winjim
Smash the cistern
This discussion is like when my kids try to negotiate and wriggle out of specific rules I've set.
'You said I couldn't punch my brother in the house, well now we're in the car'
Yeah it's the punching that's the problem, not the location, what are you a farking contract lawyer?
Where are all these egregious examples of bad language? I mean I see a few here and there but I don't think it's exactly endemic.
It's perfectly possible to be a rude and unpleasant person yet still use extremely polite language, in fact it's often used as a so called 'debate' tactic. Be polite and provoke your opponent into swearing. It's not big or clever and it doesn't mean you've won anything. Equally it's also possible to be a perfectly reasonable and agreeable human being while using swear words. I use them sometimes, hopefully sparingly, on the forum to add emphasis. Mostly I use them unchanged so the filter catches them, which I see as a reasonable compromise.
Incidentally I was listening to music with my 7yo the other day and she said I had to talk over the lyrics when there was swearing because 'it's the F word and I'm a child'. So she knows her swears and knows why they're used and when they're not appropriate.
'You said I couldn't punch my brother in the house, well now we're in the car'
Yeah it's the punching that's the problem, not the location, what are you a farking contract lawyer?
Where are all these egregious examples of bad language? I mean I see a few here and there but I don't think it's exactly endemic.
It's perfectly possible to be a rude and unpleasant person yet still use extremely polite language, in fact it's often used as a so called 'debate' tactic. Be polite and provoke your opponent into swearing. It's not big or clever and it doesn't mean you've won anything. Equally it's also possible to be a perfectly reasonable and agreeable human being while using swear words. I use them sometimes, hopefully sparingly, on the forum to add emphasis. Mostly I use them unchanged so the filter catches them, which I see as a reasonable compromise.
Incidentally I was listening to music with my 7yo the other day and she said I had to talk over the lyrics when there was swearing because 'it's the F word and I'm a child'. So she knows her swears and knows why they're used and when they're not appropriate.
