Mrs Thatcher in Swearing Shocker!
No of course she didn't.
In fact given her upbringing within a strict Victorian moral code based around a traditional family structure, I doubt she ever used the word loo or napkin either. It's a play, it's art - but those on the right wing of the tabloid press in this country can't see the wood for the trees. Jimmy Osmond wasn't really a long haired lover from Liverpool, Picasso didn't really know any women with one eye and it's not a long way from Tipperary - unless you happen to be spending the weekend on Alpha Centuri, but we must respect the (sacred) cow.
What makes me laugh is the journalist who uses the expression "it's obviously too much of a fag to do the research (sic)'' - fuck off you Tory public schoolboy nonce - nobody uses the word fag anymore, get the net, get up to date, it's the 21st century, we've stopped shutting each other's dicks in the dorm door for fun at night.
Anyway, it's the artists right to do what he wants to with his own imagination regardless of whether or not the person is dead or alive unless there is a case for libel or defamation of character. I guess it's just another stick to beat over the head of the BBC as it lurches from one crisis to another.
3 comments:
That would be because she was never posh. My mother would have been horrified if we had used the terms toilet and serviette!
Loo and napkin were perfectly acceptable.
Baldinio, whilst I'm not surprised at the furore because it involves the great and saintly MT I beg to differ. Arty farty party or balls balls balls as someone said in reply to you on the MB. Imagine the film The Queen with Queenie saying to some toady bulter or something "get the fuck out you stupid cunt and take that twat of a housemaid with you"....now do you think that may have caused a smidgeon of a stir? Why make crap up and then claim it's art? As anothe rposter said if it was about a 'ficticious' female PM (despite us all really knowing whom it was meant to be) then it's almost half reasonable, as it is the whole think stinks...however I agree re Tory boy journo and the 'fag' comment!
You're probably right Span, although 'revelations' about Princess Margaret and the Princess Royal suggest that certain members of the Royal Family would win a swearing competition with a team of dockers!
We've all fallen into the pre-publicity trap again. You can ignore art more than most things in life but if somebody wants to get noticed just put in a wee sweary as they say in Glasgow.
Gavin - mea culpa - I'm totally confused by what is correct and incorrect when it comes to the idioms of the 1950's as I wasn't born then - lavatory, loo or toilet - the little room will do just fine!
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