# Profuse Pit Profanity Poll **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [October 24, 2001, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/profuse-pit-profanity-poll/89381 "2001-10-24T20:34:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/profuse-pit-profanity-poll/89381/1 "2001-10-24T20:34:14Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/profuse-pit-profanity-poll/89381/2 "2001-10-24T20:50:00Z")
Pish-Posh. Please put a potato in yer pants, pucker up and peck my prick, and plant your peepers right on my prostate. Oh, I’m sorry, what was the question? 🙂 [sub]all in fun, Eonwe…you know that , right? [/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/profuse-pit-profanity-poll/89381/3 "2001-10-24T21:30:02Z")
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. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/profuse-pit-profanity-poll/89381/4 "2001-10-24T21:54:10Z")
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. \ al. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/profuse-pit-profanity-poll/89381/5 "2001-10-24T21:58:22Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/profuse-pit-profanity-poll/89381/6 "2001-10-24T23:52:02Z")
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. Oh well. That’s just me. ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/profuse-pit-profanity-poll/89381/7 "2001-10-25T00:02:52Z")
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 c_ck and my c_m in her mouth. It took more than a week for the black eye to heal. ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/profuse-pit-profanity-poll/89381/8 "2001-10-25T00:05:06Z")
And I hereby apologize for the overuse of “IRL” in the above post. I swear it didn’t seem that bad when I wrote it. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/profuse-pit-profanity-poll/89381/9 "2001-10-25T00:06:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Spoons \* > \*\*And Peter Percival Patterson had a pet pig named Porky… 🙂 (And special appreciation to anybody who gets _that_ reference.) > \*\* Peter Tork - I’m too lazy to look for which Monkees album it’s on… Appreciate me!!! ---
**Author:** ![Venoma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c4cdca/32.png) [@Venoma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Venoma)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/profuse-pit-profanity-poll/89381/10 "2001-10-25T00:09:18Z")
Here is a sample of profanity I _have_ used in actual conversation: “I’d like to disembowel the wh\*re, just slit her stomach open and \*ss-rape her with her own colon.” That about as colorful as I ever get. **Crunchy Frog** : Wow. Was it worth it? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/profuse-pit-profanity-poll/89381/11 "2001-10-25T00:27:31Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/profuse-pit-profanity-poll/89381/12 "2001-10-25T00:30:52Z")
**Moderator’s note:** The approach is a poll but discussions of board concerns really belong in ATMB. FWIW there’s a similar thread there about using obscenities. I’m moving the thread on over. TVeblen for IMHO ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/profuse-pit-profanity-poll/89381/13 "2001-10-25T02:15:24Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Fairy Chat Mom_ > Peter Tork - I’m too lazy to look for which Monkees album it’s on… 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! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/profuse-pit-profanity-poll/89381/14 "2001-10-25T02:28:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Venoma \* > \*\ ***Crunchy Frog** : Wow. Was it worth it? 😃 \*\* 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. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/profuse-pit-profanity-poll/89381/15 "2001-10-25T03:19:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Spoons \* > \*\*And Peter Percival Patterson had a pet pig named Porky… 🙂 (And special appreciation to anybody who gets _that_ reference.) \*\* This **p** et **p** ig named **P** orky loved **p** ie. He loved **p** izza **p** ie, **p** umpkin **p** ie, **p** ineapple pie **p** ie, **p** izza **p** ie…mince tarts. Does anyone else know _when_ **P** eter **P** ercival **P** atterson’s **p** et **p** ig **P** orky enjoyed eating that pie? Fenris, who didn’t even have to look it up 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Fanny\_May](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3be4f8/32.png) [@Fanny\_May](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fanny_May)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/profuse-pit-profanity-poll/89381/16 "2001-10-25T05:43:11Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/profuse-pit-profanity-poll/89381/17 "2001-10-25T14:07:41Z")
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. > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Fenris_ > Does anyone else know when Peter Percival Patterson’s pet pig Porky enjoyed eating that pie? Just before Pleasant Valley Sunday. > [@](#): > > Fenris, who didn’t even have to look it up 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?” ---
**Author:** ![Borborygmi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/borborygmi/32/217_2.png) [@Borborygmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Borborygmi)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/profuse-pit-profanity-poll/89381/18 "2001-10-25T21:11:21Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by **Spoons** :_ > > > [@](#): > > > > _Originally posted by **Fenris** :_ > > Does anyone else know _when_ **P** eter **P** ercival **P** atterson’s **p** et **p** ig **P** orky enjoyed eating that pie? > > Just before **P** leasant Valley Sunday. Bwahaha! Brilliant twist! Bolding **p** artly mine. > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by **Spoons** :_ > > 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?” \*\* He **p** opp-- he **p** osted his **p** enchant for **p** olishing off **p** ies to the **P** it?