Swear Censors... Really necessary?

I haven't seen this much foul language on PA as I see now in this thread. 

Logan wrote: It was for a band called F*ck the Facts (I saw the ad many times when not using adblock).  I don't know what ad service provides the banner ads, but I wish they were more responsible about screening such things (or offer a service to disallow such ads at certain sites).   It is quite ridiculous in a way having a swear filter on the text here while seeing a large banner ad with the F word on it (I really was not at all pleased when my daughter saw it and would like to contact people from the ad service about it).

Andyman1125 wrote: Logan wrote: It was for a band called F*ck the Facts (I saw the ad many times when not using adblock).  I don't know what ad service provides the banner ads, but I wish they were more responsible about screening such things (or offer a service to disallow such ads at certain sites).   It is quite ridiculous in a way having a swear filter on the text here while seeing a large banner ad with the F word on it (I really was not at all pleased when my daughter saw it and would like to contact people from the ad service about it). Oh yea, I didn't even really notice the swears  If you have a problem with the ads, I guess you could contact the ad supplier for PA/MMA/JMA: http://www.fixionmedia.com/

seventhsojourn wrote: Andyman1125 wrote: Logan wrote: It was for a band called F*ck the Facts (I saw the ad many times when not using adblock).  I don't know what ad service provides the banner ads, but I wish they were more responsible about screening such things (or offer a service to disallow such ads at certain sites).   It is quite ridiculous in a way having a swear filter on the text here while seeing a large banner ad with the F word on it (I really was not at all pleased when my daughter saw it and would like to contact people from the ad service about it). Oh yea, I didn't even really notice the swears  If you have a problem with the ads, I guess you could contact the ad supplier for PA/MMA/JMA: http://www.fixionmedia.com/   I'm sorry Andy, I'm going to disagree with you here. It seems simple enough to me:   Does ProgArchives have a ''no swearing'' policy?   Does the word ''f**k'' appear in that advert?

Andyman1125 wrote: seventhsojourn wrote: Andyman1125 wrote: Logan wrote: It was for a band called F*ck the Facts (I saw the ad many times when not using adblock).  I don't know what ad service provides the banner ads, but I wish they were more responsible about screening such things (or offer a service to disallow such ads at certain sites).   It is quite ridiculous in a way having a swear filter on the text here while seeing a large banner ad with the F word on it (I really was not at all pleased when my daughter saw it and would like to contact people from the ad service about it). Oh yea, I didn't even really notice the swears  If you have a problem with the ads, I guess you could contact the ad supplier for PA/MMA/JMA: http://www.fixionmedia.com/   I'm sorry Andy, I'm going to disagree with you here. It seems simple enough to me:   Does ProgArchives have a ''no swearing'' policy?   Does the word ''f**k'' appear in that advert?     What? I'm just saying that Fixon Media could be contacted and ask to remove certain ads from PA, seeing as I believe that Max doesn't have much control over what ads are plopped in the banner spots across the site. I may be wrong, however. Personally I wouldn't mind if all the damn grindcore ads went "bye bye."

TheMasterMofo wrote: Censorship sucks, but it's a way of life... I'm a high school teacher and I was called down to the office two weeks ago and was told that I cannot swear in class anymore, much to the dismay of both myself and my students!! Now I have to say silly things such as, "that's a bunch of frivolous stuff." or "Mother father!" instead of the more entertaining versions. When you refer to Modernist writers as a "bunch of crazy mother fathers on Cocacola" it just doesn't have the same punch. If I can't curse at work, I don't mind not being able to curse here. It does seem rather silly to have ads with the F word on the site, though.

Edited by Deathrabbit - October 30 2011 at 22:41

There were mass burnings of Beatles albums here in these parts when John Lennon made the more famous than Jesus comment.

I thought it was fun. It wasn't like he was blasting Cannibal Corpse or something equally distractingly bad like Dream Theater.

Henry Plainview wrote:   Deathrabbit wrote:  (he would play music during quizzes and tests) I would flip my f**king sh*t if a teacher did that to me.

Deathrabbit wrote: Wow, I'm surprised, you werent fired being as I imagine Georgia is similarly repressed as Alabama. My favorite teacher was nearly fired over playing the Beatles in class (he would play music during quizzes and tests) because one of the students was a son of Baptist preacher who disliked the drug references in Yellow Submarine

I teach at an "inner city" school where well over half of our population lives in public housing projects, so luckily we get some leeway with that sort of thing.
That's kind of silly that he was in trouble over the Beatles... Playing music with lyrics during tests is generally frowned upon in general, though. I've played An Evening with John Petrucci and Jordan Rudess and a few Satriani albums during group project times before, but I try to avoid songs with lyrics all together.

TheProgtologist wrote: I know kids are kids and by the time they reach high school most are swearing like sailors,but if I heard of one of my 14 year old sons teachers talking like that in class I wouldn't be real happy.That language is innapropriate for a school setting. We didn't swear in front of our children and when we got older didn't allow them to swear around us.My brother-in-law says f**k every other word in a sentence and it really irritates me,I think it shows a lack of vocabulary.

Yeah, I completely understand why it's not appropriate, sadly! I usually use curse words in the middle of power points while kids are taking notes because sometimes note taking gets tedious and when they see an unexpected F bomb on the screen they laugh for a second, clear their heads, and can continue paying attention.. And sometimes if the office calls through the intercom several times in one class period after they hang up I might say, "Holy s**t that's getting annoying!" or something like that. I never made a habit of it, though.

I still can't curse around my parents to this day, and I've never heard either of them curse, either.