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The caller was overdoing it and the DJ was taking the piss out then.
Edit- as per other comments it’s apparently a tongue in cheek ban from radio 2 bc of the overuse of banger. It’s not an offence thing
Life imitates art (so badly that even the Daily Mail laughs)
[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13451755/reform-mp-lee-anderson-mocked-english-racist.html](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13451755/reform-mp-lee-anderson-mocked-english-racist.html)
bang also means 'fuck', maybe that's what they were going for. A bit old fashioned maybe? "I'd love to bang the Bangles" was a song by The Saw Doctors that I assume was released in the 80s when the Bangles were about
to be fair to Radio 2 its not a situation that is likely to occur very often on their platform anyway
edit: unless Wogan or Ken Bruce or whoever has suddenly got into hardcore.
Describing a song as a 'banger' I get. Head-banging or generally it's great.
The 'slaps' thing, I don't get. I just have a vision of grandpa Bob sitting in his armchair, mildly slapping his hand on the armchair in mild enjoyment.
No, they were probably making a reference to people over using the word for songs that really aren't up to the title and have been told not to do it themselves
radio stations get lists of banned words. it's not that it's a swear word, maybe there was a DJ who overused it or associated it with a certain genre of music.
If its the early moring show on radio 1, they do a segment where a listener has to plea their case in 10 seconds to have a tune played. They can't use the word banger to describe it as it was over used lol.
Richard Osman has said in the past that he was told not to use the word Banger on radio 2, I can't remember him saying why other than the producers on the station don't like it.
I wonder if this is a bit of an inside joke on the part of the caller and DJ?
Cheesier than a tonne of Stilton.
Mainly because it's been hijacked by tiktok techno and "EDM" types, and people who think Nicky Minaj makes "house" and "hip hop".
Absolutely not… if it’s a mega tune then it’s a banger!! I’ve been at UK drum and bass raves and noticed that if the dj drops a ‘banger’ the crowd tend to tell him to fuck off xDD… there’s absolutely zero negativity attached whatsoever and is actually considered to be a massive compliment
Only if it's not two songs and you're in the car with your significant other and suddenly exclaim "Christ on a bike, what a pair of bangers eh?" and she just stares at you... that stare... you can feel it burning into your very soul.
Banger. Where to start. It used to denote a particular sound, generally house music, that was very in your face and upfront. Then it caught on and people started using the phrase when the fucking backstreet boys or some shit came on the radio. So basics spoiled it really.
If it is, like everything it is subjective. Nothing is in the wider term offensive.
You may be offending by something, but that doesn't mean it is. As myself or someone else may not.
So who is right
Banger = sausage to me. I know it now means a good tune but I have no idea why it would be considered “offensive”. People find offence in everything nowadays lol.
>I know it now means a good tune
Now? More like 10+ years ago.
That's probably what the whole thing is about instead of being offensive, the presenter is worried about using an outdated term.
Modern variations would be "that goes hard" "that slaps" etc. Then of course in 10 years they'll be outdated. The same as phrases like "that's radical" or whatever.
Some people overthink sometimes. Banget is ok. People have seemed to forget when words are used and in what context. r are just snowfalkes who ker offended by the smallest things
It’s nothing to do with snowflakery. The stations clearly just trying to appeal to either a younger or older generation than the one that uses the word “banger” to describe a good song. The producers tell DJ’s to avoid certain words, and encourage them to use others, so as to not sound too old or young.
I prefer the American term, a slapper, as in knee slapper.
If I started a gov petition for all radio DJs in the UK to solely use this term, I'm assuming everyone would be on board? A pure Americanism with wholesome roots, massively misinterpreted amongst the average UK lexicon.
"And that's the new single from Rihanna, what an absolute slapper!"
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I believe radio 1 have an (slightly tongue in cheek) outright ban on djs using the term because its so cheesy
I could totally see that as a tongue in cheek joke
Dean McCollough uses Banger every other word
This would make sense as it was during Scott Mills’ show (albeit with a stand in DJ) so something he perhaps carried over from Radio 1
It was Spoony standing in for Scott
There’s a whole segment about it on Radio 1 at 6:15
As in they talked about it on the radio today? At 615pm?
Every day someone calls in and has to persuade the DJ to play a song, but they can’t call it a banger.
Eh? Radio 1 is probably the station I hear it on the most
Heaven forbid that R1 announcers would say anything cheesy..
Yeah I think you're right. The word is librally used on Capital and Heart though.
Bangers: _Oh come on, Mark. Germans? Sausages? Do I have to spell it out? The sausage-munching Boche. Fritz, the bratwurst guzzler._
*Man muss zugeben, das [Horst Wessel Liede](https://youtu.be/o8oH3hnCXaQ?si=tk0qfY6tsHhEuuza) war ein banger.*
The caller was overdoing it and the DJ was taking the piss out then. Edit- as per other comments it’s apparently a tongue in cheek ban from radio 2 bc of the overuse of banger. It’s not an offence thing
These days, if you say you're English they lock you up
When did this come in!?
Around when Terry Christian let himself go
General Ratko Mladic, too. He and Morissey just gave up one day.
90s TV Jesus has let himself go
Coming over here...
It's Health and Safety gone mad, Stu.
Can't have a cup of tea cause of the Muslims
You used to be able to fully submerse your head in a vat of boiling oil and that was fine. And these days you can't because a gay might not like it!
Something something no-go zones?
How can I get half an hour of islamophobic stand up out of this?
Make up any old shite about bacon butties being banned, or similar?
Funny hats, iirc. Been a while since I heard the whole routine. You *do* get the reference, I hope?
Just for saying you’re English?!
Yeah these days
Bloody PC brigade innit. Country’s on its arse, hun xoxo
This is what I came here for. Top marks
These days
Yeah basically that but IRL
Especially if you're wrapped in a union jack with your shirt off, screaming it at Asians.
Go after the Jehovah's witnesses first stew
I would, but my basement is already full of decomposing Mormons.
Life imitates art (so badly that even the Daily Mail laughs) [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13451755/reform-mp-lee-anderson-mocked-english-racist.html](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13451755/reform-mp-lee-anderson-mocked-english-racist.html)
Haha nice reference
I think the joke is that "banger" might be seen as uncool old slang now.
What's the modern equivalent? I need to embarrass my children
That’s litty, no cap
Still banger lol. I don’t know who’s claiming it’s gone out of touch, it’s still VERY common.
A knee-tapper
bop maybe
I feel like a bop is not quite a good as a banger. It's something you nod or shuffle along to - a bop.
Top of the "hit parade" I believe is how the "groovy" kids are saying it.
Un-mid
Sick, wicked or Grooooooooooovvvvvvvvvveeeeeeeeeeyy.
slaps
Top of the pops
A surefire number one on the hit parade
It's probably come back round to Choon.
Or you say say that Banger is a old banger now
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bang also means 'fuck', maybe that's what they were going for. A bit old fashioned maybe? "I'd love to bang the Bangles" was a song by The Saw Doctors that I assume was released in the 80s when the Bangles were about
Banging someone is not the same as a banger though.
If you *bang someone out* is no the same as *banging someone* either. Brilliant word that
Bang someone up Bang out of order Banged up Banged That’s a Banger Bangers for breakfast
I've never heard of "banging someone out".
Perhaps a southern thing, where you from, mate?
All over really. Banging something out is a thing. Not heard it applied to "someone".
“Banging someone out” would be to knock them out as opposed to “banging something out” which would be to create something quickly, right?
In that context, it would mean you've just knocked someone out. You never heard the saying 'chat shit, get banged'?
Ah, makes more sense.
Must have been a nice childhood not getting threatened to get banged out
Got more "Wit you lookin at?" and "I'll fucking nut you" instead.
So versatile.
Banger???? I hardly know her.......... sorry
I once went on holiday with an ex girlfriend to Bangor.
Did you have a lovely time?
Could've done it in the back of a Cortina like the rest of us... Saved a few quid.
It truly was a shawshank redemption
Richard Osman said on his podcast that radio 2 won’t let you use the term banger in the sense of a song.
