ten of us sat together in a room. we were told to listen for anything that we thought sounded like a dirty word in any language any of us understands (represented were English, French, Spanish, and Mandarin), being completely subjective, rather than objective. Bart played us six tracks recorded especially for 'The Urbz' by the Black Eyed Peas and i think a couple of other artists (how would i know who the kids are listening to these days?), some in Simlish, some in slurred, barely comprehensible English. evidently the female singer wouldn't sing in Simlish unless we paid her a lot more, so we settled for English. whatever.
between us, we heard 'hot rape porn', 'bastard', 'shit', 'bitch', 'fuck', and 'cock' -- lots of 'cock'. a couple of the songs were so suggestive they made a couple of the guys blush. one of them was so suggestive i had to cross my arms across my chest to conceal the, er, evidence. suggestive, however, even the phrase "keep on bouncing" repeated over and over again, is allowed; it's only explicit language that's verboten. what-the-fuck-ever.
and, of course, this being a Maxis game, there was a whole lot of WOOHOO!
less than a year here, and already i can't hear "woohoo!" without immediately thinking of sex.
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