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Study Finds Link Between Profanity and Honesty (neurosciencenews.com)
A team of researchers from the Netherlands, the UK, the U.S. and Hong Kong report in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science that people who use profanity are less likely to be associated with lying and deception. Neuroscience News reports: Profanity is obscene language which, in some social settings is considered inappropriate and unacceptable. It often refers to language that contains sexual references, blasphemy or other vulgar terms. It's usually related to the expression of emotions such as anger, frustration or surprise. But profanity can also be used to entertain and win over audiences. As dishonesty and profanity are both considered deviant they are often viewed as evidence of low moral standards. On the other hand, profanity can be positively associated with honesty. It is often used to express unfiltered feelings and sincerity. The researchers cite the example of President-elect Donald Trump who used swear words in some of his speeches while campaigning in last year's U.S. election and was considered, by some, to be more genuine than his rivals. The international team of researchers set out to gauge people's views about this sort of language in a series of questionnaires which included interactions with social media users. In the first questionnaire 276 participants were asked to list their most commonly used and favorite swear words. They were also asked to rate their reasons for using these words and then took part in a lie test to determine whether they were being truthful or simply responding in the way they thought was socially acceptable. Those who wrote down a higher number of curse words were less likely to be lying. A second survey involved collecting data from 75,000 Facebook users to measure their use of swear words in their online social interactions. The research found that those who used more profanity were also more likely to use language patterns that have been shown in previous research to be related to honesty, such as using pronouns like "I" and "me."
Those who are less likely to hold back what they are saying are more likely to not hold back what they are thinking. Big surprise.
Let the discussion begin
As dishonesty and profanity are both considered deviant they are often viewed as evidence of low moral standards.
Purported links between honesty and profanity being what they are, it seems worthy of experimentation by scientific method to determine if deviant is at all relatively rare, and thus, deviant at all.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
No shit.
profanities are a sing that someone is trolling, so decent sheeple should disregard it completely regardless of how much logical or obviously true it might be
... because I'm honest, but I can't use profanity because my Facebook Friends are actual friends, acquaintances, family and stuff.
Twitter, using a fake name, however, is a great motherfucking outlet to compensate so I can say things like, "Fuck that pussy-grabbing baby-raping goddam whore mongering Trump and all of his goddam family."
For real.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
A lot of Slashdotters are really honest folks. Good to know. ðY
At some point where every second word is profanity-laced, does honesty stop increasing or even drop?
How honest is a statement like "fuck the fucking fuckers". Almost no content, so hard to say.
in computer science the application of expletives has also been scientifically correlated. For example:
Ruby Programming: profanity causes Ruby to slowly reveal itself as nothing more than an elaborate and desparate cry for help. It is in fact not a programming language at all.
Git: A bell curve of profanity and blasphemy can pinpoint the exact number of phrases required to successfully identify the team member who broke the build.
iptables: cannot be run without profanity and is in fact compiled into the code itself
Email: while its long been understood that profanity is a critical component of all email infrastructure, it may be curious to know that science has found Exchange servers in particular often default to routing mail based on the deafening curses against god almighty uttered by the admin.
Good people go to bed earlier.
No fucking kidding.
Mimetics Inc. Twitter
n/t
You are welcome on my lawn.
Bloody correlation, not nearly the same as that godawful causation, bitches.
Simply saying "some people think he's honest" is not an objective measure of honesty.
In trump's case he regularly says the opposite of what he says the week month years before, so he's not honest by any measure. Google [trump contradicts trump] and you'll get so so many examples.
I did a financial check on his election declaration and found none of the numbers matched real accounts released elsewhere. And often the lies are screaming fraud (e.g. He claims Scottish golf course makes millions in profit, has $300 million investment, yet UK accounts show its loss making and has half that investment. Investors money is siphoned off to HQ, borrowing on many projects is 120%+ of the assets best assessed value and income isn't able to pay the interest). I even ran a few revPar numbers to estimate/test the plausibility of the accounts he's hiding and many were 10x exaggerated. This is Madoff level fraud.
Then there's the Pee memos.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3259984-Trump-Intelligence-Allegations.html
e.g. p15, 10th August 2016, "Kremlin engaging with several high profile US players, including STEIN, PAGE and (former DIA Director Michael Flynn) and funding their recent visits to Moscow.
