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[Satyamdas]

I think it's totally relevant to the question of whether GAF is strict enough, myself.

I don't see how that is the case when I've never used the word on GAF, and we all know that you will be banned for using it here.

 

[Sn4ke_911]

Oops.

Jitters and Switters are 2 different people.

God damn it.

Also would I get banned for using this gif

http://i.minus.com/ibzsIZlEi87Yi9.gif[IMG]

as a reaction to something? Not necessarily a for pretty lady, but like a game got announced or something.[/QUOTE]

I'm dying.

 

[CrudeDiatribe]

Can we kill off the welcome to NeoGAF GIF while we're at it?

I wouldn't mind since everyone is using the version I rehosted on my webserver to use once. 40,000 hits on that image last week. Perfect chance for an account suicide if I wanted.

 

[Arksy]

It's just like the C word isn't going to be erased from common Australian vernacular because Americans think it's sexist. I refrain from using it here out of respect but that doesn't mean I think it's bad or rude or sexist. This was discussed a few pages back (many, since the great purge) and you could pinpoint all the people arguing that it's not that bad as Australian. Great stuff.

 

[Professor Beef]

I gotta say that Timedog bringing that up in a completely unrelated thread is pretty questionable.

I wouldn't mind since everyone is using the version I rehosted on my webserver to use once. 40,000 hits on that image last week. Perfect chance for an account suicide if I wanted.

If anything, it'll teach people how to rehost things.

 

[Byakuya769]

Asking for repetitive memes to be banned is barely short of "being banned for unpopular views." It's all subjective, but I haven't seen anyone really articulate a legitimate harm to discussion from gifs. Are there people waiting in the wings to discuss the virtues of pop-music who are scared by the pop gifs? If so (I saw the guy above me), does that want outweigh the benefits of having that community around? I don't think so. I think someone said this already, but often times those gifs do kind of bring about a bit of camaraderie that I think is greater than their dismissive uses.

And they're fun. Quit being so damn serious.

 

[black_vegeta]

Calling trans people "faggots" like you do in the fighting game gaf IRC isn't illegal either, and most people would agree that it shouldn't be illegal, but it'll get you banned.

lol

If GAF were a prison you'd be shanked by midday.

lol

 

[I'm an expert]

A well placed Nicholson or thisisgaf still make me smile. Not every post has to be some super serious addition to the topic. Gaf is an internet forum, nobody can change that. Fight the power.

 

[Steve Youngblood]

Asking for repetitive memes to be banned is barely short of "being banned for unpopular views." It's all subjective, but I haven't seen anyone really articulate a legitimate harm to discussion from gifs. Are there people waiting in the wings to discuss the virtues of pop-music who are scared by the pop gifs? If so (I saw the guy above me), does that want outweigh the benefits of having that community around? I don't think so. I think someone said this already, but often times those gifs do kind of bring about a bit of camaraderie that I think is greater than their dismissive uses.

And they're fun. Quit being so damn serious.

Eh, I don't think they should be banned. However, I do find it tiring when every image that gains some fame gets posted ad nauseum by people who are trying to shoehorn it into being appropriate for every situation due to the perception that it's automatically funny.

But that's just me.

 

[Mudkips]

It's just like the C word isn't going to be erased from common Australian vernacular because Americans think it's sexist. I refrain from using it here out of respect but that doesn't mean I think it's bad or rude or sexist. This was discussed a few pages back (many, since the great purge) and you could pinpoint all the people arguing that it's not that bad as Australian. Great stuff.

I don't know anyone in the US who considers "cunt" to be any worse than "shit".
As far as I know it has primarily been the UK that has considered it a class 5 swear. Only recently have I seen people from the US complain about it online.

I guess I'm well on track for being one of those old people who casually uses word that the youngins express utter shock and horror over.

 

[Byakuya769]

Eh, I don't think they should be banned. However, I do find it tiring when every image that gains some fame gets posted ad nauseum by people who are trying to shoehorn it into being appropriate for every situation due to the perception that it's automatically funny.

But that's just me.

I agree. Many are annoying, but I'm just saying it's not something to be petitioning for a complete ban for misuse.

 

[Steve Youngblood]

I don't know anyone in the US who considers "cunt" to be any worse than "shit".
As far as I know it has primarily been the UK that has considered it a class 5 swear. Only recently have I seen people from the US complain about it online.

I've always thought that it was mainly a US thing. And I've personally never really known it to have any other meaning that "ultimate derogatory term for a woman."

