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The Artful Use Of Profanity

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Sun 18 May 2008, 21:39:59

I'm thinking that maybe it's just low class use of profanity that more refined people object to. You know, some low class punk with his pants half-way down his ass says, 'yo mutherfucker' you find it unpleasant. But a martini sipping brahmin calls Ted Kennedy an 'asshole' and it's yuk yuk. I mean to say that it really does seem to be a sociological issue. The lower classes can cuss, the upper classes can cuss, but the vanishing middle class must repress the urge to use salty language. Well I come from the middle class so here's my offering:

Tra-la-la boom de yay
We're all so fucked today
There's so much shit to say
But I'll be nice

Tra-la-la boom de yay
This crap is here to stay
Let's keep bad words away
'Till we're on ice
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Re: The Artful Use Of Profanity

Unread postby roccman » Sun 18 May 2008, 21:42:55

yeah - kinda like the difference between playboy and hustler...

"Oh I get it for the articles"...yeah right jerkoff.

Too many uppity bitches round here expressing how they want shit to be rather than how shit is.

Get fuck'n real.
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Re: The Artful Use Of Profanity

Unread postby greenworm » Sun 18 May 2008, 21:49:43

There really is no difference between fuck and fornicate.

So fornicate you buddy!! :lol:
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Re: The Artful Use Of Profanity

Unread postby Pops » Sun 18 May 2008, 22:23:19

I can relate, my parents were janitors, I graduated from high school, inhaled, snorted and am right now quite drunk.

It is amusing to me how the internet is kinda like grade school playgrounds and freeway on ramps in the sense one feels some sense of anonymity to do what they wouldn't at Mom's house.

But, hey, if it makes you feel tough or smart or worldly or above the fray or whatever; then please carry on.

I guess it is better than talking that way in your cubicle tomorrow.
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Re: The Artful Use Of Profanity

Unread postby Ludi » Sun 18 May 2008, 22:30:47

I'm more like my "at home" self on the internets than I am like my "at step-mom's house" self. So you guys get to see more of the "real me" than my step-mom does.
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Re: The Artful Use Of Profanity

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Sun 18 May 2008, 22:31:28

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', '
')But, hey, if it makes you feel tough or smart or worldly or above the fray or whatever; then please carry on.

I guess it is better than talking that way in your cubicle tomorrow.
I'll be covering a middle school English class tomorrow. They won't hear me cuss, I can assure you of that. heh heh, that's the way it goes. Fuck it. They'll all probably be dead in ten years, the poor kids.
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Re: The Artful Use Of Profanity

Unread postby roccman » Sun 18 May 2008, 22:34:07

Yeah pops I can relate.

And I would add it is not just profanity that internet buddies take liberty with to be sure. Some examples:

1) discussing cannabalism
2) discussing having sex with yourself
3) encouraging suicide
4) encouraging hoarding
5) expressions of joy that others are suffering

Yeah pops - the internet is full of minnie meez and minnie uuuuuus.

Bunch of children I tell ya.

I feel your pain brother.
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Re: The Artful Use Of Profanity

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Sun 18 May 2008, 23:22:22

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('roccman', 'Y')eah pops I can relate.

And I would add it is not just profanity that internet buddies take liberty with to be sure. Some examples:

4) encouraging hoarding

Yeah pops - the internet is full of minnie meez and minnie uuuuuus.

Yo, roccman mofo, get your shit straight. Is you is or is you ain't for cussing? You think it's taking liberties to encourage hoarding? Give me a break. You've got one of the biggest stashes around. Pops and eb can castigate swearing, but they are consistent. But you are one side, one minute, and the other the next.
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Re: The Artful Use Of Profanity

Unread postby roccman » Sun 18 May 2008, 23:29:37

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('roccman', 'Y')eah pops I can relate.

And I would add it is not just profanity that internet buddies take liberty with to be sure. Some examples:

4) encouraging hoarding

Yeah pops - the internet is full of minnie meez and minnie uuuuuus.

Yo, roccman mofo, get your shit straight. Is you is or is you ain't for cussing? You think it's taking liberties to encourage hoarding? Give me a break. You've got one of the biggest stashes around. Pops and eb can castigate swearing, but they are consistent. But you are one side, one minute, and the other the next.


