I'm no saint, but is the implied cursing necessary? - Page 8 - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

300DPETE · #**106** 12-03-2005, 10:45 PM

I'm thinking of getting a Volvo diesel...........would that be blasphemy?

ZackaryMac · #**107** 12-03-2005, 11:03 PM

I smashed my fingers the other day when the wrench slipped, and I did yell out "Chrysler!!".

I know. I felt bad seconds after I said it, but I couldn't help myself. Typically I've said "Ford", and after a nasty hot manifold burn I even blurted out "LADA", but in the micro-seconds between the wrench box-end loosing traction on the offending fastener and by epidermis being peeled away from it's usual resting place, my two brain cells had a fight and dug deep into the archives and came up with this horrifically distasteful blaspheme.

It has scarred me for life.

Keith_otr · #**108** 12-04-2005, 12:08 AM

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Originally Posted by 300DPETE

I'm thinking of getting a Volvo diesel..........

GASP!

300DPETE · #**109** 12-04-2005, 12:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Keith_otr

GASP!

I'm sorry, that sort of humor probably crosses the line

No Volvo diesel in my future, I promise. Pete.

boneheaddoctor · #**110** 12-04-2005, 07:14 PM

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Originally Posted by 300DPETE

I'm thinking of getting a Volvo diesel...........would that be blasphemy?

You are aware the Volvo diesel is one smelly turd of an engine........

300DPETE · #**111** 12-04-2005, 07:59 PM

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Originally Posted by boneheaddoctor

You are aware the Volvo diesel is one smelly turd of an engine........

Yes, I was trying to be provocative...I have (nor had) no intentions of going down that path.

Can you imagine that post...."I've given up on the MB, I'm getting a reliable Volvo diesel."....A few people might call 911

Tangent · #**112** 12-05-2005, 02:43 AM

I tend to speak better than I write. If I curs it’s to imply emotion which is harder to imply when writing than speaking. I tend to curs a lot when working on things that are not going the way there supposed to. Although to day I was replacing my front rotors on the 240D and things went well only 1 or 2 hang-ups. I don’t think I cursed at all

If they didn’t want implied cursing they would not have these

:wtf:

boneheaddoctor · #**113** 12-05-2005, 08:11 AM

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Originally Posted by 300DPETE

Yes, I was trying to be provocative...I have (nor had) no intentions of going down that path.

Can you imagine that post...."I've given up on the MB, I'm getting a reliable Volvo diesel."....A few people might call 911

I agree with you there....guys with white jackets show up at youor door with a sweater with really long sleeves to take you someplace peacefull.

Rudolphrocks · #**114** 10-13-2006, 08:01 AM

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Originally Posted by dkveuro

Cursing, use of Anglo Saxon, uttering profanities.

All the above are primarily due to lack of large vocabulary.
It is also reinforced by the work enviroment / tv /video films/movies etc.

We live in a world where your kind of comments are supressed due to the need to be seen as politicaly correct.....

Who said..." I was 10 years old before I found out my brother name was not Jesus Christ..... and mine was not Dammit."

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The french have the largest number of curse words in the world, but i prefer the Ron Burgundy style of epithets, like "jumping knights of columbus" or i just grit my teeth, after working on cars long enough, it is pointless and improfessional to curse at something, go out relax for 10 min come back and look at it logically and see if you cant figure out how it was designed to come off. This is more productive (usually :p ) than grabbing the biggest hammer you can find and swearing to kill the next mb engineer you can find.

Rudolphrocks · #**115** 10-13-2006, 08:05 AM

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Originally Posted by LarryBible

I haven't visited mercedesshop in a month or two. I'm sure there are many here who have been quite pleased with that. This is not to say that it is THEIR fault that they would rather not see my posts. Rather it is MY fault as I have been hard to get along with on here at times.

I am usually not offended by normal profanity, although if I might say so myself, I think I've done a great job in the last 10 or 12 years in cleaning up my GI mouth. What DOES offend me and offends me GREATLY is blasphemy. Before I stopped checking in here on a very regular basis, I saw EXTREME and UNDISGUISED blasphemy in the title of a post. I must say that it REALLY turned me away in spite of the fact that the moderators did a very classy and diplomatic job of cleaning it up at my request.

My $0.02,

Glad you're back