What the Fudge!

[mjtannen]

If we can't cuss on line while smoking our pipe, can we still drink while smoking and typing?

 

[jimbo]

I agree, Kevin.
I have noticed most of the profanity is posted at the threads that report the latest anti-smoking outrage. This should be expected. What else can we do until we find some way to take back the rights we have lost?
I'm not advocating profanity here, but the bad words seem to allude to the despiration that we all feel when smokers are hit with still more restrictions on their chosen passtime.

 

[romeowood]

Thank you for the gentlemanly request, Kevin--I know of no other forum that would even ask, let alone politely, and that only affirms my commitment to this one. Noted and accepted graciously, sir.
And jimbo, you make a very good point re:

I have noticed most of the profanity is posted at the threads that report the latest anti-smoking outrage. This should be expected. What else can we do until we find some way to take back the rights we have lost?

I cannot recall whom to attribute it to, but this instance always brings to mind a quote from a person much more eloquent than myself:

When you take away a man's language, his strong language, what is left for him to express his anger than his closed fists?

The continual erosion of our ability to smoke (and other liberties) certainly does strike a chord, a very deep one, and not just with smokers. A friend who is constantly exhorting me to stop is as up-in-arms as I am about the NYC ban. And those who write law and policy should take heed, because as we've seen most recently in Greece, Iran, Egypt and other places with even less promise of freedom, the people, once pushed past the point of being able to voice their displeasure, will close their fists and raise them.

 

[teamhavoc28]

Thanks for the request Kevin. I'll do my level best to adhere to those few better qualities I have. Just no one pass me a fifth of scotch and let me post. It might not even come out in English. ::

 

[wallbright]

Thanks Kevin. I had noticed the cursing and I am glad the mods did too. I agree that this website has the reputation of being a gentleman's website and I hope that it stays that way.

 

[unclearthur]

I am a member of a blacksmith's site where language that you would not want your ten year old daughter to read over your shoulder will get you a nice email informing you that you are suspended for a couple of weeks. Watching language should not pose a problem to a group of educated adults.

 

[wolfscout]

I'm guilty sometimes of letting a foul word slip from my normally intensely Angelic lips. :nana:

But I'll see what I can do about cleaning it up as much as is possible ... It'll be hard... cause you know.. I'm just a southron redneck.

 

[sparroa]

I'll make an effort to avoid off colour language. I don't think I've been bad on the forums but in person profanities pepper my speech quite a bit. It doesn't translate well into the informal written word, though. As lordnoble said, they lose their effect pretty easily.