Merriam-Webster Dictionary Banned

[Alg]

Clearly if someone wanted to find a true definition they could just google it.

Hoo boy. Some things should not be googled.

Some giggly 13 year old might enjoy googling that though.

[Racheya]

I thought looking up rude words were what dictionaries were made for. :unsure:

[RSBDavid]

I thought looking up rude words were what dictionaries were made for. :unsure:

 

 

It made high school English so much more interesting.

 

Teacher: "David Why are you giggling?"

David: "Lol they say [wagon] in here"

Teacher: *Roundhouse kicks david*

 

 

I had boring English classes. I drew stick men fights daily. Blue always won :(

[SeanyTheSailor]

In regards to what someone posted earlier about violence i remember reading this once.

 

It's fine if you show a hooker all slashed up with as much blood and gore as you want... but don't you DARE show a bare breast!

 

 

I mean really? Anyone who doesn't know what boobs look like is either under 13 or never heard of porn.

[Alg]

I mean really? Anyone who doesn't know what boobs look like is either under 13 or never heard of porn.

Most people drink out of them as babies too. Reminds me of the woman getting thrown out of a restaurant for breastfeeding her child... Because apparently that compared to masturbation.

[RSBDavid]

You gotta love America :thumbup:

 

public class america {

public america (){

breastfeeding == masturbation;

}

}

[ember3579]

 

When I first saw the title of this thread, I thought this was going to be Australia. I mean, they ARE censor-nuts, and there's a limit to even the American brand of stupidity, right? But nooo, we just HAD to have someone who's willing to play some IQ Limbo. =_= ;; Please tell me that there's more than like 1% of Americans with at least 2 brain cells to rub together, PLEASE.

I've ranted enough for today but [bleep] off about the stupid America [cabbage]. [cabbage] gets old.

 

 

....... -.- :wall: One, I'm from West Virginia. If anyone on this planet has a right to complain about American stupidity, it's someone from the original Redneck Capitol of the World. Two, I was thinking about how this is going to look like to everyone else on the planet. We look bad enough as-is, we don't need people coming out of the woodwork to show what the bottom of our particular totem pole looks like. Get what I'm saying?

[Serpent Eye]

My main concern is that the parents and teachers had to band together and scour through the pages of a dictionary to see what words it contained. :rolleyes:

[ember3579]

In all probability, the real progression of events was more like this;

 

 

1) Random snot-nosed brat finds word in dictionary in question.

 

2) Said random snot-nosed brat uses that selfsame word within earshot of their parents.

 

3) All Hell breaks loose.

 

 

It's the way these things work. Parents with no sense of parenting whatsoever can tend to think that their kids are sweet, innocent little angels. If anything occurs that might call that delusion in to question, they immediately go in to "HULK SMASH" mode to remove whatever it was BESIDES their kid that caused it. It'd be a lot more annoying if it weren't so predictable, although the level of escalation that it can take in certain cases DOES surprise me on occasion.

[Youmu]

They banned the Merriam-Webster dictionary ALL BECAUSE OF THAT ONE WORD?!

 

You know, this is all I can say for those people:

 

#-o

[Lielac]

WAT

 

-facepalm-

 

It's. A. DICTIONARY

 

There is no meme that accurately describes this. (mostly 'cause I don't think the mods would appreciate me killing the page via ten failboats in a row)

[dsavi]

You gotta love America :thumbup:

 

public class america {

public america (){

breastfeeding == masturbation;

}

}

public function readBook(book) {
   long long i;
   for (i = 0; i < 0; i++)
   {
       book.contents = book.getContents();
       if (book.content == like(sex)))
       {
            mail.send(complaint(book, "Poisoning our children's minds"), PTA)
       }
       freedomOfSpeech--;
       constitution.defendVigorously(); //When this line and above line are in the same program, compiler error results
   }
}

[Guest Mrmegakirby]

The American Way: We can have all the violence we want, as long as nobody says any naughty words or shows certain parts of the human body.

 

why can't we have both? :'( Stupid kyle's mom...

 

But yeah. This is overkill. Seriously, don't ban it, kids are going to find out one way or another.

[Asmodeous4]

Oh the injustice, how could this happen? This is so important and relevant....Oh wait, it doesn't matter and hardly anyone cares. A few parents and teachers are over reacting, big deal. Move on.

[Will H]

Does it really matter? Shock horror, it's a concise dictionary, it's going to contain these things. Anyway, in this day and age of information flow, the vast majority of kids find out about these things far before parents or school formally 'introduce' them. It would be best to not ban it, but if it's a problem and someone's going to get irrational and overprotective, remove it from the shelf and move on.

[RSBDavid]

You gotta love America :thumbup:

 

public class america {

public america (){

breastfeeding == masturbation;

}

}

public function readBook(book) {
   long long i;
   for (i = 0; i < 0; i++)
   {
       book.contents = book.getContents();
       if (book.content == like(sex)))
       {
            mail.send(complaint(book, "Poisoning our children's minds"), PTA)
       }
       freedomOfSpeech--;
       constitution.defendVigorously(); //When this line and above line are in the same program, compiler error results
   }
}

=D>

[H2PM]

 

 

and there's a limit to even the American brand of stupidity, right? Please tell me that there's more than like 1% of Americans with at least 2 brain cells to rub together, PLEASE.

 

 

BUT GOD DAMMIT HOW MUCH ARE WE GOING BLOCK STUFF FROM OUR CHILDREN?

 

We are soon going to have to block everything because everything is inappropriate!

[Dizzle229]

Humans are created by sexual reproduction. Therefore, humans are inappropriate.

[Giordano]

Humans are created by sexual reproduction. Therefore, humans are inappropriate.

Hey, wait a min-

[Mr_Adam]

Humans are created by sexual reproduction. Therefore, humans are inappropriate.

 

It's decided.

 

Humans are not allowed to be human until they are over the age of 18.

 

EDIT: They should be replaced with robots.

[Range_This11]

This is ridiculous. And ridiculous that it's even being reported.

[scootlaboot]

For the love of....mother......piece of.....nut jobs. Bright move idiots, banning a dictionary........It is official now, West Virginia is no longer the most [wagon] backwards state in America. (No offense to any West Virginians on the forums)

[Alg]

The funny part is that at one point we (Ca) claimed to be one of the more progressive states. Go us!

[ember3579]

For the love of....mother......piece of.....nut jobs. Bright move idiots, banning a dictionary........It is official now, West Virginia is no longer the most [wagon] backwards state in America. (No offense to any West Virginians on the forums)

 

 

Oh, trust me, there's things even worse than this that are commonplace in West Virginia. Trust me, I've lived there all my life. I was just hoping the majority of America's stupid was concentrated in redneck hotspots such as this.

[XtaC]

In other, less important news, Haiti is struck by small tremor.

Film at eleven.