Who is Michael Flynn? In August he was a nobody, yet Putin was grooming him. Trump didn't pick Michael Flynn until November 18th, months *after* that date. How would Kremlin know Trump would pick Flynn if Kremlin wasn't involved in the picking?
Time says Trump is a liar. Either because he himself says the opposite later, or because it reveals actions that could not be explained by Trump being honest. Like the Kremlin picking a pro-Kremlin General 3 months before Trump picks him.
Here's an example of more cutting edge research in the peer-reviewed SPPS journal.
Now adjust that study for intelligence and vocabulary. Profanity is the simplest form of emphasis, used by those lacking the vocabulary to express themselves with more meaningful and less crude words.
Especially "fuck," where George Carlin was right. If you have limited intelligence and vocabulary, it can be the universal adjective/verb/noun.
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
Consider people who say 'darn, frick', etc.. We all know what they're saying, and they're really lying to themselves by 'editing' how they're expressing themselves. Those who would express the actual terms they mean are demonstrating a higher degree of honesty in expression.
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Bill Clinton grabbed plenty of pussy in office. But I guess it's ok to do it and lie about it as President?
So because it was "OK" it still is "OK"?
If you were upset the first time around, then you need to be upset this time around.
Or are you to be counted among the groaning mass of Trump hypocrites ?
OK, that is why the sendmail configuration file is what it is.
Fuckin-A right.
Replying to my own thread with an example. You can objectively determine Trump is a liar, simply by comparing the incompatible numbers claimed in multiple places:
http://therealdeal.com/la/2016/11/04/property-tax-appeals-may-show-trumps-financial-disclosures-to-be-overstated/
"At 40 Wall Street, for example, Trump wrote in his book “Never Give Up” that the building makes approximately $20 million a year in rent and was worth $500 million in 2008, the year the book was published....On financial disclosure forms filed with the Federal Election Commission, the Republican presidential candidate listed the property’s income at more than $5 million, the highest category on the form....But the forms he filed with the city Tax Commission to appeal 40 Wall Street’s property taxes show that after mortgage payments and other costs, the building’s cash flow in 2014 was $104,000. During the previous three years, in the fallout of the 2008 financial crisis, it had negative cash flow of $5.5 million."
Now you might say "well he made a mistake" or "his understanding of the numbers has improved....", or the latest numbers not yet revealed show a total turnaounrd etc. but this is the norm with Trump numbers. They're all made up.
I notice that when I crunch fraud numbers, the fraudsters always use a simple multiplier, and the real numbers concealed as best possible. These two factors suggest the fraud is deliberate. The combination of concealment of real numbers, and the fraudulant public numbers always being a multiplier of the real numbers. Mistakes are random, you're as likely to find an overestimate as an underestimate in mistakes. Not so with fraud.
I think it's difficult for fraudsters to keep track of the lies they've told, so they use the real numbers adjusted by a simple multipler. Usually it's a x10 or x100, x1000 or x2 to keep it simple to convert in their head from real to fraud number.
And to hide the truth they hide the real numbers (like not revealing your tax returns in an election).
Trump exhibits both traits, suggesting he's aware of his fraud.
Honestly, fuck the fucking fuckers.
Sig ?
They are not "challenges" or "opportunities", they're fucking problems. It's not "cost restructuring" it's firing people over the age of 40 because it looks good on a spreadsheet.
In addition:
"value proposition" -> will people pay for the shit you're selling
"sharing economy" -> slave labor
"Reagonomics" -> fucking laissez faire economics that failed in the 1800s and won't fucking work now
"innovation" -> financial shell games by a bunch of thieving pig fucking bastards
"market efficiency" -> stealing others labor
"release 3.0" -> release 1.0 (if you're lucky) of a steaming pile of shit software that should never have been release
"Software Engineer" -> fucking code monkey
"Spin Meister" -> this is an interesting term. It seems to be related to the German work "spinnen" meaning to lie or tell a tall tale. In other words a fucking master liar.
Feel free to add a few more or your favorite examples of Newspeak.
putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+
Those who NEED to lie, defend inquiries that might REVEAL the lie by attacking with profanity. The mark is less likely to pursue that line of investigation, keeping them on track.
