DSYoungEsq, you supercillious toad...

[fisha]

@Ed_Zotti

A bitch is a female dog or an unpleasant woman. Lately it has taken on the connotation of submissive sexual partner; if that were clearly the intended meaning, we’d likely say something.

**Ed, **I don’t think you realize how how difficult this is going to be for you. You are going up against a phalanx of pedants with lots and lots of spare time and OCD personality traits. EVERY. SINGLE. POSSIBLE. COMBINATION. OF. INSULTS. AND. ABUSE. WILL. BE. BROUGHT. TO. YOUR. PERSONAL. ATTENTION.

Honey, let it go. Save yourself some chaos and heartache. They’re not going to give up. Hell, I’m not going to give up, and I don’t have half the investment that a lot of posters here do.

This stopped being the **Ed ** board a long time ago, if it ever really was.

Stop trying to take it away, Ed. Go back to being benevolent demi-god, and we promise to go back to semi-adoration.

You want respect and civility, you had it for a long time. Figure out what changed, and you can have it back.

[carnivorousplant]

@fisha

They’re not going to give up.

“The English occasionally shoot a few Admirals to encourage the others.”
-Voltaire.

[SmartAleq]

Yeah, Ed, we got it. You, personally, are terrified of and made squeamish by any sort of sexually related invective. Further, you appear to be so incredibly sexually naive that, among other examples, you apparently don’t think assholes have sexual uses. You appear to have arbitrarily decided that your own sex-negative, pissy pants attacks of the vapors are somehow the norm in mainstream American culture, to the point where you apparently feel that no explanation is necessary for any right thinking person to comprehend your intent and share your distaste.

Guess what? Your prejudices aren’t nearly as universal as you seem to think. Your viewpoint is ridiculous and your lame attempts to clarify your position aren’t helping your case. I’m visualizing you as John Ritter’s character in Bad Santa with your mouth all squinched up in ladylike distaste, for all the world as though you spotted a floater in your teacup or had been apprised that you’ve been served a santorum sammich. That you already ate half of.

Give it up. You’re coming across as querulous, silly, irrelevant, petulant, ignorant, vapid and incredibly arbitrary. If you want to be that way it’s totally your choice, but you ought at least to have the balls to own up to it. This whole thing is chickenshit.

[mr.jp]

@Indistinguishable

What about something like “Quit dicking us around”?

In the past, I believe, it was the policy of the administration not to give specific lists of banned and tolerated words, but just to generally apply some reason and discretion to individual cases. And things worked quite well. But with these new rules, so much confusion clearly exists that we are practically forced to demand such lists… and each new entry is a surprise! Even if the intentions were noble, such ambiguity creates such an unfortunate chilling effect as to overwhelm any positive good which could otherwise come of this policy.

Let’s make this list, so it can be clear.
So far, banned expressions (if said to another poster) are:
Fuck you
Fuck off
Dick
Cunt
What else?

[wring]

And wrenching it back on topic - DSYoungEsq, allow me to suggest to you that you crawl back under your mold encrusted Schwin bicycle, covering yourself with your shrill sanctimonious blather and put me on ignore.

[Q.E.D]

Is he even aware of this thread?

[Fenris]

I linked to it in the “Why aren’t you trying to communicate with us” thread.