# 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:** 4
**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 5, 2015, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/61 "2015-06-05T00:01:05Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > 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. If that happens, wouldn’t the person who printed it be the, er, sinner? The typist is in the clear. ---
**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 5, 2015, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/62 "2015-06-05T00:10:29Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > If that happens, wouldn’t the person who printed it be the, er, sinner? The typist is in the clear. Oh certainly the typist wouldn’t be guilty of a sin. But the goal in typing the hyphen is also to prevent anybody else from accidentally defacing sacred texts. ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/63 "2015-06-05T02:39:36Z")
Pussy! Balls! There! Happy?!? Does anybody have some ammonium carbonate… I’m feeling faint? ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/64 "2015-06-05T02:44:57Z")
And, just to be clear, motherfuckers, I was referring to my dear _pussy_cat, Muffy, who likes to play with cotton _balls_. ---
**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 5, 2015, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/65 "2015-06-05T04:37:38Z")
Hehehe…you said balls. ---
**Author:** ![jimbuff314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@jimbuff314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbuff314)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/66 "2015-06-05T04:44:28Z")
> [@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.☹ Speaking of spite and idiocy … ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/67 "2015-06-05T13:45:58Z")
> [@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? Britney Spears had “If You See Kate”. C U Next Tuesday! ---
**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 5, 2015, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/68 "2015-06-05T13:52:35Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > Britney Spears had “If You See Kate”. “If you seek Amy” I’m a tiny bit angry that I know this. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/69 "2015-06-05T15:37:53Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > 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. Yeah, I don’t get how that works. It seems like they are making things up as they go along. There are unanswered questions about this method that are puzzling to me but I’m not going to pretend that their answers will be logical ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/70 "2015-06-05T16:09:09Z")
I swear I can swear in the pit. ---
**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 5, 2015, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/71 "2015-06-05T17:27:32Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > Yeah, I don’t get how that works. It seems like they are making things up as they go along. There are unanswered questions about this method that are puzzling to me but I’m not going to pretend that their answers will be logical That is probably for the best. Rabbis have worked this one over thoroughly. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/72 "2015-06-05T18:17:10Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > “If you seek Amy” > I’m a tiny bit angry that I know this. :smack: That makes more sense! ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/73 "2015-06-05T18:39:52Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > Britney Spears had “If You See Kate”. > > C U Next Tuesday! If you see Kay Tell her she may See you in tea Tell her from me. ---
**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 5, 2015, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/74 "2015-06-05T18:41:25Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Get it the fuck right. It’s H-E-double hockey sticks. I have as no less an authority than Mrs. Fucking Cunningham from Happy Days who said toothpicks. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/75 "2015-06-05T19:40:04Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > Buncha farging iceholes. Corksuckers. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/76 "2015-06-05T20:05:13Z")
> [@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’. WHAAAAAAAT? I call bullshit on that. At least as far as the SDMB goes, posters who use “G-d” do it to reflect their agnostic nature and refusal to give the title any credence. Or they’re hipsters doing it to be ironic. ---
**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 5, 2015, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/77 "2015-06-05T20:09:48Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > WHAAAAAAAT? I call bullshit on that. > > At least as far as the SDMB goes, posters who use “G-d” do it to reflect their agnostic nature and refusal to give the title any credence. Or they’re hipsters doing it to be ironic. Actually, I do it so as not to possibly offend other Jews. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/78 "2015-06-05T20:15:37Z")
Whatever happened to Og? ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/79 "2015-06-05T21:06:54Z")
og ot dah gO Og dah ot og ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2015, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570/80 "2015-06-06T05:00:36Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > WHAAAAAAAT? I call bullshit on that. > > At least as far as the SDMB goes, posters who use “G-d” do it to reflect their agnostic nature and refusal to give the title any credence. Or they’re hipsters doing it to be ironic. No, it’s because SDMB posters are poor spellers. \*Jesis J Krist, how the hell do you spell the name of the Almightly again…Gad?..Ged?..Gid?..God?..Gud?.. Gyd?..oh, screw it! \*: \*“Yakity yakity blah blah I’m an atheist and G-d is the construct of hairless monkeys with impaired cognitive abilities yakity blah blah…” \* [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-cant-bring-themselves-to-swear-in-sdmb-threads/721570.md?page=5)