So the pit is the place where a large percentage of posters can parcel out profanity at a prodigious pace, but how many of us actually pepper our parlances with such passionate phrases as, “pheasant felching partridge plucker” while not posting?
Now perhaps I am a prude, or a bit prejudiced from poignant lessons my parents imparted to my personage about impropper profanity, but my personality prohibits me from swearing my way out of a paper package. Only the puniest portion of my posts are populated with words that have previously been prohibited by parental protection.
Does your profane posting model a paradigm by which you profess to live, or is it unique to your own type of posting prowess and only appear in posts and not person to person posturing?
Truthfully, the tiny times I’ve tried to type in the Pit, I tend to be try and be less tired or pedantic as I am in true life. Where, in the typical times I’ve tattled expletives in the true world, they tend to be of trite and of the “F***” or “Bulls***” variety. In the Pit, I am not that type of talker. I try to treat each term of hate I tryout in the Pit as an original term.
I always blush and giggle in real life when I try to swear. It’s rather annoying, actually. I’m almost 30, fer crying out loud, I should be able to say F*CK without flushing.
You know I was thinking of this very topic as I ate my lunch today – I know not why.
As for me, I sometimes enjoy reading the circuitous route some will take to fling an insult, e.g. “Why don’t you lick the sweat of a dead syphilitic, threelegged, Mexican hopping gecko’s gangreneous balls.”
As for me, I tend to write as I speak, so I usually stop with a succint, yet to the point – “Eat me.”
In fact, I probably swear twice as much in real life as I do posting, even in the pit.
And Peter Percival Patterson had a pet pig named Porky… (And special appreciation to anybody who gets that reference.)
But seriously, I don’t often use profanity, no matter whether it’s in real life or in the Pit. I have serious misgivings about posting new topics in the Pit, because I know my rants and comments, as important to me as they may be, are not likely to use any profanity. And I wonder how seriously they would be taken in the Pit if they don’t.
While I am rather foulmouthed IRL, I rarely say such contrived phrases IRL. I do this in the Pit often though, mostly because when I write phrases like that, I’m blowing off some steam and find it cathartic.
IRL I will quite often point blank tell someone what’s on my mind, if they really want to know. And while my tirades may be profanity laden, it isn’t the sort of bizarre phraseology found in the Pit. I think the closest I’ve come IRL to using that sort of phrase IRL is when I told a current BF of an ex-GF to remember next time he kissed her that I’ve had both my cck and my cm in her mouth.
It took more than a week for the black eye to heal.
Actually, SDMB has significantly improved my profane vocabulary. I don’t swear all that much, though. It makes a much bigger impression when you finally cut loose if you’re normally pretty conservative in your speech.
Ah, I knew somebody would come through. Yes, you’re absolutely correct. It was on Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, and Jones Ltd. And it was (and remains) a piece of alliteration I and certain associates still practice.
Well done, FCM, and you are hereby specially appreciated!
I think so. I never liked him anyway (this happened in the Air Force and I already knew and disliked him before they started dating). He had to start in on me one night at the enlisted club about how great she was in bed and I just wanted to remind him that I had already experienced that. Although if I hadn’t been drinking, I probably wouldn’t have said it in quite such a blunt and inflammatory way.
I actually take it as a moral victory if I get hit in a situation like that (you need some kind of rationale for taking an ass-whoopin’). It means I’ve beaten the guy with my words. He could hit me if he wants, but bruises heal. Words having a tendency to stick around in one’s mind for much longer.
The profanity is more childish than anything else, but it is annoying nonetheless.
I personally think the pit, which was originally used for “flaming” (insulting other posters), has now become an alternate for the MPSIMS forum, but for the less articulate.
A complaint about being cut off in the parking garage is supposedly more dramatic if swearing is featured. Perhaps for some, but not for me. I find if swearing is needed, then that just means the bare story was not very compelling to begin with.
I think Fanny May raises an important point. Annoying little occurrences (like getting cut off in a parking garage) no doubt happen to each of us daily. While they may seem important at the time, I certainly couldn’t hold onto my rage long enough to park, go inside to my computer, and post a venemous rant. Perhaps the profanity is a way to hold on to one’s rage.
And while there are incidents that do warrant full-blown rants, it seems to me that profanity is a way to take a minor incident that many would simply forget about after a few minutes and make it sound like a major one.
Of course, what I feel to be a minor incident may not be to others. As always, mileage varies.
Just before Pleasant Valley Sunday.
Spoons, who didn’t either. Oh, and Fenris, you are hereby specially appreciated too!
Well, now that we’ve put most of it down, we might as well take this to its logical conclusion, so:
“And Peter Percival Patterson’s pet pig Porky ate so much pie that do you know what he did?”
[sub]all in fun, Eonwe…you know that , right? [/sub]