Hec, getting to the heart of the matter.

Or rather, the groin.

Daniel ... my tagline comes from [link]

Warning: do not visit Tachyon-TV if you've had your funny-bone amputated. :)

John H in Previously:

Or, indeed, "Waiting for Kodiak", Samuel Beckett's little-known Canadian play about two Canadian fur-trappers, (Vladimir and Estrogen), who futz about for two hours on stage and are then eaten by a bear.

I haven't been this foulmouthed since sixth grade, and back then I had philosophical and political objections to using the word "bitch".

RL, overcoming her sixth-grade scruples in Bitches.

I haven't been this foulmouthed since sixth grade, and back then I had philosophical and political objections to using the word "bitch".

I had religious objections to swearing until at least my early twenties. Still tend to self-censor most swearing out of my vocabulary. The exceptions are what I call the three Bs: bloody, bastard and bugger. Because really, they're just so much fun to say.

I'm kind of desultorily reading Natter:

Min:

Alibelle, marry me? You have a perfect number, our IDs combined make another perfect number, come make sweet digits with me.

Alibelle:

You had me at your calculations.

Separately,

billytea:

Oh, I just realised something else about my ID number: I keep winding up living somewhere with a street number divisible by 11. I've done 22 twice, 110, 55 and 11 itself, being the first and only place we've owned.

And now 33.

lori:

billytea goes up to eleven.

In Previously:

billytea:

If they'd had the internet back in the Middle Ages, d'you think Aquinas would've engaged in flame wars?

Anne. W:

Well, that would take the idea of auto de fe to a more civilized level, wouldn't it?

I think that Luther would have flamed like a things that flameth mightily.

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Actually, billytea, I'm with you on that one. My objections weren't so much religious as not making people uncomfortable around me--and besides, if you cheapen the words by using them every day, you don't get a chance to really shock people when you use them to make a point! When I curse, people know I'm really serious.

That doesn't mean I don't watch the Sopranos, et al. I just dislike cursing when a writer takes the easy way out with the shock value of the words themselves rather than writing them into a well-thought-out speech.

coughNATTERcough

billytea, re. Anne:

What's this 'would have' deal? I mean, the guy basically started a chatroom with the title "95 things I hate about the Pope".