How the hell is that (not) acceptable?

[Andy of Comix Inc]

AND ANOTHER THING! WHY THE FUCK DOES "'I' before 'E', except after 'C'" NOT APPLY TO THE WORD "Weird"???

Woah, I looked up it not being taught in schools anymore, and I found a goddamn poem about it. SWEET. I laughed out loud, so I might as well share:

I before E except after C
or when sounded as A, as in neighbor or weigh.
Albeit, there's weird words like leisure and neither
(foreign and counterfeit don't make sense either).
Seismic and seisure and protein and height...
the rule is quite useless but possibly might
just yet be worth saving with some alteration:
(oops: heir, their, and sovereign... decaffeination)
so yes it's quite simple, as I'm sure you can see:
I before E when it wants to be!

I'm sure I made a lot of English majors very angry by claiming to have "discovered" that poem on "the internet".

 

[Don Savik]

Nudity is......not necessarily a good thing. I can see where you're all coming from though. Young male....likes tits....wish more women walked around naked for you to oogle a- I mean express themselves in a sexual fashion for you to admire-I mean....stuff. But think about it. Imagine your daily routine, all the ugly, old, fat, unattractive slobs you see everyday. The people you work with. Go to school with. Family. Friends. ALL NAKED. Your eyes would bleed.

Some things are best left not seen. If you want to see someone naked, watch or porn or ask them to have sex. To me this is a taboo that isn't harmful, because the means to get around it are easier and more beneficial. I sense a lot of sexual tension in some people here. Not everyone is good enough to be naked. That's just life.

 

[Lunatic High]

Making out in public, I mean REALLY making out we're talking Gene Simmons tounge action here. Or even just regular frenching, to me it always appears to make people uncomfortable for reasons I don't quite get I mean what real concern is it of anyone elses other than envy if you ask me.

My gf and I were kicked out of a bus transit station just for this, well that could be considered the cause of the interation between ourselves and transit security and I know that we were basically kicked out because cause I called the fat prick an envious nazi essentially, I suppose I didn't have as good a control on my temper when I 19, but still just the fact that the guy came up to us and told us "either don't do that, or take it somewhere else" all matter of factly. There is a polilte and adult way to deal with any situation.

 

[ninjaRiv]

Genocide. I mean, come on! That's normal, right? It used to be I could say "Hey, I'm gonna go do some genocide" and nobody would care. I want to do some genocide again, like the old days.

 

[Danz D Man]

For everyone saying why they don't understand why people don't like swearing, why do you swear then?

 

[iseko]

Different people consider different things taboo. That's normal.

But society is strange sometimes. You walk down the street and notice random things.

For example, how the hell did public nudity become so taboo? Why did more "civilised" cultures come to disapprove of it? I can understand requiring clothes for specific things, but why the complete shift? Why are clothes now a requirement, rather than an option?

Any other examples?

I'm a fan of nietzsche and I think it's appropriate here. He says morality is subjective. It's just an excuse for power. 'Strong individuals' (rather: organisations/religions/governments) use morality to submit the weak (the divided). So according to him: morality doesn't exist. It's an invention of the people in power.

So basically, why does something become taboo. Because throughout the years small groups of people condemn it. However: that does not make our current morality bad. Well not according to me any ways. It does according to Nietzsche but he died of syphilis because he was having to much unprotected sex with prostitutes so... yea...

 

[Starik20X6]

Oh damn, I'm gonna hate when I turn that age and I suddenly have to stop playing games/watching kids shows like MLP and Adventure Time/building awesome shit with lego. If it makes a person happy, and it's not harming anyone then I reckon it's perfectly fine for the person to do it. But social taboos have made it so that that rule can't be enforced, because playing games is "immature" and you should go do taxes and file papers for the rest of your miserable, serious life.

There seem to be two kinds of people: people who's jimmies get rustled when I talk about my Lego collection and Adventure Time and games and all that good stuff, and people who think it's awesome that I can be 21 and still do what I like to do.

 

[phantasmalWordsmith]

Swearing. I mean you can say poop or pee pee but not shit or piss. How fucked are we as a society when a sound is taboo? No one cares about the meaning, everybody poops after all. But when people start shitting, that's offensive.

