I really really really dig BATTLESTAR as much as the next guy and who can't wait till July huh? :thumbsup:

BUT!

Do you think that they throw around the word FRACK just a bit too much?

I know they are just trying to be realistic... being an ex military guy ( I know ) Gawd knows I use enough colorful words throughout my day but golly gee! and even Adoma using it as much as he does? ...I'm a little confused....the shows style & writing seems to be a little above that.

Now if it just once in a while when called for or maybe more from the non commisioned officers and grunts?

Or should I just shut the FR_ _K up? :freak: :p

Yeah, I definitely noticed that too. In one particular episode (I can't remember which), I remember thinking it was WAY over the top. BUT, that said, GREAT SHOW!!! :)

Dan

Well no matter how many times they say it in one episode they will never pass the total during Crusade when every other sentence was "We live for the one, we die for the one."

^I don't think anybody ever said that in Crusade. Was there even a Ranger on the show? Are you thinking of that TV movie "Legend of the Rangers?"

Actually, according to the sub-titles, it's spelled FRAK, not FRACK.
Gotta keep it to a four letter word right?

Being a military guy working around military people, I hear the real F-Word a lot during the course of a day. It's not always from the same person, but I'd offer an average of at least 30 times a day - including when I've said it on Really Bad Days. So, the use of the word Frak on BSG doesn't bother me at all. I find it vaguely amusing that it's not used more by the maintenance crews, actually.

You guys take this stuff way too fraking seriously! :jest:

[Eric Cartman]What, "frak"? It's just a word; it doesn't hurt anybody. Frak, frak, frakity frak![/Eric Cartman]

;)

Qapla'

SSB

[Eric Cartman]What, "frak"? It's just a word; it doesn't hurt anybody. Frak, frak, frakity frak![/Eric Cartman]

;)

Qapla' SSB

Well....now I'm fraking offended! :lol:

Don't get me wrong.....it doesn't bother me I just think its thrown around too loosely.

ooops! FRAK! gotta go... my fraking Boss is giving me that fraking look!

^I don't think anybody ever said that in Crusade. Was there even a Ranger on the show? Are you thinking of that TV movie "Legend of the Rangers?"


Maybe thats what it was,I might be having a brain fart involved here. All I can remember is the acting sucked and the script involved every sentence containing "We live for the one, we die for the one." Well, they said it enough to seem that way.

Didn't "felgercarb" also come from BSG??

I also thought that they threw the word out too much, but I figured it was consistent with wht goes on in the real military, especially in the dicey situations soldiers find themselves in. You have to let it out somehow.

What I find truly surprising is that they have no other swear word. I mean, if I was limited to using only one curse word, why, that would be a fraking shame. I use one more consistently than others, but I like to keep my tool box stocked sometimes, especially when dealing with my worthless co-worker. And think about how constraining it would be upon society in general. What would happen to those who are downright poets and troubadours with their ability to weave profanity into an enchanting and entrancing lyrical experience? What would the Colonial Samuel L. Jackson have to work with?

José

Soldiers actually swear?

I remember seeing Oliver Stone once on television talking about PLATOON. He thought he might be able to get some military help, so he submitted his screenplay to the Army. Their first "correction" was "Eliminate all cursing. It does not accurately reflect how soldiers speak in the field."

So far I've only seen the miniseries (no cable). One thing that struck me is that you can get away with a word like frak (like smeg on RED DWARF) because it is just a generic expletive. But when Starbuck yells "Frak me!" it is pretty clear what it really means.

Just so they don't use the word "belgium." Now that would be really offensive.

Didn't "felgercarb" also come from BSG??

Yeah, at least we've been spared that particular missive.

Well, I for one couldn't give 'Frak's Ass'. To me, the all 'round quality of the show is so unbelievably high that it makes up for it. I haven't felt this 'dedicated' to a scifi series since the original Star Trek or X-Files. The current BSG is just so ground breaking on many fronts. Fox!

What would the Colonial Samuel L. Jackson have to work with?

"You know what they call this on Picon? A mutha frakkin Royale with Cheese!"

You guys must work in offices.
I've worked in factories all my life, and all I can say is that they don't curse nearly as much as real people do.

Even the little old ladies at the shop used to drop the F-bomb on a regular basis.

Originally Posted by El Gato
What would the Colonial Samuel L. Jackson have to work with?


"The colonial mark 3 pulse rufle. When you abolutely positively have to frak up every motherfraker in sight."

What would the Colonial Samuel L. Jackson have to work with?

José

"I'm frank and ernest with women, on Caprica I'm Frank and on Picon I'm Ernest."

It's not so much the amount of swearing, it's the lack of variety in their choice of expletives... They just *GOTTA* have words other than "frak." Hell, I swear more when I'm hanging out with my friends than they do, but we have a wider vocabulary as well. :)

Dan

Well, I for one couldn't give 'Frak's Ass'. To me, the all 'round quality of the show is so unbelievably high that it makes up for it. I haven't felt this 'dedicated' to a scifi series since the original Star Trek or X-Files. The current BSG is just so ground breaking on many fronts. Fox!



SO SAY WE ALL!!!

Could not have said it better myself! :thumbsup:

I use one more consistently than others, but I like to keep my tool box stocked sometimes, especially when dealing with my worthless co-worker.
Are you sure I didn't write that? :lol: I know exactly what you mean. Oh, the horrific fates I imagine befalling the guy sitting behind me would make Wes Craven think to himself, "Okay ... back away slowly ..." :D

Qapla'

SSB

Are you sure I didn't write that? :lol: I know exactly what you mean. Oh, the horrific fates I imagine befalling the guy sitting behind me would make Wes Craven think to himself, "Okay ... back away slowly ..." :D

We all have them. Talk about people who should be put on a rocket for a one-way ride to the sun. But profanity aside, I like what a friend of mine told one of his assistants one day: "Is there some law that prevents you from doing what I've asked?"

José

LOL! :lol:

Troy, the only reason you haven't heard me hurl a stream of profanity large enough for salmon to spawn in is we don't work or model together. :)

I could only frakin imagin! :p

OOOHHHHHHHHH A frakin we will go....A frakin we will go
Hi Ho the mary o a frakin we will go!

WHAT?!

"Is there some law that prevents you from doing what I've asked?"

:lol: :thumbsup:

I like what a friend of mine told one of his assistants one day: "Is there some law that prevents you from doing what I've asked?"


:lol:

My boss had a subtler technique. She asked me if I could do a correction to a diagram once that really looked VERY difficult to do, and I was hoping I could talk her out of it.
Her: "Can you make this correction?"
Me: "Well, not easily or quickly, ya see..."
Her (Interrupts with annoyed expression): "WILL you?"
Me (sensing unemployment): "sure!"

:freak:

"The colonial mark 3 pulse rufle. When you abolutely positively have to frak up every motherfraker in sight."
"It's the one that says, "Bad Mother Frakker" on it."

Then there's Al Pacino's take: "Frak me? No, FRAK YOU!" :lol:

" Sometimes, you just have to say, what the Frack." Puts on Ray Ban's

FRACK is one of the most versitile words in the colonial language. It can express pain, hate or love. Like most words beginning with F it originated on Gemini. It can be used as a transitive verb,"John fracked Shirley". Intransitive verb, "Shirley fracks". An adjective, "John does all the fracking work". An adverb, "Shirley talks too fracking much". An adverb enhancing an adjective,"Shieley is fracking beautiful". A noun, "I don't give a frack". Part of a word, "Abso-frackin-lutely" or "In-frackin-credible". Every word in a sentence, "Frack the fracking frackers".It can express fraud, "I got fracked at the used viper lot". Dismay, "Ah Frack!" Trouble, "I guess I'm really fracked now". Agression, "Don't frack with me buddy". Difficulty,"I don't understand the fracking question". Inquiry, "Who the frack was that?" Dissatisfaction, "I don't like what the frack is going on here." Incompetence, "He's a frack-off" Dismissal, "Why don't you go outside and play hide and go frack yourself." How can anybody be offended by such a versitile word, say it loudly and proudly.

^^^ :lol: Frak me, that was funny! I haven't heard the original version of that in awhile!

Close Caption says "FRAK", keeping it to a four letter word.:thumbsup:

RW2516, also would add 'Non-Specific Enquiries':
"What the FRAK?"
Otherwise I am Frakking sure you have covered all bases... hehehe, Fox.
I think it's an ingenious and very cheeky way to swear without swearing, I luv it!

Here Here !! I just love to hear a woman say "Frak me"!!!