CC's challenge....
Canadian Cynic has come up with a fun experiment.
For one day, only one!:
(For all progressive bloggers:)
That's right -- from midnight to midnight, over the course of Monday, March 31, I'm defying every single left-wing blogger in Canada to be nice. Be genteel. Be suave and urbane, and refrain from calling anyone a numbskull, retard, imbecile, cementhead, stupid c*nt (my edit, teaser) or dumbass motherf*cker,(my edit again) even when they clearly deserve it, just to prove that, yes, we can play nice when we feel like it. I don't think it'll be that hard. 24 hours? I've gone longer than that without a beer so I'm pretty sure my willpower is up to it. (And, yes, playing nice includes comments as well. No getting around this on a technicality.)
From part deux:
So, let's hear it. I want to see comments from other progressives signing on, as well as links to this challenge from other blogs, just to prove that, yes, we are capable of spending a whole day simply addressing the issues in a mature and grown-up kind of way. And when that's over, we'll see just how well the other half did.
(I edited the text because some public internet providers block pages with swears...OH NOES! We really try not to use too much profanity in the teasers....-pale)
I think most of us are up to that challenge. We can just pretend to be the big daddy's of the blogosphere. (Difference being, with personality, we will have to keep it lively. The Big daddies are great for insomniacs. ZZZzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZ)
What's the other half of the challenge you ask? heh.
(For Blogging Tories:)
That's right, wanks. I'm tossing down the gauntlet and defying you people to get through a single day without exaggerating, distorting, dissembling, fabricating, omitting, quoting out of context, misinterpreting, misrepresenting or just outright lying your faces off. And, frankly, I don't think you have it in you.
This one is like shooting fish in a barrel, ducttaped to the bottom.....
So. March 31st. I am going to blog with no cusswerds, no name calling....well. hehehe. I will be "creative". Thats literally this blogs middle name, after all.
Monday, March 31. Midnight to midnight, and I will stipulate right now. Thats PACIFIC time for us.
In the meanwhile this is day 4 on the countdown. 4 days to the challenge.
I present the FCC song. Eric Idle, who manages to sound oh sooooooooooo polite, even when swearing a blue streak.
Just like the US branch of their franchise the BT's cry foul when anyone swears, while they condone the worst atrocities against human beings imaginable, all wrapped in their Phony bullshit "family values". Fucking morons.
I dunno...
It's going to be tough for me. Most of the news/politics/social issues these days warrant at least one dropping of the f-bomb. I'll try...
Easy-peasy...
I'm nearly always nice, and only swear over at CC's place. : )
As if
Won't happen. They just aren't wired that way. They also don't give a tinker's cuss (how's that for 'civil'?) about any challenge we may offer.
Do agree with CC on the BTs here:
I can't make a promise but will try my 'darnedest' (I'm practicing) to bite my tongue... er.. fingers.
Everything's cheaper than it looks.
I thought
you were going to swear in French? Oh, that reminds me, I need you to teach me that. My friend just had a baby and I promised her that I was going to teach him to swear in French when he's old enough to talk.
Would you like
French French or Quebecois? The latter is is almost all religious terms, the former is slightly more scatological and snootier. ;-)
Here's your first lesson (NSFW)
Everything's cheaper than it looks.
Lesson 2 & 3
One word French-Canadian guy (Guy?) above neglected to mention is hostie. Another religious term, hostie = host. So, add that to the words learned above, and don't forget to join them with de.
e.g. crisse de calisse de tabarnak d'hostie de cave
Now, lets add a couple non-religious terms:
1) putin - no, not the Russian leader or an incorrect spelling of the fries/curd/gravy dish. Putin = prostitute.
2) Va donc chier = go take a shit.
and just for fun...
3) Mon p'tit (i.e. mon petit)
Let's add those to the above.
Crisse de calisse de tabarnak d'hostie de cave de putin. Va donc chier mon p'tit crisse de calisse de putin. Tabarnak!
Now you know how to swear like a French-Canadian.
Everything's cheaper than it looks.
Poifect!
Very instructional - thanks! Next time we meet I'll practice and you can help me with the correct pronunciation. :)
I'm in.
I can be civil. Hell, I am already a civil servant so it shouldn't be any stretch at all. No one ever gets un-civil responses from civil servants, snarkyness sure, but always civil snarkyness. Of course I don't class politicians as civil servants, that just degrades the larger class.
The Galloping Beaver has a post up on this topic. I believe JJ ( the old hippie ) has signed on in the comments of CC's original post.
As I understand the challenge we can point out that someone suffers from rectal - cranial inversion, we just can't say that they have their head up their ass.
Supposedly it's the swears that cause the righties to clutch their pearls. I think if the swears were eliminated they would be just as upset as ever when someone points out their hypocrisy, lies and lack of logic. There was a quote I read recently, can't remember the author, something like - A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.
I will participate in this challenge. However if there is ever a one day challenge to spell correctly or even worse, write coherently, I will refuse or abstain.
An' I ain't never goin' to be condensed, concise, crisp or succinct.
( Oh, did I tell you, I found a thesaurus online - cool )
Re: pearl clutching
Oh yes, they are a bunch of sensitive sissies. Swearing, name calling - the horror! Meanwhile, racism, war, slaughter, trampled human rights and depleted uranium doesn't seem to bother them...