California Legislature Declares "Cuss-Free" Week

shewfig writes "The California legislature, which previously tried to ban incandescent light bulbs, just added to the list of banned things ... swear words! Fortunately, the measure only applies for the first week of March, and compliance is voluntary — although, apparently, there will be a 'swear jar' in the Assembly and the Governor's mansion. No word yet on whether the Governator intends to comply."

Comments

CA must be on easy street

[Monkey-Man2000]

what a fucking waste of time

Re:CA must be on easy street

[j-turkey]

Those California legislators are totally un-politically correct. This bill is insensitive to people with Tourette syndrome.

Re:CA must be on easy street

[tomhudson]

I can just see a few hundred robocallers swearing at california.

They wouldn't be noticed among the tens of thousands of humans calling every day to swear at the gubbimint.

Of course

[camperdave]

Of course, this story is going to generate the largest collection of cuss-word containing posts that Slashdot has seen in months. Maybe even all but one of the posts will contain cuss-words.

working hard...or

[TornCityVenz]

Good to see that with schools going down the toilet, a budget spirally out of control and more and more companies moving out of the area...the legislature is hard at work.

Voluntary....

[headkase]

.... For now.

Re:Fuck you, asshole

[Dark_Gravity]

How delightful. The first post to be moderated offtopic quotes cussing uttered by the governor of California in one of his better known roles, thereby making it relevant to the subject on two levels Where are my mod points when I really need them?

Re:God damn idiots

[MightyMartian]

They're doing that because they can't do anything else. Governments with their backs against the fiscal wall frequently start banning everything in sight. Banning is cheap, because inevitably they never put any money into enforcement, or in cases like cell phone driving bans, they let the cops go crazy with fines as a backdoor revenue generator. In any case, when you see a government get on the "ban this ban that" bandwagon, it means they're broke, can't actually pass any legislation that would in fact do anybody any good, but still need to justify their salaries.

Re:May I be the first one to say

[russotto]

And that makes it ok to deliberately offend people?

If people are offended by swear words not directed at them, the problem lies with them and not the speaker.

"That f-ing dog bit me!"

Given that the dog was not actually attempting to copulate with anything, using the expletive adds no meaning to the sentence.

Number one, it's a dog; it probably was trying to copulate with something, perhaps the leg of the victim. Number two, conveying emotion is a perfectly valid use of language.

Use of expletives as an intensifier, as in "You're a fucking moron", is also a perfectly valid use of language. If you object to deliberately offending people, it's not the expletive which is the problem.