The Virtues Of Moderated Speech
From the Art Of Manliness web site - a list of general rules of decorum, in keeping with Benjamin Franklin’s admonition to:
“Speak not but what may benefit
others or yourself;
Avoid trifling Conversation.”
This site’s posting adapts these basic principles of proper communication to such things as Cell Phones, Customer Service and The Internet. Rule #4 for the Internet is as follows:
4. Stop the excessive vulgarity
Nothing shows a juvenile mentality and a lack of class like excessive vulgarity. While salty language has been on the rise in normal conversation as well, the proliferation of profanity on the internet is excessive. Because of the information glut on the internet, men feel they must pepper their comments with over the top language to keep them from being lost in the shuffle. But if such additions are needed to get attention, you clearly did not have anything meaningful to say in the first place. Before you publish a comment with the F-bomb used as every other word, try to find another, more respectful way to say it.
Fuck off.
Cheers.
Posted: 9:39 pm Monday, March 10th, 2008 under Odds & Sods, Free Speech, Internet, Language, Fuck Me.
Comments: 2
Comments
Comment from fred
Time: March 11, 2008, 9:32 am
Yes, I agree with you.
I mean, “fucktards” seems so much less offensive then referring to someone as a “tard”.
Comment from Robbo
Time: March 11, 2008, 10:04 am
Yeah - Jill is fond of “poopy-pants”.
I always enjoy trying to string together a chain of words that serve to revile, castigate, condemn, mock and otherwise piss all over my target.
In this age of relentless self-serving hypocrisy I see no cause to refrain from lending voice to those emotions which burn within.
Fuck ‘em.
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