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Where is the option to curse MORE if there are kids around?


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Avatar 720 wrote:C) is also annoying. You can't tell them to put it down because their parents are there staring at you with eyes that say "Try telling my kid to stop it; I dare ya.". I've had to quickly mark the spot where the model used to be many a time, as otherwise it ends up in the middle of the board and the kid knocks down the rest of your squad with a well placed arm sweep of precision carelessness. The worst one was where my terminators are at the side, waiting to deepstrike, a kid walks up to them and start poking them and picking them up, and neither he nor his parents wanted to make their presence known. It was only after my opponent pointed out the kid next to me that I relaised. I turned around quickly and went to pick up the other models before something happened; scared him by my arm appearing out of nowhere; he dropped the terminator, it bounced, snapped a bit, then he bloody trod on it as he waddled away. What do his parents do? IGNORE IT!

I had to pick up the remnants of my terminator (some pieces had come off and the trophy racks were bent and snapped, but otherwise he wasn't too damaged thankfully, as it was (as per usual) my favourite one) and watch them leave the store as if nothing had happened.

I think you are perfectly within your rights to tell the kid not to touch your property, and the game store manager should side with you unless he's a royal piece of crap.

And in the case of damage, you'd also be perfectly within your rights to demand they pay for it.

I certainly would.


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Samus_aran115 wrote:Eh, I never really care. When white people use the "N-word" is where I draw the line though. I hear that freakin' everywhere when I play in my FLGS. It's a real shame. They have no idea what the hell they're talking about, or what it means, but they'll use it without restraint, just because there are none of those people around.

What do you mean, "those people"? Racist!


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Aylos wrote:meh i am really not bothered by swearing, dont rly do much myself but like at my store nearly no1 rly swears but when they do no1 cares cos every1 knows eachother well so were not gonna get all up in faces bout cussing

Posts like this make me want to curse up a storm.

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Hytanthas wrote:I truly feel that cursing can be have a direct correlation to ones IQ. If someone cannot express themselves properly please don't do it in front of children. I hate hearing kids cussing and I feel that they look up to the older cool guys that play warhammer at the game shop wishing that their pokemon cards were warhammer models, and its a shame when a "cool" guy loses his temper and gives it a reputation. Besides the kids parents aren't far behind the kids and they will notice this too and not want to get their kids the game because of the people who play it.

Cursing has nothing to do with IQ. "Properly" is subjective. So it's okay for a kid to play game where the "heroes" butcher space nuns, but saying "damn" is too much?

I don't think that swearing should be rationalized. If things start to get rationalized then everything gets blown out of proportion. A line needs to be drawn.

And anyone who uses the F-word every other word is definitely showing a lack of vocabulary (a reflection of ones intelligence).Language is a powerful tool and is subjective to culture damn isn't a cuss word to some people (nor is the F-bomb at that). But at a public gaming environment a respectful demeanor should be maintained.

Properly is a subjective word and everyone expresses themselves differently but anger needs to be expressed in a healthy way that doesn't offend those around them.

I usually don't and I don't mind much if others do. Of course there was that one time when my Black Orc general had suffered 4 wounds by a stupid no-armor save spell on turn one, and I had to roll 4 dice for my 4+ ward save and failed each and every one of them... Dead General on turn one... oh yeah.

I prefer to drink, smoke, and swear during games, and I only play with other like-minded adults.

Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:I swear all the time, of course I am cheating because I've slowly but surely adapted all my swears pretty much to fantasy equivilents.

The odd proper swear slips out now or then, but around 95% of the time I use, feth, Gak, Hells Teeth, barsteward, muppet, frell, some made up nonsense or feck. (Oh and I know the last is in effect an actual swear word, but most English folks I know don't pick up on it.)

As to my thoughts on other folks swearing, doesn't bother me unless the kids are around.

I will actually work on doing that.

Not with kids around. But even then mildly is ok. 'Oh i rolled a 1 damn/darn/gak" and " THOSE DICE ARE LOADED YOU COCK SUCKING CHEATER!"

ironlord wrote:I try not to swear, my area is really bad for swearing so all the kids are really bad with their swearing, but I try too avoid swearing if I can because I am such a moral citizen.

