29 September 2000
Submitted by eve on Fri, 09/29/2000 - 11:28am. Um...
"However, they found that response time was much longer, when the subjects were shown a taboo word such as penis..."
"Penis is a taboo word?"
--My psychology professor, and a baffled guy sitting somewhere behind me in lecture
...A good sign you've been in liberal college land too long.
A friend of mine was recently reprimanded "for foul language," by a woman sitting next to him on an airplane, because he said that "airplane food sucks."
Yikes.
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Posted by Anne Onymous on Mon, 01/28/2002 - 7:54pm.
Archived comment by Matthew:
Okay, if that is taboo, one wonders how on earth the V****a Monologues ever was produced.
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Posted by Anne Onymous on Wed, 08/15/2001 - 11:43am.
Archived comment by Beth:
A friend of mine was teaching biology to sixth graders in an area of Pennsylvania that was apparently heavily Mennonite. She got into trouble with the school board (in a public school) for saying that things "sucked" and for calling rat testicles "balls" in casual conversation.

The she quit her job and moved to Boston...
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Posted by Anne Onymous on Thu, 11/30/2000 - 12:24pm.
Archived comment by Chris:
But it does suck.
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Posted by Anne Onymous on Fri, 11/17/2000 - 10:35am.
Archived comment by Arlene:
It all depends on where you are (what counts as foul that is). My mother once gave me lecture for using the word 'fart'. OTH, my ex-boss uses f*** (I didn't fill in the blanks so as not to offend 'sensitive' viewers) all the time & it's a running gag that she does so.
PS I'm from North Carolina.
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Posted by Anne Onymous on Thu, 11/09/2000 - 1:34am.
Archived comment by nightfever:
whoa! Is CA really that PC a place?? I thought that it was just rumours or stereotyping...like all us irish living in mud houses with our pigs or something...
I curse like a sailor all the time...I couldn't survive working with computers without MUCH cursing!!!
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I too am from Ireland and I c
Posted by Shia Ceallach on Mon, 06/14/2004 - 9:31am.
I too am from Ireland and I curse like a sailor. Of course, I live on a coastal sea port town, so I probably did learn it from a sailor

Saoirse,
Shia Ceallach
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Posted by Anne Onymous on Wed, 11/08/2000 - 6:03am.
Archived comment by sTim:
And what's even scarier is that it took me reading this post to realize that *I'd* been in liberal college land so long that I didn't realize these were taboo words either. Although I am smart enough to not point that out loudly in a class...

(and for the record, my email should not be taken to imply I like Hanson, it's just one of many variation on my nickname)
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Posted by Anne Onymous on Wed, 10/11/2000 - 5:49am.
Archived comment by Nick den Uijl:
Foul?
I kinda like cuisine aeronautique.
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