More than anything else I’m amused by how behind the times and out of touch this board can be compared to other places. So much for the self described “hip” status. Not that I’m on the bleeding edge of the zeitgeist or anything, but some of these issues people bring up as new are years, sometimes decades old.
Hey guys, did you see this funny video of a cat playing a keyboard?
If its the “play it off cat” I wouldn’t mind using him around here some.
Nightshade?
Where are you seeing this self-described hip status? To a large extent, we’re a bunch of old fogies.
Thugs are the guys who try to beat up Bogart in private eye movies, and what Bogart played in *The Petrified Forest.
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I thought Nightshade was a Marvel villain.
AFAIK, only one of the three has a board rule forbidding its use. Any guesses as to which one that is?
“(Your direct line to thousands of the smartest, hippest people on the planet, plus a few total dipsticks.)” is near the bottom of every page. 
That stopped being an apt descriptor years ago.
A lot of total dipsticks?
I always figured it was just sarcasm.
Don’t believe everything you read on the internet.
There have always been taboo words. Probably every culture has or had them. Which words are taboo changes over time, just like a lot of other things do in living languages.
I would never use the word cunt. I love cunts. If I was to call someone a cunt, I would mean it as compliment. Never figured why it is supposed to be an insult. But apparently it is, so I won’t use it.
I would also never use the word retard. This is because I never want to insult actual retards. Retards are fine. Some of my best friends are retards. I want to insult stupid people. Seems unfair on the retards to group them in with the idiots, morons and dipshits.
As for “thug”, I’ll just say that I’ll never stop being amazed at the variety of words that a batshit racist society is able to turn into racist slurs. The creativity is mindblowing. Maybe if society was less batshit racist, this wouldn’t be a problem.
(As for “batshit”: Shitting bats are out of luck. I don’t like 'em.)
Alternatively, I’ll never stop being amazed at the number of words people can take offense from. Maybe if we weren’t so crazy about trying to take offense, this wouldn’t be a problem.
Offensensitivity.
Yeah, “hip status” means something else around here.
Is that a trick quesiton?
To be fair, it probably was true… in 1973! But now it means “I recently had hip replacement surgery”.
I’ll say. For the last decade I’ve stopped worrying about being hip and started worrying about breaking one.
