Now that I think about it, profanity bothers me when its used just to be used.
"What a nice (-) day:" Pointless. (sentence stolen from Trafton.)
But if I was attacked I would say "What (/-) are you doing?" because I would be mad. If you say "What are you doing" it sounds a lot less serious to me. Profanity can put emotion into what you are saying, or make you sound like a complete idiot that thinks swearing makes them cool.
In response to Radium, nobody would take you serious if you said "Condemn you!" It sounds bad, and that's not how most people talk. You woud sound medieval if you said that, not mad (which I assume is why you would be saying that in the first place.) If you are saing it to shock little kids it is completely pointless.
That reminds me of something. When I was 8, Hellrazor (not Hellraisor), if anyone here remembers him, exposed me to a world of profanity. At the time I was an innocent little kid. I joined his server in JJ2. I said "Hi." He said "KRSplat" "You wouldn't (-) a fly" "(-) you" and banned me. I don't know why I am saying this, really, but I wanted to get sympathy get that in the open, and I feel better to have shared that. I don't like having that anger inside of me. What am I talking about? I should end this post before I start talking about shrinks.
Derby: Content removal. Your examples are not exempt from editing.
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