Indeed, anyone who has ever uttered “go fuck yourself” in anger has a vulgar soul
oh wait:
:rolleyes:
The current environment does seem ripe for bringing out the insanity in everyone.
You’re not alone man.
[sub]…or maybe you are[/sub]
<cue Twilight Zone theme>
If that’s the case, then there are an awful lot of Charter Members with vulgar souls.
I would suggest that the DA’s office in Washington DC consider filing criminal charges against Mr. Cheney. In both states that I have lived in there was a criminal statute prohibiting “Issuing fighting words”.
In at least one of those states there was case law indicating that you could be properly convicted even if the insulted party was unlikely to actually respond with violence.
Is there such a law in DC?
I think that, properly phrased, this sounds like a GQ.
I would certainly assert that “Go fuck yourself” falls under the category of “fighting words”.
Hey, go fuck yourself!
I’m such a vulgar person…
Nah, I’ll hold out for the TLC Match. Tables, Ladders and Chairs!!! 
Reeder wrote
May I ask why you intentionally set your moral standards for yourself so low?
I mean this seriously: what’s the value of a moral stance if you don’t uphold it yourself? How can you morally expect to hold people to standards that you won’t hold yourself to?
You do know that Moore doesn’t like Democrats, don’t you?
Wrong thread, sorry.
There’s appropriate and inappropriate times and places for profanity. Cheney was in a place inappropriate, IMO. This board less so.
That said, I don’t really care about him dropping the F-bomb. I dislike the man for his politics, not his language.
How so very republican of you.
Oh, man, I don’t know. A debate with Cheney and Kerry (I don’t think one with Bush would be all that entertaining, because I don’t think he could come up with any good one-liners) including any and all profanities would be just such a hoot.
Kerry: You lied out of your fucking ass about Iraq.
Cheney: Listen, Ketchupfucker, you don’t know shit from shit. You get the kinda clearance I have, and you see all kinds of incriminating evidence, so shut your hole.
Kerry: Bull-shit. You guys never had jack. Fuck, on 9/11 you couldn’t find your ass with both hands. And leave my wife out of it.
Cheney: What the fuck do you know about whatever the fuck I did nor did not know?
Kerry: Oh, what have you got, CIA evidence? Yeah, fucking bang-up job you assholes did with your so-called evidence for the Security Council. I gotta ask, did you send Powell up there before or after he found out it was a steaming crock of shit?
Cheney: Oh fuck you. We always had credible evidence that Osama was up Saddam’s ass so far he could see his teeth.
Kerry: Give me a fucking break. What, a few phone calls? I mean, if that’s what you call guilt-by-association, Bush feels your sweaty bald dome on his Adam’s Apple.
Cheney: You son-of-a-bitch!
Kerry: Easy, killer, you got a heart condition.
Cheney: When I put my foot up your ass you’re gonna have a few health concerns yourself, Lurch.
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I do believe RTA is referring to this incident: The Caning of Senator Charles Sumner
Nope, no precedent for vulgarity on the Senate floor, none at all…
IMHO, the insults of those gentlemen from the 1850’s were far more wittier and inspired than Cheney’s use of the simple modern slander “fuck off/you.” It almost makes him seem lazy in comparison…
Well I for one thank you, Reeder for your revelation. You do make a difference.
I am now so convinced that both major parties are irretrievably vulgar that I will definitely vote for Nader.
Well, this changes everything. I mean, “fuck you” is an aggressive assault, whereas “fuck yourself” is a suggestion for auto-eroticism, for which the good Senator should thank the VP.
Maybe it was in response to the Senator asking Unca Dick for advice on what to do to calm himself down, or how to get through those long nights when the Mrs. is back in Hometown visiting the cats.
We shouldn’t underestimate the spin that can be put on this, folks.
I, for one, am glad there are rules of decorum enforced on the floor of the legislature.
It’s the only thing keeping our House of Representatives from becoming the British House of Commons!
Yamirskoonir ( where the hell did that come from, how the hell do you pronounce it) has hit the nail on the head. The sorrow, the disappointment, the irritation is that the Vice-President of the United States, the President of the United States Senate, the most prestigious debating society and old boys club in the world, could not think of anyway to deal with an elected representative of the people in a public setting and in the senate chamber, except to throw out a vulgarity that would spring to the mind of an elementary school student. This is the level of debate in this country? In an interview on our favorite network the Vice-President seemed to think his barracks room vulgarity to Senator Lahey was particularity appropriate and witty.
I am not a Second Amendment fanatic but there was a time in America and Western Europe that gentlemen and commoner alike went armed and were expected to express resentment by resort to a blade if socially accepted boundaries were pushed too far. Back then folks were a little more careful about what they said lest it be the last talking they do. Maybe senators should start carrying side arms.
Heah, heah, heah, heah, heah…
So are you nostalgic for duel? Man, I’d much prefer having little old ladies tell me to stick it up my ass than guys shooting at each other over a little “go fucketh thyself” here or there. Hollywood glorified the duel with sixguns at twenty paces, and so forth, but real gentlemanly duels were kind of pathetic. Men meet at the agreed-upon time and place, would walk some distance away from one another, wait for a referee, and, on the ref’s mark, shoot volley after volley in a most chillingly methodical and banal manner until one or both was hit. Often the loser would linger for days in excruciating pain until internal bleeding and sepsis finally claimed them, while the “winner” might suffer guilt, ignominy, reprisals, even suicide on occasion for the torment of breaking a commandment.
Yeah, those were the good old days.
[CU Pres Elizabeth Hoffman] People people people . . . . I’ve actually heard “Go fuck yourself” used as a term of endearment [/ Elizabeth Hoffman]