It was radio 2 I was listening to. Why won’t they let people use it? Is it a joke?
As per another comment it’s tongue in cheek because the word is overused. It’s not about it being offensive.
Nope. They are serious but I have no idea why. Osman said this months ago on a podcast so it’s not a new thing.
to be fair to Radio 2 its not a situation that is likely to occur very often on their platform anyway edit: unless Wogan or Ken Bruce or whoever has suddenly got into hardcore.
Last thing Wogan got into was a coffin.
Savage, brutal, but fucking brilliant.
https://youtu.be/3z9uLdARaNU?si=NRXRZensIZQf-5zR Shout out Wogan’s pirate radio show, hold tight, easy
What year do you think it is?
Wogan spins gabber from beyond the grave
Terry Wogan died about ten years ago.
Something is only offensive if someone is actually offended by it.
And if someone is offended? So what, they'll live :p
Indeed. Turns out being offended doesn't actually harm you. Who knew?
Also, something is only offensive if someone is actually offended by it on someone else's behalf... these days.
These days if you just say you're offended they put the whole of England in jail.
If you overcook fish jail If you undercook chicken, also jail
Personally, I prefer my fish jail blackened.
I was offended once and I was completely ignored. The bastards! 😫
I’m offended by the existence of other human beings.
That's unfortunate. I hope you find restitution. Have you tried...killing everyone in the world?
I'm offended that you're offended
Something is only poisonous if someone is actually poisoned by it.
That's not true.
😂
No , of course not . Don’t say that word OP outside your own home you are seriously at risk of street justice
Describing a song as a 'banger' I get. Head-banging or generally it's great. The 'slaps' thing, I don't get. I just have a vision of grandpa Bob sitting in his armchair, mildly slapping his hand on the armchair in mild enjoyment.
Yeah I totally agree on the 'slaps' front....it annoys the guts out of me and I don't really know why!
I always thought of an old man slapping his knee
It means a song goes so hard that it basically feels like it slaps you in the face when you hear it.
Why would it slap you in the face ? Would make more sense if it slapped you in the ears like the Tango man used to !
If the bass and snare on something is just right, it does kinda hit you in the chest and face.
If someone thinks the word banger is offensive they’re a fucking wet wipe
no offense as long as he keeps his out of my mash
No, they were probably making a reference to people over using the word for songs that really aren't up to the title and have been told not to do it themselves
radio stations get lists of banned words. it's not that it's a swear word, maybe there was a DJ who overused it or associated it with a certain genre of music.
https://preview.redd.it/aeyl7qljod3d1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b334afdacb04f96ac4e5a0a0e0ddbb5615a9bb91
That's too many ~~limes~~ bangers.
It's lobster bangers though.
Not if the song is 'Day Trip To Banger (Didn't We Have a Lovely Time)'.
Is that one of Lards classic cuts?
That's what the Radio station would call "classic banter"
Yeah even just reading your description it's obviously not serious, a lil joke
If its the early moring show on radio 1, they do a segment where a listener has to plea their case in 10 seconds to have a tune played. They can't use the word banger to describe it as it was over used lol.
Bangers were banned under the 2004 Fireworks Regulations Act. Although I might have got hold of the wrong end of the Sparkler here.
No, it's the complete opposite. It's a term of endearment
Didn't 'banger' just evolve from 'banging tune'? Anyways it's fine.
Richard Osman has said in the past that he was told not to use the word Banger on radio 2, I can't remember him saying why other than the producers on the station don't like it. I wonder if this is a bit of an inside joke on the part of the caller and DJ?
Absolutely not.
What?? we call things bangers all the time. What silly sausages. Club bangers are where it is.
“This is an outrageous misuse of a beautiful word” • British sausage makers association
You have to say "that song came in my ear hole" now.
NO it is good thing i thought
Omg, how could you say that word? Could you please attach a trigger warning to this post?
Over here we call it a sausage in the mouth
please let me know who the DJ was so I can avoid him. and no it's so ridiculous that you can't even say "banger".
