Bowdlerisation shits me to tears

[martybabe]

You lost me after this bit, Mart!

You didn't miss much me old mate I just get a bit cranky, what with the world wide shortage of F'*ckin Banana cake

[Babelfish]

I think the bowlderisation presents an opportunity to allow cussing crescendos. I can start with mild fecks, talking about tw@s that are being shites and this still allows me to savour the pure and imeasurably more tactile words for the right moments, such as when some shit bastard wanker fucks (hold that for the rant on cluster cussing) me off...or when I want to fuck them...or by far the god of words...when I want to personify (or not) cunts.

[Pixie]

Something else that is really starting to irritate me in terms of online written communication is Bowdlerisation.

It's a naff American affectation that is extremely irritating.

If people don't want to use words like shit, prick, arse, fuck, cunt, etc, then don't. Replacing the vowels in "offensive" words with * or other punctuation marks is a ludicrously stupid nonsense, because there is an expectation that people have to know the word that has been bowdlerised in order not to be shocked by its censoring.

Simple choices people: use cuss words or don't use cuss words. Please don't fuck with them. They're no less shocking with bits twinked out, but are considerably more stupid.

If you replace selected letters with * then it isn't a sin

[Pixie]

( I once got a full bar of soap rammed in and out of my mouth for telling my brother to "shut up" with the accompanying dont you use cuss words tirade), cuss!

Er,are you sure it was a bar of soap?


Hail to the bus driver,
Bus driver!
Bus driver!
Hail to the bus driver,
Bus driver man.

He yells and he cusses,
and smells up the busses,
Hail to the bus driver,
Bus driver man.

[Hitcher]

If you replace selected letters with * then it isn't a sin

Well it should be.

[Winston001]

I'm sorry, I don't like using swear words in text, it looks gross. I'm not so precious as to not cope with others swearing in text, don't mind using the word arse though. But that's my personal limit!

Me too.

Well I'll be hornswoggled ... tie me to a raft and feed me rotten kippers till the maggots boil out of my grotty intestines!

I'll cuss when I ferk'n feel like it and no frikk'n merk'n can stop me from doing it as deems fit! One does need to stand their ground to strike a dolorous blow to the unmitigated bastiches that was propelled from the dripping nether regions of their agglomeration of misfitted DNA!

Time to twenty-one skiddido!

Nice example of breadth of language. : Overuse of profanity is lazy and loses impact when there are thousands of other descriptive words available.

Guilty I'm afraid. Well not so much with the letters substituted by symbols but Farkin, Fuggin, Freekin, Coont, etc, are used by me in an attempt to convey an impression that I am chatting to the reader.......

Lovely post Marty and I only reduced it for the sake of space. You echo my sentiments exactly.

I don't swear online but there are rare occasions when it might happen to make a strong point. I don't swear in front of my family or other people. Indeed I find the constant use of "shit" in polite conversation to be a constant surprise. It is a scatological word which should be used sparingly. Ah well......

However this all rather gives a false impression because swearing fruitily in the company of mates and at rallies etc seems to come naturally and without a blush.

[idb]

I'm with you Winston.
I curse (what the hell is cuss, some sort of euphemism for those too frightened to use the real word?) quite freely in general conversation in social situations but for some reason it seems less appropriate and simply lazy in text.

Nevertheless I have been known to use a #, sometimes a $ and even, if I'm being totally honest, the occasional %.

[Badjelly]

Nevertheless I have been known to use a #, sometimes a $ and even, if I'm being totally honest, the occasional %.

You #$% b*st*rd!

[Winston001]

You #$% b*st*rd!

10+ characters

[MisterD]

bottom dwelling, Arsehole. x

It is where most of them dwell, after all...

[007XX]

I don't swear online but there are rare occasions when it might happen to make a strong point. I don't swear in front of my family or other people. Indeed I find the constant use of "shit" in polite conversation to be a constant surprise. It is a scatological word which should be used sparingly. Ah well......

However this all rather gives a false impression because swearing fruitily in the company of mates and at rallies etc seems to come naturally and without a blush.

+1...

I've never seen anything wrong with the use of fucking as long as there always is a happy ending

I have only ever used the bowdlerisation to bypass email restrictions.