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I'd like to see them continue the bleep, but - instead of just glossing over the fact, there should be full-screen sized captioning that clearly identifies which word has just been used - So for example, if someone drops the f-bomb during an interview, the customary bleep should continue to be transmitted* and the word "FUCK" super-imposed on screen in large friendly letters. |
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* to be fair, there's not really that much bleeping here in the UK these days (either that, or I'm watching the wrong kind of programs) |
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Nowadays, instead of bleeps they use the even more annoying silences. |
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[zen_tom] I think the relative lack of swearing on UK TV is due to a corresponding lack of those programmes where inarticulate people are encouraged to argue with each other. However "police action", and other reality TV, programmes still ensure that there is work for the bleeper on these moist and fertile lands. |
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Wouldn't it be possible to automatically construct a voice pattern from the previous utterances, and then superimpose a 'darn' or some other PC swearword in the speakers voice? fails on people who begin their performance with a 'fuck', but most shows aren't live anyway. |
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those bleeps enable viewers to watch TV with their kids within earshot.... so I suppose it *is* a good idea to not censor things: force parents to make a choice; those programs are just crap anyways. |
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Can you really not tell what they are saying? They're generally saying 'fuck' or some variant thereof. They rarely come up with anything interesting like 'donkey botherer'. |
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//The bleep on a lot of those talk shows is programmed in by the cameraman// Actually it is done by the audio engineer in post editing. It would be relatively easy to make an additional audio track without the bleeps. What they are saying is obvious 99% of the time. Even young children often know what was being said because they hear it 100 times a day at school. So why even have the bleeps in the first place? |
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With a little more equipment, you could bake this without using the SAP audio track: Instead of a simple bleep, encode the information from the original audio into a bleep-like sound. I'm sure the two parties can agree on a happy medium between bleep consistency and swear word fidelity. |
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Then sell a box called The Unbleeper (tm) which takes just the audio track as input, notices encoded bleeps, and converts each to the original swear word, with somewhat-reduced fidelity. |
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This reminds me of a sketch by Tim Minchin (Aussie
Comedian).
Can't remember how it went, but the punchline was 'Finger
my M*m'! |
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