Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
No, it's a fuck-you tree. It grows exclusively on the Go Fuck Yourself Shelf in the Island of Blow Me, and only pollinates when the Your Mother Fornicates Actively Wind blows through the I Hold Much Contempt For You Mountains.
No, it's a fuck-you tree. It grows exclusively on the Go Fuck Yourself Shelf in the Island of Blow Me, and only pollinates when the Your Mother Fornicates Actively Wind blows through the I Hold Much Contempt For You Mountains.
I read it regularly, actually. I just rarely have much to post.
Part of the reason why I dislike swearing is because of the stuff you mentioned about the use of words as sexist terms of abuse.
I think gendered and sexual swears (the two often go hand in hand in my experience) can be harmful to the extent they are abusive and frequently inject sex into a context where it is not relevant. I understand that sometimes (often perhaps) people use swears simply because they want to express a strong emotion and they do not necessarily intend them as targeted harassment. That said, I do not think that a lack of a malicious intent justifies continuing to use words that can hurt.
Aside from that reason, I mostly dislike swearing because it is just generally unpleasant. That probably sounds a bit silly, but if the point of swearing is to express a super strong emotion, then I think using swears regularly can make one come off as abrasive and unfriendly. I do not think that people who swear are automatically awful people or anything like that though. At this point, I can tolerate it even if I still do greatly dislike it.
i can understand your position here, i just don't quite agree? i feel that vaguely alluding to sex in a non-sexual context is pretty harmless. Targeted harrassment and sexist abuse are much more hurtful, but imo that's why a distinction should be drawn, and context matters.
Still, i will try not to overuse words that might cause offence, or to take them lightly.
I don't think I've ever found an occasion when "cunt" or "dick" would be functionally different from "asshole", or even "jerk".
Unless the speaker wants to highlight the person's gender, in which case I say it's an invalid highlighting of gender anyway.
Where i'm from, at least, none of those words is especially gendered (the first 3 are all more commonly targeted at males in my experience; "jerk" is rarely used).
Rather, the difference is one of severity, and of connotations. "C***" is extremely rude, but otherwise functions as a general insult, which might be used in place of "moron" as much as "jerk". "A******e" and "d**k", conversely, both imply a bad attitude, but the former is definitely the more vitriolic of the two.
Also i suppose, further to my response to @LW, that yes, using a lot of casual profanity does make a person seem abrasive and unfriendly to me, or can, depending on context and tone.
Sometimes abrasive and unfriendly is precisely how i want to sound, though. Not often, and now that i think about it i probably shouldn't want that, but sometimes i have done.
It's certainly in-character if you're roleplaying as a character like Karkat or Sollux, who have abrasive attitudes and use profanity liberally.
Anyway i used asterisks because using profanity, even in a quasi-academic sense, in a response to LW regarding this very subject, seemed like a bit much.
Was just looking through my Photobucket (I used it before using imgur, shush), and I amongst all my shitty artwork was a sign that I saw when I was doing my silver DofE practice walk at the first campsite we stayed at.
I was 16 and thought it was "quirky" to change my middle name to Fuzball because of my fuzzy hair. That, and it starts with the same first letter as my real middle name.
Oh God, so much shit to do before University starts.
I have a month to do shit in, and some of the shit I can't do because other shit needs to happen before that shit can happen and omg i'm drowning in shit help me
I need to complete my on-line enrolment so that I know I am enrolled onto my modules and everything is hunky dory.
Except I got to the part about tuition fees and the enrolment form went "lol something's gone wrong wait for a while whilst someone sorts this shit out" (roughly paraphrased).
I've handed in my student finance details ages ago, and my application has been approved and things should be fine. If it turns out that there was a cock-up somewhere that was not my fault, I will not be a happy person.
This happened a couple of years ago when I was doing my Foundation Year with Stoke College. The college failed to tell the University that I had been attending all my lectures, and thus the University couldn't tell Student Finance that I had been attending, and Student Finance couldn't pay me my student loans.
Was nearly two months after my payment date before I got paid. By then my next loan was coming in.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I've never seen "enrolment" with only one l before
I assume this is a Commonwealth thing and I just never paid attention
Know your lines? Of course you know your lines! But I don't want to just hear your lines...I wanna hear what's in YOUR SOULS!!
I wasn't aware of this forum because I was still on TVT until Negima ended and then jumped ship because I realized how godawful the forums and community were becoming
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I'm bored
Let's go mess with the Safety Fairy
We can cross the street while the red hand is flashing and she'll totally freak out!!
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But I have no advice to offer.
Still, i will try not to overuse words that might cause offence, or to take them lightly.
Where i'm from, at least, none of those words is especially gendered (the first 3 are all more commonly targeted at males in my experience; "jerk" is rarely used).
Rather, the difference is one of severity, and of connotations. "C***" is extremely rude, but otherwise functions as a general insult, which might be used in place of "moron" as much as "jerk". "A******e" and "d**k", conversely, both imply a bad attitude, but the former is definitely the more vitriolic of the two.
Sometimes abrasive and unfriendly is precisely how i want to sound, though. Not often, and now that i think about it i probably shouldn't want that, but sometimes i have done.
It's certainly in-character if you're roleplaying as a character like Karkat or Sollux, who have abrasive attitudes and use profanity liberally.
considerate?
cormorant?
But even I don't say the C word. I drop S and F bombs all the time, but never a C bomb.
One of my old flatmates dropped them nearly all the time. It's lost all meaning to me, but I still don't like saying it.
http://safebooru.org/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=569269
i am not ashamed of this (nor proud)
i can sympathize, one time i thought i applied for university accomodation, but it turned out not to have been processed due to an error on their end
it all worked out fine in the end though
yes it's the British spelling
i could almost swear that was a thing
also threads tended to not so much derail as flood with music embeds
Or do they have no equivalent in Centralia to the Executive Legisgator.