Profanity by canttakesky

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Profanity

POSTED BY: CANTTAKESKY
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011 11:40 AM

I swear profusely. As they said in Long Kiss Goodnight, I open my mouth and sailors come running out.

What are your feelings on swearing? Does it bother you when someone does it on a forum like this?

I can say "phooey" and "gawsh" with the best of them. So if it bothers people here, I can rein in my language.

When I feel comfortable being myself, I tend to slip into what is comfortable language for me. I've been feeling kinda comfortable lately here on RWED.

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Tuesday, December 20, 2011 11:54 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

I don't like it, and it comes so naturally to me. Always has. Ever since I was little, I took to 'god damn' and ..well, other colorful words like a duck to water.

Which is weird, because rarely was anyone in my family ever so comfortable with swearing, just me.

Being adopted might explain much, but I'm pretty sure I'm not.

Oh well.

*edit* -

In some ways, I wish I were more like Simon, when it comes to swearing. Anyone can swear at a drop of the hat, but when you do it at the appropriate time, it conveys the significance of the moment and feelings being expressed.

I kinda view swearing as a personal failing, for it shows a lack of control, in the inability to say nothing, or come up w/ a more productive use of one's emotions, but hell, it does feel good , from time to time, to get your fucking god damn words out.

"The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the people who don't do anything about it." - Albert Einstein

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Tuesday, December 20, 2011 12:00 PM

ANTHONYT

Freedom is Important because People are Important

Hello,

I swear quite a bit when in the private company of my friends. But much less so in public forums and places. It's as though I put on a different hat when in mixed company.

Also, when I am actually mad at someone, or trying to make an argument, I try very hard not to swear because it can lead things to spiral out of control, or detract from my message. My wife has frequently noted that I speak more deliberately when I am mad, carefully controlling tone and language. Usually.

An interesting aside is that I take on slower, more deliberate behavior whenever I am under any sort of stress. This quality made me unsuitable to work as a Police dispatcher. While deliberate language is important, so is peppiness. Whenever an emergency would surface, I would slow down, and that was not the preference of my employers.

--Anthony

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"In every war, the state enacts a tax of freedom upon the citizenry. The unspoken promise is that the tax shall be revoked at war's end. Endless war holds no such promise. Hence, Eternal War is Eternal Slavery." --Admiral Robert J. Henner

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Tuesday, December 20, 2011 12:52 PM

DREAMTROVE

It bugs me, on some visceral level. I guess intellectually, it bugs me because of the lack of thought involved, but this bugs me less than the intense negativity often reflected. Like, if someone hits their finger and say "m*therf*cker" that's less unnerving than if they say, "those people are sh*theads" which incompasses a level of hate and dismissiveness that I find irksome.

I suspect I'm wrong, because I know that when we laugh, it's a positive inability to verbalize, so there should be a negative one, less serious than crying, but I still find it unnerving.

That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.

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Tuesday, December 20, 2011 12:54 PM

FREMDFIRMA

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What are your feelings on swearing?

Essentially ?
Who gives a fuck.

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Does it bother you when someone does it on a forum like this?

Not really, although I do try to watch my mouth around kids in person, which every single one of them finds both amusing and tremendously hypocritical cause my language is the LEAST of the bad examples I try to avoid, oh well...

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I swear quite a bit when in the private company of my friends. But much less so in public forums and places. It's as though I put on a different hat when in mixed company.

I call bullshit.

I've only maybe heard you really swear like, MAYBE three times and only once with enough passion behind it to take seriously, and that one was courtesy of those two unforgettable punkass bitches who really really had that and worse coming.

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Also, when I am actually mad at someone, or trying to make an argument, I try very hard not to swear because it can lead things to spiral out of control, or detract from my message.

My "message" in mosta those cases being 120mm of painful flaming death, I kinda doubt mere language is gonna add to or detract from mine, but then when I get really nasty I STOP talking, cause there's nothing left to say.

