The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #134959   Message #3080680
Posted By: Tootler
23-Jan-11 - 11:35 AM
Thread Name: 'Money for Nothing' Banned in Canada
Subject: RE: 'Money for Nothing' Banned in Canada
Go into a pub in a working class district in any major city in the UK (and, I bet in Canada and elsewhere) and you will encounter the type of attitude that Mark Knopfler is parodying in Money for Nothing. Not just in pubs, either. My daughter was complaining about someone expressing such attitudes - and worse - in a very loud voice on the bus to work one day last week.

If the CBSC had listened to the song properly instead of reacting in a knee jerk manner to the presence of a single word, perhaps they might have taken a more robust line. Then again, in our present PC world, perhaps not.