A friend was visiting her sister in Australia and wanted to go to a movie.
The last one she’d been to had been full of bad language and she wanted a cleaner one. Her sister said Four Weddings and a Funeral was reputed to be very good and very funny.
They went and the first several words were the F one.
Was it offensive? To some probably, but in the context it was both appropriate and funny.
Is it always?
We went to a stand up comedy evening recently and almost every sentence had at least one F word, often more.
IWere the comedians funny? Yes. In the context were all the Fs both appropriate and funny? No. Most of the time they were used as a filler instead of um and ah or a pause.
Does this clip need all the Fs?
It’s funny, but would it have lost any of the humour with fewer, or even no Fs?
I think so.
That word has become so commonplace a lot of people don’t even realise they’re using it and if they use it that often, what’s left when they really need an expletive?
Homepaddock 
Please explain. What is “The F Word”?
Do you mean “fuck”? If so, why not write it. You purport to BE a writer, yet are reluctant to use all the words at your disposal.
If “The F Word” is not “fuck”, then what is it?
Clarity, my dear. Clarity.
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Class, Mr Blake, Class and good manners. Which Ms Ludemann has and you obviously lack.
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MvL – wellsaid.
I agree with you 100%.
Roj Blake – crass at best and very rude to your host on this blog.
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Namby-Pamby Snowflakes. We all KNOW what Ele means when she writes “The f word”, so why not be honest, type fewer characters and call a fuck a fuck?
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Roj you seem to have missed my point that the word is overused, not always necessary and often inappropriate.
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Ele, you seem to have missed the point that as everyone knows what “F word” means, why not use it? What is wrong with plain English?
This is the same as the laughable “slept with” line in newspapers when we all know that if sleeping is all that happened there would be no story. 🙂
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Roj I am sure I have deployed that word on comment thread on this blog on occaision to provide emphasis.
The thing about “bad words” is that if they are over used they loose the efficacy
What amuses me is you often hear that word on TV now – even free to air TV but there other words cause grief and outrage
The BBC banned “Fairy tale of New York” few years ago for use of another “F” word – the word in question being dare I say it
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