A Briles profanity filter is STUPID

[finafrog]

Guys...I just tried to have some fun with it.

It can change and probably will in the not too distant future

Much appreciated! Keep a few choice words associated with him and his character, but in a manner that can be remembered and can be intuitively translated as before (e.g., ship, popsicle, etc.). I would also vote to use "Baylor" as toilet (or related activities), just like in the TCU Magazine article (https://magazine.tcu.edu/spring-2011/little-bit-remembers-lot/), and also characterizing their stadium. Let's have fun with it.

 

[Deep Purple]

Guys...I just tried to have some fun with it.

It can change and probably will in the not too distant future

I suggest a compromise.

When substitute words are so far off in sound from the original profanities, it makes posts harder to read. Why not substitute more benign words that imitate the profanity, but aren't as harsh on the ear? You could even use some of the mispronounced profanities of Roman Moronie from Johnny Dangerously. Examples:

Any variation of the F-bomb = farg / farged / farging. Example: "Farging referee."

Female dog = batch. Example: "Son of a batch."

Donkey = arse. Example: "You're an arsehole." (I'll probably hear this one a lot.)

Rooster euphemism for penis = cork. Example. "Cork-sucker" Note: I would exempt the word "d_ick" from the filter because 1) it's a common name (i.e., "D_ick's Sporting Goods") and 2) Even when used as a profanity, it's a pretty mild one. I understand the cringe factor over excessive profanity, but people don't need to be hemophiliac about it.

Slang for vagina = posse. Example: "Baker Mayfield acted like a total posse."

Fecal matter = [ Finebaum ]e (or shart). Example: "Baylor is a [ Finebaum ]ehole."

Illegitimate son = bastage. Example: "Art Briles is a real bastage."

Just a suggestion.

 

[Peacefrog]

I suggest a compromise.

When substitute words are so far off in sound from the original profanities, it makes posts harder to read. Why not substitute more benign words that imitate the profanity, but aren't as harsh on the ear? You could even use some of the mispronounced profanities of Roman Moronie from Johnny Dangerously. Examples:

Any variation of the F-bomb = farg / farged / farging. Example: "Farging referee."

Female dog = batch. Example: "Son of a batch."

Donkey = arse. Example: "You're an arsehole." (I'll probably hear this one a lot.)

Rooster euphemism for penis = cork. Example. "Cork-sucker" Note: I would exempt the word "d_ick" from the filter because 1) it's a common name (i.e., "D_ick's Sporting Goods") and 2) Even when used as a profanity, it's a pretty mild one. I understand the cringe factor over excessive profanity, but people don't need to be hemophiliac about it.

Slang for vagina = posse. Example: "Baker Mayfield acted like a total posse."

Fecal matter = [ Finebaum ]e (or shart). Example: "Baylor is a [ Finebaum ]ehole."

Illegitimate son = bastage. Example: "Art Briles is a real bastage."

Just a suggestion.

Liked for the Johnny Dangerously reference.

 

[Hoosierfrog]

I agree the old filters were better. Too much Art Briles nonsense and it's wearing me out.

When the filters can eventually be turned off I plan to turn them off bc of the Briles infatuation. I had no intention at all of turning off the filters before this happened.

Denial is not the way to good mental health.

Tape a game, close your eyes, listen to this inane sound, imagine any other school doing it.

Are you saying to yourself, "damn, those guys are sooo cool!." If you do, you probably had Backstreet Boys posters...

 

[Hoosierfrog]

Above post was supposed to be a response to

 

[NNM]

So people are using profanity in every thread? And almost every post?

You just justified why the filter is needed.

So it turns out that we should be encouraging, rather than discouraging, profanity.

Swearing makes you stronger. It's science. Don't fight it.

https://www.thrillist.com/news/nati...rms-swearing-makes-people-physically-stronger

 

[PurplFrawg]

As my English prof (Greg Evans?) used to say, "Profanity is a linguistic crutch for ignorant aholes."

 

[NNM]

Rooster euphemism for penis = cork. Example. "Cork-sucker"

I work with several Italians (not Italian-Americans). It's all I can do to keep a straight face because this SNL skit is always in the back of my mind when I speak with them:

people don't need to be hemophiliac about it.

Dumb. Hemophilia is a hereditary, gender-linked blood defect occurring almost exclusively in males that is marked by delayed clotting of the blood with prolonged or excessive internal or external bleeding after injury or surgery and in severe cases spontaneous bleeding into joints and muscles and that is caused by a deficiency of clotting factors. Not characterized by hysteria or other behaviors that better fit your point. Just a dumb analogy.

