No Profanity — How many times do we go over this?

[TitleWave]

Surely such cretins should take to the challenge of employing reference and committing what they find to memory and their betterment, rather that absconding to more lax virtual locales and consequentially abrogating their duty to expand their serviceable verbiage.

Yeah, what he/she/they...perorated

 

[CoachJeff]

A grawlix is acceptable still, correct?

 

[Marg]

Surely such cretins should take to the challenge of employing reference and committing what they find to memory and their betterment, rather that absconding to more lax virtual locales and consequentially abrogating their duty to expand their serviceable verbiage.

 

[CHATTBRIT]

Just thank you TF. This is what first attracted me to the site and what has kept me here for so many years. BTW I'm no shrinking violet, but continuous F-bombs, etc. become boring and absolutely lose their impact.

 

[4Q Basket Case]

A grawlix is acceptable still, correct?

Had to look up what a grawlix is. And yes, provided it’s a truly random string of symbols, it’s fine.

If, however, the symbols are being used as stand-ins for real letters — for example, $ in place of S, ! In place of I, or the euro symbol in place of either C or E, etc. — that’s creative use of symbols to circumvent the filters, and not acceptable.

 

[oskie]

Surely such cretins should take to the challenge of employing reference and committing what they find to memory and their betterment, rather that absconding to more lax virtual locales and consequentially abrogating their duty to expand their serviceable verbiage.

... what a grandiloquent oration

 

[BearFoot]

... what a grandiloquent oration

Indubitably my good fellow

 

[Bazza]

 

[BAMAVILLE]

Surely such cretins should take to the challenge of employing reference and committing what they find to memory and their betterment, rather that absconding to more lax virtual locales and consequentially abrogating their duty to expand their serviceable verbiage.

*Me opening up my Latin to English translator app*

 

[seebell]

Coach Jeff I'll see your grawlix and raise you a couple of plewds!

Quimps, Plewds, And Grawlixes: The Secret Language Of Comic Strips

You’ve probably never heard of a blurgit or a swalloop or a grawlix or an agitron, but you see them every day in your newspaper’s comics section. Here’s a primer on the secret language of comic symbols.

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[JohnD]

Thanks for the hard stance. I made a conscious decision a long time ago to get in the habit of never using profanity. I've found that if people only "clean it up" in certain forums, and speak unrestrained elsewhere, profanity will invariably infiltrate all aspects of your life from time to time. I don't think it adds to the conversation or helps someone make their point in any way whatsoever.

 

[tidefanbeezer]

Surely such cretins should take to the challenge of employing reference and committing what they find to memory and their betterment, rather that absconding to more lax virtual locales and consequentially abrogating their duty to expand their serviceable verbiage.

*Sigh

Gets dictionary off the shelf

 

[4Q Basket Case]

Thanks for the hard stance. I made a conscious decision a long time ago to get in the habit of never using profanity. I've found that if people only "clean it up" in certain forums, and speak unrestrained elsewhere, profanity will invariably infiltrate all aspects of your life from time to time. I don't think it adds to the conversation of helps someone make their point in any way whatsoever.

To be clear: I don't paint myself as pure on profanity in all aspects of my life. As I've said above, I use more in my own home than I should.

That's in my house. TideFans is BamaNation's house, and we're his guests. His house, his rules. I've been asked to help enforce those rules, and I will.

This whole conversation has, however, made me challenge myself to be more judicious in my own words, even in my own house. Sometimes, a well-chosen profanity gets the message across better than any other phrasing. But those times are fewer and farther between than has often been my practice. I need to be better on that.

 

[TideMan09]

Thank You too all our moderators, it's that kinda leadership & moderation, that's keep TideFan's hands down the absolute best Alabama Football Website on the world wide web ..

We appreciate the job you do for our TideFans Family..It's definitely a privilege too be a member..Thank You..

 

[CB4]

I always think of this:

 

[STONECOLDSABAN]

I don’t get why so many people are having issues. I cuss like a sailor in my day to day life. I like cussing. but I know The rules here state not to cuss in a post. So I just don’t. It’s like being a guest in someone else’s house.

 

[VirginiaTide57]

I have visited 2 other sites since joining Tidefans. They were awful in every way. One had a thread specifically about Tidefans and how they were banned. They called us "high brow" and stuck-up. They complained that we used "big words" where they needed a dictionary to look up what we were talkjng about. Plus they complained about not being able to use foul language. I never joined their low brow site. I prefer it here.

i’m trying to figure out which fan site you were on - Tennessee, Auburn, Georgia, or Texas A&M

 

[lowend]

I like that my son can sit down next to me when I'm looking at TF and I don't have to immediately minimize the browser out of fear of what he'll see.

 

[Bamabuzzard]

i’m trying to figure out which fan site you were on - Tennessee, Auburn, Georgia, or Texas A&M

If I'm guessing and seeing that it wasn't that long ago that we had a temporary ban on this particular fanbase, I'm going with LSU.

 

[SavannahDare]

Back in the day, my line was "if my ten year old is looking over my shoulder while I'm scrolling TideFans," I better not have to explain away or make excuses for the language or pictures shared on this board. It's nice to know there's still one bastion of decency claiming at least a small part of the innerwebs.