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Big Ceegar!!!
Posted on 09/23/2010 4:10:41 PM PDT by don-o
The increase of vulgarity and profanity on this board is troublesome to me. It was not always so. I can remember the “olden days”. There was no profanity. None. And there was no chat. None. The first Freepers held one another to a high standard of discourse.
I wonder why and how the profanity has become so common? The rule in the reply box includes “no profanity”. Do we have a problem of definition as to what constitutes profanity? Does replacing one of the letters in the “F” word with %## or ! mean that we have not used profanity in our posting?
I’m not really sure where to go with this. Certainly the site owner and his empowered moderators are the arbiter of what is to be allowed. I guess the best I would hope for is to encourage us all to think just a bit more about trying for forceful language without gutter language.
That is all.
Good idea, but not sure it would have much effect. Usually, the profanity comes out after a couple barbs have gone back and forth, and by the time that happens, a full scale flame war is in progress.
A few times I’ve been shocked and horrified by the outright cruelty and taunting that happens. Not much, but it’s there. And as a few posters have pointed out, it’s usually the same idjits.
So going along with your point I would make a plea for plain old civility. In all my life, I know the people I respect the most are those who have a good modicum of self control.
Some people it seems just have to be right. Keyboard Commandos, I suppose.
I’ve never heard Ronald Reagan swear.
Thanks for the site-
I had “lost/forgotten” it before but, now “I’ve found” it again- and was promptly insulted in such a professional manner...
Thou misbegotten fen-sucked death-token!
Beautiful...
: 3 “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.
Ditto that for my mother-in-law who died several years ago. She discouraged me from associating with a high school friend who said in her presence that she had fallen down "on her butt" while ice skating. My mother-in-law told me my friend was not lady-like.
Need help with potty mouth, then get some help from former OU and Dallas Cowboys Coaching Great, Barry Switzer
The Barry Switzer Guide to Undercussing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5bm2Wzsh4w
Way back when the kids were smaller we were talking at the dinner table about swearing and he said “Well, I’ve heard Dad swear”. I said “Well, I doubt it - but maybe you have.” (I was thinking maybe saying something under my breath when I break something, etc.)
He said “No - just yesterday I heard you! You said the ‘S-word’”
“Oh, now I don’t know about that!”
“Yes - when you were getting mad at the dog!!”
It was then that I realized that the “s-word” was “stupid”!
The kids still get called on that. And the other “s-word” as well. (Shut-up).
Try playing video games or shooting a game of pool - it's way too easy to let out a tirade of nasty words. I'm trying hard to use my eyes rather than my mouth to communicate anger. So far it's working well - although family is now saying I'm giving them the evil eye.
Same here, although I heard my granddad utter a harsh word or two under his breath a few times.
To this very day, I've never heard my father speak a curse word. It's just his personal choice. He was a soldier, and knows every salty word in the book, but he will not speak that way.
My generation, on the other hand, became infected with the gutter language of the streets, I'm sad to say. To this day, I have to exercise restraint around my own kids.
I'll say one thing, though. I still wouldn't dare speak a curse word around either of my parents, even though they're very elderly now. It's a built-in training pattern that I couldn't break, even if I tried.
From one of my favorite SpongeBob episodes:
SpongeBob: Dumpster writing, the voice of the people.
SpongeBob: Krabs is a... HMMMM! Krabs is a (dolphin chirps).
Garbage Man: Do you kiss your mother with that mouth?
SpongeBob: Sometimes, but not recently.
SpongeBob: Patrick, what’s this word?
Patrick: Hmm... (slowly) Krabs.... Hey, isn’t he that red sweaty guy you work for?
SpongeBob: Not that word. (points slightly offscreen) That word.
Patrick: (dolphin chirp).
Patrick: I know! It’s one of those fancy sentence enhancers.
SpongeBob: Sentence enhancers?
Patrick: Ya use ‘em if ya wanna talk fancy. Just sprinkle ‘em over anything you say and WAMMO! You’ve got yourself a spicy sentence sandwich.
SpongeBob: Oh I get it. Let me try. Hey Patrick, lovely (dolphin chirp) day today.
Patrick: Why, yes, Spongebob. This (dolphin chirp) day is particularly (dolphin chirp) lovely.
SpongeBob:(dolphin chirp)!
Patrick:(dolphin chirp)!
SpongeBob: You’re right, Patrick! My lips are tingling from the spiciness of this conversation.
It must have changed tremendously by mid-2000. I remember it being like the wild west when I joined. Any comment that didn't agree with the herd provoked an avalanche of flaming. Seems very tame now in comparison to me.
Maybe you were tired and couldn't stay awake for the late night flame wars.
I saw flame wars. But I never saw any use of the F word until the middle part of this current decade. I am pretty sure about that.
And your point is....?
Nail, meet hammer. And for that spot on comment, you are awarded the highly coveted don-o
Excellent.
You could share Matt 5:36-37 with your son:
36And do not swear by your head, for you cannot make even one hair white or black. 37Simply let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No’; anything beyond this comes from the evil one.
Check your premises...
Forgive me; I’m a little slow. What are you talking about?
I speak fluent Anglo-Saxon. I’m F#@$%ng fluent in it!
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