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Color me old school, but I was watching something on the internet the other day and they had a commercial and the woman speaking said, "Hell." using it as a curse word.
Is it? Is it not? Am I just not hip any more?
CD doesn't block it, so it must be OK.
Unlike Japanese mushrooms. ****ake mushrooms are awesome. Blocked to **** and back, but OK.
Amazing how times have changed. My momma would've beat me black and blue for saying some of the things on TV these days. I think that is how change comes around.
I don't get it. You're upset by somebody using the word "hell" on TV?
No. I'd have to share some info. I stopped watching TV around 1990. I'd see various shows, but most just looked like crap. I gave up on TV. I think I've turned a TV on maybe 10 or 15 times in the last 5 years. It's just junk.
Well, times are changing. Years ago, lots of thing we now consider "normal" were considered outrageous. That includes words, images, dress styles, hair styles, etc.
I don't see "hell" as offensive. It's a meaningless concept to me personally, but it's certainly a concept within Christian belief and thus, within our culture.
What really annoys me is those little "go-arounds" - like "fudge," "shoot," etc. Who are we fooling with this nonsense?
Speaking of nonsense, did you know that CD censors a synonym for "parsimonious?"
Yeah, try using "n.iggardly" on this forum... Boy, are we ever catering to the lowest common denominator - those members of society who can't even understand their own, native language. Gosh, people are stupid.
Simon Winchester:
I was once giving a speech to a group of students in South Carolina, and happened to make reference to the n.iggardly pay raise that was then being offered to a group of local strikers—whereupon three members of the audience, two of them white and one black, walked out in evident protest. Much the same had happened in Washington, DC, a month or so before: a local civil servant was excoriated for having used the same word, one which, to some ill-educated members of his audience, was deemed to be—since it had a similarity of sound—racist and offensive. Of course, most users of this book will, ipso facto, be educated and liberally rounded people, and even if unaware of the precise etymology will know that this synonym for parsimonious has no connection whatsoever with the presently offensive and generally unusable word n igger (my caveat here refers only to the accepted and acceptable use of n igger within some racially and socially circumscribed communities). N.iggardly almost certainly comes from a Scandinavian term for 'a stingy person,' and it is, so far as is known, ethnically and chromatically untainted. So even if only to annoy the ignorant and pedantic watchdogs of correctness, this word should, I think, be used frequently. There is a much nobler reason to do so also, of course: it is a quite splendid-sounding and -looking word, easy on both the eye and the ear.
Color me old school, but I was watching something on the internet the other day and they had a commercial and the woman speaking said, "Hell." using it as a curse word.
Is it? Is it not? Am I just not hip any more?
CD doesn't block it, so it must be OK.
Unlike Japanese mushrooms. ****ake mushrooms are awesome. Blocked to **** and back, but OK.
Amazing how times have changed. My momma would've beat me black and blue for saying some of the things on TV these days. I think that is how change comes around.
I'm puzzled with this as well. Since when was hell a curse word? The restrictions people put on themselves amaze me. Self limiting themselves on freedom.
Color me old school, but I was watching something on the internet the other day and they had a commercial and the woman speaking said, "Hell." using it as a curse word.
Is it? Is it not? Am I just not hip any more?
CD doesn't block it, so it must be OK.
Unlike Japanese mushrooms. ****ake mushrooms are awesome. Blocked to **** and back, but OK.
Amazing how times have changed. My momma would've beat me black and blue for saying some of the things on TV these days. I think that is how change comes around.
Oh well.
Hell? A curse word? Since when?
I have heard people saying "H E double hockey sticks", and I always thought it was the stupidest thing, ever.
I have heard people saying "H E double hockey sticks", and I always thought it was the stupidest thing, ever.
I laugh at that one, too. After all, we all know what they mean. It is as if not saying the word itself makes a difference when the intent behind it is still there. They are only fooling themselves. Back in the day I had a supervisor who used to say "flip" or "fart" instead of "fxxk".
[iron fist in a velvet glove I guess... ]
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