Are they taking the piss? [Carol language warning]
 

How can you be warned when she was quoting what somebody else said?

CBBC Big Brother :bored:

Yeah...they bleeped her out and then quoted the word themselves.

Pathetic really.

Because she still used an inappropriate word? I guarantee if they did not blank it out then some people would of been pissed.

You don't say the word even if quoting someone. Not hard to just say "he said the n bomb". Fair warning.

A word is a word. She could have told him without using the whole word. Imagine Richard Arnold on Daybreak saying 'On Saturdays Big Brother, Louie said ****' and expect him to get away with it.

Although it was strange that they were seemingly happy for 'big brother' to use it

They have been the same since CBB5

Trigger happy and **** scared of Ofcom

Why didn't she keep her silly old gob shut?

BB used it when quoting Carol when quoting Ron

..it was a fair warning and she accepted it immediately because she knew she shouldn't have repeated it...

Yes, they are taking the piss.

This year, I dont think there has been one deserved warning (that we have seen)

-Jemima black men thing
- Dexter caravan comment
- Gina beanie snatch/assault :laugh:

And now this

Its from one extreme to the other. Last year they did **** all when they should have, and this year I feel the housemates should be afraid to sneeze incase they are warned :joker:

Wow i could of easily been offended by that and i guarantee other people have been offended. Listen, that lost woman should be using her brain, why the **** couldn't she say he had a race row? Thats all she needed to say.
Fair warning. Get over it.

Nope, when it comes to Big Brother there's nothing I hate more than censorship...no profanity should be bleeped and no nudity should be blurred

I obviously disagree with the use of the word but I wouldn't have complained if it weren't censored, the show is meant to reflect what is ACTUALLY being said, and they don't say 'bleep'

I should just clarify my actual issue is with these 'formal warnings' that they'll hand out for anything nowadays. In the past it was just a reminder not to use such terms and a threat of a formal warning if they were to do it again, that was much fairer and would have been much more applicable here

Exactly.BB just offended more people than Carol due to editing.

Yeah...and they shouldn't have.

Is that the only word we are persecuted for saying?

:spin:

Absolutely ridiculous! She didn't exhibit any racist behaviour... She quoted somebody else's comments!

Exactly, made it all a bit pathetic.

I don't think a "formal warning" was really necessary, just a reminder to be careful with the words she uses because they are offensive, even if she was just quoting someone

who and what they did say

She was quoting Ron, and even if some were offended, she apologised immediately which was well-handled. However, when is Big Brother going to get a formal warning for doing exactly the same thing whilst warning Carol?

Its still unacceptable language quoting or not.
If "I was quoting someone" was accepted as a reason to say something anybody could get away with saying horrific things.


They bleeped her saying it for her own good so it cant be used out of context by the media or anybody trying to make her look bad. It could be made to look a hell of a lot worse if the context it was used in was cut out of a clip.

So they can use it but a housemate can not?

Not one person has said who, just 'she'
Who said this??

What surprises me is that Carol is supposed to be a media professional.

I'm sure the reason they give out warnings so easily is because they know it'll get press attention.

Who said that is the case? It's a fair warning and BB shouldn't of used the word either.

Carol.

They shouldn't have put Ron in if they are afraid of the word, Carol did not use it in an offensive way at all, she was just explaining what was said.

Big Brother (correctly so) said that they deemed her language unacceptable.

Big Brother didn't say she was racist, they only said how her language was unacceptable and they were correct.

A drunken media professional.lol.

Note to posters: It is 'should have' not 'should of'

A drunken old stupid trying too hard to remain 'edgy' media professional..

Of course, how stupid of me LOL...

Good luck with that.

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Big Brother now needs to give themselves a warning because they used the N word in the same context as Carol did - ie not saying to 'be' racist but highlighting it as an example of racism

Such is the logic of the warning

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Agreed. It's quite laughable Carol repeating the wording can be seen as 'offensive' yet putting the man in who famously used it is fine.

Doesn't matter if it was used in an offensive way or not. Just using the word is unacceptable and would be offensive to loads of people watching.


Oh and are We forgetting someone was kicked out for using it before? Not sure why this whole "BB is so PC now" thing is starting. :laugh:

Exactly, and guess what Paper is trumpeting it for Sunday's edition! If they hadn't broadcast that few seconds out of the 24 hours worth that they had to play with, The Sunday Smut would have had no headline!

What about when people call women slags and *****s - how is that any less offensive - I don't see bb warning anyone about such blatant sexist language.

It's all pc garbage.

What he said

She said that aswell give her another one!

I think, even after all this time, people still underestimate the negative connotations of the N word. Strange really... it's not a hard thing to remember.

This meltdown is pure comedy. You would think someone died.