Profanity Prohibited by Community Guidelines [NSFW]

[Beanolini]

@LearnedCoward

The S****horpe Problem.

My favourite is this article about clbuttic bluegrbutt music and its buttociation with Kentucky, the bluegrbutt state.

[nungesser]

Thank you, I just laughed so hard I nearly choked on my peanut basster sandwich.

[popobawa4u]

@jerwin

Linguists have been known to classify cultures according to whether the shits, fucks, or damns are most prevalent. IIRC, there’s a fourth category, but it escapes me at the moment. (It might be ethnic slurs.)

Sure, but shits and fucks would be obscenity rather than profanity. Damns are swears.

@jerwin

Same with most varieties of English—as we saw earlier, whether in the United States, New Zealand, or Great Britain, the majority of the words judged most profane or most inappropriate relate to sexual acts, the organs used to perform them, or the people who engage in them.

Noooo, to profane something is a technical term, it doesn’t have anything to do with what people consider “appropriate”. People often lump together unrelated categories of heavy words as if the categories had the same meaning - such as swears, profanity, and obscenity. For example, “oh, shit” might be obscene but it is not a swear, because a swear is a promise to do something, often a curse. Something like “a pox upon your village” or “damn you” is a swear.

The profane is the polar opposite of the sacred, to take something sacred and attempt to defile it or reduce its stature. So for most people sex or bodily functions would not apply. But something like “Chezus Kwyste on a wubba kwutch” would certainly qualify.

[tinoesroho]

Obscenity is also forbidden.Buddha tittyfucking on a bike.

[RatMan]

@ficuswhisperer

Well I’ll be fucked. I’ve never had problems in the past with my use of profanity here and I’ve never been asked to tone my language down.

Fuckin’ A.

[LearnedCoward]

[crenquis]

Oh my glob, what the cabbage is going on in this lumping thread?

[anon17141263]

[tinoesroho]

I have no boiling clue, but I likes it!

[IronEdithKidd]

Have you had it with these Monday Friday cusses on this monkey-loving thread?

[crenquis]

@japhroaig

Hey, I won an award for the gratuitous use of the word Belgium in a serious screenplay.

True story.

No zarking way!

[nungesser]

[crenquis]

@IronEdithKidd

Have you had it with these Monday Friday cusses on this monkey-loving thread?

My first thought was; Oh, smeg. What the smegging smeg has @tinoesroho smegging done?

[popobawa4u]

@crenquis

No zarking way!

[tinoesroho]

Watch yer language, you smurfin’ fool! Ya’ll be cussing up a blue streak!

[orenwolf]

This thread is so full of win

IANAM (I Am Not All Mods), but generally I’m fine with profanity the same way the Authors do - if it’s to emphasize or add colour, great. If it’s used to attack others, or a slur? Nope.

Carry on!

[teknocholer]

Goodness gracious! What in tarnation possessed some poopyhead to come up with this darned rule? I say to H-E-double-hockeysticks with it. I mean, geez Louise, it’s like trying to learn a whole new flipping language, for Pete’s sake.

[Cynical]

There are ways around censorious rules…

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[the_borderer]

[LearnedCoward]

See what happens, Larry? This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps!