(March 19, 2018 at 5:35 pm)SaStrike Wrote: Is Trump a swear word?

Sure.  For instance, 'Oh, bollocks - I've just trod in a big pile of dog Trump' or 'Go Trump yourself'.

Boru

(March 19, 2018 at 2:31 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: I find it some what strange that I still curse mostly in xtian.

I usually swear in Spanish. I don’t know why, it just seems less offensive to me lol.

(March 19, 2018 at 1:26 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:

(March 16, 2018 at 8:21 pm)The Gentleman Bastard Wrote: Of this place offends you so, find somewhere else to sell your bullshit.

The gratuitous use of vulgarity is like defacing buildings with graffiti and littering the streets with garbage. I am not a prude and I do not take offense. I appreciate clever insults that may include coarse language. I have no respect for people who think they are clever when they display the intelligence of a paperweight and the vocabulary of 8-year-olds in a tree house swearing club. But I am saddened that some people treat AF like a ghetto and force everyone else to stroll through their filth.

Yes, Neo, we recognize that you're a conservative fucktard who views anything which he disagrees with as the clarion call signalling the start of the apocalypse, but the fact is that so-called vulgarity is simply a subset of accepted language used by a language community which you would like to castigate. Your condemning a language community because its standards of what is acceptable do not agree with yours simply makes you a bigoted asshole. We could compare the use of such so-called vulgarity to destructive graffiti, or we could liken it to a difference in taste among lawn ornaments in a particular neighborhood. Analogies like yours are nothing more than assertions in disguise, so all you've really said is that you consider your standards the correct ones to hold, and the standards of others to be wrong. (Did I mention that you're a bigoted asshole?) No, vulgarity isn't a symptom of the collapse of civilization, nor is it a symptom of a sub-par intellect. It's just a sign that different people have different standards than you do. Big shock. If you had made some other argument for banning vulgarity, you might have had a point. But as it stands, the only real argument you are making is, "Me good! You bad!" Sorry if I don't agree.

"Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer."
~ Mark Twain

I really don't get why Chad is getting so much crap slung at him from some people. All he did was make a suggestion in the suggestion subforum to keep thread titles a little less vulgar/bigoted. That's the whole point of the subform, and I don't see why anyone seems to feel personally offended by a suggestion for cleaner language in thread titles.

I have a feeling if it had been either me, mooney, or shadow making this same suggestion, we wouldnt be getting attacked for it.

(March 19, 2018 at 7:15 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I really don't get why Chad is getting so much crap slung at him from some people.

I think you know why. And I think is obvious to my detractors. They know exactly what they are doing and why.

As for me, I have made my suggestion, politely stated my case, and am grateful that the suggestion is being given consideration. As always I will respect the staff's decision.

Quote:All he did was make a suggestion in the suggestion subforum to keep thread titles a little less vulgar/bigoted.

That's not quite what he did.  He suggested that vulgarity in thread titles be banned.  Not the same thing.

Boru

(March 19, 2018 at 8:27 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

Quote:All he did was make a suggestion in the suggestion subforum to keep thread titles a little less vulgar/bigoted.

That's not quite what he did.  He suggested that vulgarity in thread titles be banned.  Not the same thing.

Boru

Yeah, that's what I meant by "to keep thread titles less vulgar/bigoted", lol.

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(March 19, 2018 at 7:59 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:

(March 19, 2018 at 7:15 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I really don't get why Chad is getting so much crap slung at him from some people.

I think you know why. And I think is obvious to my detractors. They know exactly what they are doing and why.

As for me, I have made my suggestion, politely stated my case, and am grateful that the suggestion is being given consideration. As always I will respect the staff's decision.

It's because you're not one of the "popular" theists.

(March 19, 2018 at 5:35 pm)SaStrike Wrote: Is Trump a swear word?

It is now.

Uh...Neo? Care to respond to this?

Quote:Threads started by Neo-scholastic.

Tooth Fairy Bullshit

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Of Holes and A-Holes

(March 19, 2018 at 8:34 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:

(March 19, 2018 at 8:27 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: That's not quite what he did.  He suggested that vulgarity in thread titles be banned.  Not the same thing.

Boru

Yeah, that's what I meant by "to keep thread titles less vulgar/bigoted", lol.

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(March 19, 2018 at 7:59 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: I think you know why. And I think is obvious to my detractors. They know exactly what they are doing and why.

As for me, I have made my suggestion, politely stated my case, and am grateful that the suggestion is being given consideration. As always I will respect the staff's decision.

It's because you're not one of the "popular" theists.

...and you're one of the "popular" theists because while you are openly religious, you are 99.99% less officious and demanding of how people behave. I'll bet your eyes roll a lot about what you see, and truthfully, I can say that I understand that. I'd never in a million years expect you to take up a firebrand like banned does, and wave his little self-righteous flame around like he was cleansing the place. You're real people. I consider both him and Neo to be some kind of plastic god-bot who employ (as I have said before) guilt, shame and eternal torture to try and control people. GC is in the same category. Tell you what- if these three quit spewing that crap for a week, maybe something different would be posted. But we all know that that isn't going to happen, and why.