How was your day?

[DomJcg]

Dom - you seem to know everyone here.

 

Thank you? :S

[Dyson]

So, this is the list of films I havn't seen that apparantly I need to watch. It's...quite large.

 

12 Angry Men

28 days Later

28 Weeks Later

51st State

A Beautiful Mind

A Clockwork Orange

A Fistful of Dollars

A Hard Day’s Night

A Nightmare Before Christmas

A Streetcar Named Desire

About a Boy

Alfie

Alien

Alien vs Predator

All About My Mother

American Beauty

American Gangster

American Graffiti

American History X

American Psycho

Anchorman

Apocalypse Now

Apocalypto

Bad Boys

Blade 1, 2 and 3

Blade Runner

Blades of Glory

Blood Diamond

Bonnie and Clyde

Braveheart

Breathless

Bridget Jones Diary

Bullet Boy

Carrie

Children of Men

Choke

ChungKing Express

Citizen Kane

City of God

Cloverfield

Coming to America

Con-Air

Corpse Bride

Crank

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

Cruel Intentions

Dawn of the Dead

Death Proof

Demolition Man

Desperado

Do The Right Thing

Dodgeball

Dog Soldiers

Domino

Donnie Brasco

Donnie Darko

Dracula

Easy rider

Ed Wood

Edward Scissorhands

El Mariachi

Enduring Love

Equilibrium

Erin Brockovich

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Eurotrip

Evil Dead

Face Off

Fargo

Fight Club

Final Destination 1, 2 and 3

Finding Neverland

Frankenstein

Friday 13th

From Dusk Til’ Dawn

Funny Games

Gangs of New York

Girl, Interrupted

Gladiator

Gone in 60 Seconds

Goodfellas

Gothika

Grave of the Fireflies

Green Street

Halloween

Hamlet

Hancock

Hannibal

Heat

Hide and Seek

Howl’s Moving Castle

Human Nature

I am Legend

Independence Day

Irreversible

Jackie Brown

Jaws

Juno

Jurassic Park

K-Pax

Kiki’s Delivery Service

Kill Bill Vol1 and 2

King Kong

Klute

LA Confidential

Laurence of Arabia

Less Than Zero

Life of Brian

Little Miss Sunshine

Little Nicky

Little Voice

Lord of War

LOTR- Return of the King

M

Manhattan

Master and Commander: the Far Side of the World

Mean Machine

Meet Joe Black

Memento

Metropolis

Million Dollar Baby

Moliere

Monster

Moulin Rouge

Mrs Doubtfire

Mulan

Mulholland Drive

Murder on the Orient Express

My Neighbour Totoro

Natural Born Killers

Next

Night of the Living Dead

Nightmare on Elm Street

No Country for Old Men

Nosferatu

Oceans 11, 12 and 13

Pan’s Labyrinth

Passenger 57

Pirates of the Caribbean

Pitch Black

Planet Terror

Platoon

Practical Magic

Pretty Woman

Princess Mononoke

Psycho

Raging Bull

Rain Man

Rec

Red Dragon

Requiem for A Dream

Return of the Living Dead

Rio Bravo

Road to Perdition

Road Trip

Rocky

Rush Hour

Saturday Night Fever

Scarface

Schindler’s List

Scream 1, 2 and 3

Secrets and Lies

Seven

Silence of the Lambs

Sleepy Hollow

Slumdog Millionaire

Snatch

Sound of Music

Spiderman 1, 2 and 3

Stagecoach

Star Wars (All of them!)

