Think about it, how you'd feel if someone used the name of your parents or your best friend to swear with/against. You'd hate it. (I know, because I had a friend who used to scream "Bloody Nora" when she got upset. Nora was my mother's name... I told her time and again, to cut it out, but what can I say, she was a bit dim.
People swearing by Christ and God are either as dim as my friend D., or they want to offend Christians. Either way, they need to grow up!
"As for taking it on the chin", why should they have to?
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Maybe they'd feel offended. Maybe they'd just think you were just screwy.
The real point, however, is that Nora was a real person and your god isn't. A more accurate queston would be: how would you feel if you were a Bugs Bunny fan and someone kept yelling "Bugs damn it!"
Ohmyfuckinggodohmyfuckinggod,
ohmyfuckinggodohmyfuckinggod,
ohmyfuckinggodohmyfuckinggod,
ohmyfuckinggodohmyfuckinggod,
ohmyfuckinggodohmyfuckinggod,
ohmyfuckinggodohmyfuckinggod,
ohmyfuckinggodohmyfuckinggod,
ohmyfuckinggodohmyfuckinggod!
Fucking Christ, I hope you're offended. :D
"Think about it, how you'd feel if someone used the name of your parents or your best friend to swear with/against."
What the hell would I care?
"You'd hate it."
No, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't.
Most people just say the things out of habit. Originally, they weren't swearing at or against God; they were attempting to invoke His wrath on whatever was pissing them off. It was a kind of blasphemous prayer. E.g., "God damn it" = "God, condemn this to hell"
No! The fundies have infected Dr. Who forums! My boyfriend could be in there! The contamination is spreading!
(To think of it, that could be a neat Dr. Who episode in itself.)
Bloody Nora is actually a British curse -- one hears BBC Top Gear presenter James May using it all the time. Nora is actually a cockney corruption of the word "horror".
It's not about Mommy. Get over it.
Is "Bloody Nora" some obscure British curse I'm not familiar with?
If not, why the bloody hell would your friend say that, EXCEPT to annoy you?
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Aaaaand, Rallymodeller answers my question before I ask it. LOL
Think about it, how you'd feel if someone used the name of your parents or your best friend to swear with/against.
"Patty-f***ing-Christ!" "Jim-al-f***ing-mighty!" Sounds pretty hilarious to me. You know, franchise owners are usually glad to hear people shouting the name of their business.
"As for taking it on the chin", why should they have to?
Because Peter North wants it that way.
(No wonder. It's the Doctor Who forum--more racists and hate-mongers per square inch than anywhere else on the internet.)
Think about it, how you'd feel if someone used the name of your parents or your best friend to swear with/against. You'd hate it. (I know, because I had a friend who used to scream "Bloody Nora" when she got upset. Nora was my mother's name...
Jesus fucking christ on the shitter!
The hilarious thing is, this started out as a discussion about the Doctor Who spin-off novels in the 1990s and how a couple of them had had swearing in them. This nutjob jumped in to rant on about how the language in the books is disgusting. Then she proceeded to tell everyone that SHE is a writer, and she never has to use swearing for writing her characters. Writers who do are displaying a complete lack of imagination, apparently. It didn't her take long to basically start on about people who swear being thugs. As are people who take the lords name in vain.
Oh, and people only swear or blaspheme in order to offend Christians. It is equivalent to punching people in the face, apparently.
Frankly, she does have a point, at least insofar as Christians are concerned. If you're a Christian, and therefore believe that Jesus is God, then shouting "Jesus Christ!" when you're hurt, surprised, or angry is extremely disrespectful.
But if you don't believe that, there's still not much point in saying it. That's why I substitute a deity that everyone knows is fictional, for Cthulhu's sake!
A rather obscure curse in Glasgow used to be "Jesus, Johnny and Jennifer."
Always made me laugh, as it happens to include both my parents names!
“Think about it, how you'd feel if someone used the name of your parents or your best friend to swear with/against. You'd hate it.”
Would I?
What if you swore against Obama? That’s telling me he’s living in your head, rent free. The technical term for this is a ‘win,’ from our POV.
Swear by my Dad’s name. SEE if i hate it. Mark you, frankly.
“People swearing by Christ and God are either as dim as my friend D., or they want to offend Christians.”
Gotta say, if it weren’t for Christians saying ‘god damn it,’ no one else would. I swear because the people around me in boot camp taught me to swear. Seriously, i’d love to swear with ‘By Fire and Ash!’ or ‘In the Name of Pratchett!’ But when i hit my thumb with a hammer, the programming reverts to whate everyone else uses. And i mean, everyone. No matter what their professed beliefs.
“Either way, they need to grow up!”
Okay. Christains first, though.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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