Mom Outraged by Naughty Word in Countdown

[Tipsy Giant]

if you remove their power by using them in every day language they lose their strength and become a standard word,

Which is precisely what we don't want to happen. The value of swear words is their ability to shock and offend. If we remove that by using them constantly then they become nothing but pointless and redundant words, either meaningless adjectives or exact synonyms of other words that we already have.

Yes, we could remove swear words' offensiveness, but doing so would remove their entire point for existing and our ability to be verbally offensive or shocking in a succinct way. I personally don't see that as a good thing.

It's the evolution of words to become acceptable, in their place new offensive words will appear

 

[Scott Guthrie]

i find this use of foul language fucking shocking!!!!!

the wankers shouldn't have been aloud to have such fucking shocking words in this fucking game!!!

 

[Maze1125]

if you remove their power by using them in every day language they lose their strength and become a standard word,

Which is precisely what we don't want to happen. The value of swear words is their ability to shock and offend. If we remove that by using them constantly then they become nothing but pointless and redundant words, either meaningless adjectives or exact synonyms of other words that we already have.

Yes, we could remove swear words' offensiveness, but doing so would remove their entire point for existing and our ability to be verbally offensive or shocking in a succinct way. I personally don't see that as a good thing.

It's the evolution of words to become acceptable, in their place new offensive words will appear

Well then you've just defeated your own point.
You were advocating that people should swear more often so that people stopped being offended by those words, but if there are always going to be words that people will be offended by, then there's absolutely no reason to try and stop people from being offended by these words.

If people are always going to find words to be offended by, why can't it be these words we have now? Why force an evolution into a different set of words?

 

[Tipsy Giant]

if you remove their power by using them in every day language they lose their strength and become a standard word,

Which is precisely what we don't want to happen. The value of swear words is their ability to shock and offend. If we remove that by using them constantly then they become nothing but pointless and redundant words, either meaningless adjectives or exact synonyms of other words that we already have.

Yes, we could remove swear words' offensiveness, but doing so would remove their entire point for existing and our ability to be verbally offensive or shocking in a succinct way. I personally don't see that as a good thing.

It's the evolution of words to become acceptable, in their place new offensive words will appear

Well then you've just defeated your own point.
You were advocating that people should swear more often so that people stopped being offended by those words, but if there are always going to be words that people will be offended by, then there's absolutely no reason to try and stop people from being offended by these words.

If people are always going to find words to be offended by, why can't it be these words we have now? Why force an evolution into a different set of words?

I'm not trying to "force" anything I am just stating that that is how it works

 

[Maze1125]

if you remove their power by using them in every day language they lose their strength and become a standard word,

Which is precisely what we don't want to happen. The value of swear words is their ability to shock and offend. If we remove that by using them constantly then they become nothing but pointless and redundant words, either meaningless adjectives or exact synonyms of other words that we already have.

Yes, we could remove swear words' offensiveness, but doing so would remove their entire point for existing and our ability to be verbally offensive or shocking in a succinct way. I personally don't see that as a good thing.

It's the evolution of words to become acceptable, in their place new offensive words will appear

Well then you've just defeated your own point.
You were advocating that people should swear more often so that people stopped being offended by those words, but if there are always going to be words that people will be offended by, then there's absolutely no reason to try and stop people from being offended by these words.

If people are always going to find words to be offended by, why can't it be these words we have now? Why force an evolution into a different set of words?

I'm not trying to "force" anything I am just stating that that is how it works

You said:

Yeah cos the word shitheads is the worse thing in the world, for fucks sake people they are JUST WORDS if you remove their power by using them in every day language they lose their strength and become a standard word, I hate cunts who think there are "bad words" fucking idiots

That is not "just stating that that is how it works". That is outright telling people that swear words shouldn't be considered offensive and anyone who does consider them so is a "fucking idiot".

Yes if everyone stopped getting offended by swear words then swear words would no longer be offensive. But so what? That is not likely to ever happen and it wouldn't be desirable even if it could happen.
And no-one is a "fucking idiot" just for being willing to recognise the offensiveness of particular words, even though that offensiveness is just a product of our society's belief that they are offensive.

 

[MarsProbe]

Funny stuff. But again, the source in this case happens to be The Sun, which for those who know, immediately destroys any credibility the story may have, even if it is true.

There's only one other thing I can think of saying on this matter and it's this:

That's one seriously unfortunate looking kid they've got there. They could at least start with a haircut!

 

[Hatchet90]

Here's a picture of a young happy gamer.