Irrational HatredPeople who say "less" when they mean "fewer" ought to be turned into soup, the soup fed to baboons and the baboons fired into an active volcano. What has you grinding your teeth with rage, and why?
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 14:36)
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F*ck, sh*t, c*ntThis is probably my main pet hate and beloved by newspaper editors, journalists and copywriters the world over.
Fortunately you have all been saved from the horror and filth of this subject line by the clever use of the supernatural asterisk. It's amazing how just one simple * can instantly remove all aggression and profanity from a humble swear.
Sometimes they may even go the whole hog and just leave you the first and last letters like so, f*****g. Unfortunately the human brain is very adept at filling in gaps so the only point I can see for this is to give their readers a few hours amusement working out what the hell d******g is (copyright Daily Mail 2009ish).
What is the point?! If it's really that important for our innocent little minds not to be corrupted by a collection of letters why not just asterisk the whole word or leave it out of the quote altogether! I honestly have no idea why they feel the need to do this and it just fills me rage every time I foolishly leave my book at home and have to read the fucking M*tro in the morning.
Also the Daily Star - just stop pretending to be anything other than the Daily Sport sans-boobs and kindly piss off!
(, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 16:58, 3 replies)
The *Enables the red top newspapers to take the moral high ground by showing the naughty words that other people use.
(, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 16:59, closed)
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