Profanity

[BabyHeadCrab]

hay no fare, I wwant a titul

 

[PvtRyan]

An old post I wrote on "profanity" and mainly censorship, edited a little to fit this thread better:

I love how we have no forced censorship here. Some commercial tv outlets self-censor to keep their advertisers, but there's no fucktard organization like the FCC here. Public channels don't sport any censorship. Naked people on the news? No problem. Swearing? No problem, and why would it be? Someone else said it, they're just reporting it. In American news, swear words are almost approached as if they were ancient curses, dooming anyone who dares pronounce them. If you're repeating what someone said, it must be newsworthy, so just say it goddammit.

I don't get censorship. At all. It has to be the most ridiculous thing ever invented. I mean, what's the point of bleeping out a word? If you hear motherf<beep>cker, are you really confused as to what it means? Do you go "Hmm, what could that be? Could it be motherficker, or perhaps motherfacker?". You know what it means, little innocent Timmy knows what it means, so who the fuck are you trying to fool?

People who favor censorship never heard of the word context. If I say "I hope you die, you motherfucker", bleeping out motherfucker won't make it any friendlier. I'm still being rude, you just threw an annoying beep sound into the sentence. Censorship doesn't change anything about the message.

Even worse is stations like MTV blurring or pixelating someone's mouth when they say fuck. There's no bigger insult to your intelligence than watching a show where they blur out someone's mouth because they're saying naughty things. Or a middle finger. Or a butt crack.

It's also so arbitrary. I like to watch House and you'll quickly notice that House is always called a jerk, where he would be referred to as an asshole in real life situations. But that's because somehow, calling someone a jerk is OK, while calling someone an asshole isn't, on TV. If you do it for the kids, then why are you teaching them that calling someone names is OK at all? Be consistent and censor out everything then. Calling someone a son of a bitch is also acceptable, even though I wouldn't be phased by someone calling me that, it's objectively more offensive than being called a rectum, which doesn't even make sense. Also, using the word dick as someone's name is fine, but calling someone a dick isn't. Well, it is, but it gets bleeped out. Again, bleeping changes nothing about the message.

Censorship even has an averse effect: it actually condones swearing excessively because bleeping out words is a wildcard for unlimited swearing, because "it's OK, it's being bleeped out anyway".

That's how you end up with daytime television about some skank throwing a tantrum, with every other word coming out of her mouth being "fuck". But it's bleeped out, so it's nice and Christian!

Bottom line: if you don't want your kids to hear the word fuck, then you might also want them not watching a show in which they would use the word fuck, bleeped or not. Why would you be OK with your kid watching a show where 'fuck' is bleeped out but not be OK when it isn't?

 

[Officer Combine]

My point was that pimpin' isn't the nicest word.

 

[highlander]

I swear like a ****.

 

[Vegeta897]

I don't swear in RL, and I used to never swear online, (I used to be like, against it) but it just gradually became habit.

 

[kineaesth]

I used to never swear online

That's because you were a fucking cunt.

Swearing is fucking great, everyone should do it more.

 

[Sheepo]

My point was that pimpin' isn't the nicest word.

It's not profanity just because it's not nice.

I swear a ****ing lot when I'm in the right mood. I can also switch it off really easy if I'm in a situtation where I shouldn't.

 

[Tollbooth Willie]

I swear every other word almost around people that aren't family.

 

[The Monkey]

I hope it was fucking good, 'coz it's useless now, isn't it?

 

[Sulkdodds]

Absolutely.

I will not cease swearing in academic contexts.

 

[Kula Meenur]

Yeah, back in the home town every second word is a profanity. It's hilarious how some westerners reckon it's taboo.

Personally i swear, but the appropriateness of such language becomes diverse/less diverse as the company i am around changes and so does my speaking style. Apparently i speak with less of an accent when i'm at uni.


Fuck 'em.

 

[Musk]

I don't like it but I still do it when annoyed or whatever. Usually only when I'm alone though.

 

[Dumb Dude]

I don't mind at all when other people swear and stuff but I don't do it. I've probably only ever accidently said like 2 swear words out loud before. Its not that I try hard not to do it, I just don't see myself...I don't know. I have no reason behind it really. I just don't do it.

 

[Acepilotf14]

Don't care for them at all. I don't usually say profanity unless really bored or actually distressed.
Also, damnit Raz, I knew what Sam's favorite word was, but you had to go and guess it.
Everyone hates Dr. ****!

 

[Raziaar]

Don't care for them at all. I don't usually say profanity unless really bored or actually distressed.
Also, damnit Raz, I knew what Sam's favorite word was, but you had to go and guess it.
Everyone hates Dr. ****!

I guessed it with confidence purely based on what part of the world he lives in.

I know my United Kingdomers and Irish people quite well! Stereotyping prevails!

 

[Sheepo]

I realized the other day that I swear a ridiculous amount while playing games. Like tourretes on crack.

 

[Darkside55]

Munro told me to knock it off with the swearing. It's so hard.

Ffffff

fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff

 

[Asuka]

love it most of the time. Pointless ****s that arnt funny are annoying

 

[Krynn72]

Munro told me to knock it off with the swearing. It's so hard.

Ffffff

fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff

Hey Darkside, I ran over your cat this morning. My bad.

 

[Darkside55]

I...I actually owned a cat that got hit by a car. Hurt him real bad. Couldn't walk. Kept favoring one side of his body; one of his rear legs especially was hurt. I don't know what became of him; before I moved nearly two years ago now I entrusted him to some people because he was in a pretty bad way (his original owners didn't care for him, so I took him in) but the last time I saw him (last year) he looked really bad. It pained me that I couldn't do anything for him.

He was a good cat. Really sweet, loved everybody he came across. I miss him a lot.

 

[Bad^Hat]

C*nt yeah I f*cking love me some godding-shit-damned swears.

I don't even bitching care that fifty of you titshitting cockgobblers have probably already ballsraping done a post like clitsweat this.

:bounce::bounce::bounce: FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK. :bounce::bounce::bounce:

 

[Atomic_Piggy]

I ****ing love profanity.

 

[Sheepo]

I typically find that profanity is ****ing distracting.

 

[Bad^Hat]

I typically find that profanity is ****ing distracting.

What don't you ****ing understand?

I'm gonna ****ing kick your ****ing ass.