Why is "pearl clutching" ok but "cheerleading" forbidden?

[Celldweller]

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

I see a lot of rah rah, sis boom bah! With their short skirts and O on the sweater...

Cheerleader/Cheerleading accusations are generally frowned upon at DU but pearl clutching accusations appear to be cool.

[Lil Missy]

1. DU is not representative of reality. n/t

[Whisp]

7. thank gawd and his dawg.

[NYC_SKP]

2. Are you bemoaning?

[Whisp]

10. what do you want to do with her gyrating, skippy?

[msongs]

3. worshipping is popular too nt

[Cha]

12. Yeah, "worshipping" Bradley Manning and Julian Assange.. but, that's

okay for hypocrites.

[graham4anything]

15. +1

[Bluenorthwest]

4. There are some posters of limited vocabulary, they have a short list of phrases

without which they'd have no voice at all, pearl clutching, pony wanting, poutrage, hair on fire and chill are very important to them as can be seen by the passionately redundant use of those terms. It's a courtesy extended to those of limited means, like a sliding scale of sorts. Those who can make reasoned arguments do so, those who can not are allowed to say 'chill, stop clutching your pearls, you'll get your pony, why the hair on fire' because otherwise they'd just post that list again and again.

[Warpy]

5. It depends on which self righteous word jumpers are around

and likely how long some of them have been off their meds.

Wannabe censors: fucking up discussion groups and online message boards as long as they've been around.

[SidDithers]

9. Destination Calabria...

Sid

[Go Vols]

14. Good Eye

[alcibiades_mystery]

8. Nothing's forbidden...it's the JURY system!

All the popular kids win in the jury system!

[ScreamingMeemie]

11. The minute someone uses the words "pearl clutching," they cease to exist in

my world. I've never owned a set of pearls, and their opinions are typically ill-formed, starry-eyed, adulation-wrapped memorized bits that remind me too much of the Bush-whacked set from back in the day. I don't have time for them, or their blind support of things that go against what Democrats are supposed to stand for. They typically wind up with drivel-y pablum like "chess games" and "big pictures."

[Cha]

13. I've seen no clutching of pearls but plenty of

those who need a strong dose of reality.

[olddots]

16. was that a Lenny Bruce reference ?

please supply us geezers with some "hep talk" clues .

[azurnoir]

17. sorry locking by host consensus

GD SoP

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