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by xtiansimon 1284 days ago
Hmmm. I’ve never heard it. You Aussies take after British English, so I’m not surprised. I mistakenly jumped to the conclusion you were in the US. And this was a new dangerous replicator

This reminds me of a classic Mad TV sketch: Parody of Al Jazeera, Death to America

All writing is in some form writing for _some_ audience, or an “auditor”.

However you choose to speak with your friends, the use of profanity—is ‘piss’ profane? I’d say it’s a subset whose parent term is the male/female organ—is controversial in writing. Profanity is by definition offensive, and that excludes people.

I believe we all should consider our words more carefully, and also be able to call a ‘spade’ a spade when it’s a shovel.

https://youtu.be/TS4v_kj9rw4