Welcome to the odds-on favorite for the 1999-2000 Deb Fuller award. This post is about cursing. More specifically, it's about cursing in the chat room during the reading of questions. It often comes out when someone either buzzes in too early and realizes their answer later, or when someone sits on a question and loses a buzzer race. It does not happen very often, but it happens more often than it probably should. This is not about cursing at an actual practice, or even yelling at your computer when you answer Tyler instead of Polk. I can't understand typing your favorite four-letter word into a computer - it doesn't accomplish anything and tends toward crudity. You actually need to think what you're going to type, enter it in, and then press return. At least cursing in practice can be justified (albeit veeeery shakily) with the 'I wasn't thinking' defense - typing it in requires conscious thought. I'm not proposing some sort of limit on topics in chat - discussions at 1AM tend towards the strange and bizarre. But I can't see why anyone would feel any need to type curses after questions. I have no problem with typing '$_at_#&! or 'she just beat me', but actually typing the words 'in media quizzing' doesn't really seem to serve a point, and I think that chat might be better off if people simply stopped it.
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