General / Off-Topic swearing debate
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Just look out for the ivory tower
I get moderated and warnings all the time, keep forgetting to keep it clean although i dont tend to use swear words but do use "colourful" insults or references quite often.
I got a thread moderated as it had the word cr*p in the title and I referred to myself as a whiney bi*ch in the first post.
bit over the top i thought in that particular instance but i do have history.
I got a thread moderated as it had the word cr*p in the title and I referred to myself as a whiney bi*ch in the first post.
bit over the top i thought in that particular instance but i do have history.
Can't resist....I think it was Gordon Brown that sold our gold at a bargain price.
Thought I might as well get politics into a discussion about religion
Just to make sure he got the worst possible price, he informed the markets that he would be flogging all the gold well in advance.
Genius.
You could use his name as an expletive for when you've made a particularly bad commodities deal.
GORDON BROWNED IT!
different levels of lawlessness
I'm in favour of using the officiousness of the swearbox software as one of the parameters to differentiate the different government types of the various star systems. That way, if you want to go to a place where everybody talks like they are on Blue Peter, such places exist, and they certainly won't be labelled Anarchy. Sometimes it just doesn't sound right to be too polite, so how about setting nil rules on language use only in places which cannot be reachedwithout proof of age being over <how much??> That way, bright 14 year olds won't learn vile vocabulary from Elite, and the worst pirate types can be banished to the most horrid places where they may use it.
I'm in favour of certain systems *allowing* bad words through but deducting credits for saying them. There might be peculiar definition of bad in a centipede-world and there could be a few places for which the dictionary of thought-crime words is quite arbitrary and used as a goverment revenue-raiser as much as speed cameras are in some places. There might be a way of selling a few new items on the local badword dictionary as they are discovered, and the radio kit for explorers would be the right equipment to transmit back to galcop this "cultural assessment". By the way you should never call a centipede a piece of ninety-nine legged bird feed.
Off topic: I'm also in favour of Frontier selling advertising boards in space, so long as those are restricted to only the most corporate locations, and are not selling any product which could be detrimental to homo sapien children. Having those only in certain types of starsystem would again help to differentiate the locations by more than the planet-colour. Visualise North Korea and then South Korea. How are public spaces in cities used in each?
I'm in favour of using the officiousness of the swearbox software as one of the parameters to differentiate the different government types of the various star systems. That way, if you want to go to a place where everybody talks like they are on Blue Peter, such places exist, and they certainly won't be labelled Anarchy. Sometimes it just doesn't sound right to be too polite, so how about setting nil rules on language use only in places which cannot be reachedwithout proof of age being over <how much??> That way, bright 14 year olds won't learn vile vocabulary from Elite, and the worst pirate types can be banished to the most horrid places where they may use it.
I'm in favour of certain systems *allowing* bad words through but deducting credits for saying them. There might be peculiar definition of bad in a centipede-world and there could be a few places for which the dictionary of thought-crime words is quite arbitrary and used as a goverment revenue-raiser as much as speed cameras are in some places. There might be a way of selling a few new items on the local badword dictionary as they are discovered, and the radio kit for explorers would be the right equipment to transmit back to galcop this "cultural assessment". By the way you should never call a centipede a piece of ninety-nine legged bird feed.
Off topic: I'm also in favour of Frontier selling advertising boards in space, so long as those are restricted to only the most corporate locations, and are not selling any product which could be detrimental to homo sapien children. Having those only in certain types of starsystem would again help to differentiate the locations by more than the planet-colour. Visualise North Korea and then South Korea. How are public spaces in cities used in each?
100% wrong.
Actually... they aren't.
'Pagan' is a coverall in much the same way as 'Christian' and 'Muslim' is.
It is a group name which covers many religions that are classed as 'Pagan Religions'.
Same when someone says they are a Christian. It is a group name that covers all the various Christian Religions. Although as they are all based around the same set of writings it is easier to class them as Christian.
So, when someone says that they are a Pagan, they aren't saying that their religion is 'Pagan' and they believe in a god called 'Pagan'.
They are saying that the religion they believe in is classed as a Pagan Religion. Now being as there are a lot of different Pagan religions and not all of them are based on the same writings, it is a little more difficult to class all Pagans as one and the same. Unlike the Christians.
The proper response would be to then ask them which of the Pagan Religions they follow. So they can then answer with their actual Religion, for example:
- Asatru
- Cochrane
- Odinist
- Wicca.
And many others...
Japanese
Here's me thinking it was chinese, never paid that much attention, always thouight that it was funny how bad the curse seemed depending just on the intensity of the babble. Wash was the best swearer in the verse!!
Here's me thinking it was chinese, never paid that much attention, always thouight that it was funny how bad the curse seemed depending just on the intensity of the babble. Wash was the best swearer in the verse!!
It was chinese. At least I hope it was - it inspired me to start a correspondence university chinese course so big fail on my part if it wasn't....
Chinese! <slaps psykokow in the face with a gauntlet and tosses it on the floor>
<picks up gauntlet and slaps CMDRS .Stu. and deMangler in the face too!>
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