Push Trump's finances button and you get attacked BECAUSE HE'S HIDING STUFF THERE.
Push Trump's 'Putin' links and you get attacked, BECAUSE HE'S HIDING STUFF THERE.
Maybe if it was narrowed down to public figures, but not population as a whole.
I will never swear when anyone is around and I never lie or even half lie/
Trump is a very successful businessman, and you are not successful for such a long time if you lie. That is why people trust him, not because of the language he uses, though I have not heard him swear. Obama never swore, but no one can trust him on anything. so I guess that is 2 for 2 as far as presidents go.
Honesty in the sense of always telling the truth is no virtue. Just because you tell the truth doesn't mean you are a good person. It just means you aren't too worried about consequences .. either out of stupidity or because you possess a large amount of power.
This is not a study about honesty, it's a study about whether or not people are honest about their use of profanity. (The second sub-test, about pronoun usage, seems dubious at best.)
Donald John Trump, PeOTUS, has told more verified lies in his short political career than many with 30 or 40 years in the pubic eye.
If you voted for him, I'm glad you got your choice. But, hey, really? DJT? Wow.
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
The same story would tend to indicate that he's honest, you know.
Anyhow, I hope you're not planning to be one of the #DisruptJ20 people who are about to get busted for trying to use acid to attack the inauguration.
Assuming you believe lie detector results, it sounds like they were just measuring how honest the participants were about how many naughty words they new. And from that perspective it goes without saying that there would be a correlation between being honest and reporting more words.
Also, as regards holding back on the actual use of naughty words (which, BTW, they didn't measure), they need to consider the difference between "dishonesty" and "manners".
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Trump likes to brag about his wealth and his deals, no doubt doubt about that, and his "co-author" (who did all the writing) knows that spinning it even bigger than what Trump said sells more books. So yeah the numbers in book, written in 2007 based on what Trump said in 2006, were likely exaggerated, or at least "best case" gross margin.
Seven years later, when appealing a tax assessment in 2014, his accountant would have done the opposite - figured every possible deduction, including travel costs for Trump (in his 737). Taxable net income and gross margin are two very, very different things.
Then your research results are likely to be skewed from the beginning. As if the Facebook audience is representative for society in the first place. *facepalm*
In NJ profanity is used in place of spaces between words
love is just extroverted narcissism
Seriously, PC is a form of control, and under control you are not allowed to be honest.
Disparagement is a form on control, and by disparaging those portrayed as "PC" as being dishonest, a person can manipulate their way into moral superiority, even if it is dishonest. Wankers.
No wonder, why Clinton was perceived as less honest, as deceitful and un-reliable. This study just confirmed the bias which has been evidence during the recent elects.
Which is exactly why a master manipulator managed to snowjob....well, 3 million or so fewer votes, yet has to try to convince us that it was a landslide. The pisspot.
No Shit Sherlock!
Some people try to cleverly figure out what to say to each person about each situation, coming up with different lies and half-truths. Sometimes that works well for them, sometimes it blows up in their face. It's a bit of a crap shoot.
Other people figure honesty is the best *policy*, a long-term principle you stick to in almost all situations, knowing that in the long term, it works well. *Being* a liar doesn't work as well as being an honest person, they figure (and they're not wrong).
In my particular case, I have two additional reasons to *try* to be honest all the time. One, I tend to do things in the extreme. If I decide to be a liar and a thief, I'm probably going to be a big fat liar and steal well over the felony threshold. Secondly, my career is in security. 40 hours a week, I show banks and other institutions how hackers can exploit theirb systems. I study multi-million dollar hacks and thefts, because that's my job. I *know* how to steal a million dollars, I *tend* to go big in everything I do - if I decide to become a thief I might well end up in Leavenworth, not in county jail.
Maybe this is true of 276 people in the Netherlands, but how does that small of a population survey apply to the rest of the world?
The research found that those who used more profanity were also more likely to use language patterns that have been shown in previous research to be related to honesty, such as using pronouns like "I" and "me."
Well fuck me, I never heard such bullshit. I know these fucktards pull shit out of their assholes and fling at real researchers it while crying "me. me. me, I get all the research money. Fucking nonsense, I think these piece of shit researchers need to be fired. Listen to me people.
