# Chronos this is a ridiculous mod note **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [October 30, 2022, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chronos-this-is-a-ridiculous-mod-note/974050 "2022-10-30T23:37:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2022, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chronos-this-is-a-ridiculous-mod-note/974050/1 "2022-10-30T23:37:55Z")
> [@Question about non-themed restaurant hiring only young women](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-non-themed-restaurant-hiring-only-young-women/973987/12): > > [Moderating] While the content of this post is on-topic, the tone isn’t so great. There are plenty of less crude ways of conveying the same point, including the term “theme restaurant” used by the OP. Who already stated that this isn’t one. First it’s the reader not the writer that sets the tone. So if you’re getting a bad tone from that post that’s on you not me. And what exactly, is so vulgar about my post? Was it “boob-diner” that the op used directly under mine? Gimme a break. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2022, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chronos-this-is-a-ridiculous-mod-note/974050/2 "2022-10-30T23:50:25Z")
I mean, given that the skimpy tops are often accompanied by skimpy shorts 'Tits and Ass" is really the theme . . . and IMHO calling them that simply expresses the crudeness of the restaurant’s ‘theme’. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chronos-this-is-a-ridiculous-mod-note/974050/3 "2022-10-31T01:04:54Z")
Simply because the restaurants themselves are crude, that does not compel people talking about the restaurants to be crude. And of course tone is set by the writer, not the reader, and what was crude about your post was using terms like “boob-dinner” and “breastaurant”. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chronos-this-is-a-ridiculous-mod-note/974050/4 "2022-10-31T01:47:44Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Simply because the restaurants themselves are crude, that does not compel people talking about the restaurants to be crude. And of course tone is set by the writer, not the reader, and what was crude about your post was using terms like “boob-dinner” and “breastaurant”.  You think boob-dinner and breastaurant are crude enough to merit a mod note? Seriously? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chronos-this-is-a-ridiculous-mod-note/974050/5 "2022-10-31T01:55:39Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > and what was crude about your post was using terms like “boob-dinner” and “breastaurant”. For what it’s worth, the latter term (crude though it may be) is, in fact, used in the industry itself, and by the media in articles about such restaurants. And, the term was trademarked, a few years ago, by one such chain (which is apparently now defunct). Links to evidence, spoiled, just in case: [Meet the King of the Breastaurant™ Empire – Texas Monthly](https://www.texasmonthly.com/food/meet-the-king-of-the-breastaurant-empire/) [This racy 'breastaurant' chain is becoming a major threat to Hooters](https://sports.yahoo.com/news/racy-breastaurant-chain-becoming-major-170121264.html) [The Toll of Being a Hooters Waitress](https://www.businessinsider.com/the-toll-of-being-a-hooters-waitress-2015-8?utm_source=gatehouse&utm_medium=referral&jwsource=cl) [Hooters begins brand overhaul | Nation's Restaurant News](https://www.nrn.com/latest-headlines/hooters-begins-brand-overhaul) ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chronos-this-is-a-ridiculous-mod-note/974050/6 "2022-10-31T01:56:14Z")
I’m struggling to get how _breastaurant_ is more crude than _Hooters_… ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chronos-this-is-a-ridiculous-mod-note/974050/7 "2022-10-31T01:56:27Z")
Those are not terms I would expect to find in the Factual Questions forum. In fact, “crude and sexist” would describe them in _any_ forum. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chronos-this-is-a-ridiculous-mod-note/974050/8 "2022-10-31T01:57:25Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Those are not terms I would expect to find in the Factual Questions forum. In fact, “crude and sexist” would describe them in _any_ forum. Then there are two people on this board who are confused. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chronos-this-is-a-ridiculous-mod-note/974050/9 "2022-10-31T01:59:25Z")
Only by how far discourse has deteriorated in some circles. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chronos-this-is-a-ridiculous-mod-note/974050/10 "2022-10-31T02:02:33Z")
Breast is not a bad word. Neither is boob. You can talk about female anatomy. It’s okay. Really! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chronos-this-is-a-ridiculous-mod-note/974050/11 "2022-10-31T02:05:44Z")
Your condescension not withstanding, I have a pretty good idea how to behave in the different forums. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chronos-this-is-a-ridiculous-mod-note/974050/12 "2022-10-31T02:09:12Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Your condescension not withstanding, I have a pretty good idea how to behave in the different forums.  And do I need to go through FQ and see how much “crudeness” there has historically been there before you’ll admit that this note is nothing more than pearl clutching? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chronos-this-is-a-ridiculous-mod-note/974050/13 "2022-10-31T02:10:38Z")
“Pearl clutching”? _Really?_ 🙄 ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chronos-this-is-a-ridiculous-mod-note/974050/14 "2022-10-31T02:13:08Z")
Yes, really. Talk about condescension. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chronos-this-is-a-ridiculous-mod-note/974050/15 "2022-10-31T02:43:08Z")
I support the mod note (not that it matters). There are places where casual vulgarity are fine (I use it too) but FQ doesn’t seem like one of them. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chronos-this-is-a-ridiculous-mod-note/974050/16 "2022-10-31T02:46:08Z")
