Why should you watch your profanity here at LSB?

by carterman on Aug 20, 2006 11:28 PM CDT

Because then THIS happens:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGKC-YBb06M

phil collins hates the 300 character limit. 300 CHARACTERS MUST DIE
al franken hates the 300 character limit. 300 CHARACTERS MUST DIE
bob dole hates the 300 character limit. 300 CHARACTERS MUST DIE
edinson volquez hates the 300 character limit. 300 CHARACTERS MUST FIGURE OUT WHAT THE HELL ITS REAL NAME IS, ANYWAYS...LIKE YOU SHOULDN'T KNOW THAT ALREADY

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that was the most amazing thing ive ever seen.

by downsetgo on Aug 20, 2006 11:35 PM CDT reply actions

amazing?

what's amazing about a kid swearing? When I saw southpark for the first time I thought someone had finally gotten how third grade boys talk right! Not saying it's right, but when I was in Little League, most kids swore whenever there were no adults around.

by t ball on Aug 21, 2006 12:37 PM CDT up reply actions

I was watching the LLWS today

and I seen one of the kids droping F-bombs to one of his coaches. He was complaining about something from one of the opposing players saying something to him when they crossed the plate. Pretty funny...

by Scott S on Aug 20, 2006 11:36 PM CDT reply actions

6-8, 256 lb little leaguer

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060821/ap_on_sp_ot/bby_little_league

puh-leeze

Rangers Farm Probables

by shroomer on Aug 21, 2006 10:17 AM CDT up reply actions

that kid must have

good parents. I love watching the parents hang on every single swing their kid takes.

The Rangers manager doesn't want the Rangers to succeed.

by RangerMack on Aug 21, 2006 12:14 AM CDT reply actions

Personally..

I plan to raise my kids right, which will include a dosing of soap in the mouth when they swear.

I don't expect Hollywood or the Intenet to raise them.

by PatrickWalz on Aug 21, 2006 12:33 AM CDT reply actions

Wow.....

That is a quite conservative position....

by BurntOrange on Aug 21, 2006 12:55 AM CDT up reply actions

I don't think so.

In my high school, it was the church crowd that demanded the expulsion of students found with pot, cigarettes, alchohol, etc. They seemed considerably less likely to feel they could control their own kids than do parents out here in SF Bay area.

by PatrickWalz on Aug 21, 2006 12:42 PM CDT up reply actions

just to play devil's advocate

How is cursing wrong?

by a bebop a rebop on Aug 21, 2006 9:19 AM CDT up reply actions

Every good discussion

Has room for a devil's advocate. I guess if it were formalized to forensic debate, this would be the proposition:

Cursing isn't so much wrong, as it is inadequate. It marks the person doing the swearing as incapable of verbally stripping the hide off his adversary due to insufficient vocabulary. Now as exclamations of shock or surprise, almost any words will do. The difference between "Oh man" and an F-bomb is your attitude toward other people. Gracious versus indifferent.

Someday someone should make a list of all possible meanings of the F-bomb. Then split 'em up into three categories: Emphatic verbs, uncontrolled adjectives, and the occasional derisional noun. OTOH, it's already been done.

by Ed Coffin on Aug 21, 2006 11:10 AM CDT up reply actions

I will say

that I agree with you, in the main. Most people I've hung around with that curse a lot are pretty dumb. Unfortunately, I don't think not cursing makes you any more inherently intelligent or at least educated. I suppose it does give you a better chance at coming across that way, but in my personal experience, I don't see much of a correlation.

Anecdote: this year at college, I lived on the floor of my dorm for people that chose not to do drugs or alcohol in their rooms, or come back from wherever drunk or high. You can guess what kind of people were on this floor, for the most part: mostly straight-edge, religious-conservative kids. Very few of them swore with any frequency. There were only two people on the floor that I felt were worth talking to or hanging out with at all, one of which was solidly in the majority of the straight-edge but just a really great and interesting guy. The other was the only sailor-curser on the floor, a guy I'm rooming with next year.

I'm reading over what I just wrote, and I'm having difficulty condensing it into any kind of bullet point (maybe that proves your point?), but I think you get the point. Cursing and having worth as a human being aren't mutually exclusive.

Regardless, I try not to curse much because, like I said, I basically agree with you. I just really respect a lot of people, including both acquaintances and people I've never met, who like saying fuck.

by a bebop a rebop on Aug 22, 2006 12:46 AM CDT up reply actions