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[Loud Whispers]

ALSO I"M ALLOWED TO SAY THAT BECAUSE I AM THE LAW."

RESPECT MAH AUTHORATAH

[MaximumZero]

Daughter is sifting through the newspaper coupons, "reading" them.
She brings me a page of coupons for a restaurant and wants to eat there. I want to eat there, too.
I don't get paid 'til tomorrow.

Coupons expire today.

FUUUUUUUUU-

[GalenEvil]

My response to the fines-for-swearing stupidity:

Going with the assumption that it doesn't just get completely thrown out, there are a few ways to get around it. I think the best case solution (with the law still being in effect) is to just alter the words that are considered profane. So instead of saying Fuck, shit, etc. make up some random ass word and circulate it secretly as a substitution which has no actual meaning. That way you avoid being arrested and also if someone tries to get you arrested for using the meaningless word they will be S.O.L.
Another way to get around it would be to substitute the perceived profanities with their literal counterparts: Ass = donkey/posterior, Shit = defecant/solid waste/ Scat/ trail apples (horse shit)/ raisenets (rabbit shit), Fuck = fornicate/fornication.

Seems to me that the entire issue is a question of semantics, and should be fought against with more semantics.

[Skyrunner]

Of course, bullshit just has to be cow manure. :p

[GlyphGryph]

I dunno, I think I'm just gonna go there and swear at them until they change it.

On the other hand... fuck that place. If they want to ban the one thing they've got going for them over there, let them.

[Hanslanda]

You know the MPAA only allows one swear word to be in a movie before they give it an R rating? You know what I think of that? Fuck that.

[GalenEvil]

I think I learned that while watching either "Be Cool" or "Get Shorty." Travolta's character explains that, while saying fuck to give an example word, and that is the last swear word in the entire movie and allows the movie to have a PG-whatever rating.

[Hanslanda]

Hehe, yeah, Be Cool is what I was going for. I'm glad someone got that, but seriously fuck censorship. Censorship is fucking bullshit perpetuated by fundamentalist Moral Guardians hypocritical fuckwads who don't know how to raise a child. You should expose your children to the fact that life isn't perfect and shit happens, instead of hiding them from everything bad and letting them get horribly shocked when they're free from you're tyranny. Its like that parable thing of the kid who's parents kept him in a 'clean room' environment his whole life, and when he turned 18 and they let him out, he DIED because he didn't have an immune system. [/rant]

[Flying Dice]

The fuck? Fuck, I mean, fuck, for fuck's sake. Fucking shit, damn. Fucking fuckers fucking with fucking language. Fuck that, fuck them. Fuck da police, fuck the corporations, fuck censorship (fucking fuckity fuck, fuck those fucking fuckers, for fuck's sake.).


Also: Fuck Michael Bay. Just because fuck him.
___

What is wrong with them? Honestly, do they have nothing better to do? Sort of pathetic, if you ask me. Closeminded people trying to change language to suit their stunted preconceptions, nothing more or less. There are so many things wrong with that. Also, disrespect authorities, verbally reprimand those who destroy lives for profit, and oppose censorship (really, I'm so sick of this rubbish and these moral guardians).

Also: Fuck Michael Bay. Just because.


No major differences in meaning there, just in the way it was conveyed. Honestly, I sort of think that people should be careful with profanity--not because it is "offensive", but because it is sort of supposed to denote emphasis. Strewing one's speech with it just makes one a target for snobs (not entirely without cause) while also drawing the ire of pro-censorship types (not that any of them would ever willingly accept that label), while heavily self-censoring for the sake of censorship (or goodness help us, "Protecting The Youth") is rather sad in and of itself. On another note, as who-knows-how-many people have said before, there is something rather strange about humans that our two main categories of profanity (in English, at least) are drawn from sex and excretion, two of the most common (and essentially human) activities there are, with god/religion coming in a distant third (and slowly being phased out). S'always entertaining to read a SF or fantasy novel where the characters all swear with cultural influences or violent images (see: Dragonriders of Pern, Wheel of Time, et al.).

On to the next rage: I USE TOO MANY PARENTHESES, DAMMIT.

[Hanslanda]

Lol, good points, all. I'm just tired of censorship right now. And yes, Fuck Michael Bay. Just because.

()()()()()()()()()( :oOH no, you found me!>.> <.< Run!)()()()()()

[Scelly9]

Sent an email to the school I might be going to, pretend to be mother making sure that her Gay son will be treated correctly. They send me back an email saying "Of course he will! [Blurghotherstuffhere] However, if you would your son rather not be gay, here's a few camps you can try sending him to! [Insert fucking stupid links here]" FUCK YOU SCHOOL. FUCK. YOU.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

You know the MPAA only allows one swear word to be in a movie before they give it an R rating? You know what I think of that? Fuck that.

You know that the MPAA has no legal authority whatsoever and is ran by a bunch of Christian fundamentalists? Fuck that as well.

Sent an email to the school I might be going to, pretend to be mother making sure that her Gay son will be treated correctly. They send me back an email saying "Of course he will! [Blurghotherstuffhere] However, if you would your son rather not be gay, here's a few camps you can try sending him to! [Insert fucking stupid links here]" FUCK YOU SCHOOL. FUCK. YOU.

That's pretty horrible, but I applaud your forethought.

[Scelly9]

You know the MPAA only allows one swear word to be in a movie before they give it an R rating? You know what I think of that? Fuck that.

You know that the MPAA has no legal authority whatsoever and is ran by a bunch of Christian fundamentalists? Fuck that as well.

They have enough influence that its like they do. "Oh, your movie got rated NC-17 for lesbians? Well, your never going to get shown at any movie theater, ever! Fuck you, and have a nice day!"

[Aklyon]

You don't need the damn theater, though. Not in all cases, theres been at least one movie thats been made online.

And ratings are nowhere near the only thing to fuck the MPAA about. So many other things.

[Flying Dice]

Like attempted censorship of the internet. They and their fellow-dinosaur (the RIAA, obviously) have been marching in gooselockstep for the sole purpose of surpressing everything that threatens their outdated, self-profiting stranglehold on the entertainment industry. They're outdated, and rather than stepping aside gracefully, they're trying to knock everyone over the head with a baseball bat so they can tie them up in their basement/kinky torture dungeon.

The kinky torture dungeon is full of their worst nightmares: a VHS player, a diorama of a self-publishing band, and a large series of tubes.