Stardust

Sweeney Todd

Taxi driver

Team America

Terminator 1, 2 and 3

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original)

The 25th Hour

The 400 Blows

The Addams Family

The Apartment

The Bourne Identity

The Bourne Supremacy

The Bourne Ultimatum

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

The Breakfast Club

The Dark Knight

The Departed

The Exorcism of Emily Rose

The Exorcist

The Full Monty

The Godfather

The Good the Bad and the Ugly

The Green Mile

The Holy Grail

The Italian Job

The Lion King 1 and 2

The Machinist

The Mist

The Number 23

The Others

The Perfect Storm

The Phantom of the Opera

The Prestige

The Punisher

The Ring

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

The Seven Samurai

The Shining

The Sixth Sense

The Transporter

The Untouchables

The Usual Suspects

The Wicker Man- (not Nicholas Cage)

Thelma and Louise

There’s Something About Mary

Thirteen

This is England

To Kill A Mockingbird

Tomb Raider

Trading Places

Troy

True Lies

True Romance

Un Chien Andalou

Unbreakable

Underworld 1 and 2

V for Vendetta

Visitor Q

Walk the Line

Wall-E

When Harry Met Sally

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

X-men 1, 2 and 3

 

 

 

I plan on watching at least 5 this week. Anyone care to nominate one from the list?

[Dante]

It's a quote, used in satire, and not directed towards anyone or anything*. It's not 'not decent', surely.

 

In other news, just read this quote and it cheered me up.

 

“Nobody ever said it’d be easy…but they said it’d be worth it.”

 

*Except trees. Oh noes..

 

It still offensive language anyway from were you look at it.

[DomJcg]

It still offensive language anyway from were you look at it.

 

I always thought pointing a gun at your head was considered indecent, but thats just me.

[Dante]

Watch theses:

28 days Later

28 Weeks Later

51st State

A Beautiful Mind

A Clockwork Orange

A Fistful of Dollars

A Nightmare Before Christmas

A Streetcar Named Desire

American Beauty

American History X

American Psycho

Anchorman

Apocalypse Now

Apocalypto

Blade 1, 2 and 3

Blade Runner

Blades of Glory

Blood Diamond

Bonnie and Clyde

Braveheart

Carrie

Children of Men

Citizen Kane

Cloverfield

Con-Air

Corpse Bride

Crank

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

Cruel Intentions

Dawn of the Dead

Death Proof

Demolition Man

Desperado

Dodgeball

Donnie Darko

Dracula

Edward Scissorhands

Equilibrium

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Evil Dead 2

Face Off

Fargo

Fight Club

Final Destination 1, 2 and 3

Finding Neverland

Frankenstein

Friday 13th series

Full Metal Jacket

From Dusk Til’ Dawn

Gangs of New York

Gladiator

Gone in 60 Seconds

Grave of the Fireflies

Halloween series not the remake.

Howl’s Moving Castle

Human Nature

Jackie Brown

Jaws

Jurassic Park

K-Pax

Kiki’s Delivery Service

LA Confidential

Laurence of Arabia

Metropolis

Million Dollar Baby

Mulholland Drive

Natural Born Killers

Next

Night of the Living Dead

Nightmare on Elm Street

No Country for Old Men

Nosferatu

Oceans 11, 12 and 13

Pan’s Labyrinth

Pitch Black

Planet Terror

Platoon

Practical Magic

Pretty Woman

Princess Mononoke

Psycho

Raging Bull

Return of the Living Dead

Rocky

Rush Hour

Saturday Night Fever

Schindler’s List

Scream 1, 2 and 3

Secrets and Lies

Seven

Silence of the Lambs

Sleepy Hollow

Slumdog Millionaire

Snatch

Sound of Music

Stagecoach

Star Wars (All of them!)

Stardust

Sweeney Todd

Taxi driver

Team America

Terminator 1, 2 and 3

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original)

The 25th Hour

The Addams Family

The Apartment

The Bourne Identity

The Bourne Supremacy

The Bourne Ultimatum

The Breakfast Club

The Dark Knight

The Departed

The Exorcism of Emily Rose

The Exorcist and Exorcist 3

The Godfather series

The Good the Bad and the Ugly

The Green Mile

The Holy Grail

The Italian Job not the remake please

The Lion King 1 and 2

The Machinist

The Mist

The Number 23

The Jacket

The Others remake/fist

The Perfect Storm

The Phantom of the Opera

The Prestige

The Punisher

The Ring

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

The Seven Samurai

The Shining

The Sixth Sense

The Transporter

The Untouchables

The Usual Suspects

The Wicker Man - (not Nicholas Cage)

