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Re: Best selection of parts to mess around with
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Mon, 18 Oct 1999 17:04:12 GMT
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jsproat@(StopSpammers)io.com
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Matt Marshall wrote:
> > [1] Although I just heard that on Chicago Hope last night somebody • actually
> > said sh*t. Can the F bomb be far away? Not that I really care because I
> > don't watch TV nor do I let my kids (as if they had time to)
> Just what is wrong with those words? They are only "bad" because we think
> they are. It's just a self fufilling phrophecy I mean they are very
> general purpose words, and unless used to intentionally insult someone they
> don't.
I agree, to a point. I think these words tend to insult people even when
they're not intended to.
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I'm equally insulted when someone says "shoot" instead of "shit". It's not
the word itself, but the feeling with which it's delivered. In some cases, it
can be a casual swaggering of macho and is not insulting, and other times it's
the tantrum thrown by the inner child and is to be scorned. In either case,
it's just a verbal placeholder for when someone's too lazy to come up with a
better word.
Similarly, I'm equally insulted when someone says "sh*t" instead of "shit". I
mean, wow, "sh*t" is okay? Is there something magical about that asterisk?
I'm totally perplexed by the social mores which demand a letter be blanked
out, for all but the most scatalogically-ignorant to put back together.
I was surprised by a recent TRU commercial on TV, where a little girl keeps
saying the phrase "I used the potty". I never thought the TV censors would
let such a casual toilet reference be passed around by such a young child. It
probably wouldn't have surprised me any more if she had used other vocabulary.
> Vaccum cleaners in the shop, the timmy was useful....might build a
> memorial....nah
LOL
Cheers,
- jsproat
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| (...) here's a fun one I thought of a while back- Given- showing a man shirtless on TV with nipples exposed is ok. Given- showing a shirtless woman on TV is ok as long as we black out the nipples. Question- If I were to take the area of the woman's (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| <snip> (...) actually (...) Just what is wrong with those words? They are only "bad" because we think they are. It's just a self fufilling phrophecy(1) I mean they are very general purpose words, and unless used to intentionally insult someone they (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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