The Auto-censor

NotAProghead wrote: ^ Please don't try to be holier than Pope. Admin edit in quoted text from the song is ridiculous. I think the idea is clear: most of forum members don't use mentioned words and, even if they sometimes do it, no need to invent senseless substitutes.

I have no need to be holier than anyone, nor do I need your assistance in realising that.

Edited by Dean - November 18 2008 at 14:54

What if someone is offended by words like 'cuddle', 'fluffy' and 'tickle'? Personally I'm fine with 'cuddle' and 'tickle', but 'fluffy' makes me think of fluffers and thus slightly offends me. But then again, I find asterisks even more offensive. If you look closely, they look just like little cuddles. 

rushfan4 wrote: Have you ever seen the movie "The Breakfast Club"? It is about a group of teenagers in Saturday morning detention.  The movie was pretty funny, but every other word was a swear word of some sort.  They showed the movie on regular TV filtering out all of the swear words with the "fluffy" words as mentioned above, and it made the movie even 10 times funnier.

I rarely swear (except when I'm with those no-good friends of mine who contaminated me with the way of swearing in the first place) - which probably makes me Jim Garten's main antagonist.  But wait, I am actually often amused by both godawful and "excellent" swearing (well, that's me...). Take Scorsese's The Departed for example (since Vompatti mentioned his films): half of the script should be licensed if posted here on PA, but it makes me chuckle (especially Mark Walhberg's character swears endlessly).

As far as the suggestion goes, it gets my vote, if there's actually a serious problem we're talking about (IMO, some members tend to be agressive and disrespectful, but that doesn't necessarily imply swearing, ego steroids could do just fine...). For me, humorous swearing can be ok (of course, depends on the humorous moment), on the other hand replies to serious conversations such as "you don't know what the **** you're talking about" are unacceptable.


Edited by Ricochet - November 18 2008 at 16:45

^ That's cool too.

I have a feeling this has the potential to be more fun than randomly moving people's threads around because then we'll just have to make up our own substitute cuss words and then you guys just try and keep up with auto bleeping those out. Aww, klerm!   And before I forget ***************************************.


Edited by Slartibartfast - November 18 2008 at 19:04

Thanks for the helpful contribution... or is there an emoticon missing?

Dean wrote: rushfan4 wrote: Have you ever seen the movie "The Breakfast Club"? It is about a group of teenagers in Saturday morning detention.  The movie was pretty funny, but every other word was a swear word of some sort.  They showed the movie on regular TV filtering out all of the swear words with the "fluffy" words as mentioned above, and it made the movie even 10 times funnier.  In the sanitised TV version of Risky Business when Curtis Armstrong says to Cruise: 'Say "what the flip."... If you can't say it, you can't do it.'  - just cracks me up.

rushfan4 wrote: Have you ever seen the movie "The Breakfast Club"? It is about a group of teenagers in Saturday morning detention.  The movie was pretty funny, but every other word was a swear word of some sort.  They showed the movie on regular TV filtering out all of the swear words with the "fluffy" words as mentioned above, and it made the movie even 10 times funnier.

Speaking as a fan of that movie, the edited version is totally neutered.  Even cut the pot smoking scene.  Boo!   If you haven't seen it go for the original.  (Bunch of melon farmers )


Edited by Slartibartfast - November 19 2008 at 06:04

Easy Livin wrote: Thanks for the helpful contribution... or is there an emoticon missing?

Not sure why a good Anglo-Saxon word or two should offend while its Latin counterpart acquires a reluctant respectability.  Still, only the most penurious imagination takes offense over words, especially in view of the genuinely offensive deeds which plague our world.