Thelma and Louise

There’s Something About Mary

Thirteen

This is England

To Kill A Mockingbird

Trading Places

Troy

True Lies

True Romance

Un Chien Andalou

Unbreakable

Underworld 1 and 2

V for Vendetta

Walk the Line

Wall-E

When Harry Met Sally

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

X-men 1, 2

[Nolan]

So, this is the list of films I havn't seen that apparantly I need to watch. It's...quite large.

 

12 Angry Men

28 days Later

28 Weeks Later

51st State

A Beautiful Mind

A Clockwork Orange

A Fistful of Dollars

A Hard Day’s Night

A Nightmare Before Christmas

A Streetcar Named Desire

About a Boy

Alfie

Alien

Alien vs Predator

All About My Mother

American Beauty

American Gangster

American Graffiti

American History X

American Psycho

Anchorman

Apocalypse Now

Apocalypto

Bad Boys

Blade 1, 2 and 3

Blade Runner

Blades of Glory

Blood Diamond

Bonnie and Clyde

Braveheart

Breathless

Bridget Jones Diary

Bullet Boy

Carrie

Children of Men

Choke

ChungKing Express

Citizen Kane

City of God

Cloverfield

Coming to America

Con-Air

Corpse Bride

Crank

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

Cruel Intentions

Dawn of the Dead

Death Proof

Demolition Man

Desperado

Do The Right Thing

Dodgeball

Dog Soldiers

Domino

Donnie Brasco

Donnie Darko

Dracula

Easy rider

Ed Wood

Edward Scissorhands

El Mariachi

Enduring Love

Equilibrium

Erin Brockovich

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Eurotrip

Evil Dead

Face Off

Fargo

Fight Club

Final Destination 1, 2 and 3

Finding Neverland

Frankenstein

Friday 13th

From Dusk Til’ Dawn

Funny Games

Gangs of New York

Girl, Interrupted

Gladiator

Gone in 60 Seconds

Goodfellas

Gothika

Grave of the Fireflies

Green Street

Halloween

Hamlet

Hancock

Hannibal

Heat

Hide and Seek

Howl’s Moving Castle

Human Nature

I am Legend

Independence Day

Irreversible

Jackie Brown

Jaws

Juno

Jurassic Park

K-Pax

Kiki’s Delivery Service

Kill Bill Vol1 and 2

King Kong

Klute

LA Confidential

Laurence of Arabia

Less Than Zero

Life of Brian

Little Miss Sunshine

Little Nicky

Little Voice

Lord of War

LOTR- Return of the King

M

Manhattan

Master and Commander: the Far Side of the World

Mean Machine

Meet Joe Black

Memento

Metropolis

Million Dollar Baby

Moliere

Monster

Moulin Rouge

Mrs Doubtfire

Mulan

Mulholland Drive

Murder on the Orient Express

My Neighbour Totoro

Natural Born Killers

Next

Night of the Living Dead

Nightmare on Elm Street

No Country for Old Men

Nosferatu

Oceans 11, 12 and 13

Pan’s Labyrinth

Passenger 57

Pirates of the Caribbean

Pitch Black

Planet Terror

Platoon

Practical Magic

Pretty Woman

Princess Mononoke

Psycho

Raging Bull

Rain Man

Rec

Red Dragon

Requiem for A Dream

Return of the Living Dead

Rio Bravo

Road to Perdition

Road Trip

Rocky

Rush Hour

Saturday Night Fever

Scarface

Schindler’s List

Scream 1, 2 and 3

Secrets and Lies

Seven

Silence of the Lambs

Sleepy Hollow

Slumdog Millionaire

Snatch

Sound of Music

Spiderman 1, 2 and 3

Stagecoach

Star Wars (All of them!)

