Lord Liaden Posted October 1, 2018 Report Share Posted October 1, 2018 5 hours ago, L. Marcus said: Do Canadians swear? Yes, but we follow the swear words with, "Eh?" Pariah 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted October 1, 2018 Report Share Posted October 1, 2018 4 hours ago, Cygnia said: To be fair, the best chocolates should stimulate the areas of the brain associated with [bleep]ing. Many people consider chocolate better than [bleep]ing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted October 1, 2018 Report Share Posted October 1, 2018 16 minutes ago, Lord Liaden said: Many people consider chocolate better than [bleep]ing. Well, that's Belgian ridiculous. Pariah and Cygnia 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 1, 2018 Report Share Posted October 1, 2018 As someone who's going to be buying expensive chocolate on my way home today, because it's my wife's birthday ... this is more important and less ridiculous than all Belgium. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted October 1, 2018 Report Share Posted October 1, 2018 Dragon breeder friends of mine had a chat room on their site that replaced the s word with "pudding." I always thought that was a pretty appropriate bit of censorship. Especially if you've ever had to clean up the pudding from a few score baby bearded dragons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Goodwin Posted October 2, 2018 Report Share Posted October 2, 2018 Huh. I need to come here more often. I was fairly sure that all of George Carlin's seven words have been verboten here at least since DOJ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeropoint Posted October 2, 2018 Report Share Posted October 2, 2018 On 10/1/2018 at 3:18 PM, Pattern Ghost said: Dragon breeder friends of mine I thought someone was posting from Ankh-Morpork for a moment there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted October 3, 2018 Report Share Posted October 3, 2018 As long as they are breeding the dragons with each other, and are not breeding directly with the dragons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubba smith Posted October 20, 2018 Report Share Posted October 20, 2018 why use barracks language if it is not needed do you WANT to get banned ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeropoint Posted October 20, 2018 Report Share Posted October 20, 2018 Because language is a tool, and a skilled craftsman selects the right tool for the job. A well-stocked garage will definitely include dial calipers, straight-edges, fine files, sharp chisels, narrow-cutting Japanese pattern saws and the like . . . but it will also have things like sledgehammers and angle grinders. Sometimes a "bad" word is necessary for the effect that a writer intends. It's true that many people use them far too freely and indiscriminately--Hemingway famously said that "one *** **** is worth a hundred and a hundred are worth nothing"--but to insist that vulgarities must NEVER be used, and to recoil from them in shock, is just as immature as throwing several into every sentence. The people who own and operate this virtual space, though, have made their rules, and we have the choice of abiding by them or going elsewhere. Cygnia and Armory 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Bushido Posted October 21, 2018 Report Share Posted October 21, 2018 Avoid them not just because they are rules, but because they are meaningless. The only words I can think of that can be used as nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and prepositions without change are on a very short list, and it happens to have a one-hundred percent overlap with the list of "do not use in public" words. The fact that there is no single meaning to any other word that fills all these niches implies that any word so use cannot actually have a legitimate meaning at all, thus the word itself is not worth the effort it took say or spell. It simply brought someone pleasure to use it, periods. I had an instructor once who insisted that words were crayons. Nouns and verbs were the primary and secondary colors. Adjectives and adverbs were the exotic mixes further out: the teals and hot pinks and shades of yelliw; the metalics of silver and gold and iridescent of the wildest order. Used often and paired correctly these words will fill stories and conversations with lights and rainbows and great unearthed paintings that dwelled entirely in the mind. Practiced regularly and routinely these words would turn your vocabulary into the long-sought box of 208 such crayons, or even beyond, leaving you with a box full of stories to tell. Profanity, of course, would give that same box of over 200 crayons, but they are all brown. You can chose to speak in shades and highlights and rainbows and tropical dreams, or you speak in Ups trucks. The choice is yours. But don't be surprised if after proving you have nothing to say, your audience loses interest and moves on. Pariah 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted October 22, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2018 Well, you guys certainly get intellectual, even down right thoughtful at times. Meanwhile, I just had to edit a webcomic out of someone's post because it had the F word in it ...repeatedly. And I died a little inside as I rolled my rock back to the top of the hill again. “The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”-Camus Belgium you, Camus! Mister E 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 22, 2018 Report Share Posted October 22, 2018 Sisyphus whistles constantly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmjalund Posted October 22, 2018 Report Share Posted October 22, 2018 Sisyphus was a sissy-face! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted October 22, 2018 Report Share Posted October 22, 2018 The spoiler bars are our friends! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted October 22, 2018 Report Share Posted October 22, 2018 Cygnia 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted October 23, 2018 Report Share Posted October 23, 2018 10 hours ago, Hermit said: Well, you guys certainly get intellectual, even down right thoughtful at times. Meanwhile, I just had to edit a webcomic out of someone's post because it had the F word in it ...repeatedly. And I died a little inside as I rolled my rock back to the top of the hill again. “The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”-Camus Belgium you, Camus! If Sisyphus had been the kind of man to derive satisfaction from that sort of activity, he wouldn't have ended up in Tartarus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted October 23, 2018 Report Share Posted October 23, 2018 I was wearing my Dead Kennedy's shirt and was admonished for it because what if a child saw it. I told them that the child would learn the proper use of the word. Logan D. Hurricanes and Armory 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 23, 2018 Report Share Posted October 23, 2018 Long ago there was a newspaper comic that said Quote PEOPLE WHO USE BAD LANGUAGE ARE IGNORANT *@#%HEADS Can't find it now, of course. Of course, one might demonstrate that it's less socially acceptable to use math than drop F-bombs. "Go fractional exponent yourself, asymptote!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister E Posted October 30, 2018 Report Share Posted October 30, 2018 On 10/22/2018 at 6:33 PM, Lord Liaden said: If Sisyphus had been the kind of man to derive satisfaction from that sort of activity, he wouldn't have ended up in Tartarus. Sisyphus was all about existence. Longevity. Cheating death. I imagine him happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted October 30, 2018 Report Share Posted October 30, 2018 Wasn't he also an STD? tkdguy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted October 31, 2018 Report Share Posted October 31, 2018 Happy Belgian Halloween everyone! wcw43921 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted November 5, 2018 Report Share Posted November 5, 2018 On 10/30/2018 at 6:12 AM, Mister E said: Sisyphus was all about existence. Longevity. Cheating death. I imagine him happy. Seeing as he's in Tartarus because he already died, I rather doubt that. I expect this fate is what he was trying to cheat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninja-Bear Posted December 6, 2018 Report Share Posted December 6, 2018 Doing laundry I imagine myself as Sisyphus at times. Pariah 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted December 6, 2018 Report Share Posted December 6, 2018 Uphill, both ways? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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