The Swearing Filter

Rai · 01-24-2011, 12:00 AM

This has been bugging me for a while. I swear a lot, and frankly, I enjoy it. It's a great tool to add new layers of meaning to a sentence and it's great fun. But let's Stephen Fry speak for me:

Do we really need the filter? I mean Damien Rice isn't too family friendly anyway, and some light swearing has no ill effect on any discussion whatsoever. This is a pretty small community of adults, who, I think, can be trusted with not flooding the board with a juvenile tsunami of ****s.

So, can it stop? Pwease?

Joyful · 01-24-2011, 02:12 AM

Agreed.
I will defer to the fabulous Tim Minchin for more on this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nVBZieBmXI

cille · 01-24-2011, 07:35 AM

^^ That cat is actually really angry!

Yeah I'm with Dave, it annoys me a bit too.

mariaoran · 01-25-2011, 07:30 PM

I agree with this very much so. That is all.

rachlanee · 01-26-2011, 04:35 AM

Warning, this video contains language inappropriate for children or the easily offended!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_Nrp7cj_tM

cille · 01-26-2011, 08:07 AM

^:d

verenita · 01-26-2011, 02:24 PM

boo to the filter... i love accurate swearing.

eva_arg · 01-27-2011, 04:27 PM

**** yeah!!

Amie R. · 01-30-2011, 02:28 PM

I swear like a cowboy and I love it. Wish could do it here too ;-P

Dean C · 01-31-2011, 03:31 PM

Let's be honest here. You're far more likely to read swear words elsewhere online, or in tv shows, or in books. Occasionally we might vent here but it's done in a fairly tasteful way I think.

Rai · 02-14-2011, 12:56 PM

I believe the people have spoken. Here's a picture of us:

We can haz redress of grievances?

Gatsby · 02-18-2011, 02:35 PM

censorship is bad mmmkay

01-24-2011, 12:00 AM	#1
Rai Eskimontologist Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: The Robo-Hungarian Empire Posts: 2,345	The Swearing Filter This has been bugging me for a while. I swear a lot, and frankly, I enjoy it. It's a great tool to add new layers of meaning to a sentence and it's great fun. But let's Stephen Fry speak for me: Do we really need the filter? I mean Damien Rice isn't too family friendly anyway, and some light swearing has no ill effect on any discussion whatsoever. This is a pretty small community of adults, who, I think, can be trusted with not flooding the board with a juvenile tsunami of ****s. So, can it stop? Pwease? __________________ "There's, another example. See, here I'm now sitting by myself, uh, er, talking to myself. That's, that's chaos." "If you find you've got a dragon charging at you at thirty miles per hour snapping its teeth you can always drive it defensively through the covers"

01-24-2011, 07:35 AM	#3
cille creepycute Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Copenhagen Posts: 15,333	^^ That cat is actually really angry! Yeah I'm with Dave, it annoys me a bit too. __________________ Yeah

01-25-2011, 07:30 PM	#4
mariaoran The girl from Venezuela Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Madrid Posts: 2,118	I agree with this very much so. That is all. __________________ "This place is a Gynocracy!" repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern...

01-26-2011, 04:35 AM	#5
rachlanee Eskimo Regular Join Date: May 2010 Location: Roswell, Georgia Posts: 358	Warning, this video contains language inappropriate for children or the easily offended! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_Nrp7cj_tM __________________ In a half painted frame where the wood wouldn't stain. I hope that reminds you of the part you couldn't change in me

01-26-2011, 08:07 AM	#6
cille creepycute Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Copenhagen Posts: 15,333	^:d __________________ Yeah

01-24-2011, 02:12 AM	#2
Joyful Eskimama Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: United States Posts: 1,276	Agreed. I will defer to the fabulous Tim Minchin for more on this... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nVBZieBmXI

01-26-2011, 02:24 PM	#7
verenita ... trusty and true ... Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Argentina Posts: 6,387	boo to the filter... i love accurate swearing. __________________ ["Read me your favourite line": "No podía sucederme nada peor –pensaba aquel amigo–: tengo el alma delicada."]

01-27-2011, 04:27 PM	#8
eva_arg Eskimo Regular Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Argentina Posts: 1,795	**** yeah!!

01-30-2011, 02:28 PM	#9
Amie R. Eskimo Regular Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Oslo Posts: 394	I swear like a cowboy and I love it. Wish could do it here too ;-P __________________ Why wait another day when one day won't change a thing?

01-31-2011, 03:31 PM	#10
Dean C Eskimo Regular Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Finland Posts: 1,058	Let's be honest here. You're far more likely to read swear words elsewhere online, or in tv shows, or in books. Occasionally we might vent here but it's done in a fairly tasteful way I think.

02-14-2011, 12:56 PM	#11
Rai Eskimontologist Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: The Robo-Hungarian Empire Posts: 2,345	I believe the people have spoken. Here's a picture of us: We can haz redress of grievances? __________________ "There's, another example. See, here I'm now sitting by myself, uh, er, talking to myself. That's, that's chaos." "If you find you've got a dragon charging at you at thirty miles per hour snapping its teeth you can always drive it defensively through the covers"

02-18-2011, 02:35 PM	#12
Gatsby Eskimo Regular Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Dublin Posts: 5,809	censorship is bad mmmkay __________________ "Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms further…And on fine morning - So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." https://www.twitch.tv/simonjmusic

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