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Freedomofspeech

(4,218 posts)
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 10:38 AM Feb 2013

Must we call each other turds?

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by HappyMe (a host of the General Discussion forum).

Seriously, I'm old but so offended by that word. Times change...I didn't watch the Super bowl but I'm glad they didn't have the Stones or anyone from my generation playing this year. My point is that it is so disrespectful to call anyone, regardless of age, by that disgusting word. You can't escape getting old, you just choose how to handle it. My husband and I still rock, thank you very much.

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Must we call each other turds? (Original Post) Freedomofspeech Feb 2013 OP
You're off the hook. The OP in question was addressing only .... Buzz Clik Feb 2013 #1
I agree Vinnie From Indy Feb 2013 #2
Your welcome. I would never call you a turd. Autumn Feb 2013 #3
At 74, no words shock me. fadedrose Feb 2013 #4
TURD = Trainee Under Rapid Development. part man all 86 Feb 2013 #5
when my cat Samy is being bad I call him turdface LOL snooper2 Feb 2013 #6
Meh...if that was (offensive noun adjective here) turds, I'd be offended. HereSince1628 Feb 2013 #7
Dat's da turd time I've heard dat question today Orrex Feb 2013 #8
I was just asking hfojvt Feb 2013 #9
FFS malaise Feb 2013 #10
That can mean but one thing... HereSince1628 Feb 2013 #11
Bwaaaaaaaaaaah malaise Feb 2013 #13
Write a list of what you are offended by... trumad Feb 2013 #12
Locking HappyMe Feb 2013 #14
 

Buzz Clik

(38,437 posts)
1. You're off the hook. The OP in question was addressing only ....
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 10:39 AM
Feb 2013

... young turds.

Vinnie From Indy

(10,820 posts)
2. I agree
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 10:41 AM
Feb 2013

Using that word is like a turd in the punchbowl of civil society!

Cheers!

Autumn

(44,748 posts)
3. Your welcome. I would never call you a turd.
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 10:45 AM
Feb 2013

I don't mind being called a turd, just don't call me a punch bowl. Being called a turd in a punch bowl would offend me very much. That is where I would object to your "Freedomofspeech".

fadedrose

(10,044 posts)
4. At 74, no words shock me.
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 10:48 AM
Feb 2013

My shock wore off when we became regular viewers of "Sopranos."

The swear words actually got to be funny, and a lot of crude phrases became acceptable to hear, maybe not to use.

When I lose my temper, I'm "f'n" everything withut saying the word in full.

"Sticks and stones" still works.

Oh, just looking way back, when my oldest son brought home "Beverly Hills Cops" for our new VCR, I thought it was the end of the world when I overheard the swearing, but watched it and laughed like hale.

part man all 86

(367 posts)
5. TURD = Trainee Under Rapid Development.
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 10:53 AM
Feb 2013
 

snooper2

(30,151 posts)
6. when my cat Samy is being bad I call him turdface LOL
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 10:57 AM
Feb 2013

I go in the back yard...he's sitting there on the chair..

he waits till I get closer, and closer and within a couple feet BAM, run over to the tree to play the "I'm not going inside now yet game"

HereSince1628

(36,063 posts)
7. Meh...if that was (offensive noun adjective here) turds, I'd be offended.
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 10:58 AM
Feb 2013

As it is since we descend from the first tube-within a tube life form, we are all, figuratively and zoologically speaking, turd sausages.

Orrex

(63,084 posts)
8. Dat's da turd time I've heard dat question today
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 10:59 AM
Feb 2013

hfojvt

(37,573 posts)
9. I was just asking
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 11:09 AM
Feb 2013

How did that get started? http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1240&pid=215650

Usually oldsters are old "farts".

We still "rock" but rock, unfortunately has been dead for over a decade. The kids don't rock any more. When I was a kid, I had this notion that rock was gonna live forever. That the music that I liked was never gonna go out of style.

I was wrong.

First of all, there are many people almost my own age who do not like the music I like, and second, the music of today is not the same style. Generally, kids don't like my music and I don't like their music.

So it goes. And there are exceptions of course, individual songs, just like there always were. Back in the day, both my parents and I thought "Bridge over troubled water" and "Bohemian rhapsody" were cool. But I also grew up listening to my parents music - the Tijuana Brass and the soundtrack to "the music man".

malaise

(267,801 posts)
10. FFS
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 11:10 AM
Feb 2013

I'm getting really tired of the demands for political correctnesss

HereSince1628

(36,063 posts)
11. That can mean but one thing...
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 11:14 AM
Feb 2013

your group is currently protected.

And THERE MUST BE something the rest of us can figure out to undo that.




malaise

(267,801 posts)
13. Bwaaaaaaaaaaah
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 11:20 AM
Feb 2013

That's only because you've been HereSince1628

 

trumad

(41,692 posts)
12. Write a list of what you are offended by...
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 11:14 AM
Feb 2013

And submit it to the purity police.

HappyMe

(20,277 posts)
14. Locking
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 11:53 AM
Feb 2013

Turd discussion is a better fit for Meta.

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