As Bill once pointed out, there is a place for epithets. No 6 foot 7 inch, built-like-a-brick-toilet SEAL team member is going to leap out of a helicopter gunship screaming ‘oh poot’.
However, and despite how people feel about the current situation, it does not behoove us to lower our standards to the commonest of denominators. There are plenty of ways to describe someone or something for which you have disdain, or with which you are disgruntled, without reverting to the laziest forms of linguistics.
Perhaps we could temper our posts (and temper our tempers) a little, so that at least this corner of the internet discourse has a measure of civility and respect.
So let us consider our thoughts and language as we proceed forwards, and make this a more pleasant place for our new members.
Because believe me, if we were going to use swear-words I’m pretty sure we Brits could beat you into a cocked hat, you obstreperous laggard colonials.
6 replies on “Don’t be a ****”
This is your concern. Right this moment, potty mouths are your concern.
With all due respect, I think we’ve all endured quite enough moral lectures from people on their wooden high horses. Please come down off that high horse and stop casting stones in your glass house.
How we conduct ourselves in public is generally a reflection on who we are as people. I would suggest that if this site’s members let their discourse descend into a stream of epithets and petty argument (I’m all for debate and a little humour), then it is no better than the general youtube comments section; and essentially you’d be hurting Bill’s pocket, and this cause, as people leave.
“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion….Our Constitution was made only for a religious and moral people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other.” ~ John Adams.
You only have a republic if you can keep it. People seem to be forgetting the importance of virtue within the conservative tenets. Upholding the value of small government and private property is futile without the final principle of virtue. Or in the words of Bill Whittle: ‘Don’t be a jerk’. The left already has a monopoly on ‘jerkishness’: we don’t need to copy them.
Your country is on a deeply concerning trajectory that will effect not just you but the balance of power and politics across the entire world. Your constitution will hang by a thread. It can be rescued, but only by those who are the good, honest, upstanding and moral citizens escribed in ‘We The People’.
I’m simply reminding people of those fundamental principles.
Wow, I’m sure language is on top of our problems. Now or whenever.
Sometimes profanity exactly expresses the passion of the message. It’s also occasionally useful as a garnish, like parsley sprinkled on a fine meal.
Used correctly, it’s not “the commonest of denominators.”
Try that here and our mum would wash your mouth out with soap, old as you are. đŸ˜‰
Shouldn’t you be sending this to yourself, in private?
Oh yes!
Here endeth the Lesson.