https://www.cpr.org/2024/11/21/boulder-explicit-traffic-safety-signs/
"The Boulder Police Department is investigating 14 illegally placed signs with explicit traffic safety messages like 'DON'T KILL ANY KIDS TODAY' and 'SLOW THE F— DOWN.' {Also shown in the article: 'PUT DOWN THE PHONE BITCH.'}
"'We don't right now have any information about who put them up,' department spokesperson Dionne Waugh said Thursday. 'We do know that they're very professionally designed signs. They're very large. They're very well done. So someone went to a lot of trouble to put these large signs up.' ...
"Several were concentrated along 28th Street, a busy north-south thoroughfare that the city has identified as being particularly dangerous. ... By Tuesday, the signs were taken down."
They were indeed pretty well-done. Fonts aren't exactly right, but the layout and size are fairly good. Pictures in the article.
Quote from: ClassicHasClass on November 23, 2024, 05:30:11 PM'SLOW THE F— DOWN.'
I'll say it, and it applies to everything, not just that website: we're in 2024, I think we can handle uncensored "fuck".
Quote from: LilianaUwU on November 23, 2024, 06:20:39 PMQuote from: ClassicHasClass on November 23, 2024, 05:30:11 PM'SLOW THE F— DOWN.'
I'll say it, and it applies to everything, not just that website: we're in 2024, I think we can handle uncensored "fuck".
"Indoor sporting event."
Quote from: LilianaUwU on November 23, 2024, 06:20:39 PMQuote from: ClassicHasClass on November 23, 2024, 05:30:11 PM'SLOW THE F— DOWN.'
I'll say it, and it applies to everything, not just that website: we're in 2024, I think we can handle uncensored "fuck".
Nope.
Anyone seen Richard Ankrom lately? (The guy who installed his own I-5 shield on an overhead freeway sign in Los Angeles back in 2001.)
He's probably trying to wait out the statute of limitations on something else. :bigass:
Quote from: LilianaUwU on November 23, 2024, 06:20:39 PMQuote from: ClassicHasClass on November 23, 2024, 05:30:11 PM'SLOW THE F— DOWN.'
I'll say it, and it applies to everything, not just that website: we're in 2024, I think we can handle uncensored "fuck".
That's a website hosted by a licensed broadcast outlet (Colorado Public Radio.) FCC guidelines apply to the broadcast story, so it's quite likely that the same precautions taken to avoid an FCC fine for inappropriate language were taken with the posting of the story to the Web.
I've seen unabridged F-words in pieces on sites like the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, the Atlantic, and others, but never on a reputable mainstream media site. I challenge someone to post an example of that unabridged word on Fox News, MSNBC, the New York Times, etc.
Profanity seems to be more and more common place these days. I'm on the fence about how much we should be using it in a professional setting, but I do have a mouth like a sailor so I'm not really one to talk. I love using profanity for some reason.
Quote from: Plutonic Panda on November 25, 2024, 01:50:39 PMProfanity seems to be more and more common place these days. I'm on the fence about how much we should be using it in a professional setting, but I do have a mouth like a sailor so I'm not really one to talk. I love using profanity for some reason.
"Time and place."
Quote from: pderocco on November 25, 2024, 05:34:59 PMQuote from: Plutonic Panda on November 25, 2024, 01:50:39 PMProfanity seems to be more and more common place these days. I'm on the fence about how much we should be using it in a professional setting, but I do have a mouth like a sailor so I'm not really one to talk. I love using profanity for some reason.
"Time and place."
And I feel like an article discussing unauthorized signs with such profanity is the time and place.
Quote from: hbelkins on November 25, 2024, 11:35:18 AMQuote from: LilianaUwU on November 23, 2024, 06:20:39 PMQuote from: ClassicHasClass on November 23, 2024, 05:30:11 PM'SLOW THE F— DOWN.'
I'll say it, and it applies to everything, not just that website: we're in 2024, I think we can handle uncensored "fuck".
That's a website hosted by a licensed broadcast outlet (Colorado Public Radio.) FCC guidelines apply to the broadcast story, so it's quite likely that the same precautions taken to avoid an FCC fine for inappropriate language were taken with the posting of the story to the Web.
I've seen unabridged F-words in pieces on sites like the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, the Atlantic, and others, but never on a reputable mainstream media site. I challenge someone to post an example of that unabridged word on Fox News, MSNBC, the New York Times, etc.
KUOW (another NPR affiliate): https://www.kuow.org/stories/lindy-west-s-valentine-s-day-sex-granola-recipe
NBC: https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna54343474
Seattle Times: https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/police-shrugged-off-the-proud-boys-until-they-attacked-the-capitol/
It's not 1650 anymore, except for the prudes in Manhattan newspaper offices apparently.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on November 23, 2024, 06:20:39 PMQuote from: ClassicHasClass on November 23, 2024, 05:30:11 PM'SLOW THE F— DOWN.'
I'll say it, and it applies to everything, not just that website: we're in 2024, I think we can handle uncensored "fuck".
Just because we
CAN doesn't mean we
SHOULD!
Quote from: pderocco on November 25, 2024, 05:34:59 PMQuote from: Plutonic Panda on November 25, 2024, 01:50:39 PMProfanity seems to be more and more common place these days. I'm on the fence about how much we should be using it in a professional setting, but I do have a mouth like a sailor so I'm not really one to talk. I love using profanity for some reason.
"Time and place."
It's taking me about 31 years and damn near getting into a few fights to figure it out, but you are correct.
Quote from: hbelkins on November 25, 2024, 11:35:18 AMI've seen unabridged F-words in pieces on sites like the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, the Atlantic, and others, but never on a reputable mainstream media site. I challenge someone to post an example of that unabridged word on Fox News, MSNBC, the New York Times, etc.
I remember when the controversy du jour was when Trump described certain countries as "shithole countries", that quote appeared unabridged on the CNN and MSNBC chyrons. (I didn't check Fox at the time, but they normally don't cover things that could be seen as negative to the Republican party, so I wouldn't expect them to have had any coverage of it.)