# 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:** 3
**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, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/41 "2015-06-04T02:56:45Z")
And **Boyo Jim** , I agree that it’s stupid for people to write “s **t" or "f** k”. The whole purpose of writing is to represent words and convey ideas. If someone considers a word too offensive to convey, they should redact it in full. If they wish to convey the word, they should convey it in full. Replacing a couple of letters with asterisks is really just like saying “I’m using a dirty word, but I know it’s dirty, so please don’t judge me,” or “'scuse my French.” Or, what **DinoR** said. I do, however, enjoy creative substitution of swear words. Examples: Fantastic Mr Fox: “If you’re gonna cuss with somebody, you’re not gonna cuss with me, you little cuss!” (Spoken by Bill Cussing Murray) Judge Dredd: _Grud, drokk, stomm, frak_ Yes Prime Minister: “overwrought as a newt” ---
**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 4, 2015, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/42 "2015-06-04T03:08:42Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Well, if it’s not in the goddamned Pit, they’re not supposed to use fucking curse words. You can fucking swear outside the cunting Pit, asshat. You just aren’t supposed to motherfucking swear _at_. [QUOTE=snowthx] Dude. Just one question. Why do you have to use so many cuss-words? [/QUOTE] The fuck you talking about ? ---
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/43 "2015-06-04T03:33:25Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > I was gonna say this. As for cursing, I prefer to save it for special occasions. Oh yeah, me too. Save it for those special weddings, aunt Petunia’s 80th birthday, little Tammy’s 3rd grade graduation and of course Smacked in the Nads Day. ---
**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 4, 2015, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/44 "2015-06-04T03:47:26Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > The fuck you talking about ? 😃 Alright, have it your way. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/45 "2015-06-04T03:49:40Z")
Shut the front door! ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/46 "2015-06-04T12:47:48Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > 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. First, it’s not reasonable to ask everyone on this fucking board to sculpt content just so that one asshat can browse at work without offending colleagues. Second, any random thread said asshat opens may contain swear words. Why is it any different if a thread contains swear words, versus if a list of threads contains swearwords? Third, if someone has offenderati colleagues that read over their shoulder to scrutinize a page of 10-point font on someone else’s monitor, looking for swear words and then getting agitated when they find one, those colleagues should be told to mind their own fucking business and stop looking for ways to be offended. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/47 "2015-06-04T12:56:25Z")
Some folks may use asterisks or other substitutions to avoid triggering keystroke monitors or alarms on their work computers. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/48 "2015-06-04T13:50:55Z")
One of my first jobs in IT was to write a program that checked passwords for obscene words, and disallowed them. So that the secret password, which no one was supposed to know,would not offend anyone. You can’t be too careful. R\*gards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/49 "2015-06-04T13:51:32Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > 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? Nope. In her youth, my mom would swear like a drunken sailor. There’s a family story that as a golden-haired, blue-eyed, angelic-looking little tot, I picked up on some of her more colorful phrases. And once told my dad to go shit in his hat. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/50 "2015-06-04T14:24:07Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > It annoys the H-E-double toothpicks out of me. > [@cochrane](#): > > Get it the fuck right. It’s H-E-double hockey sticks. Depends on whether your say it in upper or lower case. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/51 "2015-06-04T14:36:05Z")
> [@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’. Proving once and for all that the Torah is not an observant Jew. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/52 "2015-06-04T15:01:51Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Proving once and for all that the Torah is not an observant Jew. 😉 It doesn’t become erased. 🙂 “Melon farmer”? “Frosts my socks”? Shucky derns! ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/53 "2015-06-04T17:16:58Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#): > > First, it’s not reasonable to ask everyone on this fucking board to sculpt content just so that one asshat can browse at work without offending colleagues. This is one problem with this board- too many self-entitled assholes, who if you ask them to do something that costs them nothing, they will refuse to do it out of spite or idiocy.☹ ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/54 "2015-06-04T17:49:45Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > One of my first jobs in IT was to write a program that checked passwords for obscene words, and disallowed them. So that the secret password, which no one was supposed to know,would not offend anyone. My wife’s family name contains “shit”; she’s had trouble registering on some websites. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/55 "2015-06-04T17:52:28Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#): > > My wife’s family name contains “shit”; she’s had trouble registering on some websites. Is she Irish? Is it O’Shit? ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/56 "2015-06-04T18:21:40Z")
> [@Mr.Greenjeans](#): > > Is she Irish? Is it O’Shit? Maybe he’s married to Shithead O’Connor. Regards, Shodan ---
**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 4, 2015, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/57 "2015-06-04T18:26:13Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > This is one problem with this board- too many self-entitled assholes, who if you ask them to do something that costs them nothing, they will refuse to do it out of spite or idiocy.☹ I’m sure you mean those entitled fuckers who read the SDMB at work rather than, say, WORKING! ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/58 "2015-06-04T19:49:43Z")
> [@Mr.Greenjeans](#): > > Is she Irish? Is it O’Shit? Japanese. Seems there are a number of Japanese family names with that set of characters in it, e.g. Takeshita, Matsushita. Apparently the kanji characters for the “-shita” suffix mean “below/under,” so for example Takeshita might be the Japanese equivalent of “Underwood.” ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/59 "2015-06-04T20:40:07Z")
What about people who insist on writing “G-d” instead “That Yahweh god guy or girl”? > [@Machine\_Elf](#): > > My wife’s family name contains “shit”; she’s had trouble registering on some websites. [Cos Dashit?](http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Cos_Dashit) ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/60 "2015-06-04T23:09:15Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > What about people who insist on writing “G-d” instead “That Yahweh god guy or girl”? sigh Under Jewish law, anything containing the name of G-d is sacred. It can’t touch the ground. It can’t be defaced or dishonored in any way. It can only be disposed of in a special ceremony. In order to avoid creating sacred text, a letter is replaced with hyphen, dash etc. Under the ruling of every rabbi and scholar I’ve ever read, pixels on a computer screen lack a concreteness and permanence and don’t count. BUT, if somebody prints out that text on paper then the laws on sacred text applies. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570.md?page=4)