Profanity: How small minds try to speak with strength? (Vanity)

Kittle House on Unaka | September 23, 2010 | don-o

[svcw]

Not usually, I have been called a fool by many people, mostly liberals.

[don-o]

Clever. Not.

[don-o]

Thanks.

Pachyrhizus! Parasites! Patagonians! Pestilential Pachyderm! Phylloxera! Pickled herrings! Pirates! Pithecanthropic montebanks! Pithecanthropic pickpocket! Pithecanthropus! Pockmarks! Politican! Poltroons! Polygraphs! Polynesian! Profiteers! Psychopath! Purple profiteering jellyfish! Pyrographers! Pyromaniac!

Any and all of these could effectively replace the F word. And here's the link you supplied, again

Captain Haddock’s Curses

[svcw]

You really are one uptight dude or dudet.

[don-o]

You really are one uptight dude

Expand on that, please. What is wrong with encouraging posters here to obey the rules that state "no profanity"?

[svcw]

That is the question. What is profanity? It is in the eye of the reader. FR makes the decisions on these posts, not you not me.

[trisham]

Jim Robinson has been pinged to this thread, I believe more than once.

[don-o]

That is the question. What is profanity?

If the word derived from "for unlawful carnal knowledge" is not profanity, then there is no such thing as profanity.

[svcw]

Ok, whatever dan-o be agitated by words I don’t care. I understand carnal knowledge I think you however suffer from cranial rectumtitus.

[don-o]

If you don’t care, why keep posting back to the thread?

[don-o]

The "no violence, racism, profanity" caveats seem to have been removed from the reply screen. Hmmmmm.

That's not the result I was hoping for. And I wonder if it signals a change in policy and if the FReepers who really want to F bomb their posts will now have it their way w/o having to substitute %#!* for a letter in their indespensible word?

[trisham]

It’s still there under “spell” “preview” and “post”.

[trisham]

That was crude.

[don-o]

Now I see it. Never mind. It continues to be unenforced / ignored, and folks get all huffy when called on it; which matters not to me. I’m going to keep calling folks as I feel the need.

[trisham]

I’m with you. :)

[Hulka]

I observed this forum for many years, then joined as a contributor. I, too, have noticed the increasing use of profanity and downright nasty insults and personal attacks.

We are supposed to be better than DU, but oft times I see posts that reflect no honor, no civility and no sense of civilized language and debate.

Sad to see this trend, as I fear in a few short years, open profanity and shrill voices will be all that is left of the Grant Experiment started by JR.

[svcw]

Crude yes, but was it profane?

[trisham]

profanity
noun
1 he hissed a profanity | an outburst of profanity: oath, swear word, expletive, curse, obscenity, four-letter word, dirty word; blasphemy, swearing, foul language, bad language, cursing; informal cuss, cuss word; formal imprecation; archaic execration.
2 some traditional festivals were tainted with profanity: sacrilege, blasphemy, irreligion, ungodliness, impiety, irreverence, disrespect.

[svcw]

Oh good. You cleared that up it wasn’t profane.

[Moonman62]

My grandmother always told me profanity was how the feeble minded express themselves with force...

Except for Patton. He wanted to make sure his troops remembered what he said.