Fucking Hell!

[mixjourneyman]

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zei ... 05,00.html

I could really go for a light ale right about now

[Steve James]

Only fucking socialists would allow a name like that.

[Darth Rock&Roll]

you never know, it could be a fucking capitalist thing too.

hard to say at this juncture, but fucking hell!

[xingyijuan]

I can't believe those Fucking people!

[cdobe]

Take it easy! It's not your Fucking business...

[Steve James]

[Muad'dib]

It would appear to be Frozen Over.

[Steve James]

Well, it was a very cold day ...

[Bär]

Hell is in Michigan, unsurprisingly.

[klonk]

Well, I won't buy any. One ought not encourage vile speech for its own sake. Of course it isn't vile in German, but that isn't the point, is it? The name was selected for a giggle factor among those who know English. I'm not giggling.

Fucking is a little place out in the sticks. The place doesn't even have its own brewery, which is probably some kind of disgrace in that region, and it underlines the made-up nature of the name. These Fucking people don't even make their own Hell. They probably get all the Hell they want from their Bavarian neighbors.

[Steve James]

Ah, well, fucking isn't vile "in" any language, though it may be in some societies. It's only vulgar, maybe profane, and only in English because the Normans considered all Anglo-Saxon descriptions of bodily functions to be uncivilized (except eating and sleeping). So, good 'ol Anglo-Saxon words like shissen or shitten, pissen, ficken or fokken were dropped from polite conversation and replaced with metaphors like "water the flowers" or "intercourse" and urination (replacing the vulgar AS with Latin words ... that mean the same f-in thing).

But, I agree that the brewers are just taking advantage of the town's name. Personally, I won't buy the beer ... 'cause I don't like Hells anyway. Otoh, I do think it's a shame that people are taking such a cheap shot. I don't want my grandkids to be forced to see commercials for this beer, and have the advertisers say "but it doesn't mean that." I also have to say that Bastard Ale doesn't disturb me. Then again, a batard in France is a type of bread.

Anyway, I think one solution would be to require phonetic spellings on the labels of products with potentially controversial names. For ex., they should make the label on this beer read "Fooking Hell"'; then let's see what some of the Lunduners say Or would that be Deptford?

[klonk]

I derive vile from vilus, meaning cheap, low or base. Why are you arguing with me?

[Interloper]

Well, "FCUK" is already taken, so what other choice do they have?

[klonk]

'Loper: FSCK'd is already taken too. The mounted volume is FSCK'd up.

No originality among the Germans here. The idea, like most great ideas, originated with the Irish.

[Interloper]

Wonder if Harvey has seen the "FECKin' Irish Whiskey"?

'Loper: FSCK'd is already taken too. The mounted volume is FSCK'd up.

No originality among the Germans here. The idea, like most great ideas, originated with the Irish.