I don't swear
I personally never use curse words. One time I was working in a Theater and I dropped something heavy on my foot. The words that came out of my mouth where "Ahh! Pain! Agony! Pain!" Everyone around me looked at me and thought I was joking around, but I was really in Pain.
When I read everything I read I read out loud in my head. When I come across a swear word, say the 'f' word. Instead of saying the 'f' word out loud in my head I just say the letter 'f' in my head. So the following sentence becomes: Man that was really f'ed up.
To me, the worst word in my vocabulary is 'crap'. I don't use it often, usually when I am angry or something is going very wrong.
I know average person probably thinks I'm weird, but what about the average Mormon who also does not try to use swear words, am I strange to them too?
When I read everything I read I read out loud in my head. When I come across a swear word, say the 'f' word. Instead of saying the 'f' word out loud in my head I just say the letter 'f' in my head. So the following sentence becomes: Man that was really f'ed up.
To me, the worst word in my vocabulary is 'crap'. I don't use it often, usually when I am angry or something is going very wrong.
I know average person probably thinks I'm weird, but what about the average Mormon who also does not try to use swear words, am I strange to them too?
posted by Daryl at
11:17 AM
2 Comments:
It is quite common for a mormon to not use cussing, ever.
The only place I part with these mormons in principle is their desire to change pop-culture into a sanitized mormon version.
People want to watch "Striptease" without the nudity? Just don't watch it! There's plenty of clean options...
Disappointed because the movie you want to see contains cussing so you can't see it? I say get over it one way or the other. Watch it and accept it, or reject it and don't watch it.
I think trying to change the art itself is limiting.
Watching it will support the artist and his chosen words.
Not watching it will not support the artist, and films you don't watch will have a greater chance of falling into obscurity. Films you do watch will have a greater chance of rising and inspiring imitators.
The worst case is to change the art, say through cleanflicks. Why? Because this way, the artist still gets paid for their work and gets the message to make more of the same. They don't know you had stuff edited out. So they'll continue making stuff you can't watch without editing.
By
Measure, at 8/15/2005 12:00 PM
I am going to disagree with you about clean flicks. Clean Flicks may Increases the Sales of DVDs, but it reduces the box office sales. But even that is assuming you are going to purchase the DVDs brand new. By purchasing them through companies like overstock.com the sale will not go back to Hollywood as the item was already thought not to have sold..
I know for me, I have only viewed 2 movies in the theater that had the 'R' rating, while there are many more that I would like to purchase the 'clean' version of. Even the two movies that I did see in the theater, I would have rather seen a cleanflix version of them. At the time www.cleanflicks.com still did not have a buy online option for their DVDs (You had to go physically into the store at the time.) .
If Clean Flicks is a wild success Hollywood will start producing cleaner movies to tap that market. Maybe they will start cutting a 'clean' version of movies and displaying them in the box office, then if more people attend those movies over time the 'unclean' movies will stop being made.
By
Daryl, at 8/17/2005 3:25 PM
Post a Comment
<< Home