I don’t know of any equivalent to tons of phrases that involve profanity. Your choice of “how much money would it take to get you off the air forever?” emphatically does not convey the same point.
How about fuck me pumps?
Face it. The English language and its billions of speakers are collectively more creative than you are. You can only substitute your euphemisms at a cost in directness and clarity, the very objectives you’re striving to meet.
No? How about “how much money would it take to get you to go into retirement forever?” My first reaction to The Scrivener’s thread title was that it would be about Ms Lyden’s payscale, expenditures or lifestyle, and it wasn’t until the last paragraph of his OP that I understood his usage. I don’t find that particularly clear.
Not a good example; I find the phrase you have selected extraordinarily offensive, implying as it does that a woman’s interest in fashion and/or her appearance is necessarily equivalent to indiscriminate sexual promiscuity, and would be happy to see it vanish from the lexicon forever. Try another.
That’s a most welcome development! Thank you, Ed.
Hmm, and all this time I thought they were called that because if you walk around in them too much, they fuck up your feet. :eek: (ow)
It is something of a misnomer, at least for the pumps. But seriously, only sluts wear “fuck-me boots.”
What about “fuck me” tennis shoes?
Mundane Girl Scout Cookies I Must Share? 
To clarify earlier:
Most of the time, profanity is not needed. However, even if only 1% of the time, where a four letter word is the only word to truly express how you feel, it must be preserved.
I meant to address the rare moment in time when you are pushed to an extreme where further restraint has been proven futile. At a point in time, the sugar coating needs to stop.
It would seem we are moving on a compromise already, and I will repsect that intention.
-Meeko
Back off to Cafe Society and The Game Room once again.
The world does not proceed according to your wishes.
Your level of offensiveness is not of interest or concern to me. The English language is. There are phrases that have no equivalents. You can decide to use them or not as you choose. You cannot decree them out of the language.
Posssibly, but I’d have to see you in them.
So, change ‘fucking’ (having sex) to ‘goddam’ (sending a deity to suffer in the domain of his nemesis)
right.
Really? Name me ONE phrase that expresses any sentiment whatsoever that cannot be expressed without profanity.
I am not trying to decree anything “out of the language”; I am saying that profanity is never the ONLY choice by which to convey a given quantum of information.
Oh, for God’s sake. The “no swearing” rules were always stupid, they were always unenforceable, and you had well over a thousand posts asking you to change them. You were so bloody pigheaded and obstinate that you rammed them through anyway, and alienated half the message board in the process.
And now, after all this, you figure out that it is stupid and unenforceable, and you just shrug your shoulders and say offhandedly “I’m throwing in the towel. You can swear in thread titles after all.” And if you can swear in thread titles, why not in threads themselves? Why even have your half-witted language rules? And so the next step is for Rule 2 to be vanished with a muttered “Huh. My bad.”
You’re so bloody smug and isolated from this board that it doesn’t even occur to you to apologise to the members and retract your rule properly: no, it has to be as a muttered aside. You split the boards and alienate a thousand people with your hamfisted arrogance, and now it turns out that it was just a passing whim, something that you can’t really be bothered enforcing anyway? Words fail me.
Or rather, they don’t. Please don’t take this as a bit of casual profanity, Ed, an piece of idle abuse, because I have thought this out very carefully and there is only one phrase that adequately describes you and your half-hearted autocracy: you are a stupid cunt.
Just have it automatically turn into frak. Duh!
Well, this is no surprise:
Scissorjack, insults are not allowed in ATMB. Knock it off.
How about “clusterfuck?”
I have your druthers. I took them while you were napping the other day, and you’re not getting them back until I get all my mod warnings erased.
deep, cleansing breath
Halle-effing-lujah. Sanity is restored. The power of well reasoned judgment will rule once again.
I think it should be changed to “f___-you money”, or maybe “f***-you money”.
But only because I want to make Gfactor have to change the title again…
How do I know you really have them? Put them on the phone!
He aint heavy… hes my druther…:smack: