# I Pit people who can't bring themselves to swear in SDMB threads **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 3, 2015, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570 "2015-06-03T19:34:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/21 "2015-06-03T21:13:42Z")
> [@Mr.Greenjeans](#): > > Observant Jews don’t write God’s name. In English, this is typically represented as “G-d”. Bullshit, perhaps, but not to them. Jus’ sayin’. Except “God” is not the name of god. It’s Jehovah you’re not suppo… Ow ! Who threw that ?! ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/22 "2015-06-03T21:14:12Z")
> [@Canadjun](#): > > The one that amuses me the most is “The N- word” (and occasionally other \- variants). Why not just say what you mean? Because shit is natural, fucking is beautiful, and bigotry is obscene. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/23 "2015-06-03T21:14:31Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Many posters have asked that profanity not be used in the\*\* Titles \*\*of threads. That’s a reasonable request, so I fucking do it. Ok, MANY posters are a bunch of – hmm, we really need some decent non-sexist swears, because while _pussies_ again comes mind, it’s suggests I have something against women. But _wimps_ doesn’t seem sweary enough. Anyway, fuck 'em. This anti-swearing stuff is essentially based on religion and fuck that too. ---
**Author:** ![Rune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e68b1a/32.png) [@Rune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rune)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/24 "2015-06-03T21:25:23Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Because shit is natural, fucking is beautiful, and bigotry is obscene. Well swear words are supposed to be obscene, that’s kinda the whole reason for them. A flower is both natural and beautiful, but you don’t go saying: you flower you. A pussy on the other hand is also both natural and sometimes beautiful in its own ugly way, but there’s a whole sticky thread that spells out why I’m not supposed to call elucidator a fucking nigger whore cunt. So much for the pit. More like a gentleman’s tea parlour. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/25 "2015-06-03T21:29:49Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > I was gonna say this. As for cursing, I prefer to save it for special occasions. The frequency of using it isn’t an issue, it’s the … what? … honesty? …bizarre modesty? … of the \*'ers when they choose to swear. They know what they want to say, they know what they want people to understand, yet they have some inexplicable phobia against the words. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/26 "2015-06-03T21:33:20Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > _pixelation_ :eek: My eyes!! ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/27 "2015-06-03T21:41:26Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Ok, MANY posters are a bunch of – hmm, we really need some decent non-sexist swears, because while _pussies_ again comes mind, it’s suggests I have something against women. But _wimps_ doesn’t seem sweary enough. > > Anyway, fuck 'em. This anti-swearing stuff is essentially based on religion and fuck that too. No, it’s not. The request was made as they were browsing the SDMB at work, and the titles were obvious and could offend their co-workers. It was a reasonable fucking request. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/28 "2015-06-03T22:02:00Z")
It annoys the H-E-double toothpicks out of me. ---
**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/29 "2015-06-03T22:14:01Z")
I visualize this as a Venn diagram: a circle for the set of people who are offended by the words “fuck” and “shit,” and another, smaller circle inside it for the people who are placated by “f_ck" and "sh_t.” Is that second set nonempty? ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/30 "2015-06-03T22:35:36Z")
Dude. Just one question. Why do you have to use so many cuss-words? ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/31 "2015-06-03T22:39:55Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > It annoys the H-E-double toothpicks out of me. Get it the fuck right. It’s H-E-double hockey sticks. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/32 "2015-06-03T22:57:23Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Get it the fuck right. It’s H-E-double hockey sticks. The HEII you say! fuck ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/33 "2015-06-03T23:28:33Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Well, if it’s not in the goddamned Pit, they’re not supposed to use fucking curse words. > > If they are in the Pit, then yeah. I would say that I have disproven this by slowly and ranomly dropping the F bomb (Boyo Jim: Fuck ) in each forum over the years, but that would be a lie, because I haven’t done that. > [@elucidator](#): > > Mark Twain’s wife, Livy, was one of the few who did not appreciate her husband’s swearing, and he tried to keep watch on his tongue when she was close by; but one day something irritated him, and, thinking his wife could not hear, he launched into a torrent of red-hot profanity. When he entered his wife’s room a short time later, she coolly repeated word-for-word everything he had said. > > “Livy,” he replied, astounded yet amused, “did it sound like that?” > > “Of course it did,” she said, “only worse. I wanted you to hear just how it sounded.” > > “Livy, it would pain me to think that when I swear it sounds like that. You got the words right, Livy, but you don’t know the tune.” That is beautiful, and I’m teary eyed now, with a lump in my throat. ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/34 "2015-06-03T23:28:41Z")
My mother never swore. Like, never. Then came the day she was in terrible pain from muscles spasming in her back and she yelled out – the more innocent may want to cover their eyes – Father Uncle Cousin Kate! 🙂 Anyone else ever run into that one? ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/35 "2015-06-04T00:57:06Z")
> [@erysichthon](#): > > I visualize this as a Venn diagram: a circle for the set of people who are offended by the words “fuck” and “shit,” and another, smaller circle inside it for the people who are placated by “f_ck" and "sh_t.” Is that second set nonempty? Good question. But there do seem to be people who would rather see “the n word” or “n\*\*\*\*\*” than the uncensored alternative. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/36 "2015-06-04T01:00:32Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Because shit is natural, fucking is beautiful, and bigotry is obscene. Nigger is a word that should not be used to describe another human being. The bigotry behind it is, indeed, obscene. But if we’re talking about the historical use of the word, or other issues related to the word, then there’s nothing wrong with using the word. It’s a completely reasonable thing to do. There’s no need to be gratuitous about it, or to use it more than necessary, but if the sentence calls for the word, then writing or saying “the N-word” is just stupid, IMO. My students read historical documents that use the word. I provide those documents for them, and i refuse to sanitize them by changing the word or removing letters. If it comes up in class, and i need to say the word, then i say the whole word. Some of my students are a little taken aback at first, but part of the intellectual process is helping them to understand that we can use words like this in an academic discussion without being bigots, and without acting like tittering adolescents. ---
**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/37 "2015-06-04T01:13:36Z")
**mhendo** said “tittering.” ::gasp:: ::faint:: ---
**Author:** ![DinoR](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dinor/32/2821_2.png) [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/38 "2015-06-04T01:17:06Z")
fuck the fucking infanfuckingtile fucks!!! Actually I’ll do the complete replacement. Not because the words offend me but because language is meant to convey meaning to the listener. If my meaning is meant to be particularly offensive or shocking I don’t worry about someone being shocked. Message conveyed. If it’s not, the complete replacement in written communication, can let someone fill in their own word based on the way the received them and the context. The word, given the context, can be fit to what their internal shock aversion is. Doing something like C\*\*\* is just weak though. The intended word is conveyed but without the fortitude to type it. I won’t say I never do that but I at least try not to cave in that way. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/39 "2015-06-04T02:39:01Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > Dude. Just one question. Why do you have to use so many cuss-words? Because we fucking want to. ---
**Author:** ![Not\_Carlson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bc79bd/32.png) [@Not\_Carlson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Not_Carlson)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/40 "2015-06-04T02:49:26Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Dash dash dash dash dash dash, > Dash dash dash dash dash dash. > Dash dash dash dash, > Dash dash dash dash, > Dash dash dash, dash dash, fuck." Heh-heh. I like it. But it makes me wonder what the unmentionable word that rhymes with _fuck_ could possibly be. I recently watched _The Blues Brothers_ with my kids, after first explaining that it contained a lot of words that should not be used in polite conversation. My youngest kid thought it was hilarious how often the word _shit_ was used. He especially liked the scene where Jake and Elwood get beat up by the Penguin for repeated swearing. Anyhow, this thread reminded me of a certain poetical discourse on the issue of [fuckityfuckfuckfuckfuck](http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bJeiBwTzTrM). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570.md?page=3)