I think the point that many are missing is that many people who lie are so inured to it that they aren't even aware of it anymore. It's just in their nature. They're way past the state of mind of being intentionally deceitful as other commenters say here. Those are the really scary people and often most difficult to detect. I honestly believe that the Clinton's are truly of this class. Scamming has become so wrote to them that it is literally integrated into their personalities at a fundamental level.
People with less filter some of the time are more likely to have less filter the rest of the time. Also, are they really more honest or just more certain? It's easy to be certain when truth isn't an issue (like in the case of profanity or opinions).
Inheritance is the sincerest form of nepotism.
This study seems to be coming to a completely bogus non sequitur conclusion.
You could use any question that people would be less than honest about. It would be like asking people how often they masturbate and then finding that people who said they masturbated more often were more honest in general. Instead of saying that people who were honest about how often they masturbate are more honest in general, the "researchers" here would conclude that people who masturbate more often are more honest...
Any researchers that find Trump to be honest need their blood alcohol level examined during the research. A decent chunk of the country thought he was more honest than Clinton, but that is grading on quite the curve...
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Apologies for the repeated post, but I accidentally did an incorrect "cut-and-paste" right before hitting "submit," which resulted in repeating the words of much of the post several times.
Consider people who say 'darn, frick', etc.. We all know what they're saying, and they're really lying to themselves by 'editing' how they're expressing themselves.
There are various reasons people avoid profanity, but one of the primary reasons is out of politeness or concern for not offending those around them. Some might consider failure to adhere to politeness conventions to be "honesty in expression," but it could also simply be a social convention. I reflexively say "Thank you" to the toll-booth person who accepts my toll, but I'm not actually grateful to them. It's just a social convention and reflex to thank people who provide a service to you. Similarly, I walk around saying "How are you?" to people as I pass them in the hallway or whatever, but it's well-known that most people aren't seriously asking that question in more than a cursory "standard greeting" sense.
Are all of these people "lying" or not being "honest"? Or are they simply falling social convention, which also dictates that profanity is inappropriate in various social situations?
My distinction here is not a minor one, because desirability to adhere to social convention is actually arguably what this study measured, rather than "honesty" or whatever. There were three different components to this study. All have some problems.
(1) The first used Amazon Mechanical Turk to get people to answer a bunch of personality questions. There was no actual assessment of whether people were ACTUALLY lying. instead, they were given a series of questions "using the Lie subscale of the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire Revised short scale," However, despite its name, this test isn't actually used to determine whether people are prone to lie in general! This subscale is used, as the study notes, for social desirability responding.
That is, in the context of a personality test, this set of questions is used to fish out the people who are likely choosing answers based a little more on their "idealized" personality traits or what they might think would be "likeable," rather than being more realistic in their responses. Rather than a sort of "lie detector" test, it's more a test of how much a person wants to represent themselves as socially desirable. It has questions like, "If you say you will do something, do you always keep your promise no matter how inconvenient it might be?" If you answer "yes," the test assumes you to be a LIAR. But of course it has no way of knowing whether you are lying -- it rather assumes if you have more idealistic norms about social behavior that you're more likely to less realistic in your own self-reporting for personality questions.
Anyhow, this is a TERRIBLE proxy for "dishonesty" generally. It basically is measuring how close people want to try to adhere to social norms. And avoiding profanity in many situations is also trying to adhere to social norms. So it's basically a tautology that they found a correlation in the first study.
(2) Okay, on to the next one. Here, again, they didn't actually determine whether people were telling falsehoods. Rather, they looked at a bunch of Facebook messages and statistically analyzed how many times people used 1st and 3rd person pronouns, motion verbs, and anxiety words. They claim that this is a good way to tell how "honest" people are. Except the study they use as a benchmark to calibrate the frequency of these linguistic categories (this study) involved people giving detailed responses to prompts, both telling the truth and lying. The average words for the samples varied from 124 words for one category (people expressing a position on abortion while videotaped) up to 529 words (were people expressed an opinio
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The researchers cite the example of President-elect Donald Trump who used swear words in some of his speeches while campaigning in last year's U.S. election and was considered, by some, to be more genuine than his rivals.
Did someone just use Trump as an example of an *honest* person?
