General Environmental Topic

[RobertGraves]

Australia is still not placing the necessary focus on environmental issues:
www.smh.com.au/news/Paul-Sheehan/The-natural-disaster-in-our-midst/2005/01/02/1104601238551.html

[Tenarke]

Very interesting. Your “dry tsunami” reminds me of America’s “dust bowl” of the ‘20’s and ‘30’s. This was due largely due to poor farming and land management practices in the Mississippi Valley, nearly ruining large portions of Arkansas, eastern Texas and Oklahoma.

Perhaps Australia should study some of our past mistakes. Maybe you will make better use of these than we have.

[Nulla]

you're d**ned if you do and d**ned if you don't.... this op-ed article by Nicholas Kristof advocates the use of DDT in third world countries where malaria is endemic.... he points out that such programs have received no support from world bureaucrats and cost hundreds of thousands of lives annually.... while the ban on DDT in the US has brought several raptor species back from the brink of extinction, can a malaria infested country afford this "luxury"?.... a dilemma indeed....

www.nytimes.com/2005/01/08/opinion/8kristof.html?hp

(it seems that "d**n" is a very, very bad word too....

[wordswordswords]

Aw shucks, Nulla. I was going to start a thread about "The Damnation of Faust."

[Aravis]

Just for the fun of it, try typing in (properly) "Kiss my a__" or "as_hole" and see what gets substituted instead.

I love euphemisms... ;D

[pinkozcat]

A couple of the good old aussie expressions come through loud and clear, but the 'F' word gets two stars.

C**t has an interesting alternative though.

[pinkozcat]

My favourite euphemism is 'tired and emotional'.

[Aravis]

Here, c**t = "thingy" ;D

[Tenarke]

And that I suppose leaves us with no adjectives suitable to describe the state of the environment.

Well, excrement!

Just testing.

[Aravis]

Truth be told, I can change the default settings of the substitute words. Care to suggest some alternatives? Keep in mind that the company/host doesn't allow swearing so a substitution is in fact necessary for our continued existence...

[Nulla]

it might be fun to try, Aravis!.... although, I doubt if anyone here really needs access to the full range of swear words since they seem quite capable of expressing themselves more creatively... however....

I did find the tweaking of "d**n" amusing... it's such a biblical word and one which, with all its permutations, is often encountered in church.... ;D ;D

[pinkozcat]

c**t = thingy
s**t = nuts

These seem to be the only words which are totally transposed. The rest just get strategic stars - a sort of cyber-figleaf to conceal their private parts.

Unless, of course, there are some words I haven't heard and as I worked in a psychiatric hospital for many years I think that I have heard a pretty choice selection.

Even the good old aussie bl**dy and bug**r come through unscathed. (the stars are mine)

A pity of you want to discuss your little furball, though.

[Aravis]

Here's the list of words and their defaults only, of course, I have to modify the originals too:

kiss my a*s=I disagree
my a*s=I disagree
go*d**n=d**n
d*mn=d**n
a*shole=not a very nice person
sh*t=nuts
sh*tty=crappy
sh*thead=meathead
f*ck=f**k
f*cker=f**k*r
f*cking=f**k**g
motherf*cker=m*th*rf**k*r
motherf*cking=m*th*rf**k**g
p enis=p*nis
c ock=c*ck
d ick=d*ck
sh long=shl*ng
va gina=v*gina
p ussie=p*ssie
p ussies=p*ssy
p ussy=p*ssy
c*nt=thingy
p oonanny=p**n*nny
p oon=p**n
t wat=tw*t
w hore=wh*re
b itch=b*tch
s lut=sl*t
f aggot=f*g**t
f*g**t=f*g**t
f ag=f*g
d ike=d**e
d yke=d**e
n*gger=black person


Of course, none of us use most of these words anyway.

[Tenarke]

I suppose that this censorship is a hazardous environmental condition of our little cyber-community. We must either bear with it as it stands, or analyze and correct the underlying cause.

Our Pilgrim forefathers got their Puritan licks in, later reinforced by good Queen Victoria, and our British cousins. Together they managed to muddy our connections to a rich Elizabethan past and beyond.

Until time and practice undoes this we will have to tolerate the hypocrisy of being naughty in private and in our thoughts but “pure” and asexual in our public expression of them.

It’s OK; I pretty much know what you’re really thinking anyhow.

[RobertGraves]

What is the most offensive thing one can say (he says warming to the task like teenage boy)? Of course it depends on who you are talking with. I'd suggest that calling God a name that starts with 'C' is right up there. It'd go well on a T-Shirt: God's a C*nt (on the front) and His son's a M*therf*cker (on the the back) would guarantee an eventful walk down the street.