BBC censors The Pogues' Christmas classic

[iranu]

I'm offended by the song. Not because of the lyrics but because its absolute sh**e and I despise it. However that doesn't mean I should seek to ban it.

[Flibb]

Didnt a pot noodle advert get banned for using the term Slag? I never figured out if the slags were pissed at being called slags, or at the assumption that they ate pot noodle.

[[GSV]Trig]

Its not like theres not other offensive words in the bloody song tbh...

[usxhe190]

Its not like theres not other offensive words in the bloody song tbh...

totally agree..the whole song is pretty crap to be honest - no idea why people like this song...

btw, they also edited out the word "slut".

The lyrics for your entertainment:

It was christmas eve babe
In the drunk tank
An old man said to me, wont see another one
And then he sang a song
The rare old mountain dew
I turned my face away
And dreamed about you

Got on a lucky one
Came in eighteen to one
Ive got a feeling
This years for me and you
So happy christmas
I love you baby
I can see a better time
When all our dreams come true

Theyve got cars big as bars
Theyve got rivers of gold
But the wind goes right through you
Its no place for the old
When you first took my hand
On a cold christmas eve
You promised me
Broadway was waiting for me

You were handsome
You were pretty
Queen of new york city
When the band finished playing
They howled out for more
Sinatra was swinging,
All the drunks they were singing
We kissed on a corner
Then danced through the night

The boys of the nypd choir
Were singing galway bay
And the bells were ringing out
For christmas day

Youre a bum
Youre a punk
Youre an old slut on junk
Lying there almost dead on a drip in that bed
You scumbag, you maggot
You cheap lousy faggot
Happy christmas your arse
I pray God its our last

I could have been someone
Well so could anyone
You took my dreams from me
When I first found you
I kept them with me babe
I put them with my own
Cant make it all alone
Ive built my dreams around you

[Gobbob]

Those BBC Faggots.

-Gobbob

[burble]

It isn't the entire BBC being this daft, just Radio 1 I think. They were talking on Radio 2 earlier saying how they're still going to play to unedited version.

[DavidM]

Useless information - apparently the band couldn't play the song they wanted them to (Galway Bay) - so played the "Mickey Mouse" theme instead.

[directhex]

it was uncensored on radio 2 this afternoon, so it's definitely not across the whole beeb

[DavidM]

I seem to remember this "ban" was from a few years ago.... ?

[Funkstar]

it was uncensored on radio 2 this afternoon, so it's definitely not across the whole beeb

Just goes to show how much Radio1 DJs are dictated to and have little input on their own shows.

It's just like when certain DJs get into trouble for speaking over, or cutting short song they don't particularly like.

[manwithnoname]

Radio 5 are reporting that Radio 1 have dropped the band and will play the original song from now on.

[beanbandit]

Radio 5 are reporting that Radio 1 have dropped the band and will play the original song from now on.

Thats correct. R1 issued a statement from the R1 controller that the ban will be lifted with immediate effect.

[Stewart]

Yeah was just on Radio 4, Andy Parfit has decided he's been a bit of a Guardian reading, fair trade tea bag buying, yoghurt eating nob, and backed down.

Prat.

[kopite]

lol whats wrong with eating yoghurt?!?!?!?!?

[vrykyl]

I thought the ban was hilarious, as whilst they say they took out the word 'faggot' to prevent offence, from a song thats played maybe three or four times a day on Radio 1 at a maximum, because it made the news the radio1 news reporter then says the word 'faggot' every half hour in the news up date.... meaning the word is said/heard 100 times more than if they'd just left alone - pure bbc genius

[JPreston]

This is what happens when you let the thought police start with banning Boom Bye Bye....

Anyway it's un-banned now. So what I reallly want to know is; when did piss become acceptable language?