Stardust

Sweeney Todd

Taxi driver

Team America

Terminator 1, 2 and 3

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original)

The 25th Hour

The 400 Blows

The Addams Family

The Apartment

The Bourne Identity

The Bourne Supremacy

The Bourne Ultimatum

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

The Breakfast Club

The Dark Knight

The Departed

The Exorcism of Emily Rose

The Exorcist

The Full Monty

The Godfather

The Good the Bad and the Ugly

The Green Mile

The Holy Grail

The Italian Job

The Lion King 1 and 2

The Machinist

The Mist

The Number 23

The Others

The Perfect Storm

The Phantom of the Opera

The Prestige

The Punisher

The Ring

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

The Seven Samurai

The Shining

The Sixth Sense

The Transporter

The Untouchables

The Usual Suspects

The Wicker Man- (not Nicholas Cage)

Thelma and Louise

There’s Something About Mary

Thirteen

This is England

To Kill A Mockingbird

Tomb Raider

Trading Places

Troy

True Lies

True Romance

Un Chien Andalou

Unbreakable

Underworld 1 and 2

V for Vendetta

Visitor Q

Walk the Line

Wall-E

When Harry Met Sally

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

X-men 1, 2 and 3

 

 

 

I plan on watching at least 5 this week. Anyone care to nominate one from the list?

 

Donnie Darko

American History X

Nightmare before Christmas

28 Days Later (don't bother with Weeks later)

Rocky Horror Picture Show

Jurassic Park

Children of Men

 

I nominate any and all of those. Honestly just one though? American History X, a very powerful story. Only movie to make me tear up.

 

Also, it's nearly unbelievable you haven't seen Jurassic Park! I noticed Pulp Fiction isn't on that list, so either you have seen it or some one (mindbogglingly)hasn't recommended it.

[Dante]

Dyson has miss out on alot the classic horror films and gore films.

 

He needs to watch Exorcist 3.

 

 

I always thought pointing a gun at your head was considered indecent, but thats just me.

 

Yeah thats just you!

[Nolan]

It still offensive language anyway from were you look at it.

 

Hardly, everyone is different, offensive to one means exactly diddly to another. It's like the regional differences between the US and UK for Fanny and Spastic.

[Slaggis]

But one of the sig rules is "No offensive material of any sort (this includes vulgar and offensive language, pornographic images and anything else that is not 'decent') is permitted in either image or writing form."

 

That's kind of going overboard though, isn't it? It's in no way aimed at someone, so unless you actually find the presence of the words offensive then there's nothing wrong with it, surely?

 

American History X, a very powerful story. Only movie to make me tear up.

 

I found it totally cliche ridden and in certain places a little boring (in the sense of it was totally obvious what was going to happen like the ending which seemed to be played out as though it was totally shocking when it just wasn't, and it seemed like some things were just put there to shock and not to add to the story). I liked it, just not as much as I thought I would.

[Dyson]

Donnie Darko

American History X

Nightmare before Christmas

28 Days Later (don't bother with Weeks later)

Rocky Horror Picture Show

Jurassic Park

Children of Men

 

I nominate any and all of those. Honestly just one though? American History X, a very powerful story. Only movie to make me tear up.

 

Also, it's nearly unbelievable you haven't seen Jurassic Park! I noticed Pulp Fiction isn't on that list, so either you have seen it or some one (mindbogglingly)hasn't recommended it.

 

Luckily, one of my saving graces is that I have seen Pulp Fiction (And Reservoir Dogs, too) so I'm not a total film reject

 

My film list for this week has been half decided.

 

1. Slumdog Millionaire

2. Anchorman

3. My Neighbor Totoro

4. 28 Days Later

5. Not sure, currently undecided. Probably one I'm not too excited about seeing but is highly regarded as a very important film, so I can at least say I've seen it.

