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Unread 18-03-2008, 04:07
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Re: At Competition

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Originally Posted by Joe Matt View Post
Is the money going to fund the new church roof? (sorry, I love Hot Fuzz)
That's the first thing I thought of when I heard of that idea too. I suppose using language like the censored version of Hot Fuzz does would be an interesting solution as well.


Anyway, I think that a lot of people are trying to apply a blanket policy of "it's always OK to swear" or "It's never OK to swear."
That simply isn't the case.
Would you swear when giving your chairman's presentation, talking to little children, in front of your grandmother, in front of potential clients? No.

I don't think anyone is trying to advocate putting swear words into speech for the purposes of swearing, and I don't think anyone wants to hear someone whose vocabulary consists mainly of swear words.

However, the occasional swear word isn't necessarily a bad thing in my opinion. What else are you going to say when you're 80% done machining a part when you slip and put one tiny piece of it just outside of tolerance? It would be great if the majority of people could just say "whoops, oh well" and start over. In reality, this generates a large amount of frustration which, given no outlet, isn't a good thing. It's going to come out eventually, either in the form of a swear in the machine shop, or something else that perhaps actually damages the surrounding objects.

Swearing once or twice when you drill a hole in the wrong place despite your best efforts to measure properly, or when you run your arm into the overpass and snap it in half (actually did that), isn't atrocious behavior.

There's a time and a place for these words. Occasionally, the time and place is in the pit area. Just use some common sense when doing it. (I.E. Not when small children are around, not when judges are around, don't say it loud enough for anyone in the next pit to hear, etc.)
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