http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/C ... x?id=82234HINDUSTAN TIMES: Ruddy marvellous, mate
Published: 2009/09/23 07:50:09 AM
FUDGE! That’s what most of us do when caught exclaiming an expletive. You end up telling your listeners that you just remembered what you were supposed to pick up from the shop — a soft candy made of sugar, milk and butter.
No such pusillanimous excuse for Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.
Some limp-wristed Pommie- type journalists exposed last week that Rudd, in a private meeting with Labour Party colleagues, used the four-letter word several times. Rudd not only not denied using the word, but he proudly proclaimed it is part of “robust conversation” and is “consistent” with Aussie political traditions.
Good on yer, mate! Not only is a person hurling the “f” word a reassuring sign in timorous times that he has a no-nonsense approach when it comes to taking action when people fudge up, it also shows that he is not one of those genteel, frilly-collared sorts obsessed with decorum and class.
Not too many Indian politicians will admit using our own homegrown expletives. Even after films such as Omkara made Indian gaalis downright fashionable, and even after having made a veritable profession of tom-tomming how India is finally a mature, confident nation, we still flinch at the sight of the “f” word — an imported rhetorical word to boot — in print. New Delhi, September 22
Hehehe wonder how The Poisoned Dwarf (Glen Milne) likes being called a 'limp wristed Pommie-type'
Lot of sanctimonious claptrap written about this. The people Rudd used the F word to were factional bosses, not above using the word themselves inside their circle. And they were whining about cutbacks to an overly generous printing allowance! Fuck'em, eh?