If it isn't taboo, then the word has no strength. If it was perfectly acceptable to say a swear word, it's not going to be any use when we need to convey strong feelings. We say a swear word, despite the fact that its not okay, to show just how strongly we feel about something. Or at least that's the theory. E.g. if I go through life using a swear whenever I please, then when I stub my toe and begin screaming obscenities, no impact. If I never swear up until stubbing my toe, THEN yell obscenities, it has much more of a impact to it.

 

[Daveman]

Different people consider different things taboo. That's normal.

But society is strange sometimes. You walk down the street and notice random things.

For example, how the hell did public nudity become so taboo? Why did more "civilised" cultures come to disapprove of it? I can understand requiring clothes for specific things, but why the complete shift? Why are clothes now a requirement, rather than an option?

Any other examples?

Nobody could wonder why civilised society wears clothes if you've seen an old man flossing his arse with a towel in a changing room.

You must be one of the lucky few... a woman.

Plus people can read peoples intentions well enough without being able to see the activity in their trousers.

I don't get why having a bell on your bike is weird and not just absolutely necessary. Without it they might as well be fucking ninjas.

 

[akfg666]

Why is it that you can join the army at 16 (In the UK at least) and yet cannot buy games that are orientated around the job you may being doing until you are 18?
I have a friend in the army who was told that he could not buy COD MW2 because he was 17. he then said that he was in the army and showed proof of that and yet still he was rejected.
DAFUQ!?

 

[Casual Shinji]

Things like excessive swearing, nudity, and displays of sexual affection in public are taboo for a good reason: Common courtesy.

And the fact that these things are taboo is why they're interesting in the first place. Constantly seeing nudity, sex, and swearing in plublic would turn it into just another boring daily event.

 

[ThatLankyBastard]

AND ANOTHER THING! WHY THE FUCK DOES "'I' before 'E', except after 'C'" NOT APPLY TO THE WORD "Weird"???

Woah, I looked up it not being taught in schools anymore, and I found a goddamn poem about it. SWEET. I laughed out loud, so I might as well share:

I before E except after C
or when sounded as A, as in neighbor or weigh.
Albeit, there's weird words like leisure and neither
(foreign and counterfeit don't make sense either).
Seismic and seisure and protein and height...
the rule is quite useless but possibly might
just yet be worth saving with some alteration:
(oops: heir, their, and sovereign... decaffeination)
so yes it's quite simple, as I'm sure you can see:
I before E when it wants to be!

I'm sure I made a lot of English majors very angry by claiming to have "discovered" that poem on "the internet".

You, my friend, just earned yourself an icecream! What's your flavor?

 

[uttaku]

Why is it acceptable to wear a Sesame Street shirt, but, not a My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic shirt?

for 2 reasons, sesame street was designed forboth sexes while MLP is clearly aimed at little girls, therefore a guy wearing it looks weirder and more importantly its assumed you watched sesame street as a child yourself when you where the right age for it and so the t shirt is nostalga while given that the MLP cartoon has only recently been released you must have watched it as an adult.

 

[Andy of Comix Inc]

You, my friend, just earned yourself an icecream! What's your flavor?

Chocolate and... um... chocolate and something.

Chocolate and white chocolate?

 

[Xan Krieger]

Different people consider different things taboo. That's normal.

But society is strange sometimes. You walk down the street and notice random things.

For example, how the hell did public nudity become so taboo? Why did more "civilised" cultures come to disapprove of it? I can understand requiring clothes for specific things, but why the complete shift? Why are clothes now a requirement, rather than an option?

Any other examples?

Do you really wanna see old people genitals? No? Then that's why. If we allowed public nudity people would be throwing up everywhere.

As for other taboos, I consider swearing a normal part of speech but it gets censored all the time. On South Park I was amazed to learn that when a gay guy tells a straight guy it looks like he pounds butt the words "pounds" got bleeped. I was pissed off, that's censoring something that isn't even vulgar.

 

[ThatLankyBastard]

You, my friend, just earned yourself an icecream! What's your flavor?

Chocolate and... um... chocolate and something.

Chocolate and white chocolate?

Behold! Chocolate w/ White Chocolate Chunk Icecream!

I hope the cherry is okay with you...

 

[Mycroft Holmes]

Lots of things obviously.

For example men aren't allowed to cry because its considered unmanly. Whereas just a few hundred years ago, breaking down and weeping was considered extremely manly because it showed that you actually gave a shit about something.

