So, if you listen to popular radio here, you will find that the word "gun" and the word "Butt" are silenced out in songs like "hip hop police" and what ever song the big bad B word was in. However the OTHER big bad B word. the one meaning female puppies and the F word... the one that means - to meddle (usually followed. by around or with). Those 2 are PERFECTLY fine! One song uses the F word quite liberally. Then BUTT comes on and there like. OH, can't handle that one. Would be interesting to understand the mind set of standards. What they see words as meaning, and what meaning that meaning carries as to what is not respectable, etc. But them, when in the U.S. if we swear in another language, that is usually left alone and not edited. So, I guess it is the weight it carries. We are probably devastating some nice foreigners visiting the US.
OH YA! The A word that Jesus says is ALSO OK here... Kinda like it is in the U.S.
We did learn that the word "rascal" is NOT acceptable here. That used will get you in a fist fight. Seems to be worse then a harshly used effinheimer at home. We were at a party and a Indian lady called an Indian man a rascal and we had people holding arms for punch throwing.
Gotta wonder how the movie The Little Rascals did in the theaters here. Probably NOT attended well or by kids. That was probably the movie kids SNUCK in with out their parents knowing being all rebellious and stuff.
Crossing cultures is fun.
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