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lildDemz

(64 posts)
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 07:53 PM Sep 2020

Decorum and re-posting

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.

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Decorum and re-posting (Original Post) lildDemz Sep 2020 OP
obviously... Kali Sep 2020 #1
I am also curious Gothmog Sep 2020 #14
What are you saying? ornotna Sep 2020 #2
I think they are whining Kali Sep 2020 #3
Fuck! You might be right. ornotna Sep 2020 #4
I'm almost incapable of posting without using it at least once. Nevilledog Sep 2020 #7
Me too. sheshe2 Sep 2020 #9
... Nevilledog Sep 2020 #10
Seriously. sheshe2 Sep 2020 #11
I love the word in all of its variations..... and combinations. Nevilledog Sep 2020 #13
... sheshe2 Sep 2020 #16
Indeed! It's a most versatile word! liberaltrucker Sep 2020 #15
That was like one of the best things I've ever seen......bwahahaha! Nevilledog Sep 2020 #17
Fuck ma'am DashOneBravo Sep 2020 #22
Guess the article of clothing I am thinking of. I fucking dare you. rzemanfl Sep 2020 #19
Me neither. Watch an early episode of F-Troop and you'll hear it a few times in each show. TheBlackAdder Sep 2020 #21
Couldn't you use Microsoft paint or something Politicub Sep 2020 #5
"we train young men to drop fire on people..." 0rganism Sep 2020 #6
Well I guess you won't be mercuryblues Sep 2020 #8
... sheshe2 Sep 2020 #12
I am posting this to remind me to say more once I have done the fucking wash. n/t rzemanfl Sep 2020 #18
Isn't the traditional solution to employ... JHB Sep 2020 #20

Kali

(55,019 posts)
3. I think they are whining
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 08:49 PM
Sep 2020

that their audience for reposted DU posts can't handle the word fuck. I could be wrong though.

sheshe2

(83,878 posts)
11. Seriously.
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 09:18 PM
Sep 2020

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)
13. I love the word in all of its variations..... and combinations.
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 09:20 PM
Sep 2020

My mom used to tell me I was a guttersnipe and I apparently should have worked in a shipyard.

TheBlackAdder

(28,211 posts)
21. Me neither. Watch an early episode of F-Troop and you'll hear it a few times in each show.
Wed Sep 2, 2020, 04:24 PM
Sep 2020

.

The F-bomb has been around for a long time, and is said to be used most by intellects and the literary wise.

.

Politicub

(12,165 posts)
5. Couldn't you use Microsoft paint or something
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 08:54 PM
Sep 2020

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)
6. "we train young men to drop fire on people..."
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 08:56 PM
Sep 2020

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!"
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