FCC to Fine Curses More Than Nuke Violations 634
DiZNoG writes "With Congress debating new higher fines for broadcast indecency in the wake
of last year's 'wardrobe malfunction' and Howard Stern's antics, Rolling
Stone has published
an interesting perspective on things. Rolling Stone did a review of fines
levied by other federal regulatory bodies, and has found the new indecency fines
disproportionately large compared to other fines. According to the article,
if the bill passes then 'for the price of Janet Jackson's 'wardrobe malfunction'
during the Super Bowl, you could cause the wrongful death of an elderly patient
in a nursing home and still have enough money left to create dangerous mishaps
at two nuclear reactors.' The article further states the largest fine the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission levied last year was $60,000, this new bill would
allow broadcast indecency fines up to $500,000. Glad I keep my broadcast cursing
to a minimum, now if I could only get a handle on those pesky dangerous nuclear
mishaps."
Useful Terms (Score:5, Funny)
piss
fuck
cunt
cocksucker
motherfucker
Re:Useful Terms (Score:5, Funny)
Not in the medical profession (Score:2, Funny)
Doctor!
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Re:Benjamins (Score:5, Funny)
"Oh no, a naked breast! Run for your lives!"
Fines.... (Score:5, Funny)
Killing an elderly person...$100,000
Screwing up at a nuclear power plant...$60,000
Running a red light...$250.00
Getting your story posted to Slashdot...Priceless
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The FCC Song (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Nothing new (Score:3, Funny)
Broadcasting Curses (Score:4, Funny)
Oh! You mean those #*&@%ing curses. Well, I better look out when the feds start spying on my WiFi network
Re:Stupid, yes. But surprising? (Score:3, Funny)
Because it, by and large, is.
Yay.
Boo.
You may be suffering from the "'Mrrica are teh great" syndrome.
Since the first guy who couldn't explain a lightning bolt decided it had to be some m4d 1337 invisible guy tossing those around as punishment for getting into other people's preserved mammoth.
That being said, would you like to buy a flower to benefit our temple?
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Re:Nothing really new. (Score:4, Funny)
You mean you actually read the articles?
Re:It's the FCC! (Score:1, Funny)
Likewise. I never could figure out those three sea shells.
Re:Useful Terms (Score:5, Funny)
I suggest fist to replace fuck. As in fist you, motherfister.. That immediately sounds a lot nicer.
Also, perhaps to replace piss, if it's used as a derogatory term (since there's already a perfectly good word for piss; urine), I'd suggest come, or cum as it's known online.
The phrase, this place smells like two-week old come would surely please the FCC immensly, as it contains not a single dirty word.
Now, for cunt one might describe the actual organ as vagina, or perhaps, on Oprah, as beafcurtain covered meathole, but I understand it's ofted used to refer to a person, as in "he's a cunt". Luckily, dickhead isn't on the list, otherwise what would one call Mr.Cheney's face for example?
"cocksucker" is a bit of a mystery to me. Neither word the composite is made up of is particularly naughty in its own right. While applicant of low pressure to a rooster might be an odd jobdescription, who knows if these people exist, and how much pride they might take in their work? Surely people working at the fudgepacking plant have similar feelings. Perhaps cumbucket would be an alternative with enough street-cred to supplant it some day.
As for tits, that just doesn't make sense. In particular, The Royal Tit-Watching (ornithological) Society [nice-tits.org] (SFW) would take serious issue with not being able to discuss the objects of their fascination. Besides "look at the tits on her" is a term of admiration. I'd suggest we go with funbags on this one, since it would, hopefully, infuriate rabid feminists and/or puritans even more if breasts, which are actually pretty mundane things - almost all women and overweight men have them - are consistently referred to explicitely as sexual objects.
So there you have it, folks. Now leave me the fist alone, you're fudgepacking cumbuckets the lot of you!
swearing... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Profane political speech is very potent (Score:5, Funny)