Really.
"They were also asked to rate their reasons for using these words and then took part in a lie test to determine whether they were being truthful or simply responding in the way they thought was socially acceptable."
So the opposed of "being truthful" is now to "respond in the way one thinks is socially acceptable"? This is so outrageously stupid that it might be malicious.
There may be other motivations to lie. Possibly one might be interested in (gasp!) manipulating one's audience. Using swear words might (gasp! gasp!) even help here.
Honestly I find this whole thing to be profane damnit.
http://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/swearing-honestly-654/
People who don't swear scare the fucking life out of me.
Honestly.
There's a difference between swearing AT someone or IN FRONT OF someone. You never swear AT a child. You can swear in front of one. (And if the parents have half a brain, they are told not to repeat it but I guarantee the primmest of young girls know all the swearwords by their teenage year if they want to use them.)
Swearing is an expression of emotion, for the most part. There are people who put it in just because it feels big (you can spot those people even into adulthood), but mostly it expresses the scale of emotion behind what they are saying.
Something is stupid.
Something is FUCKING stupid.
They are entirely different things.
But people who deliberately DO NOT swear or - worse - do not tolerate swearing in their presence at all, they scare me. There's something repressive about that. I work in big posh schools and I guarantee you that even the most pretentious and correcting headmaster will swear at times, and the staffroom is full of expletives.
Swearing is the emoticon of language. It provides emphasis, scale and scope to something that could otherwise be misinterpreted. And it's better to insert a swear word than actually raise your voice, I would posit.
As such, people who swear are giving you not only their demand/request/reasoning but expressing how important it is to them too. That's honesty, alright.
In trump's case he regularly says the opposite of what he says the week month years before, so he's not honest by any measure.
Trump certainly isn't a particularly honest person overall, but this is a really, REALLY bad example. The biggest under-acknowledged source of untruth in the world is self-deception. Most people are constantly engaged in a convoluted enterprise of unconscious and semi-conscious basis. I've even met at two people I've been close to who have (over the course of one of those intimate, highly philosophical talks that goes 'till 3am) admitted they do it consciously, and were surprised when I admitted that not only could I not consciously choose what I believed, but I couldn't fathom how anyone possibly could.
The list of reasons for self-deception is a long one and a large portion of them actually have to do with manipulating other people (lies being much easier to tell and maintain when you begin by lying to yourself). Lying for narrative building, for consistency is something that has strong benefits both psychologically and socially. Most people want to feel consistent and *look* consistent, instead of admitting or even understanding the extent to which humanity relies on ephemeral gut feelings.
The ease with which Trump contradicts himself often appears to be a form of honesty, albeit one that seems largely rooted in incompetence or sloth. We can see many of his brazenly cynical, manipulative lies because they're not sensibly covered up by the normal concealing lies, but we can also see the entirely natural and honest process by which the human mind believes different things from one day to the next. Most people try to suppress this tendency. Even disregarding the social consequences, most people would find it psychologically uncomfortable to be so free-wheeling.
Most people like the idea of (and the social image of) believing in something, and this artificial self-imposed consistency leads to deception. But as Trump illustrates, there are plenty of other kinds of deception in which our species is hopelessly mired.
No shit Sherlock. People tell white lies so as not to hurt others. People who don't care about the feelings of others tend to not worry about offending with offensive language.
It's more likely that when you're seriously honest (not necessarily right), you will get more emotional, and therefore you will be more honest,since you're not acting with forethought, which lying really benefits from.
But if you have tourettes, you will do it without intent, or with a toxic personality disorder you will swear as a mechanism to escalate the situation to a place where your victim is uncomfortable, whereas you are comfortable and in control.
But for most people, they will not be thinking as clearly when swearing and will be either more honest and less liable to listen.
It's not that people who tend to swear a lot are more honest, it's when proper swearing, people are less dishonest.
I can't use profanity because my Facebook Friends are actual friends, acquaintances, family and stuff.
actual friends, family and stuff are also the people of whom you might not want to hurt feelings and opt to not outright tell everything which goes through your head
("you're ugly as shit", "you clothes/car/whatever is crap", "your idea is stupid and you should be burned in public in the town square for that", etc.)
but where you would restrain yourself
("you've got personality", "well, it's original and has got some charm", "it's a surprising idea").
