its true that morals are social constructs.. however.

i think fingering kids is ok

Phil --- Morals are far more than social constructs. As Paul Bloom shows in “Just Babies”, many of our morals are built into our genes, and are evident even before an infant reaches its first birthday. Please elaborate what you mean by ‘fingering kids’ -- it doesn’t sound good to me.

To me, saying 'some aspects of morality come naturally to us' is the same as saying the instincts are built into our genes. What is more, in private correspondence, professor Bloom has agreed with me.

Kowalski --- I’m not responding to you again until you apologise for swearing at me. It may seem just childish to you (your swearing), but it really upsets me.

Duncan - I have your money and I just used it to feed my gambling addiction.. £180 up now thanks to my shit hot predictions and your handsome money.

Common this is like petty banter.. but banter all the same.

I apologise for not being more of a cunt.

Duncan are you suggesting that admin should ban Kowalski and Top hat for a week because of swearing :-). Any guy who swears here is a fucking cunt.

Yes, and you amit1207. It all looks so bad to children … such bad training. We have to find some way of upping the tone of discourse on this site, otherwise its declining numbers will continue to decline.

Ermm Duncan, I seriously doubt we have insanely young children on here, like college/uni students are probs the youngest.

have you not see secondary school kids these days, every other word is a swear would. I highly doubt a stupid swearing ban would actually do anything. At all.

So please, say something that isn't stupid. Anything.

agreed, an adult forum, for men (and women, if they wish) to discuss the ins and outs of sexual intercourse (the common pseudonyms of which are almost universally considered swear words in their own right!) and how to go about getting it, all but requires some swearing to function.
It's not what I'd term a 'family friendly' forum, and an overriding theme here is being brutally honest with one's self, which I think could be hampered if people do not feel free to write openly, having to proof read and re-edit posts for fear of being called up for the way they worded it.

not to mention that in many cases, swearing as a tool for implicit emphasis on a point is vastly more useful than walls of text, which are usually hard to follow, and illicit a 'TL;DR' response.

This always springs to mind whenever I hear anyone condemn swearing as a part of linguistics:




TL;DR: how can we have a forum about fucking if we can't say 'fuck'?