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Swearing At Pooclub
In pooclub's early days the club was a forum of foul-mouth frivolity with more f-words in it than I can fit in this sentence.
But in these enlightened days with more companies sticking profanity checkers in their mail servers many members are having to be careful about what they say in pooclub for fear of losing their jobs.
Sometimes we get round this by using the rather crap technique of changing some of the letters in a rude word, for example "sh1t", "fu‹k" and "cnut".
But I really, really hate that.
It's a bit like in the tabloids where they print "f***" when quoting someone who has sworn in public.
What is the point of that?
Everybody knows the word is "fuck" and they read the word as "fuck" so why does the editor feel the reader has to be protected from this word, especially since the whole raison d'etre for printing the quote was because it had the word "fuck" in it in the first place!
Another thing that gets me about offensive words is this - why are they offensive?
Most rude words have a meaning that is something that we actually quite like.
So, if we're going to have offensive words in our language why don't we have words whose meaning is abhorent?
In pooclub we have discussed a great many topics and I think that the one issue that our members have found the most distasteful is shopping, especially the business of being dragged out shopping with the wife.
So, why isn't "shopping" a rude word?
Well, in pooclub it can be.
Remember, we can do anything we want in pooclub.
We can say things like...
In need of an expletive...
And if it becomes popular enough we may find ourselves using the word outside pooclub and it could spread into common usage.
So, come on pooclubbers, let's get this ball rolling.
If shopping becomes considered a vulgar thing to do, our wives will insist that we take no part in it whatsoever.
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