So again they are the people to which you would "lie" (in a fashion. You're not actively trying to outright deceive them, just not transmitting 100% of the information) which is what this study tries to point out.
"Sufficiently advanced satire is indistinguishable from reality." - [Tips: 1DrYakQDKCQ6y52z6QbnkxHXAocMZJE61o ]
Joke aside, that's actually has been Linus' own explanation :
he needs to be frank to people.
"Sufficiently advanced satire is indistinguishable from reality." - [Tips: 1DrYakQDKCQ6y52z6QbnkxHXAocMZJE61o ]
Profanity, Obscenity, and Vulgarity - all considered unacceptable in polite socety.....
But what are the differences?
Anyone who edits should know the differences....
Is there a checkbox in your program so it will automatically block all of your posts?
It might be worth using then...
I'm a professional trainer. I swear probably a hundred times a day in class and yesterday made spent time on pornhub in class to show network statistics and show articles related to building content delivery networks to aliviate bandwidth consumption on internet backbone links.
These students are with me for the 15th class and they keep coming
The following story is about how increasing activity in the amygdala makes mice violent. Well, the amygdala is also the part of the brain that is responsible for outbursts of profanity. Perhaps the amygdala is honest to a fault? It will cuss you out, and then it will cut you.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Do we really need any more of these fuched up stupid harseshit "studies" that proves nothing but the goddarned licebrained "researchers" should be charged for all the time people will need to clear their minds of those mindless methodologies and baseless conclusions they grabbed from the backend of a skunk in piles of elephant shit?
100% correct. After all, religious leaders are the biggest liars and they strive not to use profanity. Goddammit.
How could anyone lie to masses of people constantly like they do?
We need to help them out. It is out duty as fellow humans.
Excessive profanity, always talking about themselves (I and me) are also hallmarks of aggressive speakers. Aggressive speakers are seen as knowing what they are talking about, especially when the topic is subjective or the audience is mostly ignorant of the topic.
Any configuration file that you have to compile is just inviting profane commentary....
My eyes reflect the stars and a smile lights up my face.
Everything I say is a lie.
this may be not right
Fucking idiots.
Help! I am a self-aware entity trapped in an abstract function!
Denying the Holy Spirit either in your thoughts or in saying. That will never be forgiven, in some countries punishable by death.
Really /.? No one said it yet? What has this place come down to.
OK fine, I'll do it: If this is true, Linus Torvalds is the most honest person on the planet.
I've usually found that people who curse like sailors will tell the truth about small stuff (i.e. didn't take out the trash, I don't floss, I cheated on an exam in high school), but lie profusely about the big stuff (i.e. cheating on a spouse, embezzling, STDs). The reverse is also true; the people who have the moral scruples to not offend someone will tell white lies, but tell the truth about important things.
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I read years ago that children were asked which character on Sesame Street was the most honest. Yep, it was Oscar the Grouch. He had no filter and while he was irritable, kids sensed no BS coming from him. It's like a couple friends I have: rude sometimes, but they occasionally said things that needed to be heard, even though I didn't like hearing it at the time.
"The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games." - Eugene Jarvis
Discalimer: this is a complete and utter non-scientific study!
Perhaps, being constantly truthful, can be very stressful. To oneself & others. So therefore cause people to boil over & cuss.
Now I'm not recommending living a sinister lifestyle & lying through one's teeth, merely accepting that life's "little white lies" help lubricate our interactions with other people. You know you can't walk up to people & call them fat or ugly, then claim that's 'just being honest'. Here's a fine comparison:
TOTAL HONESTY WITH EVENTUAL TRAINWRECK
- Hi how are you?
- Well my hemoroids are acting up again, and am thinking about upcoming tax season. How are you?
- Well I was going to ask you about that project but since you're so depressed I'm going to walk away, lest you darken my day.
- Yeah? Well thanks for nuth'n a$$hole, interrupting me when I'm doing my $h1t !!
- Oh really? You're just goofing around doing jack $h1t- waiting to unload on some innocent passer-by to make you feel better you lonely bum, you're a d@mn jerk!
THE BEAUTIFUL WHITE LIE THAT KEEPS THING MOVING
- Hi how are you?
