It's like with black people. In the 'hood' vernacular they commonly refer to each other as ni**er, but if you're not black, don't you even think about it. There's some cultural rule about attributing what is commonly regarded as a slur to yourself; you sort of get to pick who can and can't say it.Originally Posted by littlelolligagged
The Rules
Copper- behave toward others to elicit treatment you would like (the manipulative rule)
Gold- treat others how you would like them to treat you (the self regard rule)
Platinum - treat others the way they would like to be treated (the PC rule)
Why asterisk the word nigger?
To remain pure, so the menhirs don't assault him with their electric radio-activity
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Yes. Negro=Black.Is it ok to call someone a negro while speaking Spanish?
There is nothing insulting in that word as far as I know.
Going back to topic....
Since politics are not family friendly, kids will not be exposed to explicit political sexuality, and that's good.
Its an American thing. Sorry.Why asterisk the word nigger?
The Rules
Copper- behave toward others to elicit treatment you would like (the manipulative rule)
Gold- treat others how you would like them to treat you (the self regard rule)
Platinum - treat others the way they would like to be treated (the PC rule)
I work in a job where I could be fired just for saying that word out loud.
The Rules
Copper- behave toward others to elicit treatment you would like (the manipulative rule)
Gold- treat others how you would like them to treat you (the self regard rule)
Platinum - treat others the way they would like to be treated (the PC rule)
Spoilered-out by RB, just text but not appropriateSpoiler:
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Has your wife forgiven you for leaving her son at the bus stop?
Faith is Hope (see Loki's sig for details)
If hindsight is 20-20, why is it so often ignored?
And the Sun is an electrical dynamo. I don't see the relevance of either
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Not married, and that was resolved by that weekend
Yeah as a matter of fact. ASS HOLE. I have several black co-workers, my boss's boss is black, and her boss is black. If I happened to open this and one of them saw it, I would literally get into job-threatening trouble. Thanks cock sucker. You're really developing into quite the fuck wad.
The Rules
Copper- behave toward others to elicit treatment you would like (the manipulative rule)
Gold- treat others how you would like them to treat you (the self regard rule)
Platinum - treat others the way they would like to be treated (the PC rule)
Ideas for a forum post to earn a ban (they say these topics are neutral/general not subject to politics)...
1. Blog content sharing. Visit my political blog...
2. Pokemon games: Election of the best Pokemon
3. Autobiography: How I saved the planet from ... (name of your favolrite politician)
4. About Akira Toriyama: Toriyama runs for president...
5. Guppies! Something smells fishy in politics...
6. PWNed, and why. My party won, you are PWNED!!
7. Your life. Gonna tell you why (name of politician) is a jerk
8. Your experiences. (name of politician) is a bastard... gonna tell you my story.
9. Your life/death experiences. How politicians extinguished humans.
10. Ghosts and ghouls. The ghost of past administrations replace the ghosts of past chistmas...
11. Dracula. How politicians and bankers suck your blood...
12. Emulators. How to play the last warez that cracks the simulation of democracy we have in my country.
13. Laptops. Post political posts anywhere, wireless...
14. Technical aspects. How politics formatted my hard disk...
15. Career obligations. How to become bastard politician...
16. Oceanography. Jacques Cousteau visits the world of deep politics of the yellow submarine and the kindom of tyhe political meanies.
17. Astrology. There is a politician in your future.
18. Forum Chicken Soup for the Soul. How to make soup with politicians.
19. Blasphemy. Talk like a politician!!!
20. Tim, you rock! (Not offending) What does it have to do with treasury?
21. Gardening. Plant a politician and let the spikes to kill you.
22. General. Grand Moff Tarking and imperial politics...
23. Mineral collections. Talking about the collection of stones David used to defeat Goliath in a political debate.
24. Past hobbies. When I was a politician...
25. When a guy smacks you, what would you do? Kick him out of the party!!
26. When you're lost, what should you do? Sit down on the chair of president I have behind me.
27. Survival techniques. How not to be backstabbed in politics.
28. Ninja! How to be elected without being seen, using lobbying money (it is not corruption, it is political free market).
29. Programming. How to reprogram voters botnets with lies, so they vote for you.
30. Daylight Savings. How I reduced deficit...
31. How to... do nothing and be elected for the next term.
32. Binary secrets. 000100001 of geopolitics... if you disclose this, I'll kill you :P
33. How to quiz... Who is that politician?
34. How to practice... being a scum as a politician.
35. How to play... simcity for incompetents in real life.
36. Zits. What?
37. A list of other things. Other miscellaneous political matters.
38. Generosity. How to pretend...
39. Geniuses and Dummies. How to manipulate them both.
40. Teeth and Dental Stuffs. How to bite a slide of public money.
41. Mythbusters!! Why honest politician is a contradiction.
42. Hitchhikers' Galaxies. Politics i outer space.
43. Myth or Rumor series I made last year. President Evil premier tomorrow...
44. Tough and Madness. Banker bonuses.
45. Oh boy... The borg assimilated my planet and onlyleft me a politician...
46. Handheld handling. How to control people.
47. Forecasting who gets banned. Those who post about politics...
48. Let's play Pikmin. Prepare the voter's dice.
49. Roleplaying. Which global leader do you want to play?
50. Let's all go to the OB - The Pub. Drink public money, make a speech, then go to pee on population...
He is the first at this new place to deserve WL points for sure.
