Less Swearing on TV, Demands Former Sex Pistol

LONDON (Reuters) - "Wanna be an anarchist?"

At least one of the Sex Pistols, now middle-aged and a father of two, no longer does.

Former Pistols bassist Glen Matlock has called for swearing on British television to be curbed, nearly 30 years after the provocative punk rockers sent shock waves through Britain by using derivations of the dreaded "f"-word on live TV.

"It's pathetic when people swear for the sake of it," Matlock told a television show to be broadcast Sunday. "Something ought to be done about it."

Matlock, 48, also told "X-Rated: The TV Shows They Tried To Ban," that he hated it when his young children heard obscenities on the airwaves.

As a teenager, Matlock co-wrote some of the Pistols' most enduring anthems like "God Save The Queen" and "Anarchy In The UK." He left the group early in 1977 and was replaced by Sid Vicious.

Bloody Hell,
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Muesli, cardigan sweaters, early-bird specials.


PS: I don't have any kids, and I know what many of you will say, and you're right, he's right, but then again:He was a Sex Pistol, ya know?

"Something ought to be done about it!"

A phrase that would have set the Pistols off more than most others if they heard it from some old fart back in '76-77.

Hey, now. Early-bird specials are awesome. And all my cardigans are black leather, with "Old-Ass Muthfuk" on the back.

The problem is that swearing is now endemic on UK television and radio.

It's almost got to the stage that when you tune into the lunchtime news you get "And here's the fucking news you cunts."

I've been known to swear on occassion (!!!) but I don't want to hear it coming out the radio at 10 o'clock in the morning or on daytime television.

It's just an other example of the UK's descent into yob culture which has even infected the media. This is because the media is usually run by idiotic middle class buffoons who, cocooned from reality, have bizarrely romantic idea about what being working class is like.

When your born into the bottom rungs of society and you want to live a reasonably civilised life style public standards and common decency are actually crucially important, rather than something that's "boring".

Yes. I come from the New England equivalent. I don't mind cops on drama shows saying "shut the fuck up, cunthole" but I don't want my weather person saying it over breakfast.