Town Bans Cussing
What next? We going to ban flatulence?
What the $%*&*? This community on the edge of Los Angeles has become a cuss-free zone.
So if you’re headed to South Pasadena this week, be sure to turn down the volume on that Snoop Dogg CD, and, if the little old lady from Pasadena cuts you off in traffic, don’t even think about flipping her the bird.
Not that police will slap cuffs on you and haul your sorry, er, butt off to jail in light of the proclamation passed Wednesday by the City Council. But you could be shamed into better behavior by the unsettling glares of residents who take their reputation for civility seriously.
“That’s one of the purposes of this,” Mayor Michael Cacciotti said of his city’s proclamation designating the first week of March as No Cussing Week. “It provides us a reminder to be more civil, to elevate the level of discourse.“
Here’s the rest of the story on CNN.
I have to tell you, I’d have to move.
aw damn! they’s probably run me out on a rail.
I could not live in that fucking town.
The wife pointed out to me just yesterday that I cuss a lot. I don’t even know that I am doing it anymore. I would be like that drunk guy on Andy Griffith…always in the jail if I lived there.
Does it even include sci-fi cussin’ like frak and frell?
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“It provides us a reminder to be more civil, to elevate the level of discourse.“
Discourse? What discourse? You’re out in public working on your car, the wrench slips and you say “OW,… FUCK!”………
This is interfering with discourse?
So, if I tell the Mayor to go Sexual Intercourse himself, is that allowed?
The whole world has gone fucking crazy, and they’re worried about a cuss word?
I think saying mean things about other people that aren’t true is a lot more cussing than saying “Oh fuck,” which is usually my response to a lot of people saying mean things about people that aren’t true!
It’s all relative.
Man, what will they think of next, banning dying?
Oops…I think they’ve already thought of that one, too. (HT: Slarti!)
LOL…Why not just wash people’s mouths out with soap instead of carting them off to jail?
It worked for me as a kid! LOL
I agree. And I like saying fuck.
I’m so not welcome in that town.
My father is so going to wash my mouth out for cussing on this here blog.
Example:
So I’m in S ‘Dena and I say:
“Pardon me, Mr. Mayor. But after careful consideration of the subject matter at hand, I have arrived at the conclusion that his honor orally ingests physical protrusions of Equus Asinus”…
He wouldn’t be insulted?