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ExclamationMark
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quote: Originally posted by wishandaprayer: Surely this isn't the place for people to impose their culturally formed (evolved?! ) views onto others. It all stinks of total moral absolutism - I know the best way, so you better fall in line.
Thanks, but no thanks.
It works both ways - from those who abhor swearing and from those who practice it.
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quote: Originally posted by quetzalcoatl: It's also about forum rules, isn't it?
Sort of .... but more an informed discussion about forum rules.
Most people just look foolish when swearing. If you can switch it on and off, why don't you use the off switch all the time? What point are you trying to make, what are you aiming to gain or look like?
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quetzalcoatl
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quote: Originally posted by ExclamationMark: quote: Originally posted by quetzalcoatl: It's also about forum rules, isn't it?
Sort of .... but more an informed discussion about forum rules.
Most people just look foolish when swearing. If you can switch it on and off, why don't you use the off switch all the time? What point are you trying to make, what are you aiming to gain or look like?
Well, if you don't like swearing, why do you come here? There are tons of forums which ban it.
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RuthW
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quote: Originally posted by ExclamationMark: Most people just look foolish when swearing.
This is your perception, not a universal truth.
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quote: Originally posted by RuthW: quote: Originally posted by ExclamationMark: Most people just look foolish when swearing.
This is your perception, not a universal truth.
As is anyone who says that swearing is ok.
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Eirenist
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It's all about perception, isn't it? 'I use vigorous language, you are a bit outspoken, he is a foul-mouthed boor.'
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quetzalcoatl
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Also about free speech?
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Sioni Sais
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quote: Originally posted by quetzalcoatl: quote: Originally posted by ExclamationMark: quote: Originally posted by quetzalcoatl: It's also about forum rules, isn't it?
Sort of .... but more an informed discussion about forum rules.
Most people just look foolish when swearing. If you can switch it on and off, why don't you use the off switch all the time? What point are you trying to make, what are you aiming to gain or look like?
Well, if you don't like swearing, why do you come here? There are tons of forums which ban it.
I've never been a fan of the "If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen" attitude as it can exclude the very person who can give a warning when the group is headed in the wrong direction*. While the 10C's don't forbid swearing it's clear from them, the board guidelines and the FAQs that "strong language" should be used creatively.
*eg, "Are you sure that strawberry omelette needs anchovies, Heston?"
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quetzalcoatl
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I am usually very creative with swearing. Occasionally, I fall into the mundane and the quotidian, but I usually recover myself, and enter into another purple patch, even Keatsian at times, I venture to say.
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barrea
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quote: Originally posted by Sioni Sais: quote: Originally posted by barrea: What makes me furious is the fact that Ship of Fools won't clean up it's act and ban all swearing from it's boards.
What makes me furious is aberrant apostrophe's.
Sorry to offend you, but at 86 years old I have only just found out what aberrant apostrophe is. I was too busy working at 14 years old to learn all the details.
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barrea
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quote: Originally posted by quetzalcoatl: It just seems odd to me that people come to this forum, which is known as a lively and irreverent one, and then complain. There are tons of nice polite Christian forums, where swearing isn't allowed, aren't there?
It's like going to the pub, and complaining that you don't like all the alcohol around.
I have already stopped going on the Hell site I don't want to stop all the posts in purgatory. but it might have to come to that.
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quetzalcoatl
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Well, I am very sorry about that. I think that at the age of 86, you are entitled to some comfort and ease. I shall endeavour to reduce my sweary quotient if I hail you on the fo'c'sle.
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barrea
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quote: Originally posted by quetzalcoatl: Well, I am very sorry about that. I think that at the age of 86, you are entitled to some comfort and ease. I shall endeavour to reduce my sweary quotient if I hail you on the fo'c'sle.
Good of you
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moonlitdoor
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originally posted by quetzacoatl
Well, if you don't like swearing, why do you come here? There are tons of forums which ban it.
I don't really understand this view which seems to amount to the idea that you must either like everything about ship of fools or nothing about it. Swearing doesn't bother me at all although I don't see the point of it, but there are several things I don't like about the ship of fools. The reason I sometimes come here is that there are also several things I do like.
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Boogie
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I almost never swear. I believe swearing is too useful to be indulged in willy-nilly. It is a great way to vent anger and frustration - thus I use it as sparingly as I can.
This has the added benefit that when I do swear, my family and friends know that I am truly in earnest!
[ 30. July 2013, 06:52: Message edited by: Boogie ]
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