FYI: We occasionally play online games together, so Anthony has a bit more personal experience with my temperment towards other humans, which isn't real pleasant at the best of times.

Ironically it's not the big fancy stuff in that game which you should fear, it's that crummy little piece of over-engineered farming equipment, cause I'll kill the hell out of you with that thing.

-Frem

I do not serve the Blind God.

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Tuesday, December 20, 2011 1:14 PM

ANTHONYT

Freedom is Important because People are Important

Hello,

Well, I do get tetchy when my friends and loved ones are harmed, even if only in a game. The rudeness of that particular incident, and having it directed against my wife and friend, may have pushed some buttons.

I've noticed you do go silent when killing is afoot. And then chuckle gleefully after it's completed. I'm just glad you're on my side in these things.

Recently my Dad was in a no-damage accident in a rental car, and he was soliciting advice over the phone about how to proceed. In his home-town, such a matter would be shrugged off by both parties. But he was far from home and had no gauge of the personalities involved. I told him he should stay and report the incident to the police, lest he be accused of leaving the scene of the accident and subsequently abused in a court of law. The precise language I used was, "Don't leave the scene of the accident, because they will F*CK you."

I felt comfortable enough with my father, and emphatic enough about the subject, to use an expletive in that case. The incident ended without further problems after the police arrived, interviewed, and departed.

But anyways Frem, that you've heard me curse at all and that we are both still on good terms puts you firmly into the friend category. :-)

--Anthony

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"In every war, the state enacts a tax of freedom upon the citizenry. The unspoken promise is that the tax shall be revoked at war's end. Endless war holds no such promise. Hence, Eternal War is Eternal Slavery." --Admiral Robert J. Henner

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Tuesday, December 20, 2011 1:15 PM

PEACEKEEPER

Keeping order in every verse

Mixed bag for me this one.I think swearing has very gradually become universally accptable on most forums, providing it isn't directed with any kind of vitriol to another forum member(and I've seen that on HERE more than once).Excessive swearing just becomes boring and you lose the point of the argument tabled.
But when you come across someone like, for example, AnthonyT,and he puts a point across with the use of less sociable language;you tend to sit up and listen to the point,purely because it is obviously felt strongly enough to be included.
Swearing in this case is an effective tool for communication; an epithet rather than a profanity.All in context, IMO.
I am not unknown to eff and jeff myself on occasion and fill the board with smoke, but it is usually just venting.

Peacekeeper---keeping order in every verse!!!

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Tuesday, December 20, 2011 1:45 PM

BYTEMITE

I did this now and then on the board, so I don't know if anyone ever noticed them, but when I swear, I like it to be eloquent. I enjoy painting a masterpiece colourful language, with a bit of unexpected cleverness thrown in. I'm probably out of practice now.

In any case, I'm more likely to swear when I'm in a good mood, 'cause I tends to swagger in a good mood.

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Tuesday, December 20, 2011 2:25 PM

CANTTAKESKY

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I enjoy painting a masterpiece colourful language, with a bit of unexpected cleverness thrown in.

Oooh. I'd like to hear artful, eloquent profanity.

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"Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want - and their kids pay for it." - Richard Lamm

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Tuesday, December 20, 2011 2:34 PM

ANTHONYT

Freedom is Important because People are Important

Hello,

I recommend watching Deadwood.

--Anthony

_______________________________________________

"In every war, the state enacts a tax of freedom upon the citizenry. The unspoken promise is that the tax shall be revoked at war's end. Endless war holds no such promise. Hence, Eternal War is Eternal Slavery." --Admiral Robert J. Henner

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Tuesday, December 20, 2011 2:41 PM

BYTEMITE

A good swear starts like the Adagio in B minor, then drops like a cat on the fucking piano.

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Tuesday, December 20, 2011 2:42 PM

M52NICKERSON

DALEK!

"In the heat of battle my father wove a tapestry of obscenities that as far as we know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan."

