Does Paramount no longer own Star Trek?
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Well, I wasn't counting the twenty-four hour ban he received.
It's surprising at how he survived fourteen years in prison, unless the unhingedness was caused while being inside.
Plus my opinion on swearing is as long as it's in context, swearing is fine and I'll happily swear. I did have a lecturer who didn't allow swearing in his lectures, but he was a complete and utter wanker, big on plagiarism but would happily photocopy a complete chapter in a book and disregarding copyright and fair use laws.
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http://www.trekbbs.com/threads/id-like-this-thread-reopened-please.281368/
http://www.trekbbs.com/threads/trampledamage-is-playing-favorites-and-going-back-on-his-word.281434/
http://www.trekbbs.com/threads/im-sorry.281457/
Wow. I read the threads. They were even worse than I imagined.
Yeah, saw that. Good riddance. Not sure if he's the jack-wagon who e-mailed me from "no-reply at male dot com". Yes, male not mail. Accused me, among other things, of committing Stolen Valor by claiming to be in the military. Technically, I'm not because I'm retired now. Said that if I really was in the service, there's no way I'd be offended by swear words. It went down hill from there. I deleted it, and now I wish I hadn't.
Where in Canada do you live? Montreal? I'd love to go there but I was wondering how easy it is for tourists like me who don't speak a word of French.
Here's something I've always wanted to discuss: suppose you are an atheist/agnostic. And you say something, possibly a swear, involving religious terminology (e.g. "Oh my god!" "God fucking damn!" "What the hell?") And someone else who is religious comments that it's weird for a nonreligious person to say such things. What do you say?
Montreal accommodates unilingual English speakers very well (too well for some people's tastes, actually,Where in Canada do you live? Montreal? I'd love to go there but I was wondering how easy it is for tourists like me who don't speak a word of French.
). The locals are very forgiving of Americans who don't speak French (less so for Canadians who don't, however). Best time of year to visit is summer--if you like jazz, the festival is on every year from late June to about mid July, later in July is the Comedy Fest (Seinfeld broke out at the Comedy Fest, as have a significant number of comedians). Old Montreal will give you a taste of Europe (though I wouldn't oversell that point--it's more convincing if you've not been to the actual continent of Europe 
). I spent 10 days in Rome without knowing how to speak Italian and I had very few issues. Montreal is less problematic than that for English speakers.
^ Much appreciatings. I will keep that in mind! 
And I hope Montreal gets a new Expos team.
And I hope Montreal gets a new Expos team.
Just conditioning. I grew up in a household full of people swearing.
Given his stance on swearing and the fact he told me to kill myself because I used the word fucked in relation to the financial crash, I doubt it was him.
I know you said you deleted the message, but depending on the service you use, you can still retrieve the email, Gmail doesn't "delete" it for 30 days after placing it in the bin.
I explain that they're just common figures of speech.
I mean, if I stub my toe and blurt "God damn it!" I'm not literally calling upon a Supreme Being to condemn the offending object to eternal perdition.
And I doubt that many people take it that way.
Well obviously you're not doing it right.
If anything, non-religious people are more likely to say things like "oh my god" or use "Jesus" as a swear word, as they are not worried about the Lord's name in vain.
Personally, as someone non-religious myself, I never understood how or why Christianity became the default profanity source. Why does no one use "Buddha" as a swear word?
I really doubt he had the mental capacity to create an anonymous email address. If you don't believe me, checkout some of his past posts asking for help with obvious functions of the internet.
As long as my taxes don't have to pay for a new stadium, sure. (Still paying for the old one.^ Much appreciatings. I will keep that in mind!
And I hope Montreal gets a new Expos team.
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Possibly because Christianity was the biggest religion in the "Western world" and the religion most people would have contact with? Speaking from Ireland, this was a stronly Catholic country for centuries so if you were "rebelling" it would be against the dominant religion. Irish people have emigrated far and wide so would have taken that "tradition" with them. Same probably true foe other European countries and their emigrants.
In the Roman Empire their gods would have been used as curse words too and it later evolved into the Catholic Church so the tradition has existed in Europe for millenia.
And speaking of curse words, just remembered that Picard did use merde on TNG so cursing did not start in the movies.
I didn't know that, interesting. See, a thread about profanity can be educational.
My mother (not a Trek fan by any stretch of the imagination) happened to be in the room when I was watching that episode and she was flabbergasted that broadcast TV would allow that (then again, unlike the vast majority of American viewers tuned in at that moment, my mother is fluent in French). I still chuckle whenever I see that episode.Possibly because Christianity was the biggest religion in the "Western world" and the religion most people would have contact with? Speaking from Ireland, this was a stronly Catholic country for centuries so if you were "rebelling" it would be against the dominant religion. Irish people have emigrated far and wide so would have taken that "tradition" with them. Same probably true foe other European countries and their emigrants.
In the Roman Empire their gods would have been used as curse words too and it later evolved into the Catholic Church so the tradition has existed in Europe for millenia.
And speaking of curse words, just remembered that Picard did use merde on TNG so cursing did not start in the movies.
I take it she missed TSFS: "You Klingon bastard, you killed my son!"
