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Re: Profanity again
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Tue, 14 Sep 2004 17:03:42 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Adrian Egli wrote:
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As much as I don’t care for the implied disparaging of my favorite brand, I
have to admit that this is a pretty funny failsafe.
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It’s good to read you’re OK with it. When I saw this the other day I thought
“Hey! That’s a very good idea!”
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In practice I wouldn’t have a problem with it, because I generally don’t resort
to profanity and wouldn’t therefore have to worry about any word-substitution in
my posts. But one dilemma is that it would imply that LUGNET as an entity is
specifically issuing a derogatory endorsement of MEGABLOKS, which to date has
not seemed to be the official position of LUGNET. Granted, it’s certainly a
pro-LEGO forum, but it’s always been generally tolerant rather than condemnative
of clone brands.
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An idea came to me this morning- how about a poll? It would a rating type
with a list of clone brands in alphabetical order and participants would be
asked to think of the most profane word in their vocabulary and that to a
clone brand they feel fits it best, then, the second most profane word to
another clone brand, etc. (each brand only gets used once).
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Cute, but I’d have to wonder how people have formed their opinion of clone
brands sufficient to rate them relative to each other. I’d guess that MEGABLOKS
would probably rate the “worst” just because that’s the most recognized brand.
In fact, Ultra-Blox is objectively of far worse quality, but how many LEGO
purists have familiarity with that brand?
Dave!
I have the feeling that this should be FUT’ed, but I don’t know to where.
Suggestions?
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| (...) That and without a way to edit posts, typos can make it look like you swore. I found a few accidental typos while searching for swears the other day. Things like someone who misspelled "cut" by inserting an extra letter. Also you've got to (...) (20 years ago, 14-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| (...) It's good to read you're OK with it. When I saw this the other day I thought "Hey! That's a very good idea!" An idea came to me this morning- how about a poll? It would a rating type with a list of clone brands in alphabetical order and (...) (20 years ago, 14-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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