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Is anybody as tired as I am of passing up the best prospective re-postings on the internet at good ol' DU, but you can't because of the fucking abuse of the word fuck? I'd like to educate some friends whose mind will shut down over one instance. Sad.
Kali
(55,031 posts)what the fuck are you talking about?
Gothmog
(145,839 posts)ornotna
(10,810 posts)You've had 13 posts hidden?
Kali
(55,031 posts)that their audience for reposted DU posts can't handle the word fuck. I could be wrong though.
ornotna
(10,810 posts)just fucking guessing mind you.
Nevilledog
(51,281 posts)fuck
Sometimes I am polite and say F**K!
Fuck that shit.
sheshe2
(84,057 posts)Saying 'gosh golly gee' just does not work for me.
I even say it in front of my 94 year old mom as I flip the bird to donnie on the Tee Vee. She hasn't scolded me in a decade.
Nevilledog
(51,281 posts)My mom used to tell me I was a guttersnipe and I apparently should have worked in a shipyard.
liberaltrucker
(9,130 posts)Nevilledog
(51,281 posts)DashOneBravo
(2,679 posts)rzemanfl
(29,581 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,252 posts).
The F-bomb has been around for a long time, and is said to be used most by intellects and the literary wise.
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Politicub
(12,165 posts)and apply an oval filled with a plaid pattern over the word that offends your audience?
You could even use a black box to make it look like a word has been redacted, thus heightening the mystery and intrigue.
0rganism
(23,989 posts)0:50 for quote
Kurtz: "We train young men to drop fire on people, but their commanders won't allow them to write 'fuck' on their aeroplanes because it's obscene!"
mercuryblues
(14,556 posts)reposting your OP?
rzemanfl
(29,581 posts)JHB
(37,166 posts)"[expletive deleted]" ?