Reminds me of a great Sean Locke sketch on necessary swearing…
My top tip with Garden express is they also sell (albeit slightly more expensively) on Amazon.
if anything goes wrong you can then just claim back from Amazon hassle free.
I ordered a plant direct from garden express it arrived in very poor condition…while I was being messed around trying to get a refund. I ordered another from Amazon and got a nice healthily plant…the label and packaging was identical to Garden express and when I checked the seller on Amazon it was GE!
I know it’s only a sample size of one but I do wonder if Amazon orders get better plants because they are easier to return/refund?
I would say the N word is not acceptable anywhere. C is pretty strong.
I guess the *&@ euphemism might be a historical hang over, but also a lot of people are quite sensitive to swearing. Maybe a @*& is a way of toning it down, oddly. Things can escalate so, so fast on a forum. I've moderated forums where fs and cs start flying and the whole group starts to disintergrate in minutes - people start sending personal attacks, people drop out and a group can split badly, over an issue with quite humble beginnings.
F*ing might be a syntactically and linguistically interesting way to mark out feelings while holding a boundaried etiquette, and maybe it marks the line surprisingly well, similarly to emojis, which I find oddly subtle in the language they can convey.
"Coy" is not necessarily a bad thing if it can help a forum stay functional, respectfully and balanced. This is a wide cohort of all sorts of age groups, political and religious persuasions. I think it's good to stay inclusive and welcoming.
This is a pretty well mannered group, all things considered, although some people do like to mouth off and create drama. Some can start an argument in an empty room and would send *&@** to themselves, if they got bored enough.
If I banged my leg on the corner of a desk at work, ffffofgoodnessake worked reasonably well. The shorter version seemed much better at home. Oh sugar! doesn't work at all
"What, therefore, does baffle me is the use of symbols when using the milder profanities."
The other thing is that some filters will catch and block some 'supect' words. Child blocks and office blocks can refuse viewing of certain messages - hence the acronym on certain posts and messages NSFW (not safe for work). That might have been the original reason for the symbols.
can safely say "forgoodnesssake" wouldnt have helped with my lawnmower accident last year, extreme industrial language helped me on a pain front and also sent my neighbours round to check on my well being.
That's the theory that I work on @Fire. I don't use symbols to tone it down - as @BenCotto points out, you read it just as easily. I do it to avoid posts being seized upon by bots or whatever it is that runs that there cyberspace
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My top tip with Garden express is they also sell (albeit slightly more expensively) on Amazon.
if anything goes wrong you can then just claim back from Amazon hassle free.
I ordered a plant direct from garden express it arrived in very poor condition…while I was being messed around trying to get a refund. I ordered another from Amazon and got a nice healthily plant…the label and packaging was identical to Garden express and when I checked the seller on Amazon it was GE!
I know it’s only a sample size of one but I do wonder if Amazon orders get better plants because they are easier to return/refund?