 

[Deep Purple]

Dumb. Hemophilia is a hereditary, gender-linked blood defect occurring almost exclusively in males that is marked by delayed clotting of the blood with prolonged or excessive internal or external bleeding after injury or surgery and in severe cases spontaneous bleeding into joints and muscles and that is caused by a deficiency of clotting factors. Not characterized by hysteria or other behaviors that better fit your point. Just a dumb analogy.

It's also a euphemism for people who are too thin-skinned.

"Their thin skin. Their skyscraping paranoia. Their cavernous memory for slights. It’s hard to think of two modern presidents with a more dire case of political hemophilia. Once wounded, these men never stop bleeding."

--NY Times, "‘Richard Nixon,’ Portrait of a Thin-Skinned, Media-Hating President," March 29, 2017​

So, the day isn't a total loss. You learned something.

 

[NNM]

It's also a euphemism for people who are too thin-skinned.

"Their thin skin. Their skyscraping paranoia. Their cavernous memory for slights. It’s hard to think of two modern presidents with a more dire case of political hemophilia. Once wounded, these men never stop bleeding."

--NY Times, "‘Richard Nixon,’ Portrait of a Thin-Skinned, Media-Hating President," March 29, 2017​

So, the day isn't a total loss. You learned something.

Thanks. I have hemophilia. As do my family members. I'm well aware of the consequences. Not a good euphemism.

 

[Brog]

I suggest a compromise.

When substitute words are so far off in sound from the original profanities, it makes posts harder to read. Why not substitute more benign words that imitate the profanity, but aren't as harsh on the ear? You could even use some of the mispronounced profanities of Roman Moronie from Johnny Dangerously. Examples:

Any variation of the F-bomb = farg / farged / farging. Example: "Farging referee."

Female dog = batch. Example: "Son of a batch."

Donkey = arse. Example: "You're an arsehole." (I'll probably hear this one a lot.)

Rooster euphemism for penis = cork. Example. "Cork-sucker" Note: I would exempt the word "d_ick" from the filter because 1) it's a common name (i.e., "D_ick's Sporting Goods") and 2) Even when used as a profanity, it's a pretty mild one. I understand the cringe factor over excessive profanity, but people don't need to be hemophiliac about it.

Slang for vagina = posse. Example: "Baker Mayfield acted like a total posse."

Fecal matter = [ Finebaum ]e (or shart). Example: "Baylor is a [ Finebaum ]ehole."

Illegitimate son = bastage. Example: "Art Briles is a real bastage."

Just a suggestion.

And a substitute for Deep Purple could be "Steep Burple".

 

[Deep Purple]

Thanks. I have hemophilia. As do my family members. I'm well aware of the consequences. Not a good analogy.

I didn't invent the word or the usages, NMN.

I have chronic high blood pressure. Several members of my family have died from aneurysm and I'm at risk of the same. But I don't get all wounded whenever someone says, "Don't burst a blood vessel."

 

[nwlafrog]

It's also a euphemism for people who are too thin-skinned.

"Their thin skin. Their skyscraping paranoia. Their cavernous memory for slights. It’s hard to think of two modern presidents with a more dire case of political hemophilia. Once wounded, these men never stop bleeding."

--NY Times, "‘Richard Nixon,’ Portrait of a Thin-Skinned, Media-Hating President," March 29, 2017​

So, the day isn't a total loss. You learned something.

 

[geezer]

Back to the issue at hand: profanity filters.

I understand the need for them. However--IMHO-- the filters used now (and in the past) have been sophomoric at best and, in some cases, embarrassing.

I will once again suggest that the board ownership use the accepted linguistic fig leaf "expletive deleted" as the sole filter for all unacceptable words (or phrases).

 

[UnderToad]

Can we keep Popsicle in the lineup?

 

[NNM]

Can we keep Popsicle in the lineup?

If that's your thing, knock yourself out. Just don't burst a blood vessel.

#inaptmedicalvernacularisstupid
#onlytrythatathome

 

[The Frog to be Named Later]

If that's your thing, knock yourself out. Just don't burst a blood vessel.

#inaptmedicalvernacularisstupid
#onlytrythatathome

cause then you'd bleed out if your a homophiliac
#nooffenseifyoractuallyahomophiliac
#niceuseof"inapt"ialmostcorrectedyoubeforeigoogled
#ilearnedsomethingtoday

 

[tcudoc]

I didn't invent the word or the usages, NMN.

I have chronic high blood pressure. Several members of my family have died from aneurysm and I'm at risk of the same. But I don't get all wounded whenever someone says, "Don't burst a blood vessel."

I have hemorrhoids and get very offended when people call me a pain in the arse.

 

[tcudoc]

As my English prof (Greg Evans?) used to say, "Profanity is a linguistic crutch for ignorant aholes."

Stealing that one...

 

[Bob]

Some ting on here is stoopid? Ha ha ha!