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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."
what a fucking waste of time
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Fuck that.
In other news, astrophysicists have announced that they now know what all that dark matter is: it's stupidity.
Give me your clothes.
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.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
Fruits,
Nuts,
Flakes,
Pelosi
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Profit?
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it." - K
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.
I Need someone to rebuild a Digitech Digital Delay pedal for me....for me...for me...for me.
.... For now.
Shh.
Well, that sure beats the shit out of raising taxes!
Do ya have to use so many cuss words?
They can appeal to the Moral "Majority" by saying "Hey! Let's not swear for a week, and we'll set up a swear jar too!" but really what they're saying is "Hey, you cocksucker motherfuckers! We fucking know you can't control your goddamn language you bastards, so cough up some fucking dough!" Great way to get some money in CA's coffers. They are struggling, and with all the filthy language that flies around that very liberal patch of land, this could very well lead to serious revenue.
Yes, I'm being facetious.
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.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Frequently I like to embrace the role models in our government and
use word placement to make a point. Arnold did this, and it was
clear what his intentions were. I applaud our government for
keeping their promises on this critical piece of legislation.
Year after year tax payer money gets thrown away on
one stupid idea after another. Unless we can educated the
uneducated, these movie stars will continue to rule.
America needs leadership that can dedicate a week to getting
results. A week just to stop swearing at each other, that is
not even a good start. We need a week away from faith in
our markets to fix everything. We need a week of using
logic to solve problems. We need to vote third party, the
democrats and republics are colluding, but they call it compromise.
Coincidentally, the very same movie that talks about President Schwarzenegger and the amendments to the Constitution made to allow him to run for President of the USA.
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Shit
Piss
Fuck
Cunt
Cocksucker
Motherfucker
Tits
" Fortunately, the measure only 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.""
Governors office:
Scene: Two aides about to get chewed out.
Governor walks over to the swear jar and puts in a $100. Apparently it's going to be a long night.
Shai Schticks:"You don't make peace with friends, you make peace with enemies"
Give them at ticket every time they swear, and at least they'll have something to wipe their ass with!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
You've never felt the need to push the button labeled: "DO NOT PRESS"?
"the Man" is in California, and he's telling people not to cuss for a week. By cussing in response, we are showing that his efforts to control others is only bringing about more of the very activity that he hopes to diminish. Any legislature that seeks to restrict the people should be met with such an attitude. I'd say it's what a good citizen would do.
So I'll second the motion,
Fuck that.
Tits? seriously? Piss doesn't seem like a swear word anymore either.
RIP George, you dead fucker.
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
The next step is to put a little box on the wall with speech recognition. Then it could print out a fine automatically..
".. you have been fined 1 credit for a violation of the verbal morality..."
Profanity often can nudge interaction towards less restrained and thoughtful expression. The budget didn't spiral out of control by itself; it broke down because of (a) the laws surrounding how budgeting is to be done (b) the fact that the two parties couldn't work with each other.
Discouraging profanity won't fix problem (a), but it might make problem (b) somewhat more tractable.
Tweet, tweet.
The Governator responded with his catchphrase, "Fuck you asshole," which previously he only used in his R-rated movies. He then added, "You are one ugly motherfucker."
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
Too many people were swearing at the legislature for their brain dead performance, so this is how they fix it.
I don't think I've ever said this before, but this actually makes me embarrassed to be a Californian.
Evolution: love it or leave it
I'm glad you brought this up. Let me turn this question around a bit.
I'm not actively offended by profanity. I grew up with it, hear it at work, in the media--about like we all do, I suppose. But even if I'm not actively offended by it, I'm not actively impressed by it either. Are you?
I suppose I may have had a bit of a "brainwashed upbringing" in that I had parents who were concerned that I learn to speak English well and communicate effectively. English is a language with an extraordinarily broad and varied vocabulary--in part because it's borrowed so heavily from so many other languages. When I hear a person who seems unable to construct a sentence without using four letter words--for whom "fuck" and its variants act as noun, adjective, pronoun and/or verb without any apparent notion of what that word actually denotes--I admit that at first blush I'm probably going to have a low opinion of that person. If I were an employer, I wouldn't hire him or her. I wouldn't want him or her dating one of my children.
I share your sentiment on "like" as a placeholder (I'm not too impressed by that either), but feel that even that is probably preferable to pointless (and invariably grammatically incorrect) references to sexual acts, excrement, and religious figures. And if you're making those references with a purpose to offend, are you really trying to communicate anything useful anyway?
Fsck swearing... I want to hear them go a whole month (or even an hour) without saying any word starting with the letter 's' or something creative like that. The person that breaks the rule the most gets to sit on one of those seats over a tub of water that you throw tennis balls at a target and if you hit it dumps them in. Or even better, a bucket of slime over everyone's head that gets poured on them whenever they say "I don't know".