Swearing in the right context is great for providing emphasis, or used imaginatively for commedy effect, and certainl Chaucer and Shakespeare weren’t averse to using contraversial language now and again.

Whether it’s Bill Hicks or Bikini Kill, swearing has a place in language and entertainment – but whereas I’d happily swear in front of adult friends and family, I try not to in front of my young son for example (He’s at the age where he’s started mimicking his parents for one thing!), and I’m also far more careful about my language in a public space like a supermarket than I am in the pub.

And if an artist has used language to make a point, then I’d much rather have the option to hear it as originally intended than as a radio edit, even if it means only hearing it after a certain point in the evening – there’s probably an argument that radio edits played on stations which attract a much younger audience will simply lead to more young people (who already use that language in conversation) seeking out the original anyway!

Additionally at that time of night and in the context of this programme, which presumably exists to take more risks than the average Absolute show, there’s no real reason to avoid it. Become a clever bastard.

My wife and I are about to become parents, and have taken a real check on the ‘language’ we use – it really highlights how inappropriate and unnecessary these words are.

I think I’m old fashioned (I’m 32 yrs old), but for years I have felt strongly about this. For decent, polite human beings there is no need to use this ugly manner of speech (why must Amy Winehouse use the words “kept his dick wet?” to convey her point? Its just unpleasant and as a form of entertainment, music’s sole purpose (in general) is for pleasure is it not?

Surely someone can see my point?

I too am sick of radio edits – clean your act up music industry!

So bring on the full uncut versions of decent (and even indecent) songs. I’m sick of radio edits.

Lets start desenitising the nation with back to back gangsta rap!

(Use of the word ‘bastard’, of course, is not necessarily swearing. Ian Dury was aware of that: let’s credit one of this country’s best ever lyricists with more than half-an-inch of brain.)

You play Oliver’s Army in daytime, which contains the word ‘nigger’. Isn’t that word on Ofcom’s annual ‘most offensive’ list, too?

George Michael got to number one with a song that contained the word ‘bullshit’ in its first verse and it wasn’t censored by any radio station I heard. Yet the same year Alanis Morissette’s ‘chicken shit’ had to be faded out – and the uncensored version still can’t be played more than a decade later even in the middle of the night.

And while I’m not one of them, some people are offended by any blasphemy but I heard the words ‘God’ and ‘Christ’ regularly invoked on any number of radio stations.

I’m not singling out Absolute – there’s simply no consistency on this point in British radio. It’s a nonsense that there is no radio watershed. It’s frankly embarrassing that words that flow freely on ITV1 at 9pm can’t be uttered occasionally at midnight on radio.

Plenty of research shows that most people don’t really care about some swearing after 9pm and in context: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/may/17/bbc-swearing-jonathan-ross-brand is merely the latest such research.

That doesn’t necessarily mean that Chubby Brown should be your new breakfast show presenter but I’d like to think that a progressive radio station would be prepared to unclench its buttocks just a teensy weensy bit.

My initial reaction was to say go ahead and play it.

However, as your initial reaction was to hold it back, I think you should stick with it.

As it takes just one asshole to complain to Ofcom to cause the station aggravation, leave it be.