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In reply to the discussion: "Honestly didn't know you could put this word on television" [View all]LiberalLovinLug
(14,154 posts)42. I came from a strict evangelical family
You know, like the kind of people who voted overwhelmingly for the shithole in chief.
And we would get in trouble for even using words like shoot, heck, and dang. Because they were simply covers for their more crude meanings.
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I clearly remember George Carlin not having shithole as one of the banned words
snooper2
Jan 2018
#27
Cable has different rules. The real obscenity is anything that comes out of the mouth
Eliot Rosewater
Jan 2018
#8
Jim Acosta just said shithole and my neck snapped back...I just turned on the TV didn't
Kirk Lover
Jan 2018
#11