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Re: Best selection of parts to mess around with
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Fri, 26 Nov 1999 19:17:32 GMT
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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.
Well, then maybe you don´t like me...
I write four asterisks "****" instead of a bad word, that I don´t like to
use.
--Tobias
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> > Vaccum cleaners in the shop, the timmy was useful....might build a
> > memorial....nah
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> LOL
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> Cheers,
> - jsproat
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> --
> Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@io.com> ~~~ http://www.io.com/~jsproat/
> Jeremy: "Hi, my name is Jeremy Sproat, and I'm a...Slashdot Lemming."
> All: "Hi, Jeremy."
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| (...) Well, just to put the $.02 in that I never did, I'd say that when writing, either avoid swears all together, or use 'em. The insult/resentment of reading a swear is not in the word itself, as Jeremy pointed out, but in the intention. Hence, (...) (25 years ago, 26-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Best selection of parts to mess around with
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| (...) I agree, to a point. I think these words tend to insult people even when they're not intended to. [WARNING BAD WORDS COMING UP] [WARNING BAD WORDS COMING UP] [WARNING BAD WORDS COMING UP] [WARNING BAD WORDS COMING UP] [WARNING BAD WORDS COMING (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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