 

[Cyan]

Asking for repetitive memes to be banned is barely short of "being banned for unpopular views." It's all subjective, but I haven't seen anyone really articulate a legitimate harm to discussion from gifs. Are there people waiting in the wings to discuss the virtues of pop-music who are scared by the pop gifs? If so (I saw the guy above me), does that want outweigh the benefits of having that community around? I don't think so. I think someone said this already, but often times those gifs do kind of bring about a bit of camaraderie that I think is greater than their dismissive uses.

And they're fun. Quit being so damn serious.

This one really needs to be banned:

 

[Dude Abides]

I don't know anyone in the US who considers "cunt" to be any worse than "shit".
As far as I know it has primarily been the UK that has considered it a class 5 swear. Only recently have I seen people from the US complain about it online.

I guess I'm well on track for being one of those old people who casually uses word that the youngins express utter shock and horror over.

Really? I think you have that completely backwards. In the UK, cunt seems equivalent to asshole - a harsh insult but not nuclear level.

In the US, cunt is much worse than shit. You can say "shit" on TV. "Cunt" would garner a hefty fine.

 

[Arksy]

Really? I think you have that completely backwards. In the UK, cunt seems equivalent to asshole - a harsh insult but not nuclear level.

In the US, cunt is much worse than shit. You can say "shit" on TV. "Cunt" would garner a hefty fine.

Considering Australian vernacular is a crude form of the UK mother tongue, I'd think you were right.

 

[I'm an expert]

Considering Australian vernacular is a crude form of the UK mother tongue, I'd think you were right.

Yeah it's crazy how you guys use the word "Fosters" instead of "beer".

 

[Arksy]

Yeah it's crazy how you guys use the word "Fosters" instead of "beer".

You mean beaaauh?

 

[CHEEZMO™]

Really? I think you have that completely backwards. In the UK, cunt seems equivalent to asshole - a harsh insult but not nuclear level.

In the US, cunt is much worse than shit. You can say "shit" on TV. "Cunt" would garner a hefty fine.

Here in the UK cunt is the "harshest" word and is at the top of the list of naughtiness (generally speaking). However it doesn't carry the misogynist connotations it seems to have over in America land (if anything it's directed towards men) and in some areas is used as a term of affection.

 

[I'm an expert]

You mean beaaauh?

Oh god thank you for getting that. Made my day.

 

[Rentahamster]

"beer can" in Australian is "bacon" in Jamaican.

 

[WanderingWind]

I am perfectly sane!

So you keep saying. I think thou doth protest too much.

 

[noah111]

Oops.

Jitters and Switters are 2 different people.

God damn it.

Also would I get banned for using this gif

as a reaction to something? Not necessarily a for pretty lady, but like a game got announced or something.

While we're on the topic of bannable gifs, what about this one?

 

[[Clark Gable]]

When you see an apple, and you know it's an apple, Neogaf will always disagree and say just because it's an apple, it could possibly morph into an orange, therefore it should be identified as an orange, and you should address it as a orange. Yeah nah. 5 seconds later banned.

 

[TheGreatDivide]

Here in the UK cunt is the "harshest" word and is at the top of the list of naughtiness (generally speaking). However it doesn't carry the misogynist connotations it seems to have over in America land (if anything it's directed towards men) and in some areas is used as a term of affection.

It's not seen as misogynistic anywhere but on NeoGAF.com

 

[Cyan]

When you see an apple, and you know it's an apple, Neogaf will always disagree and say just because it's an apple, it could possibly morph into an orange, therefore it should be identified as an orange, and you should address it as a orange. Yeah nah. 5 seconds later banned.

Is this meant to be a metaphor for something?

 

[CHEEZMO™]

When you see an apple, and you know it's an apple, Neogaf will always disagree and say just because it's an apple, it could possibly morph into an orange, therefore it should be identified as an orange, and you should address it as a orange. Yeah nah. 5 seconds later banned.

What could you possibly be getting at I wonder?

 

[WanderingWind]

Is this meant to be a metaphor for something?

It's so sad to see somebody fail so badly at being clever. He...he didn't even try on that one.

 

[Stumpokapow]

When you see an apple, and you know it's an apple, Neogaf will always disagree and say just because it's an apple, it could possibly morph into an orange, therefore it should be identified as an orange, and you should address it as a orange. Yeah nah. 5 seconds later banned.