I never understood why wearing hats in school is so taboo.I've heard that it was first introduced as a matter of courtesy, but that seems a little outdated. I'm not trying to say that courtesy is outdated of course, it's just that people don't wear their hats inside to be disrespectful, they just want to wear their damn hat.

Because you aren't in school to learn math and science. You are in school to learn how to follow rules, no matter how stupid they are and become an effective cog of society who is obedient to your government. In 1918 the National Education Agency commissioned a report, under their newly formed CRSE(Committee for the Reorganization of Secondary Education.) This report set the basis for how the school system was set up, and the reason why it exists as it does today. The most crucial question the Committee was asked to answer was: what is the purpose of the school system. The report itself, which came to be known as the Cardinal Principles for education, decreed that secondary schools(highschool and below) would no longer be about making students smarter or better educated in terms of overall knowledge. They would instead be there to make the student fit for life in society - 'through activities designed for the well-being of his fellow members and society as a whole.' They put forward that education and academic learning should be left for colleges. Hence why schools often have ridiculous rules with tyrannical enforcement policies. It is demanded that you follow all the rules no matter how insane, and respect everyone who happens to have the title teacher, even if they are incompetent, without question.

 

[God's Clown]

AND ANOTHER THING! WHY THE FUCK DOES "'I' before 'E', except after 'C'" NOT APPLY TO THE WORD "Weird"???

I'm sure I saw somewhere that there are more exceptions to that rule than there are words that follow it.

Quite Interesting perhaps? They had a question on it, it's not taught in schools anymore, supposedly.

 

[A Raging Emo]

Different people consider different things taboo. That's normal.

But society is strange sometimes. You walk down the street and notice random things.

For example, how the hell did public nudity become so taboo? Why did more "civilised" cultures come to disapprove of it? I can understand requiring clothes for specific things, but why the complete shift? Why are clothes now a requirement, rather than an option?

Any other examples?

Honestly, if I didn't have to wear an clothes in public I wouldn't.

Oh Tea: We're all so politically correct in an attempt to not insult anyone.

Seriously, the only way we can annihilate Racism and Sexism and any other -ism is to stop pretending it's a problem.

The following is a MASSIVE TLR, feel free to skip.

To clarify, the reason I ask "How is this not acceptable?!" is because during School, to get a Grade in an English Creative Writing Assessment we had to write a story. It had to be exactly 2000 words or under, had to include three human characters and one animal. One human had to be Female, and the other two be Male. We could choose the gender of the animal, and choose the animal. It was supposed to be a children's story, that could potentially be sold to Parents to read to Children.

I wrote my story about how three Zookeepers couldn't contain a Panther, and how the Panther went around the Zoo and kept breaking stuff until they could get him back in his Pen, where they fed him and he was happy again (because he was scared while he was lost).

I got only a C Grade.

The reason is, and I distinctly remember because I contested it, because of the Characters. One man was White, another was White, and then the woman was Black. On my report that the Teacher gave back, it said:

I need to speak with you about the characterisation.

I assumed this meant I could do something to build on the characters and make them a little bit more interesting for the reader. Perhaps make one an elderly gentleman who once worked in the Circus taming Lions, and he still kept 50 lions in his house, or something.

Nope. She told me that while my story was B Grade worthy, I had to make one of the male characters Asian, and the other had]/i] to be either Disabled or Arabic. She said I'd be lowered to an E Grade if I didn't, because I didn't represent everyone equally.

I contested it, and thankfully won and did get my B Grade, but she never admitted how silly she was being to force me to change my story.

TLR - Crazy lady wanted to change my things to be PC, I disagreed and said it was unnecessary to do so because all it does is change the illustrations.

 

[WaysideMaze]

Making out in public, I mean REALLY making out we're talking Gene Simmons tounge action here. Or even just regular frenching, to me it always appears to make people uncomfortable for reasons I don't quite get I mean what real concern is it of anyone elses other than envy if you ask me.

My gf and I were kicked out of a bus transit station just for this, well that could be considered the cause of the interation between ourselves and transit security and I know that we were basically kicked out because cause I called the fat prick an envious nazi essentially, I suppose I didn't have as good a control on my temper when I 19, but still just the fact that the guy came up to us and told us "either don't do that, or take it somewhere else" all matter of factly. There is a polilte and adult way to deal with any situation.

have another read of that last paragraph and try to spot the hypocrisy