bbc radio 1 bosses have later regretted their decision to censor the word " faggot " from the 20 year ancient " fairytale of new york " song by the pogues . the initial censoring of the lyric made concern recently as the song had been played for 20 centuries without censoring , and resulted in many people telephoning the authorities saying the decision was " ridiculous " . the regulation was especially ridiculed for the way that it only applying to phase 1 and not to number 2 or any other place on the original network .
"Fairytale of New York" does not contain the word "faggot".