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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: noisyturtle on Tue, 29 August 2017, 17:36:07
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This mostly goes for comedy, but is absolutely applicable to other scenarios:
The more you use a controversial word out of context the less sensitive you become to it's meaning, thus taking the power away from that word. By getting offended and telling others they cannot use a certain word out of context you are empowering the word by creating an air of fear and reverence around it's usage. Either everything's off limits, or nothing's off limits - there is no stable middle ground
At least that's how I see things, so it always confuses me when people who are against something negative give credence and power to it by acting so loud and offended.
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once you become an old fart and have these --- superficial revelations about life ----, you realize you're the last one to have these - superficial revelations --
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So you're saying the solution is to eliminate everyone under 30 and over 50 so everyone in society is in their sweet spot, not too young to be idealistic and stupid, and not old enough to be set in their ways. I like it.
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So you're saying the solution is to eliminate everyone under 30 and over 50 so everyone in society is in their sweet spot, not too young to be idealistic and stupid, and not old enough to be set in their ways. I like it.
would you, COULD you , Press the button ?
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So you're saying the solution is to eliminate everyone under 30 and over 50 so everyone in society is in their sweet spot, not too young to be idealistic and stupid, and not old enough to be set in their ways. I like it.
would you, COULD you , Press the button ?
Would you, could you, eat the green eggs and spam?
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So you're saying the solution is to eliminate everyone under 30 and over 50 so everyone in society is in their sweet spot, not too young to be idealistic and stupid, and not old enough to be set in their ways. I like it.
would you, COULD you , Press the button ?
Would you, could you, eat the green eggs and spam?
I should not, would not , could not , will not
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Sometimes people complain that I swear in my videos.
Don't ****ing care.
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Swearing doesn't bother me but I think that it rarely helps a conversation. Saving choice words for the appropriate time makes them far more powerful than when they are overused.
I often hear younger people swear in a way that suggests to me that they just aren't familiar with the correct word to say. They merely substitute an offensive word in place of the elusive noun, adjective or adverb (verbs are generally difficult to substitute) that would better convey the meaning of their thought. Of course, a good amount language skills are caught rather than taught, suggesting that practitioners of such colorful but unexacting speech habits probably developed more of their oratory skills on the street corner rather than in the classroom.
As for older conversationalists, I'm at a bit of a loss to understand why they choose to swear unnecessarily. I'm guessing that it is more habit than anything else. I doubt that they are trying to impress anybody with their coarse language. It sometimes seems like filler in the middle of a thought; like hmmm or aaahh. Kind of like a place holder, to keep others from butting in before they finish their point. In the end, it probably says a lot about the people they associate with. Like a dairyman who always smells like bovine dung or a fisherman's distinctive scent, the swearer's lexicon probably reveals a lot about his or her peers—and that may be the biggest curse of them all!
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Whoever said swearing needs to be powerful? :p
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It doesn't. By the way, I enjoy your keyboard reviews a lot. Great content. I don't think I'd enjoy them any less without the swearing.
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I use swear words a lot at work because if i dont, people wont take me seriously.
I AM NOT JOKING, UNLESS YOU SWEAR PEOPLE THINK YOU ARE TELLING THEM TO DO WHAT YOU SAY AFTER A SMOKE BREAK AND I ****ING MISS SMOKE BREAKS SO MUCH THAT **** EVERYONE ELSE.
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What I find funny are normal words that certain people find offensive. Moist comes to mind.
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This is also a cultural thing, Romanians swear a lot and use profanity and half of it it's seen normal. Well the younger generations are more sensible and easily offended... soft pussies ... this is all the political correctness led to ...
P.S: we have way better words than "fk","edgy" and "salty" this is what "labagii" are using here ...
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Man, just listen to the Scots, or even worse, the Irish. That's enough to make anyone forget swearing even exists.
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Man, just listen to the Scots, or even worse, the Irish. That's enough to make anyone forget swearing even exists.
Is this true, or is it a situation like fanpeople, and how he blames the bogans for everything hahahahha
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Honestly I adore the word ****, it's so pronounced and just jumps off the tongue. Why is **** so accepted but you say **** and everyone loses their minds. Such hypocrisy.
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Honestly I adore the word ****, it's so pronounced and just jumps off the tongue.
Honestly I adore the word ****, it's so pronounced and just jumps off the tongue.
I suppose i should consider myself lucky i've never had a single opportunity to use that word..
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Honestly I adore the word ****, it's so pronounced and just jumps off the tongue.
Honestly I adore the word ****, it's so pronounced and just jumps off the tongue.
I suppose i should consider myself lucky i've never had a single opportunity to use that word..
meet some people from AU and you'll hear it often enough.
semi-related one of my favorite sketches:
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Whoever said swearing needs to be powerful? :p
ik heb met julie allemaal ruwe sex gehad
(pls forgib bad grammar)
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Honestly I adore the word ****, it's so pronounced and just jumps off the tongue.
Honestly I adore the word ****, it's so pronounced and just jumps off the tongue.
