Swearing

[Ree]

Actually, I have found that some very intelligent people come up with the best "swearing" by not actually using standard curse words.

Look at Gravekeepr's posts.
He seems like a very intelligent person.
I always look forward to seeing some of his more creative ways of avoiding actual profanity.

He could take the easy route and go for the cheap laughs by calling his customer a fucking mororn, but isn't it much more entertaining to read this:

Your dim comprehension, lack of conversational skills and inability to properly pronounce any letter that would require articulated lips has admittedly raised my suspicions. If you are indeed human, this would be a sad state of affairs and my faith in our species would suffer yet another catastrophic decline. However, if you were say……some sort of clandestine lab experiment to enhance the intelligence of a duck, that would actually be quite impressive and make perfect sense.

[jackfaire]

Ya know what I mean?

No I totally get it hell I hear nothing but swearing you start to drown the person out but I don't believe a person is automatically a moron because a swear word passes their lips.

There are a lot of people that do. In some people's minds you could be Einstein but if you stub your toe and say, "Shit that hurt" you are suddenly a moron they are worried will stab himself with a pencil

[Ree]

I don't know.
If a person lacks the intelligence to make a rational argument and then just resorts to profanity, I can see the validity in that line.

I mean, "F*ck you, you f*cking jackbooted Nazi moderator. Go f*ck yourself with a rusty knife," while slightly creative with the "rusty knife" taunt, on the whole doesn't seem as intelligent as saying, "I do not agree with your ruling. I feel it is biased against me. On the whole, I find the moderating style on this forum to be overly aggressive and very subjective. Here are some examples to back me up..."

Ya know what I mean?

[jackfaire]

I was always told that profanity is the feeble attempt of a weak mind to express itself forcefully.(

Will Robinson: Oh, shit.
Dr. Zachary Smith: A boy of your intelligence should never swear... Oh, shit.


Weak mind my ass. It depends a lot on context and how it's used. Of the people I have ever heard slam profanity as being something only weak people do that is usually said to me by intellectuals that usually prove to not really be as smart as people think they are.

[Ree]

Well, even though I do swear when I am upset, I was always told that profanity is the feeble attempt of a weak mind to express itself forcefully.

That always makes me feel a little bad about myself when I sink to that level.

[DrFaroohk]

I just don't consider "bucking" authority to be that bad. It's one of those things you just have to deal with if you want to be in power. You left a loophole, I took advantage of it. Get over it.

[Andara Bledin]

Well done.

Was there a point to this?

^-.-^

[Ginger Tea]

What words did I just say?

If you answered

Well done.

Well to be fair unless playing hang man or wheel of fortune, p****e d**'t n******y s**r o*t w***s l**e t**s.

[Nyoibo]

Fu*k
C**t
Cr*p
D*ck
S**t
C**k

What words did I just say?





If you answered
Funk
Coot
Crop
Dock
Seat
Cook

Well done.

[jackfaire]

Self Censoring. In the movie Across the Universe there is a scene where Max and Jude upon meeting for the first time are smoking a joint with Max's friends.

Oh wait no they aren't.

In order to get the rating they wanted they chose to have the joint be invisible. They make the hand gestures of smoking and passing a joint but not actually having one there so it seems almost like the guys are just goofing around pretending to smoke a joint but some people may think they see a joint when none actually exists.

[Andara Bledin]

The best (worst) censoring I've ever seen will always be the Comedy Central showing of Cheech & Chong's Next Movie. The marijuana was turned into diamond chips... alien diamond chips or something insipid like that... you know, to explain why everybody was acting stoned and Studenko turned into a lizard.

^-.-^

[jackfaire]

I guess socks are less offensive than underwear.

What would be hilarious is if it was aired on Fox and they censored it that way.

[guywithashovel]

A movie that really gets heavily censored when shown on TV is The Breakfast Club. One time I was watching it, and in one scene where Bender tells the principal "Eat my shorts!" they changed it to "Eat my socks!"

I guess socks are less offensive than underwear.

[AdminAssistant]

I watched Pulp Fiction on cable television once. It was hilarious.

[jackfaire]

Seriously you can never sound as threatening if the line were something like

Yippee Ki Yay pop drinker