Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,046
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,051
Thanet wants to annex Kent?
(Not my real name.)
Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,058
'our concern is not with the PSPO per se'
Toby Young in yet another 'this has gone too far!' conservative disaster.
A tale of woe as old as the hills.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,911
There is the problem of freedom of speech against what has and is happening across the country
With the riots .
ALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,046
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
- Posts: 1,071
WELL DONE TO THE COUNCIL/ALL COUNCILS SHOULD DO THE SAME, there is no excuse for the bad language we have to put up with in the streets and shops
and it is said by the young and old.
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,058
Indeed. I think, also, that local authorities should be empowered to prosecute individuals who introduce poorly constructed sentences, grammatical errors, spelling mistakes, and unwarranted capitalisation into the public arena.
Additionally, local authorities should be granted exceptional powers to examine the thoughts of individuals suspected of being about to inflict such a linguistic horror on sensitive English speakers.
After all, there is no excuse for bad language. Habitual abusers, especially native speakers old enough to have corrected any lingering disrespect for their English heritage, should be locked up until they can pass an examination (no continuous assessment permitted) on the work of Dr Johnson.
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'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Bob Whysman
- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
- Posts: 1,935
Weird Granny Slater wrote:Indeed. I think, also, that local authorities should be empowered to prosecute individuals who introduce poorly constructed sentences, grammatical errors, spelling mistakes, and unwarranted capitalisation into the public arena.
Additionally, local authorities should be granted exceptional powers to examine the thoughts of individuals suspected of being about to inflict such a linguistic horror on sensitive English speakers.
After all, there is no excuse for bad language. Habitual abusers, especially native speakers old enough to have corrected any lingering disrespect for their English heritage, should be locked up until they can pass an examination (no continuous assessment permitted) on the work of Dr Johnson.
And ime shore you are poss sibly inn gude cumpany on this fourum all thoe the jales are pritty fool nowe. yue fourgot two menshun punktewasian ass whale becourse this dus crop up all moast Daley from won sauce,
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Do nothing and nothing happens.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,046
In all seriousness, I still find it a bit shocking how often the 'f' word has slipped into normal discourse and especially the 'c' word.
P.s. I've only called them the 'f' & 'c' word as I suspect they would be filtered. Strange that 'quality' papers will print both but the red-tops go for the asterisks.
W*****s.
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,864
The F word seems to have become common usage instead of 'bloody' which was considered a really bad swear word when I was young.
I hate the C word.
As for the latest Thanet plan for raising funds, completely ridiculous.
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,058
No English person need be scared of a Germanic origin word. In fact, regular English people need urgently to reclaim such words from effete academics and literary critics at, e.g., the London Review of Books, who sprinkle their frenchified garbage with 'expletives' to signal to like-minded liberals just how 'radical' they are.
The mere thought of an authority taking punitive action against someone for 'speaking a word' should chill your bones.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
- Posts: 1,071
The council was right in taking the action they done
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,864
The only way an official can indisputably prove someone has used an unacceptable word is by recording that person's conversation, which is probably and arguably an invasion of privacy.
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Matey
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 11 Oct 2021
- Posts: 178
Jan Higgins wrote:The only way an official can indisputably prove someone has used an unacceptable word is by recording that person's conversation, which is probably and arguably an invasion of privacy.
But if people (witnesses) hear it and swear to it (no pun intended), surely that’s indisputable evidence Jan?
Life without a dog is like a salad without lettuce.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,864
True Matey, but it can also work the other way with other witnesses saying the person did not swear, so it will all depend on who is believed raising the element of doubt.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,046
I note that Kent on Line censors 'arse'.
So much for the Canterbury Tales AND Father Ted.
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
(Not my real name.)
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