I mean, we’re not allowed to curse here, right?
That’s all.
Chris
Well, we ARE, but just don’t make a habit of it. The occasional “fuck” is all right, but if your posts make us think that we’re viewing an uncensored version of Jerry Springer, it’s probably going to get frowned upon.
In the Pit, profanity is often rampant as a sort of long-standing joke. But even then, a bit of coherence is asked for.
Profanity is kind of like garlic: It’s nice and fun, but too much of it and it completely ruins the flavor of your posts.
(And, for those who have been paying attention for the last week, I am well aware that I’ve been using a lot of metaphors lately.)
“Too much garlic”??? Now that is obscene. T’ain’t no such thing as too much garlic.
Well, do you mean “here in ATMB” or “here at the Straight Dope Message Board”?
Since ATMB is supposed to be a “technical questions” forum, out of respect for Tuba we keep it clean(er).
In the other forums, there’s no Language Police running around making sure you never use the “F-word”. It depends on the context. If you’re in Great Debates and you feel that the word “asshole” is the only appropriate one for the elected official being discussed, no jackbooted mods will appear at your front door and haul you off to Language Jail.
Probably General Questions is the forum least tolerant of cussing, since it’s for questions of a factual nature, and it’s hard to think of an instance when calling someone an asshole would be appropriate. “Those asshole starlings are building nests in my gutters again, what can I do?” seems a little harsh.
The Pit is the appointed venue for wholesale verbal cutting and thrusting using Anglo-Saxon euphemisms for bodily functions. And what Spoofe means by “a bit of coherence” being asked for is, that a rant ought to have a point, an object of one’s wrath, be it person, place, or thing. The Pit is not a place for juvenile pottymouths merely to exercise their Right To Say Fuck In Public.
I guess you’ve never sweated out garlic for a week. That’s too much.
Sounds like an IMHO thread: “How much garlic is too much?” Me, I think a little goes a long way.
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That’s not a metaphor, that’s a simile.
Metaphor: Profanity is the garlic of your posts.
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Carry on. 
A billion apologies, Juniper. I’ve also been posting very, very late at night. Can you ever find it in your heart to forgive me?
Well, fuck, is this an obscenity thread, or a grammar thread?
DDG…Is there a difference?
I thought this was a cooking thread.
Fenris
There is a rule against obscene and profane language. However, it appears to be like speed rules on the road. A lot of people break the rule slightly, and nothing is done about that. That is the way the o&p rule is enforced in most forums on this board, as some people have demonstrated in this post.
However, in the Pit, it seems like anything goes. O&P rules aren’t enforced there. I’m not sure why. That is a gripe in my thread about the Pit in this forum.
I don’ recall seeing it…can you show me where?
Where? As long as you aren’t being a jerk, swearing is just fucking great. Fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuck!
The registration agreement, which you can get to by logging out and clicking on Register (if you’re logged in, it will just tell you, “We’re sorry but our records show you’re already registered under the name…”
From here,
Well, George, it looks like you got us absolutely dead to rights. When we register, we DO agree not to be vulgar, and I’d be hard put to it to name a forum that doesn’t, even as we speak, contain simply masses and masses of the most grotesque vulgarity, profanity, and obscenity (especially some of those MPSIMS so-called “flirting” threads–gracious!) Maybe Comments and Staff Reports would be acceptable to Mrs. Grundy, but the others? My heavens!
So, huh. I guess we’ll just have to close this place down, since obviously there aren’t enough hours in the day for the mods to do an adequate job of policing the MB, what with the sheer size of the task. Over 18,000 registered posters, and 90% of them just as vulgar as the south end of a north-bound baboon in heat.
Shit. I’m gonna miss the fucking place… 
Well, you could have just used the search button to search for those choice words you think of as profanity, right??? Then you would know the answer to your question McStain…
BTW, just be careful you don’t use it referring to someone else, try to keep it on yourself, like, say, ‘Im in a shitty mood today’.
" You agree, through your use of this service, that you will not use this BB to post any material which is knowingly false"
That’s a better one to remember.
As my dear sweet old mother was wont to say,
YOU KIDS STOP THAT GODDAMN SWEARING!
According to #3, it is impossible to be obscene on the SDMB. However, according to #1 from this,
99% of everything on SDMB is profane. Especially Cecil.
And no comment on vulgar, as that word went out of style with buggy whips and whale-bone corsets. Unless you’re in that segment of the population who considers dog-collars and hand-cuffs to be marital aids.
Garlic??? I love the f*&%@#& stuff. See, everyone’s happy.
There’s quite a few instances of “bad words” in GQ, as well, although most of them are used in their literal meaning, rather than as interjections or intensifiers.