The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[Parmandur]

My grandmas were sweet old ladies, but my Italian great-grandmother swore like a $%@*&!#.

Yeah, that rule wouldn't have worked with my Austruan Gramma...

 

[el-remmen]

Yeah, that rule wouldn't have worked with my Austruan Gramma...

Back in the day 22 years ago when that rule was instituted, some people tried to weasel around the rule by saying that their own grandma swore like a sailor and was racist, and whatever.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

I believe the guidelines is based on two things:

1) kids read this forum, so use age-appropriate language.

2) don't say things you wouldn't say to Eric Noah's Grandma.

I use that second rule in my classroom. If you wouldn't say it to my sweet old granny, don't say it in class!

Good thing that it's not just "don't say things you wouldn't say to your own Grandma". Some people (including me) have really terrible grandmothers that they would absolutely use foul language at.

 

[Parmandur]

Back in the day 22 years ago when that rule was instituted, some people tried to weasel around the rule by saying that their own grandma swore like a sailor and was racist, and whatever.

I mean, playing Scrabble with my Gramma was an education in vocabulary, outside of the actual playing...

 

[niklinna]

I mean, playing Scrabble with my Gramma was an education in vocabulary, outside of the actual playing...

Did you ever see that movie with Robert Hays (of Airplane! fame), trapped on a balcony of a high-rise, outside the apartment of these two little old ladies playing Scrabble with nothing but the foulest of words? Trying to remember the name....

Edit: Correction! Robert Hays was in a film where he was on a balcony—Cat's Eye. But I mixed that up with another film, Foul Play, which had Goldie Hawn trapped on a fire escape. You can find it on youtube under "Old Ladies Play Scrabble in Foul Play".

 

[Ryujin]

Good thing that it's not just "don't say things you wouldn't say to your own Grandma". Some people (including me) have really terrible grandmothers that they would absolutely use foul language at.

My father's mother was a Karen who made her kids go hungry so that she could buy $50.00 shoes (that's 1950s money) and the wife of a coal miner. My mother's (step)mother was a rather large, lazy woman who would use her expansive Maritimer vocabulary to badger all and sundry until they did her bidding, and the (wife of a prison guard. No one wants me using their vocabulary around here.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

My father's mother was a Karen who made her kinds go hungry so that she could buy $50.00 shoes (that's 1950s money) and the wife of a coal miner. My mother's (step)mother was a rather large, lazy woman who would use her expansive Maritimer vocabulary to badger all and sundry until they did her bidding, and the (wife of a prison guard. No one wants me using their vocabulary around here.

My mother's mother was a mentally unstable religious fanatic that allowed her abusive husband to sexually abuse most of their 13 children and only divorced him once he was excommunicated from the church they were members of (which was after all of her kids had grown up and moved out, btw). My father's mother is a textbook narcissist that emotionally manipulates and verbally abuses anyone in the family that doesn't give her control of their lives. I stopped having contact with that side of the family once I turned 18.

 

[dragoner]

I am sorry to hear that.

 

[Guest 7034872]

I mean, at least I'm not the only one who's feeling cranky these days...

 

[Cadence]

Some related topics to that would be less yeuchy if alignment wasn't a thing.