 

Though if I get in to them I might end up watching a whole lot more

[Slaggis]

Luckily, one of my saving graces is that I have seen Pulp Fiction (And Reservoir Dogs, too) so I'm not a total film reject

 

My film list for this week has been half decided.

 

1. Slumdog Millionaire

2. Anchorman

3. My Neighbor Totoro

4. 28 Days Later

5. Not sure, currently undecided. Probably one I'm not too excited about seeing but is highly regarded as a very important film, so I can at least say I've seen it.

 

Though if I get in to them I might end up watching a whole lot more

 

Make it Donnie Darko. Everyone I know has seen it, and only one of them hasn't loved it.

 

(Or...Crash/Brokeback/American Beauty)

[Dyson]

I went the route of a random number generator for the fifth instead, it threw No Country For Old Men at me, that'll do

[Dante]

or Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

 

That's kind of going overboard though, isn't it? It's in no way aimed at someone, so unless you actually find the presence of the words offensive then there's nothing wrong with it, surely?

 

Yes I do find the presence of the words offensive because i am sick of seeing and hearing swear words.

[Dyson]

And yet you liked The Lonely Island's songs? Yeesh, double standards :p

[Supergrunch]

It still offensive language anyway from were you look at it.

Not necessarily. Take, for instance, the word "fuck," which you (along with many others) describe as being offensive however it's being used. Let's say one guy says to another (for whatever reason), "You fucking legend!" Unless this sentence is being used very sarcastically, it's not likely to be intensionally offensive, and if the other guy understands it to be a compliment and nobody else is present, then nobody has been offended. Indeed, far from being offensive, the addition of the word "fuck" into the sentence has increased the force of the sentiment expressed and also created a sense of camaraderie between the guys - the fact they're able to freely swear suggests they aren't watching what they say, and are friendly.

 

Of course, the word can also be used offensively - if, say, one guy says (in an insulting tone) to another guy, "You fucking idiot!" It's hard to see what's going on here - while the first guy clearly wants to insult the second, this doesn't explain why adding "fuck" makes the insult more potent. The best suggestion I've come across is that as a taboo word, "fuck" carries negative associations and is linked to unpleasant feelings, and using it in this manner is like using a weapon - the recipient of the insult is forced to feel these unpleasant feelings and associate them with themselves.

 

However, people don't just get offended by "fuck" when it's used towards them as an insult. Indeed, many find it offensive when used at all, presumably because it forces the link to unpleasant connotations. However, such an objection to the way others use language seems a bit spurious to me, especially when the swearer in question isn't even speaking to the offended person in question. It's a bit like when people are offended by others wearing nose rings or somesuch - even though they might not like it, the wearer of the ring should be free to do so, and arguing otherwise is absurb. So when people use swearwords in non-offensive contexts, they shouldn't be offensive at all.

 

(in fact there are some things that invoke such unpleasant feelings in such large majorities of people that it seems reasonable to ban them - this is why we need laws about indecency and so on)

[Nolan]

Ahhh the wonders of Freedom....so long as it doesn't offend

[Ganepark32]

@ Dyson - good luck with Lawrence of Arabia. That film is a nightmare to watch from start to finish. So god damn long. Over 4 hours IIRC. After watching the whole thing I couldn't move from my seat as I had been sitting watching for so long. Good film though. Don't make 'em like that anymore (at least on the length side of things)

[Eenuh]

So, this is the list of films I havn't seen that apparantly I need to watch. It's...quite large.