I suppose i should consider myself lucky i've never had a single opportunity to use that word..
meet some people from AU and you'll hear it often enough.
semi-related one of my favorite sketches:
Tp4 rarely outside, hurd australian people love outside..
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Whoever said swearing needs to be powerful? :p
ik heb met julie allemaal ruwe sex gehad
(pls forgib bad grammar)
HAHAHAHA LOL
I need to remember that one xD .
Honestly I adore the word ****, it's so pronounced and just jumps off the tongue. Why is **** so accepted but you say **** and everyone loses their minds. Such hypocrisy.
Move to Australia, they use it instead of the word "mate" :p . It's basically their most-used word.
Man, just listen to the Scots, or even worse, the Irish. That's enough to make anyone forget swearing even exists.
Is this true, or is it a situation like fanpeople, and how he blames the bogans for everything hahahahha
No, that's definitely true :p .
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Whoever said swearing needs to be powerful? :p
ik heb met julie allemaal ruwe sex gehad
(pls forgib bad grammar)
HAHAHAHA LOL
I need to remember that one xD .
Honestly I adore the word ****, it's so pronounced and just jumps off the tongue. Why is **** so accepted but you say **** and everyone loses their minds. Such hypocrisy.
Move to Australia, they use it instead of the word "mate" :p . It's basically their most-used word.
Man, just listen to the Scots, or even worse, the Irish. That's enough to make anyone forget swearing even exists.
Is this true, or is it a situation like fanpeople, and how he blames the bogans for everything hahahahha
No, that's definitely true :p .
nobody likes a bogan.
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Sometimes people complain that I swear in my videos.
Don't ****ing care.
I love your videos dude. Especially that recent epson bfk one.
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Whoever said swearing needs to be powerful? :p
ik heb met julie allemaal ruwe sex gehad
(pls forgib bad grammar)
HAHAHAHA LOL
I need to remember that one xD .
Honestly I adore the word ****, it's so pronounced and just jumps off the tongue. Why is **** so accepted but you say **** and everyone loses their minds. Such hypocrisy.
Move to Australia, they use it instead of the word "mate" :p . It's basically their most-used word.
Man, just listen to the Scots, or even worse, the Irish. That's enough to make anyone forget swearing even exists.
Is this true, or is it a situation like fanpeople, and how he blames the bogans for everything hahahahha
No, that's definitely true :p .
nobody likes a bogan.
I know an ultra-bogan bloke from Perth. Akubra with fish lured and ciggies in it, holden ute, works as a road train driver, goes around the desert with m8s setting couches on fire, hates rich and educated people, calls everything and everyone a ****. Stereotype gold xD .
Sometimes people complain that I swear in my videos.
Don't ****ing care.
I love your videos dude. Especially that recent epson bfk one.
Thanks mate, yeah that one got a lot of good reactions, I'm quite happy with how it came out too :) .
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I know an ultra-bogan bloke from Perth. Akubra with fish lured and ciggies in it, holden ute, works as a road train driver, goes around the desert with m8s setting couches on fire, hates rich and educated people, calls everything and everyone a ****. Stereotype gold xD .
****ing road train drivers, I listen to their conversations on UHF when I am between towns and holy **** they help to keep me awake with their jibber jabber.
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I like doggos and my casual speech is generously peppered with profanity.
This topic always reminds me of this video:
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Stephen Fry has it ri h t again, as always xD .
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I know an ultra-bogan bloke from Perth. Akubra with fish lured and ciggies in it, holden ute, works as a road train driver
Though this does appear to be in English, I understood none of it.
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I know an ultra-bogan bloke from Perth. Akubra with fish lured and ciggies in it, holden ute, works as a road train driver
Though this does appear to be in English, I understood none of it.
I laughed out loud at that xD .
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"Deplorable" certainly got the deplorables cranked up, after they googled the meaning of the word.
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Irish person here, and yes I probably do swear a little too much. I had a suggest to my 3 year old today that the word "****e" is for grownups. He was alright with it.
I think with jokes, and any sort of language, you have to be careful who the target is and your status in relation to them. Who is the victim of the joke? Are you in a position to say the word?
I'm inclined to give standups a lot of leeway on jokes because they're in a position of vulnerability on stage. Anybody can heckle them and boo them off. They're skirting the line of good taste as a job and putting a lot of time and thought into it. Artists in general have earnt a position where they're allowed to talk about things in a way that I should not.
The internet has gotten a bit polarised around people being omg free speech let me just say anything vs triggered snowflakes and the extremes on the each side are of course totally unreasonable. There are certainly people getting outraged or shouting hate speech in circumstances that don't warrant it, but just because some idiots get completely the wrong end of the stick doesn't mean there aren't cases where that kind of reaction is warranted.
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I know an ultra-bogan bloke from Perth. Akubra with fish lured and ciggies in it, holden ute, works as a road train driver
Though this does appear to be in English, I understood none of it.
Might help if you replace "lured" with "lures" - makes all the difference, eh?