"Now, I had heard that word at least ten times a day from my old man. He worked in profanity the way other artists might work in oils or clay. It was his true medium; a master."

~A Christmas Story

I do not fear God, I fear the ignorance of man.

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Tuesday, December 20, 2011 2:44 PM

CHRISISALL

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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
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What are your feelings on swearing?

Essentially ?
Who gives a fuck.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

The laughing Chrisisall

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Tuesday, December 20, 2011 2:49 PM

RIONAEIRE

Beir bua agus beannacht

I say crap, humped, rut (in its various forms), screwed (again in its various forms) a lot. I don't use the more conventional and serious swear words unless I'm really really upset. Then I'll say the occasional damn by itself, the occasional shit as an adjective, never really fuck though that I can remember and never the name of the Lord in vane, that's a serious no no with me and I see it as lower than swear words, as in a how low can you go thing. I don't get upset when people swear around me though, I'm pretty used to it since society swears and does that sort of thing a lot so it doesn't surprise me when others do it. I don't ask people to curtail their swearing around me. I only really get notably upset when people swear _at me, like when I've upset them and they're angry with me. I was 12 the first time my mom swore at me and it was very unpleasant for me to say the least.

My family says I have a crude mouth, I suppose I do sometimes. I'm careful around children though, I have a system by which I determine which words are apropriate to use around them depending on their ages. I try not to say anything around a kid that I wouldn't want to hear come out of their mouth. Once they're old enough that I wouldn't mind hearing it from them then I'll say it around them.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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Tuesday, December 20, 2011 6:52 PM

MAGONSDAUGHTER

Swearing is part of the local vernacular here, so I don't have a problem with it as long as it isn't mindless every second word.

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Tuesday, December 20, 2011 7:45 PM

PHOENIXROSE

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

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Originally posted by canttakesky:
What are your feelings on swearing? Does it bother you when someone does it on a forum like this?

To put it bluntly, I don't give two shits if someone swears. There are times it's very effective. There are also times when the only appropriate response to something is, "What the fuck??"

So yeah, have at it.

What reason had proved best ceased to look absurd to the eye, which shows how idle it is to think anything ridiculous except what is wrong.

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Wednesday, December 21, 2011 10:31 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

I'm with Frem and others. I try not to use the F-bomb here unless it's personal and provoked, but I use it in general. I've only said "fuck you" a couple of times in my life, but I swear a LOT at things and situations. To me it's just emoting visceral feelings, nothing more. My dad never swore, my mom swore some but didn't use the termiologies you hear a lot nowadays, so I don't know where it came from.

It doesn't offend me unless it's deliberately personal, like Kane, then it really pisses me off.

Artful swearing is something I much admire, mostly because when I'm angry, I don't bother trying to be descriptive, just visceral. To swear in an imaginative way is something I love to hear but never bother with myself.

I've always loved "may the bird of paradise fly up your nose, may an elephant caress you with his toes." Evocative!

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Wednesday, December 21, 2011 1:55 PM

PHOENIXROSE

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

Oh hey, and if anyone wants to watch a really funny Mythbusters episode, check out the one where they prove shouting profanities increases pain tolerance. (One of their controls involved shouting things like "cute baby hippos!" to see if the mere act of shouting increased pain tolerance. It didn't.)

What reason had proved best ceased to look absurd to the eye, which shows how idle it is to think anything ridiculous except what is wrong.

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Wednesday, December 21, 2011 2:43 PM

RIONAEIRE

Beir bua agus beannacht

That sounds like an interesting episode Rose. My little brother watches MythBusters all the time, I wonder if he's seen that one, I watch it sometimes when its on but he watches it on NetFlix.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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Wednesday, December 21, 2011 3:17 PM

FREMDFIRMA

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Oh hey, and if anyone wants to watch a really funny Mythbusters episode, check out the one where they prove shouting profanities increases pain tolerance.

Cause this just HAS to be quoted!

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Oh my GAAAWWWD don't go giving him ideas!
-Wendy

-F

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