 

12 Angry Men

28 days Later

28 Weeks Later

51st State

A Beautiful Mind

A Clockwork Orange

A Fistful of Dollars

A Hard Day’s Night

A Nightmare Before Christmas

A Streetcar Named Desire

About a Boy

Alfie

Alien

Alien vs Predator

All About My Mother

American Beauty

American Gangster

American Graffiti

American History X

American Psycho

Anchorman

Apocalypse Now

Apocalypto

Bad Boys

Blade 1, 2 and 3

Blade Runner

Blades of Glory

Blood Diamond

Bonnie and Clyde

Braveheart

Breathless

Bridget Jones Diary

Bullet Boy

Carrie

Children of Men

Choke

ChungKing Express

Citizen Kane

City of God

Cloverfield

Coming to America

Con-Air

Corpse Bride

Crank

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

Cruel Intentions

Dawn of the Dead

Death Proof

Demolition Man

Desperado

Do The Right Thing

Dodgeball

Dog Soldiers

Domino

Donnie Brasco

Donnie Darko

Dracula

Easy rider

Ed Wood

Edward Scissorhands

El Mariachi

Enduring Love

Equilibrium

Erin Brockovich

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Eurotrip

Evil Dead

Face Off

Fargo

Fight Club

Final Destination 1, 2 and 3

Finding Neverland

Frankenstein

Friday 13th

From Dusk Til’ Dawn

Funny Games

Gangs of New York

Girl, Interrupted

Gladiator

Gone in 60 Seconds

Goodfellas

Gothika

Grave of the Fireflies

Green Street

Halloween

Hamlet

Hancock

Hannibal

Heat

Hide and Seek

Howl’s Moving Castle

Human Nature

I am Legend

Independence Day

Irreversible

Jackie Brown

Jaws

Juno

Jurassic Park

K-Pax

Kiki’s Delivery Service

Kill Bill Vol1 and 2

King Kong

Klute

LA Confidential

Laurence of Arabia

Less Than Zero

Life of Brian

Little Miss Sunshine

Little Nicky

Little Voice

Lord of War

LOTR- Return of the King

M

Manhattan

Master and Commander: the Far Side of the World

Mean Machine

Meet Joe Black

Memento

Metropolis

Million Dollar Baby

Moliere

Monster

Moulin Rouge

Mrs Doubtfire

Mulan

Mulholland Drive

Murder on the Orient Express

My Neighbour Totoro

Natural Born Killers

Next

Night of the Living Dead

Nightmare on Elm Street

No Country for Old Men

Nosferatu

Oceans 11, 12 and 13

Pan’s Labyrinth

Passenger 57

Pirates of the Caribbean

Pitch Black

Planet Terror

Platoon

Practical Magic

Pretty Woman

Princess Mononoke

Psycho

Raging Bull

Rain Man

Rec

Red Dragon

Requiem for A Dream

Return of the Living Dead

Rio Bravo

Road to Perdition

Road Trip

Rocky

Rush Hour

Saturday Night Fever

Scarface

Schindler’s List

Scream 1, 2 and 3

Secrets and Lies

Seven

Silence of the Lambs

Sleepy Hollow

Slumdog Millionaire

Snatch

Sound of Music

Spiderman 1, 2 and 3

Stagecoach

Star Wars (All of them!)

Stardust

Sweeney Todd

Taxi driver

Team America

Terminator 1, 2 and 3

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original)

The 25th Hour

The 400 Blows

The Addams Family

The Apartment

The Bourne Identity

The Bourne Supremacy

The Bourne Ultimatum

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

The Breakfast Club

The Dark Knight

The Departed

The Exorcism of Emily Rose

The Exorcist

The Full Monty

The Godfather

The Good the Bad and the Ugly

The Green Mile

The Holy Grail

The Italian Job

The Lion King 1 and 2

The Machinist

The Mist

The Number 23

The Others

The Perfect Storm

The Phantom of the Opera

The Prestige

The Punisher

The Ring

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

The Seven Samurai

The Shining

The Sixth Sense

The Transporter

The Untouchables

The Usual Suspects

The Wicker Man- (not Nicholas Cage)

Thelma and Louise

There’s Something About Mary

Thirteen

This is England

To Kill A Mockingbird

Tomb Raider

Trading Places

Troy

True Lies

True Romance

Un Chien Andalou

Unbreakable

Underworld 1 and 2

V for Vendetta

Visitor Q

Walk the Line

Wall-E

When Harry Met Sally

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

X-men 1, 2 and 3

 

 

 

I plan on watching at least 5 this week. Anyone care to nominate one from the list?