Bro...I am as ghetto as they get...punch'n someone in the neck ain't shit to me.

Pop made a smart ass comment on another thread about how saying fuck means we are dumb fucks...

Pops needs to screw his head on straight and join the real world.

Saying stupid shit like that will get one killed moving into the future...pretentious uppity fucks abound.
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Re: The Artful Use Of Profanity

Unread postby Jack » Sun 18 May 2008, 23:33:16

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('roccman', '5')) expressions of joy that others are suffering


It appears you want to do away with all the pleasures of life. Tut, tut.

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Re: The Artful Use Of Profanity

Unread postby roccman » Sun 18 May 2008, 23:43:02

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jack', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('roccman', '5')) expressions of joy that others are suffering


It appears you want to do away with all the pleasures of life. Tut, tut.

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cut and paste logic is flawed - pops should know better
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Re: The Artful Use Of Profanity

Unread postby emersonbiggins » Mon 19 May 2008, 00:08:18

Nothing wrong with cut-and-paste profanity, tho - here's some of my favorite right here...
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Re: The Artful Use Of Profanity

Unread postby Aaron » Mon 19 May 2008, 00:12:28

Words mean nothing... intent is everything.
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Re: The Artful Use Of Profanity

Unread postby BigTex » Mon 19 May 2008, 00:21:36

You guys suck. 8)
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Re: The Artful Use Of Profanity

Unread postby roccman » Mon 19 May 2008, 00:26:56

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('emersonbiggins', 'N')othing wrong with cut-and-paste profanity, tho - here's some of my favorite right here...


Classic scene~!

Thanks for posting!!
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Re: The Artful Use Of Profanity

Unread postby BigTex » Mon 19 May 2008, 00:42:53

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('roccman', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('emersonbiggins', 'N')othing wrong with cut-and-paste profanity, tho - here's some of my favorite right here...


Classic scene~!

Thanks for posting!!


That's a great scene.

I don't know if EB was meaning to be ironic, but Samuel L. Jackson's character decided to walk away from that lifestyle because it didn't feel right to him anymore.

So maybe he stopped cussing after that.
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Re: The Artful Use Of Profanity

Unread postby Jack » Mon 19 May 2008, 00:45:38

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Aaron', 'W')ords mean nothing... intent is everything.


So if one put on some black robes...lit the black candles...picked up the Knife of Art...and spoke the following with intent...

O you sonns of fury, the dowghters of the lust, which sit vppon 24 seats, vexing all creatures of the earth with age, which haue vnder you 1636: behold the Voyce of God, the promys of him which is called amongst you Furye or Extreme Iustice. Moue and shew yor selues: open the Mysteries of yor Creation: be frendely vnto me: for I am the servant of the same your God, the true wurshipper of the Highest.

it would surely constitute cursing. The reference to Diety would render it profane.

Thus, we have profane cursing...circa the 16th century.

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Re: The Artful Use Of Profanity

Unread postby emersonbiggins » Mon 19 May 2008, 11:25:22

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('BigTex', '
')So maybe he stopped cussing after that.


Yeah, maybe, but I don't think that scene would've fared nearly as well without this type of personality. :)
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Re: The Artful Use Of Profanity

Unread postby roccman » Mon 19 May 2008, 11:30:33

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('emersonbiggins', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('BigTex', '
')So maybe he stopped cussing after that.


Yeah, maybe, but I don't think that scene would've fared nearly as well without this type of personality. :)


And he handled the situation very INTELLIGENTLY...

Hey - do you think there is any correlation between intelligence and the use of foul language.

Oh wait - that was a movie...I must be getting stupider by the moment...Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!!!!
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Re: The Artful Use Of Profanity

Unread postby TWilliam » Mon 19 May 2008, 13:23:15

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('roccman', 'H')ey - do you think there is any correlation between intelligence and the use of foul language.


Of course there is. The idiot 'homies' cuss because they think it makes them seem 'tough' or 'cool' and they're too stupid to know any better. The more intelligent generally cuss to emphasize a point but rarely do so to excess. They also generally know when it's best to refrain from strong language (such as when teaching a middle-school English class or when in traffic in L.A.).

Compare Eddie Murphy's classic stand-up with George Carlin's, for example. Not saying Murphy's necessarily stupid, but consider the different demographics to which each appeal...
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