Funny Or Die has posted a video showing you how to have your very own party to celebrate today's Windows 7 release. It's strikingly similar, yet importantly different from the video that Microsoft put out a couple of weeks ago.
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Maybe some people are browsing at home and their kids can hear what's coming out of the speakers?
Maybe people are viewing this in other environments where deliberately viewing videos with foul language would be frowned upon, hence putting them in an awkward situation if they are encouraged to view it unknowingly?
I don't see the point as being that explicit language causes any real harm to anyone. I think that giving warning it is just better manners. I don't really object personally to explicit language but I typically warn people if a video contains it, just to be polite. For a news site catering to a wide audience I think this kind of politeness would be well-placed.
This is for much the same reason that some people mark links to certain images as NSFW even when they simply depict certain things that we've all seen before. Seeing them won't harm you but you might want to have the choice in advance of where / when / if you look.
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What is the precise harm of hearing a foul word exactly? And might it be possible that by paying no attention to it you'll become immune to that particular harm?
Or do you really need, as you say, a warning before hearing it, so you can mentally prepare to absorb the effect. If so, I advice not to venture outside your own dwelling because there are no censors there.
Also that particular Dutch loanword describes the most fundamental act of life. It's quite natural and I can't see how anybody could be offended by it. Granted, it's the “foul” word to describe that act, but only because of the people that complain about it.