I propose that creative insult threads be permitted. What’s a creative insult thread? Have a boo:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=490737&highlight=insult
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=29606&highlight=insult
There is a well established tradition of creative insults in the SDMB Pit. You can use the search function either to find a great many creative insults, or to motivate you to create insults, depending on the mood of the engine. Read Cervaise on Telemarketers, or on effective, simple, vulgar insults:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=51270&highlight=telemarketer
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=10873037&postcount=478
Little Ed has recently stated: "There are all sorts of ingenious and scabrously funny comments you can make that don’t involve saying “fuck you,” and in the same thread he was quite content to use the phrase “fucking retarded” in his official role, so one has to assume that neither creative insults nor vulgarity per se are of particular concern to the person who controls the SDMB.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/...ply&p=10870732
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=10874644&postcount=546
Further to Ed’s position taken on the Boards, in his Straight Dope article on insults in various languages, he stated that with regard to creative vulgarity: “Clearly we don’t lack potential, just ambition.” Do other languages have obscenities like those of English? - The Straight Dope
There is a long established tradition of creative insults in the best of English literature and literary criticism: Oscar Wilde on Alexander Pope’s poetry, though curiously not on his grotto; Horace Walpole on Thomas Richardson’s virtue propounding, and propounding, and propounding novels; Thomas Stern’s Excommunicatio marrying English and Latin in insult; Shakespeare’s invention of new words for new insults; and of course dear Chaucer bringing butt munching to the Middle English masses.
There is a well established tradition of contests and playful one-upmanship on the SDMB, including vulgar subjects, such as TMI (too much information) threads and zit threads, which while of base subject matter are of tremendous popularity and bring great cheer to the Boards, albeit with some damage to keyboards. Seeing as the search engine is on strike again, I will leave to you your own resources to seek out and be amazed and astonished by these theads.
Concerning the desires of those with virgin ears and delicate sensibilities, there is no reason why they should bother to read a properly titled creative insult thread, and even less reason why their condition should be permitted to spread throughout the Boards as a reason to infantilize content and tone. Instead, let’s raise the standard by having a broad spectrum of threads, including those at which some would turn their nose, flick their thumb, and feign moral superiority. Let’s not pander to the lowest common denominator though prohibiting low discourse. Asthe great polymath and diplomat Benjamin Franklin so eloquently put it in A Letter to A Royal Academy: “Fart proudly.”