a song. It was only after I realized exactly how desensitized I'd become to the 10pm news and how there is real crisis out there. That I fully understood my own failing and selfishness.

Ask yourself why such censorious organizations don't hit the world with attitude adjusting courses. It's entirely because they'd have to start with their own manipulative minds. It's not about protection or rights, for them it's entirely about control.
A group of people who I think it to be a insult they be allowed to breathe the same air as I.

( With profanity I could truly express what I feel about them )

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Wonder what they made of 'Porn Star Dancing'?

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pity, Money for Nothing just dropped to Nr. 4

Porn Star Dancing is beating out Money for Nothing, you see, we've still got our priorities right.

Don't know if this has been alreaady said, I didn't read the entire thread, but the title of this thread is incorrect, Canada hasn't "banned" anybody's song. They've simply just declared if the song is to be played on the air, it will have to be a censored version. Still, considering how old this song is, and the context of the usage of the word "f****t", and that this was a reaction to ONE person's complaint, the whole thing is rather silly.

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New thread to me (been missing for several days), so maybe I'm late to the party...
If they are going to say that a word that is offensive to some should not be allowed to be played on the radio, what about a concept or subject matter that should be offensive to everybody?

Case in point--Eminem and Rhianna's song "The Way You Lie". It's only a song about a guy who tries to justify the abusive treatment of his wife/girlfriend, and in the end threatens to tie her to the bed and set the house on fire.

What about "Hey Joe" (most famously by Hendrix, but a very commonly recorded song at one time) or "Boot Hill" (traditional old blues tune re-introduced by Johnny Winter, SRV, many others)? It's only about murdering the old lady.

What about Lou Reed's "Wild Side"? Not the sexual deviance references, but the fact that he says "the colored girls..."? Many would find that offensive as well.

Or how about "Folsom Prison Blues"? Violent song..."I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die."

Alan Jackson offends me, because of what he did to the songs "Mercury Blues" and "Summertime Blues". Therefore, he should not be on the radio.

I'm not against any of these songs or the right of an artist to record or write them, per se, but the slippery $@!&# argument applies here.

Yes, "f----t" is somewhat offensive, but where do we stop?

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i wondered how long this thread would go before someone took a partisan shot. Well played. Save for the fact that Bush had a better average in college than John Kerry did and we are blocked from seeing the college records for Obama at all.

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