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TrulyMadly

Enterprise_1701C wrote: »

Oh no, we can't lose chucky :eek: You have to glue the beak back on!

He's being operated on as we speak.

I need to get to work:eek:

shirley999

aau1 wrote: »

ok, thanks for that

It's a truly horrible site to navigate. :eek:

It is, I agree, yet it used to be so much better.

Savvybuyer

Actually, probably to be pedantic again:rotfl:, that article claims that in one song, someone called Keef says literally nothing. That's not true! Not to my perception anyway. It does *not* have "----" in it, contrary to what is claimed. Instead it is "that's the" and then the altered sound signature version of the original word, where I can heard the "sh" and the "t", however lightly, and then he says "I don't like". It is identical to hearing the original uncensored - except that it adds a ring of annoyance and causes offence to it when heard by me when I am around strangers. I would never go "that's the" and then imitate like that sound and then say "I don't like". I would never even utter or repeat the altered version in front of anyone in my normal life. I would not pause between those word or suggest, since that would convey the word to them and I would feel uncomfortable at even doing that to them. I would either say the full actual word, in limited places in which it was 'acceptable', if hypothetically I could bring myself to say that, though I can and do all the time when I'm completely alone at home or only with my brother. Actually I used that word in front of my mother, no problem to me or her. But, outside of the house, in front of people at work, no. I don't know why I couldn't bring myself ever to say it at work - even though everyone there - not causing me offence except when occasionally some staff brought their children in - was using that and more 'serious' language constantly (and of no problem at all to me, except on the occasions when children were there and, as usual, none of the neurotypicals (in other words everyone else) ever were able to control their mouths - they just don't, they are not watching it or being careful as to what they say, they don't think how it might impact me or anyone and whom can hear).

Anyway, even if Keef is saying literally nothing, then I'm offended by literally nothing. I find "----", in the context of surrounding words, offensive when I know what "----" means. When I am hearing it with other people at the same time. Obviously not just reading four dashes in a newspaper or on a screen - that doesn't offend me, but in the context of surrounding words where it has a meaning and the original word always is put directly into my mind at the point immediately after the word "the", then, yes, I'm afraid that material does cause me offence. I'm offended by the sound of silence in the context of surrounding material. For the "silence" - if it is that and I don't hear that it is - I can "hear" the ringing sound of the actual word in my mind everytime at those points in the song - this may tell you that I don't suffer from some forms of dyslexia btw (as it is considered that some dyslexics problems stem from an inability to reconstruct the sound of words in their head - just like if you're reading this, not aloud, and you can 'hear' the words I'm writing in your mind - obviously it's not voices in your head, but you know what I mean). The silence speaks absolute volumes. It speaks for itself, and tells me about, and means, the word it does. Silence can speak louder than words sometimes. What someone fails to do (such as, in these circumstance, say an actual word) can be more noticeable sometimes and sometimes the failure to do something can bother someone else. If your hubby doesn't put the kettle when you want him to, then that may annoy you! It's not just what people do, but what they don't do as well. Or, in this case, what they do as well. Which, here, what the artist is in effect made to do is to say "that's the" and then to suggest the original word and then to say "I don't like". He does not say "that's the I don't like", with no pause. Instead, they deliberately (to me) leave a pause, problematically of same length as what the word would have been, so as to put the offensive word in the mind and the material is itself to be offensive because it's making that clear and making the situation for me awkward by what the artist is doing in the radio version of the song and the manner of his communication in that way.

I don't know why I couldn't bring myself to 'swear' at work (when in a place where everyone else, no problem at all except when kids were there, was doing so). It's not even as if I consider the workplace to be a formal place or anything. It may be related to the "formal prosody" found in Asperger's - :idea:I am at a key to solving some of the mysteries for the scientists here - and relates to how I think about what I am saying and process things in order to say them. I just feel I can't bring myself to say it. And, on the one occasion - I wasn't angry - on which I did try a swear, because I don't say it often I suspect or because it was therefore more 'shocking', another staff member (and she was I think serious) told me not to swear:(, which then just compounded the problem for me even more and made me even more inability to swear. I have a problem in not being able to bring myself to say things and constantly suppressing myself as a result of society, which then makes me think about and reinforces my obsession even more, and refers once again to it. If anyone else does it, then they are allowed to and no standards are applied to them, but if I do it, then I get heavily criticised and it is so unfair. I guess I never would get the tone right, because of my Asperger's, if I said the words anyway.