Faith is Hope (see Loki's sig for details)
If hindsight is 20-20, why is it so often ignored?
How about intentionally poasting Not Safe For Work material in a way designed to be easily seen so that people posting at work would actually be at risk for losing their job. That ought to be a bannable offense.
The Rules
Copper- behave toward others to elicit treatment you would like (the manipulative rule)
Gold- treat others how you would like them to treat you (the self regard rule)
Platinum - treat others the way they would like to be treated (the PC rule)
@EK: and maybe you shouldnt post on a forum where you could lose your job. some logic you have -_-
Here's the logic asshole: This community has been safe for reading/posting at work for 9 years. In fact there was just a very level headed discussion about using a NSFW tag to AVOID getting people in trouble at work. And until now, no fuck head ever posted something to try and get people in trouble at work. Logic led me to believe there would not be an issue.
If you'd like this to be the kind of forum where anything is fair game, even trying to ambush people and fuck around with their jobs, maybe you should make a thread in the Site Discussion forum. You can title it: Can We Make This Forum a Play Ground for Assholes Like Me?
The Rules
Copper- behave toward others to elicit treatment you would like (the manipulative rule)
Gold- treat others how you would like them to treat you (the self regard rule)
Platinum - treat others the way they would like to be treated (the PC rule)
I gotta agree with chaloobi. Some words are Taboo.
No.
Words are not taboo. And taboo is not capitalized.
Posting stuff with the intent of getting someone into trouble, or hinting at it, is a dick move.
But words are not taboo.
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
It's not the word so much as his only purpose for using it was to ridcule someone who had just pointed out that he would get in trouble if it was seen on his display at work. OG really deserves WL points at the very least for that.
Faith is Hope (see Loki's sig for details)
If hindsight is 20-20, why is it so often ignored?
And what words are taboo? What line are we drawing now?
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
It was more along the lines of pointing out the idiocy of continuing a conversation that he already admitted he shouldn't be having (double posting to boot!). I just made the conversation more obvious. I think blaming anyone but yourself for getting in trouble at work while online is slightly more childish than using caplocks in pink.
I never realized until now what a great big asshole you are. But I'll say here at least you're staying in character. Assholes typically act like total dicks then defend their actions to the last.
The Rules
Copper- behave toward others to elicit treatment you would like (the manipulative rule)
Gold- treat others how you would like them to treat you (the self regard rule)
Platinum - treat others the way they would like to be treated (the PC rule)
Like Nessus said, its not the word thats taboo, its how it was posted.
The Rules
Copper- behave toward others to elicit treatment you would like (the manipulative rule)
Gold- treat others how you would like them to treat you (the self regard rule)
Platinum - treat others the way they would like to be treated (the PC rule)
Bomb is a taboo word in airports.
Try saying it and you may find yourself shot without warning.
Which airports have you been flying from?
The light that once I thought compassion still casting shadows in your action
The words you shared were cold transactions that bring me to curse what you've done
When you're up there absorbed in greatness with such success you've grown complacent
I hope you scorch your many faces when you fly too close to the sun
Let's not be hypocritical. If posting the N word will get you fired, why not fuck ?
anyways, surfing the web at work is one thing. Posting on a forum seems really out of place to me. But then again, I'm not in the private industry so I guess I'm just not used to the idea of playing on the computer when I should be doing my job.
Let's look at the actual circumstance before we start throwing around words like hypocritical.
#1. The N word was posted in giant pink letters so that it could be read from far away.
#2. Fuck was not posted in giant pink letters so it could be read from far away.
#3. While fuck is a bad word and would be embarrassing if someone did actually see it posted in giant pink letters on my screen, it would not get anything like the reaction that the N word would get if seen by any of the black peers and superiors I work with. There is Zero tolerance for anything like racism in my company. There is not zero tolerance for straight up profanity.
The Rules
Copper- behave toward others to elicit treatment you would like (the manipulative rule)
Gold- treat others how you would like them to treat you (the self regard rule)
Platinum - treat others the way they would like to be treated (the PC rule)
U.S.-Costa Rican Man Killed by Federal Air Marshal
http://www.ticotimes.net/dailyarchiv..._05.htm#story1
This incident was a major embarassing situation that caused many Costa Ricans to feel threatened by Americans.
No bombs were found. An innocent was shot in an initiative funded with taxpayer's money.
The whole incident was triggered by the word "bomb".
Costa Rica conmocionada por asesinato de agentes yankis
(translation: Costa Rica shocked by yankee agents' murder)
http://www.radiolaprimerisima.com/noticias/477
I'm 100% with EK here, I think the sensitivity over the word is silly, but we were no longer talking about that when that big pink version got posted. It was a real attempt to get somebody in trouble and I think OG was being a total asshole for doing it.
Congratulations America
Agreed with the general opinion, using a word generally is one thing, OG was deliberately trying to get attention to that word in a maximum-impact way immediately after being told it could have repercussions.
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