If “breastaurant” is the industry term, as @kenobi_65 indicates (and given his background in advertising, I take his word), then I don’t see how it’s too crude for FQ. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chronos-this-is-a-ridiculous-mod-note/974050/17 "2022-10-31T02:46:34Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > I’m struggling to get how _breastaurant_ is more crude than _Hooters_… Fair point. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chronos-this-is-a-ridiculous-mod-note/974050/18 "2022-10-31T02:54:14Z")
Not ragging on any of the below posters. These are just examples. > **From FQ in the past year (click to view)** > > > [@How hard would it have been to kill a king leading his troops into battle?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-hard-would-it-have-been-to-kill-a-king-leading-his-troops-into-battle/959533/37): > > > > From Cryptonomicon > > > > > “Ronald Reagan has a stack of three-by-five cards in his lap. He skids up a new one: “What advice do you, as the youngest American fighting man ever to win both the Navy Cross and the Silver Star, have for any young marines on their way to Guadalcanal?” > > > … > > > “Just kill the one with the sword first.” > > > > > > “Ah,” Reagan says, raising his waxed and penciled eyebrows, and cocking his pompadour in Shaftoe’s direction. “Smarrrt–you target them because they’re the officers, right?” > > > > > > “No, fuckhead!” Shaftoe yells. "You kill 'em because they’ve got fucking swords! You ever had anyone running at you waving a fucking sword?” > > > [@The grammar of "got"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-grammar-of-got/958240/44): > > > > Is that the original instance of “_Fuck You, Auto-Correct_”? > > > [@Rudi Gernreich's pubikini - This, I gotta see!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudi-gernreichs-pubikini-this-i-gotta-see/470091/21): > > > > > [@Rudi Gernreich's pubikini - This, I gotta see!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudi-gernreichs-pubikini-this-i-gotta-see/470091/13): > > > > > > There is a point at which you do have to wonder why you’d bother wearing anything at all > > > > Back in the late 1980s in Las Vegas I attended an office Halloween party. Things were a **LOT** looser then and there versus the current uptight corporate mores. > > > > A plump middle-aged lady showed up in a costume which was mostly a black leotard & stockings plus ballet slippers. So far so ordinary. But it had circular bandaids over where her nipples would be and a large tapered jug cork attached at her crotch. > > > > She said iher costume was “The bikini of the future: two bandaids and a cork.” She won the prize that night. > > > > This pubikini thing has a long way to go to catch up to dear old what’s-her-name. Who’d be about 80 right now. > > > [@Legal consequences of resisting corporal punishment?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legal-consequences-of-resisting-corporal-punishment/970622/6): > > > > > [@Legal consequences of resisting corporal punishment?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legal-consequences-of-resisting-corporal-punishment/970622/5): > > > > > > hey’d better, or they’ll be facing very pissed off parents who **aren’t** afraid to escalate. > > > > As with all education questions, it’s state-by-state, but the ones I’m aware of require parent permission before inflicting corporal punishment. > > > > But **if** it’s legal in the state and **if** a parent gives permission and **if** a school decides to follow through and **if** you find an educator willing to carry it out, the student is probably SOL for resisting the punishment, and it’ll escalate to the next level of disciplinary action. Same as refusing to comply with any other lawful action on the part of the school. > > > > ETA: I didn’t answer the OP’s question directly, but as I can best see it, “violently fighting back against lawful corporal punishment” is no different than “violently fighting back against having to line up to get lunch.” > > > > I mean, it’s fucking stupid. Corporal punishment in schools is fucking stupid. I’ve never known an educator who longs for the good ol’ days of beating kids to keep them in line. > > > [@How do people wounded in mass shooting events, and the families of those killed, gain financial recompense?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-people-wounded-in-mass-shooting-events-and-the-families-of-those-killed-gain-financial-recompense/967599/54): > > > > Well, sure, that’s possible - but most people aren’t up on sheltering their money from taxes in that manner, which leaves the question of whether or not they can get good tax/legal/financial advice. > > > > While recuperating from disaster. > > > > It’s a fucked-up “system” > > > [@Where Did The Belief That Asian Women Are 'Sideways' Originate?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-the-belief-that-asian-women-are-sideways-originate/232527/34): > > > > Sorry this is 18 or so years late lmao… but I would assume the sideways pussy would be referring to how petite asian women are. Them being smaller… Would make their vagina smaller. Think about a normal vagina… > > It goes from vertically between the legs making it bigger than a vagina that would be side ways between the legs… Makes sense to me 🤷… Where it came from? I dont want to speculate… But sideways pussy… that just makes sense. > > > [@How Did We Get From Pussy (cat) to Pussy (vag)? How Did Beaver Enter The Mix?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-we-get-from-pussy-cat-to-pussy-vag-how-did-beaver-enter-the-mix/971993/1): > > > > Do Spanish speakers say “gatita” (little female cat) to refer to a woman’s vag? Do they also use “castor” (beaver)? > > > > How did these two slang terms get into the English lexicon? And are they used in the local tongue (heh heh) outside of English? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chronos-this-is-a-ridiculous-mod-note/974050/19 "2022-10-31T02:55:17Z")
Some of those should have gotten notes too (not all IMO). If your point is that sometimes mods miss things and/or they don’t get reported, your point is made. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chronos-this-is-a-ridiculous-mod-note/974050/20 "2022-10-31T02:56:06Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Some of those should have gotten notes too. If your point is that sometimes mods miss things and/or they don’t get reported, your point is made.  That’s not my point. You read through all that in a minute, huh? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chronos-this-is-a-ridiculous-mod-note/974050.md?page=2)