It actually cannot be nothing in that song. I cannot be caused offence by nothing. It must be something that makes me feel uncomfortable, when around others. Or else that supposed "nothing" carries a meaning and I find the material offensive because, in those situations of other people hearing it around me, because of that. Obviously I don't know whether or not all the people around me are completely deaf. However, to my perception, I suspect not, and my suspecting is most very highly likely to be true - I cannot pretend otherwise - and I'm 'sure' or as sure as I am that they can hear the song around me as well and I don't want them knowing what the original lyric is, since I find their potential doing so, to my perception that they may even might, uncomfortable to me to hear the material.

I've concluded (at last!:D) that it's not what people say that bothers me. It's people and what they fail to say that makes situations awkward for me. These people that don't say things - they make it a problem saying things and then cause me to have a problem in that situation with them awkwardly behaving problematically. I almost feel that, if it were fully said, it would just be all out in the open then and so much more air-clearing and comfortable. At least it would be fully known. It's not that - it's the secret communication of it, that I really cannot maintain, that makes me extremely uncomfortable. It's like this uncomfortable silence that speaks and puts it in the air. Whilst the pretence is maintained that it's not been said out loud.

I think I would rather, at this stage now, it were bloody said out loud:rotfl:. Rather than this broadcasting of silence throughout the room, that doesn't remain totally silence as the word is 'heard' by me imagining it in my head and then I have it with me and feel so uncomfortable that it's been communicated in that secret way. I just cannot pretend that people around me, in that secret way of communicating, are not aware of it and the secret sharing of the word in that way makes me uncomfortable. It is not truly secret. And yet it has been shared, as if with secrecy, in that uncomfortable way. Or one that, in any event, just totally has been bothering and getting bothered by it on all occasions whenever I hear such material - totally unacceptably and inappropriately - with strangers around me. As the word is, you admit, not acceptable to say, then it's not acceptable that it should be being shared in that way and therefore you should not do it:mad::mad::mad:. Really bothers me:rotfl:. I can see funny side from a distance, but no good feeling the discomfort when in the situations at all.

It's because it's hiding swearwords. And, for me, that is the worst possible thing to be trying to hide, because of the emotional effect those words have, or have had, on me in certain situations throughout the past. It makes the words more uncomfortable, not less, when they are in disguised form that really truly is not hiding anything. That is about hearing things broadcast when other people are also doing so at the same time as me. It is not about the effect of seeing asterisked versions or anything else whilst reading something when entirely alone and no-one else is seeing the same screen or page or newspaper page alongside you at the very same time.

Enterprise_1701C

I have just put the bacon on for a sandwich

Anyone else want one?

tweets

Good Morning :santa2:

Pouring it down with rain and the wind is awful

That was a long catch up 4 pages :eek:

Sorry about your fence miss-co

squigs

Mrs_stinkface wrote: »

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No idea if they will honour it but I'm bloody well having a go!
Ps- their sale has started!
PPs - happy Christmas Eve! Xxxx

Thanks!:beer:

I ordered 2 clinique lipsticks and gained 72000 points:eek:
Also if you buy 2 clinique products, you get this free gift as well.:)

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Enterprise_1701C

TrulyMadly wrote: »

He's being operated on as we speak.

I need to get to work:eek:

Chucky comes first

I bet the air turned a little blue :eek:

mrs-moneypenny

Morning all
Hope everyone's Christmas Eve is a good one

tweets

Enterprise_1701C wrote: »

I have just put the bacon on for a sandwich

Anyone else want one?

Yes please :A Can you cook my bacon so its crisp and well done please ? Thank you

I will make the :coffee:

Savvybuyer

Anon wrote: »

The feeling you get as a parent on Christmas Eve when children have put very little on their letter to Santa apart from surprises ... and the fear that the surprises you have bought won't live up to expectations .

Anon

I hope there's no children with what I'm discussing today:eek::o. Actually if there are, they'll realise the impact that certain things can or cannot have on some times on other people, and therefore that would be a good thing for them.

Bizarrely, I'm caused discomfort when people in the office said things when children were present and yet, when I'm down at the football pitch and the very same children (older children) are present and all manner of language being used, it doesn't affect me at all:huh:. (In fact, I rather 'like' it as it creates an exciting atmosphere and causes people to play harder.) Part of the emotion and passion I feel. I know I should not say this - but I will do anyway(:rotfl:) - I actually liked it if Wayne Rooney or someone swore on air and always looked forward to that and - this is the bit that I was not referring to - am disappointed whenever people apologise for swearing that didn't cause me offence.

There's no logic to it and I don't know why the football pitch doesn't bother me but the office does. It's completely irrational, but then it is just bizarre emotional effect and not always explainable in rational terms. It's not even as if I have any personal opinion that the office is formal or not. I don't know - it's just... I don't know why!