Official ruling on profanity?

[jack merchant]

I understood that, and was only joking I totally agree on the 'bleeping' issue !

Now, the only thing I'm curious about is what other phrases you could come up with of that description that one character could call another character ! My English-language cussing skills need some improvement

 

[MadScot]

Well, to borrow from 'The Great Escape', obviously a seven letter word that is insulting could be 'English'

 

[Dell19]

So we now have?

English sun on a ridge?

 

[Hygro]

Originally posted by Chieftess
Most definately. I have edited more than one post like that. Sometimes I'll just put in something comical in place of it... in blue.

Taking after Lefty?

Civ3 kicks A REALLY COOL GUY!

(pretends to be last edited by Chieftess)

 

[Padma]

Actually, Hygro, Lefty's really cool guy has become almost a standard.

 

[warmonger]

Can I make a point about cultural differences.

Last weekend there was an article in The Times of London that mentioned that, in the new edition of the Oxford dictionary, there are now only 12 words considered obscene. All others have been downgrounded to slang.

In Australian English there is only 1 word that will cause offense at every utterring; maybe 5 that would be offensive depending on the tone of voice (hard to do in a forum I know); and all the rest are used very often by most of the population. The f word is frequently quoted in newspapers of record without modification

What standard are we to be held to?

 

[Knight-Dragon]

My standard.

If you are unsure if the word you are going to use will be consider obscene or not, don't use it or use another politer word. Somehow I'm almost sure you can communicate the same sentence, w/o expletives...

 

[floppa21]

How about we go by George Carlin's "Words You Can't Use On TV"...?

****
Piss
****
****
WHOA!sucker
Mother****er
Tits

I don't remember it all, but you can Prick your finger, just don't finger your Prick.

I expected the EDITOR to get all that.... sheesh. Eeholayan...

 

[atawa]

What a ****ing ****ass thread

 

[cracker]

Thunderfall may choose to reopen this thread when he returns but clearly it has outlived it usefullness.

The is a difference between trying to clarify the rules and just deliberately flaunting the good humor of the liege lord. Deliberately posting lists of profame words just to see if you can get away with it is clearly not acceptable.

I'll recommend 8 days for Floppa (1 for each word in the list and plus one for the bonus word play).

2 days for atawa or 1/4th of Floppa's net sentence.

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EDIT: Thanks for closing this thread, cracker. If anyone wants to know the list of censored words, PM or email me. That will save you lots of trouble.

floppa's ban length is 4 days and atawa's is 2 days. - TF