- I'm OK, it's a Monday. Haahaa.
- Yeah I hear ya. So about that project...
The last version = TOTAL SUCCESS!
Someone has to absorb or otherwise negate the 'real' person and their 'honesty' because sometimes life get too real and really, really, affects others unnecessarily. Matter of fact, to affect them with one's constant honesty is not 'being real' or 'telling it like it is' but is in fact very selfish. Drawing everyone else into your world, making them see what you see, so you can be validated.
In summary, have a nice day!
BS. There were multiple allegations of non-consesual sex acts against Bill Clinton, even before we get into him visiting Epstein's infamous island without his Secret Service detail.
So what? someone with good manners is not honest?
I think this is the Emperors New Clothes situation in real life - trying to make us believe that some expletive spewing president is more honest because he spews expletives. I belive actions still speak louder than words.
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Raymorris you shoot your mouth off f'ing up in 2 security fuckups https://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=5351503&cid=47379233/ & https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=5351503&cid=47374033/ + raymorris = scriptkiddie https://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8895203&cid=51726265/
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Tell us how ONLY 'newer script kiddie tools' have stringlength built in (when PASCAL had it for ages - my fav tool) https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8472509&cid=51114383/ YOU BLUNDERING WANNABE!
APK
P.S.=> You like to talk behind others' backs like the gossiping bitch TROLL you are raymorris https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9880997&cid=53312265/ well, here I am letting YOU TALK in those links, showing your FAILS wannabe ... apk
his hosts program is actually pretty good by xenotransplant
his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources by alexgieg
I've never tried to belittle (APK's) work, I've flat out said it's good by BronsCon
take a look at the APK hosts file engine by SuperKendall
APK is kinda right. I've tried his hosts file generating software. It works by bmo
APK is totally right on this count. Adblock Plus on Firefox mobile is a dog on older, or lower end, phones. A hostfile based adblocker makes for a much better experience by chihowa
I like your host file system by Karmashock
I find your hosts file admirable by vel-ex-tech
My code's liked & used + recommended & hosted by Malwarebytes' hpHosts!
* Do any /.-ers say same of YOUR non-existent work raymorris? How about the likes of malwarebytes too?? No. Your "vapourware's" like that, lol!
APK
P.S.=> More coming... apk
If you recall that Profanity in effect is the same as vulgarity. However, so many of us have forgotten the Latin roots of some of our words. Vulgar latin was in fact the language of the common people. So, if the same were true today, it makes sense that people might believe you more when you use vulgarity/profanity because if you are not an elite, but a commoner, you likely speak the same language, right?
Note the Latin version of the Bible translated/assembled by Jerome was called the 'Vulgate'. Because it was written in that same common tongue. I think maybe, the issue is as someone suggested above, people that use profanity appear to be less filtered, and because of that you hear more about what they really think... (Nevermind that they may be conflicted on any given issue, but still upset enough to use profanity)
I support APK's stand on the hosts file by Trax3001BBS
Your premise that hostfiles are a good way to deal with advertising and malvertising is quite valid by JazzLad
No complaints from me, I like APK... Reminds me to use a host file. Also, his stuff is free by aaaaaaargh!
APK's monolithic hosts file is looking pretty good by Culture20
APK... Awesome to see he's still spreading the good word by Molochi
ABP is insufficient as a solid hosts file does everything that APK reminds us about by fast turtle
APK isn't wrong by cfalcon
APK, I know people give you a lot of shit regarding hosts, but please don't ever stop by nasredin
You need APK's hosts file by Teun
APK solution STILL relevant by Thud457
you're right about hosts files by drinkypoo
APK
P.S.=> They're in addition to https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10126563&cid=53690211/ even more earlier + 1,000's worldwide - there's no arguing w/ success (that YOU don't have, raymorris)... apk
... generalizations are bad, umkay?
Seriously, though, just because on average people who are prone to swearing are more trustworthy, that is not always the case.
This is a trap I see more and more people falling into -- the belief that generalization can and should be applied to specific cases, individuals, events, etc.
You know the HR dipshits are going to pick this up and start using it as a basis for screening applicants. Soon, only people suffering from Turret's syndrome will be able to get a job. Mother-fucking cock-suckers.