Swearing or not.

I mean saying holy shit in a thread is not like saying "### you you ####ing ignorant #####ucker" to someone in a thread right?

Who cares?!

What's your point?

Did I miss something? What's the purpose of this thread?

Please, someone, answer my questions!!

 

Hmmm the purpose of the thread is exactly what it says and what the poll is about.

ummmmmm need more clarity ???

 

Between the funny shades and always sleeping, I don't know if he even knows what anything is about.... LOL

Rob, I need to learn from you, cause I could use the rest.

What is the secret master lounger.

 

Yes Rob please teach me aswell !!

 

Nope. Just didn't see the point.

I didn't know if someone was whining about you swearing or something. I wrote "dick" in a thread once and got about four reds.

Actually, I haven't had much sleep this week. And last night I woke up in the middle of the night to my wife biting my fingers. WTF is that all about?

 

I personally think that if a kid is old enough to be reading a forum like this, they're probably already swearing anyway.

But even though it doesn't offend me (unless it's every second word) it should still be kept to a minimum just for the sake of being respectful to others.

Would you go up to a cashier in the grocery store and say "Holy shit, I like your hair!"?

Being in the customer service business, I've gotten used to talking without swearing, and I've taken that with me into the forums as well.

That being said, I also think that if it's used in a certain context, it can actually be funny.

 

Well, you could just try swearing like my grandpa... "Moosemilk!"

 

horsefeathers!

 

Poppycock!

I always wondered where that one stood?

 

Mmmmm! I love poppycock!

 

Great, now I have to google it I guess.

 

POPPYCOCK

Nonsense, rubbish.

It’s a fine-sounding expletive, but hardly heard on anybody’s lips these days, and with a dated feel. It seems eminently English: think of elderly ex-Indian-Army colonels in retirement in Tunbridge Wells exploding in wrath over some supposed mismanagement of the country’s affairs and writing disgusted letters to The Times about it. And most of the citations for it in the big Oxford English Dictionary are from British sources. But, as the OED reminds us, the word is actually American in origin, first turning up there about 1865. The OED is silent on its origin, but most modern dictionaries know well where it comes from: the Dutch word pappekak for soft faeces. The word was presumably taken to the USA by Dutch settlers; the scatological associations were lost when the word moved into the English-language community. The first half of the word is closely related to our pap for infants’ soft food; the second half is essentially the same as the old English cack for excrement; the verb form of this word is older than the noun, and has been recorded as far back as the fifteenth century. So there’s no link with the vulgar meaning of cock. Nor is it linked to the sense of cock for rubbish (as in phrases like that’s a load of old cock), as that’s a shortened form of cock and bull story, which comes from a fable concerning a bull and a cockerel.

http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-pop1.htm

 

Swearing is fine... in its place. I love the word f**ck. It is so expressive. Saying, ¨oh, fiddle off!¨ just doesn´t have the same impact. But if everybody used it everyday, it would lose it´s spicy flavour.

I can just imagine picking up my daughter from pre-scool and saying to her teacher, ¨So, how the f**ck was she today, then? Everything all f**cking right?¨

There is a time and a place. Sweary words are funny. Especially when they are used by people who have more than 150 word vocabulary. So don´t dilute them by scattering them willy nilly.

 

Poppycock is almost as dated as balderdash. Probably too English old school for most.

 

I thought Poppycock was a fancy brand of Cracker Jacks

 

Oooh, I love Balderdash too - the game I mean.

And Poppycock is a recipe where I come from. My dad makes it all the time.

It's got nuts, popcorn, butter, brown sugar, vanilla and honey. I'm sure I have some pounds to show for it too.

 

I hadn't realised it was a game as well. In the UK we used to have a TV show called 'Call My Bluff' based on the same thing I suppose.

 

Yeah, my family plays it all the time. We don't play by the rules though. It has a board with tokens, but we just use the cards and make up definitions to really weird words. If you're playing with a lot of people, it can be hilarious. Especially with my crazy family.

 

Just because they are old enough to know "swear words", it doesn't mean that they use them


Josh

 

Is this where we pat you and say good boy? :/