Seriously I hate hearing kids swearing, it seems like such a loss of innocence that I really don't like too see in the youth of tomorrow.

so its ok that adults have such a loss of innoocence??

Swearing is ok if everyone is like minded about it. I voted not around kids because that's just not cool, but in most other circumstances its fine and doesn't bother me.

I don't mind cursing but I really only curse around people I know, so I probably wouldn't curse outside of friendly games.

I can swear quite a lot... I mean all the fing time but then again If there's kids around I try to hold it back, if my oponant says something about it I try to hold it back, if someone in the street has the guts to step up and tell me that my swearing is offending him, then fiar enough he or she has shown the guts to talk to a reasonably large man about his gutter mouth rather than moan about me behind my back, the latter usualy brings on more inventive and regular swearing...

basicaly swearing isn't bad, it isn't dumb but it's not clever either, theres a time and place


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It's quite telling infact that most people who don't swear believe that swearing is a sign of poor language skills and a low intelect however as Stephen Fry has said "It just so happens that the opposite is true and swearing is just another vocabulary, infact the brightest most intelectual people I know swear more than I do. BTW I'm talking people with doctorates, engineers Nurses and doctors here so pretty high on the social ladder. It a bit like middle class people in the UK won't call the toilet a toilet, bog, crapper or anyother cuolocialisum for it, they call it the water closet or bathroom whereas the lower classes and upper classes call it any and or all of the aforementioned.

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I don't really get the question. Are we suggesting that swearing is more or less acceptable during gaming than during any other part of life?

No but this is a gaming and modeling website so a generalised question of how do you feel about swearing might have been too open ended.

Not if there are young people around. I try to avoid it though, but sometimes utter curses.

Nothing wrong with a bit of swearing, too much or around kids though would be a no for me.

spent 4 years in the military, and 4 years before that playing highschool Basketball, so i can be a pretty big swearer(there's a DVD in my house where you can hear, on the videocamera in the back of the bleachers, me dropping a heinous F-bomb after a poor call, and getting a technical. this game was at Trinity Christian ) but not with kids around, this means almost never these days with my daughter running around in the house.

I'd really like to know how the distribution of "Not in front of kids" over all countries looks like. This whole "cursing is evil" thing looks like an American thing to me.

I fething love swearing. That gak's like bread and butter to me. And bollocks with kids being about, I'm the guy they'll learn their fething swear words from.

An accurate representation of my position, but I also posted this to see the swear filter at work. Good times!

I curse when i roll really bad, and get penetrated by a lascannon, assaulted by a massive squad, big things like that really, so not exactly excessively, like, ohhhh -----...... i tihnk that's exceptable everywhere, however when kids around ohh bannana's is good.

I swear all the time, but always in a strange language. Thai, Tagalog or Russian mostly.....it helps me clear my head when I'm getting frustrated and it has the added bonus of very rarely, if ever, upsetting any young 'uns who may be in the area.....

Yet again i am average. hmmm

I don't mind when its really necessary, like rolling four 1's for 4 armor saves with your terminators... : P I don't appreciate over use though..... One of my friends ended up naming his Tau battle suit commander, "Captian F*** Face" lol.

I find it more "acceptable" in friendly games. When in a store I like to keep respectful just in case you get that mother and her child who want to see what your doing.

I strongly dislike cursing during games, adult people& young people can express themself in a normal maner without having to sound like a drunken sailor.

Used to it even back when i was playing MMORPGs

hey not al drunken saiilors swear some fight..

For me I try not to curse around the children, I don't want to be the one to ruin their day ... or anyone elses incase the kid learns a new word O.o ... now outside of that ... if I am confortable with who I am gaming with I am boud to curse with each bad dice roll ... which is usually a lot.

I am rather surprised there isn't something between "don't mind" and "hate". I prefer people not to swear in general, it doesn't mean I hate it, but I clearly do mind it.

Love it

Its annoying if you swear all the time, but snake eyes for the sag and or a missed shot blowing up your own vehicle, taking a big buch 'a boys with it... then i will curse and swear you m0T#€rFvv(King piles of $#!t!