Friday, March 10, 2006

UK sensitivities protection

With the earlier posting: Thursday, March 09, 2006
UK people "So where the bloody hell are you?"
'Bloody' tourism ads banned From: AAP By Chris Herde March 09, 2006
UK advertising would need to rename this movie:
Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
and this obituary mentions bugger, definitely could not be used today:
Portrait of the artist as a feisty young aristocrat - smh.com.au
March 10, 2006
Sybille Bedford Writer 1911-2006
"Her passport was about to expire, and she did not want to visit the German consulate in France. In order to obtain a British passport, Maria Huxley suggested that Sybille marry "one of our bugger friends". A gay English army officer, Walter ("Terry") Bedford, obliged and they married in 1935."

And of course DH Lawrence could not be mentioned as he used a certain word often in one of his books.

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