"Permitted insults" Topic

When my opponent does something I regard as beneath him, I can look across the table, and call him a ing . We are an all-male club with over-18's only, and nobody objects.

when, on Frothers, bluezoo calls Redders a , it's regarded purely as punctuation.

here, on TMP, if I call someone a it's bleeped. I know I have called them a . they know I have called them SOMETHING bad enough that it gets bleeped, thus communicating the THOUGHT if not the word.

But some cusses, swores and descriptors do NOT get bleeped, and yet for these I can be Dawghoused. I could get dawghoused for calling someone a stupid idiot, or a fool.

In my view, if it bleeps its bad, if it doesnt bleep it's not bad enough to be Dawgied for.

But peple who like to ellide would object to fool being bleeped.

So, we need a set of TMP approved insults. I dislike Haddockisms, simply because I loath Tin-Tin and all he stands for, the twee little Belgian neo-fascist. Can we start a list of acceptable insults I can use in tranquility please?

I will start.

Connard Sage is Doghouse-Bait.

pAT

I thought that one thing is ugly words, that are bleeped, and on the other name calling, which is a different thing, and is not ok (nor should it be), whatever the word used.

It's one thing to do it among friends who can see you and thus judge how you mean it – but in text there is no inflection. (A smiley can help, somewhat.)
You don't know who's reading it and how they take it. Perhaps they're sensitive, perhaps they have a bad day.

The question is why you feel you need to insult someone.

Because, Henrix, many people deserve to be insulted. Some people should have YOU ARE A sprayed on their bedroom wall, so that they see it each morning as they awake, saving the rest of the world the effort of screaming it at them.

I understand that, in the USA, bad language is still not socially acceptable. I respect that. Here in the UK on Childrens TV Andy Pandy can call Big Ears a and no-one raises an eyebrow. These cultural differences are , in a nut-shell, the reason Frothers is like it is, and TMP is like it is. Again, I respect and understand that.

But surely there are insults that will not cause conniptions in New Jersey, while still conveying the intent to a Geordie? Insults that both the UK and the USA can share, just like we already shared Shakespeare, The English Language and architecture one way and McDonalds Burgers, Syphilis and Andie McDowall the other?

You spoon-juggler.

Pat

It just leads to aggravation, temper, and a less interesting discussion. (If I want random discussion with name calling and no content there are plenty of places all over the net – go take a dip in 4Chan if you want some.)

Calling someone whatever insult you fancy only leads to them not listening to you. (And if you then complain about being what-must-not-be-named I'll go right over and give you a big whack on the head.)

In short, it does not lead to anything, except perhaps you and your opponent getting a bit more angry.
Go play a FPS instead.

(And by the way, I'm from Sweden. We have no problem with bad language. That's entirely beside the point.)

well, I guess like Gentlemen we will agree to disagree, oh Pursuer or Ocelots.

Pat

In the privacy of our local gaming group, the language turns salty. At a convention the language stays polite. Different envirnonments- different languages.
Bill made an editorial/business decision to ask us to curb our tongues in an environment read by a variety of ages and cultures.

You can get housed for avoiding that policy that is policed automatically via software.

Talking about McDonalds, I gather they've closed all the McDonalds in Iceland – apparently they had to import everything from Germany because of company policy and the costs were too high. There are rumours that, as a result of this policy, several tones of beefburgers were dumped in Reykjavik harbour by local merchants dressed as Vikings.

JLUNDBERG – I am not asking to be allowed to swear – just to be able to use tame words safely, you great Tess of the Durbervilles Fan.

Pat

Because, Henrix, many people deserve to be insulted.

I concur with that friend of Dorothy, Sir Digby. He is quite correct, even if he does smell of elderberries.

Using tame words is ok, you chicken idolator.

And I cannot take offense at being called a Pursuer of Ocelots. In fact I rather like the title. Mind if I use it?

Inventing your own haddockisms and using them in an obviously joking manner shouldn't be a problem, I'd think.

But it depends a little on how it's done – gross uncivility is uncivil no matter what words are wielded with intent to harm.

Who here hasn't called someone a nose goblin or cling on at some point in their life?

Really it's the wandering victims, the only way to make them go away is for Bill to just quit listening to them. If the target complains fair enough (I guess) but for the wandering drive by victim that looks for any and all insults; well I just can't support that or a site that supports that.

Here's to the the wandering victim; really just another name for a meat maggot.

Friend of Dorothy? Don't push it, Connard, regardless of how good you are with colours.

Pat

looking for a fight…

That's the issue, isn't it?
You want one? -you got it.

Otherwise, it's moot.

Either way, I'm all for it.

:)