WideSpread Profanity.

[Jife_Jifremok]

On 2007-12-20 17:10, Turambar wrote:

On 2007-12-20 16:22, Jife_Jifremok wrote:
Maybe you should give your kids some lessons on vulgarity. When it's appropriate to swear (if at all), WHAT words are swears even, perhaps the meanings of some swears, why they shouldn't be so vulgar, and not to judge people just by how much they swear. Rather than just shield them from it all, educate them.

It's easy enough to say that. But much harder to actually do, especially when they're very young and don't really understand the concepts you're trying to explain. While yes, it is better to educate them, until they can fully understand, shielding is perhaps more effective if you don't want them randomly cursing.

And on a separate note, exactly what does verbal etiquette have to do with Christianity?

Then I can only advise keeping children away from parts of the Internet ill-suited for children. That's a far more effective form of shielding than telling some random bunch of older people to stop talking how they please.

[Biollante]

this is one of the most pointless threads out there. Funny, but pointless. you're going to have to toss out all your tv's and radios, home school your kids, and NEVER EVER let them hang out with anyone, if you want to have a chance at them not hearing some good ol' cuss words... like ham wallet, or squish mitten, oyster ditch or bitch wrinkle.

[KodiaX987]

You don't go on the Internet with kids around you.

It's like asking the village idiot to stand next to a red button marked "DO NOT PRESS THIS BUTTON" for 6 hours straight.

A kid heard a word he knows he shouldn't say? Get your shit together, man, 'cause that kid of yours is gonna be yappin' it every fucking opportunity he gets. Do you shove your kid in a sex shop? Do you carry him into a rerun of Die Hard II? No? Then what's he doing on the Internet?

Ironically, those whom I encounter who end up cussing the most are... kids. Call me a faggot, a fucking asshole or a giant asswipe? I can guarantee you that the guy is under 16 years old. What they have in quality, they don't in quality. They sure love to call me names all the time, but it's quite far from the sheer finesse of Gunnery Sargeant Hartmann.

Why attempt to solve a problem that affects kids and is caused by kids? You can rest assured that no matter how much you ask people to keep it clean in every channel ever, your kid will find a way to cuss anyway. It's what a kid does. I learned how to say fuck, shit and ass in elementary school, back when Internet Explorer didn't even exist.

[CelestialBlade]

What the fuck is cussing?

It's all about context.

[Gryffin]

Its not cussing. It's getting a point across without pulling a gun to someone's head or a knife to there throat.

You have to think, would you rather someone exert emotion through words or actions?

[MrNomad]

On 2007-12-21 00:14, Gryffin wrote:
Its not cussing. It's getting a point across without pulling a gun to someone's head or a knife to there throat.

You have to think, would you rather someone exert emotion through words or actions?

True, although the cool minds can use other bigger, less assaulting phrases than shit to get their point across, but then thats not what this topic is about

[Schubalts]

On 2007-12-20 17:27, Biollante wrote:
this is one of the most pointless threads out there. Funny, but pointless. you're going to have to toss out all your tv's and radios, home school your kids, and NEVER EVER let them hang out with anyone, if you want to have a chance at them not hearing some good ol' cuss words... like ham wallet, or squish mitten, oyster ditch or bitch wrinkle.

Hahaha. Learned some new euphemisms today!

[Noblewine]

Impossible it can't be helped.