 

I think I should start looking through that list as well, as there's lots of films on there I haven't seen yet (though quite a few I have). How did you manage to compile this list?

 

 

I should be on my way to school right now, but I really can't be arsed to go, which is bad as I've skipped this class a couple of times already. But bah, four hours of drawing is just boring, especially since we have to work on our project, which I feel I can't do in school.

So I'm staying home and will try to work on it here. If I manage to stay awake, heh.

 

Edit: am sat here at my desk, listening to the birds sing outside. So nice. If it was Spring/Summer and it'd be a bit warmer, I'd so go out for a walk through the fields right now.

[Guest Jordan]

Not necessarily. Take, for instance, the word "fuck," which you (along with many others) describe as being offensive however it's being used. Let's say one guy says to another (for whatever reason), "You fucking legend!" Unless this sentence is being used very sarcastically, it's not likely to be intensionally offensive, and if the other guy understands it to be a compliment and nobody else is present, then nobody has been offended. Indeed, far from being offensive, the addition of the word "fuck" into the sentence has increased the force of the sentiment expressed and also created a sense of camaraderie between the guys - the fact they're able to freely swear suggests they aren't watching what they say, and are friendly.

 

Of course, the word can also be used offensively - if, say, one guy says (in an insulting tone) to another guy, "You fucking idiot!" It's hard to see what's going on here - while the first guy clearly wants to insult the second, this doesn't explain why adding "fuck" makes the insult more potent. The best suggestion I've come across is that as a taboo word, "fuck" carries negative associations and is linked to unpleasant feelings, and using it in this manner is like using a weapon - the recipient of the insult is forced to feel these unpleasant feelings and associate them with themselves.

 

However, people don't just get offended by "fuck" when it's used towards them as an insult. Indeed, many find it offensive when used at all, presumably because it forces the link to unpleasant connotations. However, such an objection to the way others use language seems a bit spurious to me, especially when the swearer in question isn't even speaking to the offended person in question. It's a bit like when people are offended by others wearing nose rings or somesuch - even though they might not like it, the wearer of the ring should be free to do so, and arguing otherwise is absurb. So when people use swearwords in non-offensive contexts, they shouldn't be offensive at all.

 

(in fact there are some things that invoke such unpleasant feelings in such large majorities of people that it seems reasonable to ban them - this is why we need laws about indecency and so on)

 

Gotta agree with 'Grunchy here.

[Wesley]

You're bias and it therefore doesn't count!

 

My weekend was messed up! Did no coursework at all...! Not good. Not good. Got some major work to do this week. I also have the place to myself this weekend which will be fun. My girlfriend has gone home for her reading week. I'll be blasting out my rap and dancing like a loon!

[timypeg]

weekend was great played guitar hero world tour all the time, i havent been this addicted to a game since well i dont think i have been addicted to a game before. going to edinbourgh on wednesday to see my sister at uni other than that i can see myself playing guitar hero the rest of my time.

[ReZourceman]

Dyson that list is mental. Glad to see you'll be seeing Anchorman this week.

 

Jurassic Park, Halloween, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Scream, Dodgeball and Spider-Man 1/2 should be viewed soon.

[Wesley]

Don't watch the Spiderman movies. You'll hurt your eyes.

 

My day has improved by 1 point. My 3D lecture and tutorial were cancelled. Although fun, I didn't have anything to show... so yay!

[ReZourceman]

Don't watch the Spiderman movies. You'll hurt your eyes.

 

What? Spider-Man 2 is amazing.

[Pantsu Man!]

Don't watch the Spiderman movies. You'll hurt your eyes.

 

My day has improved by 1 point. My 3D lecture and tutorial were cancelled. Although fun, I didn't have anything to show... so yay!

Wait, what?

*checks emails*

Thank fuck for you being on here at this time. Hell yeah.

Extra hour rest.