Okay. So you don’t like cursing, or your mommy won’t let you, or the computer net software (netnanny or something, I dunno) won’t let you curse properly. Hell, I’ve seen it so bad once that you couldn’t even type “drugs” without it coming out with some sort of cleaner-upper thingy (“dr*gs”, I dunno).
Here’s the thing, though: see if you can figure out what I mean when I type these words with slight variations.
f*ck/fuk
sh!t/$hit
@ss/a$$
B!tch/b*tch
c*ck
Tw@twrench
Okay, so the last one was a joke. But you get my point, which is …
It ain’t no secret what you’re typing! We know you’re cursing! So just sit up and do it right there! It’s like you’re afraid of cursing properly … so, what, you put little symbols in and that magically makes the curse properties go away?
Look! FUCK! BITCH! ASS! COCK! DEMOCRAT!
::looks around to make sure nothing smote him while he was typing bad words::
Nope, still here. No burn marks on my ass, neither. And I don’t hear any sirens, so nobody called the cops on me…
Could we please, if we’re going to use words, USE THEM? Abused asterisks make the Baby Jesus[sup]TM[/sup] Cry.
*Say it loud. I’m a FUCKING DEMOCRAT and I’m proud![/sub]
I agree with you. “Fuck” and “Fk" are exactly the same word. Getting upset at one and not the other makes no sense. However, some people apparently do see a difference. So if I’m typing something that will appear in a forum (and I mean forum in general, not necessarily anywhere on the SDMB) where I suspect people will get upset with “fuck” but will not complain about "fk,” I will use their illogical perceptions on the nature of language to allow me to swear like a sailor without getting yelled at.
Only minutely less annoying are the radio goobers who mute the 0.074 seconds between the “F-” and the “-ck,” apparently so listeners can delude themselves into believing that Trent Reznor is actually saying, “I want to flick you like an animal,” or something.
I, and the other members of the Nathan Hale Appreciation Society, all feel that using our good friend in cuss words is weak. Splat doesn’t deserve this treatment. Spider is our friend. Twinkle should not be used to censor shit. Glob is not part of damn. Wildcard doesn’t belong in bitch. Gear is not a pseudovowel. Dingle shouldn’t be in crap. Mult shouldn’t touch racist words.
Of course there’s the George Carlin routine where he notes that “fuck you” sounds like a good thing, and the real expression should certainly be “unfuck you!”