You're welcome to feel that way of course. But even if you think people are too thin-skinned and too PC and you feel strongly that transgendered people should not be given the pronoun of their identified gender, why be quite so glib about it? I mean, I deal with a lot of people in the run of a day or the run of a week who I think are being unreasonable, as you are expressing here, but I don't intentionally try to push their buttons to hurt them or be cruel. I certainly wouldn't try to reduce what someone feels is a very serious part of their personal identity to an analogy about fruit, even if I thought they were inaccurately characterizing themselves. I just try to be nice to people, especially if they're trying to live their lives and doing so causes no harm to me.

I think you must know that the only possible reaction you could elicit from this is hurting others. So I'm not really sure why you'd do it.

 

[spindashing]

;42782490]When you see an apple, and you know it's an apple, Neogaf will always disagree and say just because it's an apple, it could possibly morph into an orange, therefore it should be identified as an orange, and you should address it as a orange. Yeah nah. 5 seconds later banned.

let's make a thread about dating oranges

 

[TheGreatDivide]

When you see an apple, and you know it's an apple, Neogaf will always disagree and say just because it's an apple, it could possibly morph into an orange, therefore it should be identified as an orange, and you should address it as a orange. Yeah nah. 5 seconds later banned.

Stop being such a cis.

 

[polyh3dron]

oh my god that gif with the greenscreen..

i am still loling

Stop being such a cis.

 

[pants]

I've seen the word cis used before but I have no idea what it means and have been too afraid to ask. Could a kind soul fill in my knowledge gap please?

 

[noah111]

When you see an apple, and you know it's an apple, Neogaf will always disagree and say just because it's an apple, it could possibly morph into an orange, therefore it should be identified as an orange, and you should address it as a orange. Yeah nah. 5 seconds later banned.

So you're saying Apples are always superior to Oranges in taste and value? I AGREE!

As for everything else, I don't quite get it.

 

[Cyan]

I've seen the word cis used before but I have no idea what it means and have been too afraid to ask. Could a kind soul fill in my knowledge gap please?

Opposite of "trans." A la "hetero" and "homo."

 

[Stumpokapow]

I've seen the word cis used before but I have no idea what it means and have been too afraid to ask. Could a kind soul fill in my knowledge gap please?

Cis is a word that refers to someone who is not transgendered. So basically, if you were born a dude, you've got a dude's bits, you self-identify as a dude, you use a male pronoun, there's no gender dysphoria, you're cis-gendered.

Normally the word only comes up when you need a word to mean "not transgendered". I'm male. I wouldn't identify as a cis-male normally, although that's what I am. It's just an extra adjective/noun if the context needs it.

 

[pants]

That's .. kind of strange. I was expecting it to be related to sexuality and not gender.

 

[Dead Man]

When you see an apple, and you know it's an apple, Neogaf will always disagree and say just because it's an apple, it could possibly morph into an orange, therefore it should be identified as an orange, and you should address it as a orange. Yeah nah. 5 seconds later banned.

If you want to say something, you should just say it. If you are trying to badly make the point that people should be addressed by their preferred pronouns and you don't like that, you are a balloon head. If you are trying to make the ridiculous point that GAF expects you to never be wrong and guess correctly in all cases, you are even more ridiculous.

 

[Stet]

i like apples but not apple juice. what does that mean?

 

[ghst]

i like apples but not apple juice. what does that mean?

you're anti-semitic.

 

[Devolution]

i like apples but not apple juice. what does that mean?

But what about Cider?

 

[TheGreatDivide]

i like apples but not apple juice. what does that mean?

I like orange juice but not oranges.

 

[Dead Man]

i like apples but not apple juice. what does that mean?

It means you have good taste. Unless you also don't like cider. Then you are dead to me.

 

[Borgnine]

Personally, I would have used bananas and peaches for my bald faced analogy.

 

[Christine]

This conversation is bananas.

 

[Orayn]

It means you have good taste. Unless you also don't like cider. Then you are dead to me.

Let's make sure we're being perfectly clear with our terminology here!

 

[Stet]

Cider is delicious, no question.

 

[spindashing]

You guys are disgusting.

Eat some more vegetables.

 

[Razek]

You guys are disgusting.

Eat some more vegetables.

When I eat a carrot, I want to throw up. #realtalk

 

[Devolution]

You guys are disgusting.

Eat some more vegetables.

You mean like tomatoes, avocados and eggplants?

 

[marrec]

You guys are disgusting.

Eat some more vegetables.

I love big juicy cucumbers.