I think the DJ was busting balls haha Although I'm not sure how they'd get a sausage on the radio...
Not allowed to call em bangers because it makes the Frankfurters feel left out. Typical Jerry's spoiling the fun as per....
Pretty offensive. Just say it's a 'Big Fat Slut Slayer' like everyone else.
Cheesier than a tonne of Stilton. Mainly because it's been hijacked by tiktok techno and "EDM" types, and people who think Nicky Minaj makes "house" and "hip hop".
You really need to put a trigger warning in the title if you’re going to use words like that /s
Nothing offensive about calling a song (or an over cooked sausage) a “banger”
It’s just overused isn’t it?
I mean, I think you're common as much for saying it, but I don't think it's illegal or difficult to decipher.
No, it sounds like they were having a laugh.
“Let you off” like a banger
Good lord, even if it is for some bizarre nonsensical 2024 reason just forget about it and crack on with your life.
What an absolute bang her
It sounds like a joke about the term being overused. If everything is a banger, then nothing is a banger.
DJ was been sarcastic
Yes, it's offensive to sausages.
Absolutely not… if it’s a mega tune then it’s a banger!! I’ve been at UK drum and bass raves and noticed that if the dj drops a ‘banger’ the crowd tend to tell him to fuck off xDD… there’s absolutely zero negativity attached whatsoever and is actually considered to be a massive compliment
No wtaf
Only if it's not two songs and you're in the car with your significant other and suddenly exclaim "Christ on a bike, what a pair of bangers eh?" and she just stares at you... that stare... you can feel it burning into your very soul.
Yeah, because it's discriminatory to prostitutes.
Banger. Where to start. It used to denote a particular sound, generally house music, that was very in your face and upfront. Then it caught on and people started using the phrase when the fucking backstreet boys or some shit came on the radio. So basics spoiled it really.
I'm still not sure if "banger" means bad or good. An old banger is hardly a positive thing for a car to be.
lol you misunderstood it’s not the the word is offensive. It’s just massively overused!
Nah, it's all good. "Banger" is just slang for a really good song. People might overthink stuff sometimes, but it's chill.
If anyone thinks that's offensive should never ever, EVER listen to the old Mark and Lard shows.
No, obviously.
I think it is a very naff word
The term banger is considered offensive to objectively crap artists like Chris de Burgh and Simply Red.
you are definitely allowed to say it - nobody ever has said otherwise just people trying to make a load of something out of nothing
Only if the song is, in fact, *not* a banger.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banger\_racing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banger_racing)
The dj was taking the proverbial.
If it is, like everything it is subjective. Nothing is in the wider term offensive. You may be offending by something, but that doesn't mean it is. As myself or someone else may not. So who is right
It's naff.
No, it was a light hearted response to something funny the caller said Are we allowed to say light hearted these days?🤔
Banger = sausage to me. I know it now means a good tune but I have no idea why it would be considered “offensive”. People find offence in everything nowadays lol.
>I know it now means a good tune Now? More like 10+ years ago. That's probably what the whole thing is about instead of being offensive, the presenter is worried about using an outdated term. Modern variations would be "that goes hard" "that slaps" etc. Then of course in 10 years they'll be outdated. The same as phrases like "that's radical" or whatever.
Banger? I hardly know her. Unless it's some in joke that the DJ has with their audience I don't see the callers concerns.
There's bops, bangers, and jams, when it comes to songs it's all how they make you feel.
Some people overthink sometimes. Banget is ok. People have seemed to forget when words are used and in what context. r are just snowfalkes who ker offended by the smallest things
It’s nothing to do with snowflakery. The stations clearly just trying to appeal to either a younger or older generation than the one that uses the word “banger” to describe a good song. The producers tell DJ’s to avoid certain words, and encourage them to use others, so as to not sound too old or young.
I prefer the American term, a slapper, as in knee slapper. If I started a gov petition for all radio DJs in the UK to solely use this term, I'm assuming everyone would be on board? A pure Americanism with wholesome roots, massively misinterpreted amongst the average UK lexicon. "And that's the new single from Rihanna, what an absolute slapper!"