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Is anybody as tired as I am of passing up the best prospective re-postings on the internet at good ol' DU, but you can't because of the fucking abuse of the word fuck? I'd like to educate some friends whose mind will shut down over one instance. Sad.
Kali
(55,019 posts)what the fuck are you talking about?
Gothmog
(145,523 posts)ornotna
(10,806 posts)You've had 13 posts hidden?
Kali
(55,019 posts)that their audience for reposted DU posts can't handle the word fuck. I could be wrong though.
ornotna
(10,806 posts)just fucking guessing mind you.
Nevilledog
(51,193 posts)fuck
Sometimes I am polite and say F**K!
Fuck that shit.
sheshe2
(83,878 posts)Saying 'gosh golly gee' just does not work for me.
I even say it in front of my 94 year old mom as I flip the bird to donnie on the Tee Vee. She hasn't scolded me in a decade.
Nevilledog
(51,193 posts)My mom used to tell me I was a guttersnipe and I apparently should have worked in a shipyard.
liberaltrucker
(9,130 posts)Nevilledog
(51,193 posts)DashOneBravo
(2,679 posts)rzemanfl
(29,567 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,211 posts).
The F-bomb has been around for a long time, and is said to be used most by intellects and the literary wise.
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Politicub
(12,165 posts)and apply an oval filled with a plaid pattern over the word that offends your audience?
You could even use a black box to make it look like a word has been redacted, thus heightening the mystery and intrigue.
0rganism
(23,968 posts)0:50 for quote
Kurtz: "We train young men to drop fire on people, but their commanders won't allow them to write 'fuck' on their aeroplanes because it's obscene!"
mercuryblues
(14,537 posts)reposting your OP?
rzemanfl
(29,567 posts)JHB
(37,161 posts)"[expletive deleted]" ?