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    #32
    Dozen Wicked Words
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,325 ✭✭✭✭Dozen Wicked Words


    RopeDrink wrote: »
    Reported for use of bad word! :pac:

    A C.unt is just a cockney on a scuba diving treasure search.*






    *may be too obscure.


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    #33
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users Posts: 24,506 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »
    So the word c.unt should be allowed?
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    of course it should unless it's used to abuse other posters


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    #34
    Gordon
    Registered Users Posts: 35,524 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    kneemos wrote: »
    Context is everything
    Exactly, this is one of the reasons why there is no list, and won't be.


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    #35
    OldGoat
    Registered Users Posts: 12,637 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    of course it should unless it's used to abuse other posters
    Much as I'd love to agree with you I can't. Some words are deeply offensive to some people irrespective of the context you place upon it. Sometimes it is the word and not the context.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



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    #36
    zombieHanalei
    Closed Accounts Posts: 695 ✭✭✭zombieHanalei


    This is a stupid request. Context is everything.

    Take the word bitch; if I call someone a bitch I am abusing them and would deservedly pick up a card.

    However a "naughty list" would by extension have me earn a card for referring to a "bitch in heat" in the Animals & Pet Issues forum; which would be ridiculous.


    There are very few words that aren't ambiguous in that respect. The important thing is the intent with which a particular word is used. I would have felt that was glaringly obvious so I really do question the true intentions of the OP here.

    Edit; actually maybe I'll take that last bit back because having looked through kneemos previous posts I believe he started this thread in response to someone calling someone elses friend retarded. And to be honest, I'd agree with him/her over the use of that word, the word "retarded" is a major bugbear of mine as it almost exclusively used as a means of derision of either a person or what they are saying. It's below the belt and almost never used in a correct context. (Incidentally, one of my biggest "bugbears" is the word bugbear itself!)


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    #37
    Dav
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,840 ✭✭✭Dav


    We're not making a list of Banned Words for people - discretion and context are the 2 deciding factors for any mod to make any decision on anything they do, including determining if a word is being used in anger or context. If you don't want to run into problems, don't post things that cause problems - this bizarre insistence people seem to have on absolute lists of rules and/or the right to be abusive within some sort of imagined boundary of "acceptable abuse" needs to go away, we're not going to indulge it.


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