Q Talk

[LilMadi]

How do you feel about a vendor saying, "screw it" during their presentation?  I know I've seem posts where people didn't object to language that might be considered inappropriate and others object to it.  Is this term inappropriate?

[Barb114]

This seems pretty tacky. How was it being used. Sounds weird phrasing

[buddysgirl]

I personally do not want to hear that type language on a shopping show.

[Scooby Doo]

It's unprofessional during a presentation.

[sweetee2]

I don't like it either. If she talks like that on live tv it's make me wonder what she saids off  camera.

[SXMGirl]

It is unprofessional, but most people have used poor terminology in the wrong place and at the wrong time.  I personally would let it go.  I am assuming that this was a vendor who was on recently late this afternoon, and I would imagine that someone will be addressing the issue.

[LilMadi]

Barb114.  It was used by JM during the Argan body dcrub presentation with Amy Strahn who seemed to react as if she thought it was hilarious.

My very young grandchildren are here and heard it.  I wasn't expecting to hear it on QVC and my youngest grandchild repeated it.  Needless to say, I didn't like it but I wanted to know if I was over reacting...

[jewel3]

I guess it depends upon what you think of when you hear the phrase. It is so common here that no one thinks anything of it.

[millieshops]

In the 1970's when there was major todo about Nixon's secret tapes and the missing 18 minutes, a colleague of mine was sure he had ordered the erasures to hide the foul language on them.  She was probably right -  lots of bleeps in what eventually was published. 

But I'm not so sure the same would be true today -  seems to be pretty acceptable to use whatever expressions people with access to microphones want to use.  I think some use all sorts of language to attract attention and some are so used to expressions that can offend that they're not even aware they're using them.

"Screw it" doesn't really register much with me, but "screw you" directed at someone would.

[blackhole99]

I guess it might be construed as inappropriate if you take it in the wrong context, it certainly is not smart to use that slang on shop  TV. As far as kids picking up bad language from what they hear on TV, well that's the least of a parents  worries. When my son was little he started cursing, we didn't curse in our house and I monitored what he watched on TV. Evidently, my son heard this at school and riding home on the bus, the older kids cursed. I asked him why he used those words and he mentioned that he liked the way the words sounded. I flat out told him if he uses those curse words adults will think he doesn't come from a good family. I never heard him curse again and no one reported to me that he cursed.