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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."
Just think.... with the money spent passing such nonsense, dozens of teachers or police officers could have been employed.
*sighs*
No sig. Move along - nothing to see here.
If people are offended by swear words not directed at them, the problem lies with them and not the speaker.
If people are offended by my naked body out in public, that's their problem, not mine.
Seriously, we have public decency laws for a reason - it's so we don't go around offending people.
If you object to deliberately offending people, it's not the expletive which is the problem.
Suppose I have a neighbor who is offended by the word "noodle", for some inexplicable reason. You're saying it's perfectly acceptable for me to deliberately use the word "noodle" in every way possible every time the neighbor is within earshot?
Common decency would suggest otherwise. I may think it's absurd to be offended by the word "noodle", but I'm certainly not going to deliberately offend my neighbor.
And yet you're saying it's perfectly acceptable to go around deliberately offending people. I guess you have no sense of decency.
By literal definition, it does; I'm pretty sure I spent that entire post describing other ways it's used, so obviously I realize it is used many other ways.
None of those other ways, however, has a particular definition. Using it to increase the "shock value" or emotional weight of a sentence does not confer some magical definition on the word.
Or do you have a counter-example?
And say you can stick your fucking no swear week up your fucking ass...
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Because the Lord is a Shithead rapist who Fucked that Bitch Mary? Then, as Jesus, rode into town on an Ass.
Not a sentence!