I’m on my soapbox again. Thank you for providing it. I want it to be better and better and an inviting place for all.
I shall join you on your soapbox. As a retired English teacher, I always considered the use of profanity as a profound lack of vocabulary.
Perhaps I’m getting old and have not as much tolerance as I should. But, my children and grandchildren respect my sensibilities and will not swear in my presence. Nor will they wear ball caps at my dinner table. They were taught manners and decorum. I pray that they use them out of my sight. I believe that they do. (But, I could also be the world’s biggest fool.)
We do make the site stronger and our thoughts better stated when profanity is not used.
We also differentiate ourselves from liberals and their DU-type sites, where no thought can be expressed except, it seems, in vulgar or profane terms.
When I went to work at the factory last winter, I realized I could reduce my vocabulary to two words for everything, which could be noun, verb, adverb, all at once.
I’ve been even more strict with my kids now about not using such talk b/c I’m so bored with it from work.
“Just words...”
Perhaps your mild-mannered posting will cause some to refrain, at least I hope so.
I am pretty sure that I learned every cussword known to man from my Father, who could string together a series of them in a tirade easily lasting 5 minutes or so.
LOL, in fact, over time, I realized that when he had used up his normal supply of cusswords, he would create new ones, on the fly, based on the ones he usually used, thus increasing his "cussword vocabulary".
Inheriting his temper, I myself became quite proficient on my own in using and creating such ill-tempered and easily flung terms, at least until I became a Christian, when the Lord guided me to stop doing that.
In these frustrating times, it is easy to be tempted to fire off a few cusswords toward whatever is causing that frustration, but I hope restraint will be the order of the day on FR.
What about blogpimps? We should ALL rage against blogpimps!
Stinkin’ dirty filthy plagiarizing scumbucket blogpimps!
EEEEYAAAAAGHHH!
Could we put the term “Epic Fail” on your list of swear words that should never be used on this forum?
Good post. We have become careless. We should shape up. Language in general has become too crude and crass. I didn’t appreciate Sarah Palin’s use of questionable language ... that was not what she was supposed to bring to Trump’s campaign.
I’m gonna watch myself in the future and maybe everyone will.