Except “God” is not the name of god. It’s Jehovah you’re not suppo… Ow ! Who threw that ?!
Because shit is natural, fucking is beautiful, and bigotry is obscene.
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.
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.
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.
:eek: My eyes!!
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.
It annoys the H-E-double toothpicks out of me.
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 “fck" and "sht.” Is that second set nonempty?
Dude. Just one question. Why do you have to use so many cuss-words?
Get it the fuck right. It’s H-E-double hockey sticks.
The HEII you say!
fuck
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.
That is beautiful, and I’m teary eyed now, with a lump in my throat.
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?
Good question. But there do seem to be people who would rather see “the n word” or “n*****” than the uncensored alternative.
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.
mhendo said “tittering.”
::gasp::
::faint::
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.
Because we fucking want to.
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.