Main Arena Language

[BaldEagl]

Oh boy!  Purse fight.

<---- grabs popcorn.  Pulls up chair.

[Banshee7]

Oh boy!  Purse fight.

<---- grabs popcorn.  Pulls up chair.

got an extra chair and popcorn? I'll bring the "beverages"

[iWalrus]

I would like people to stop saying that they "roped" someone or got "roped". It carries a certain negative racial connotation in it's relation to lynchings.  Can we instead say "dragged" or "drug"? Oh wait, oops, James Byrd, Jr.  Hmm...

Ok, let's just call it a "fluffy pony bunny kiss" maneuver. For example: "He had way more E than me. I shouldn't have climbed after him but I did. The next thing I knew, BAM! I got fluffy pony bunny kissed.  I don't think that terminology will offend anyone. Unless, of course, it conjures up images of this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcxKIJTb3Hg&amp;feature=related.

Actually, now that I think about it, why don't we just remove all text and vox communication from the game entirely. That would ensure that no one's delicate feelings are sullied.

Or, why don't we shut down the game entirely. I mean, I'm sure that somewhere in the world people are completely aghast at the very notion of simulated violence. Well, I guess we could keep the game going as long as all the virtual ammunition were changed to paintballs or jellybeans.

[Ack-Ack]

Just curious.  Is the next topic "gang bang"?  Been hearing that one in WWII flight sims since '96 (those darn youngsters).  It carries a connotation ya know.

You might offend Serenity since he was "ganged banged" by two Hawaiians.

ack-ack

[NoBaddy]

I would like people to stop saying that they "roped" someone or got "roped". It carries a certain negative racial connotation in it's relation to lynchings. 

How special. Some one that doesn't understand the origins of the term. It has nothing to do with lynching or anyone being hanged and it certainly has no racial connotations. The term was "coined" by Muhammad Ali in an interview with Howard Cosell following his fight with George Foreman in 1974.

In connection with air combat simulations, HiTech first used the phrase in Air Warrior to describe an energy fighting tactic where you entice you opponent to follow you up in  a climb (the rope) and kill him (the dope) when he stalls.

You might want check your facts prior to posting in the future.

[Murdr]

I think he intended sarcasm tags around that NB

[NoBaddy]

I think he intended sarcasm tags around that NB

Then he shoulda used 'em.

[bc]

 

[CAP1]

this subject keeps comming up. usually by someone that said or typed something ingame that they most likely knew they shouldn't have. i've heard of the thing with the designation for the corsair, but if someone claims to be warning you of a corsair dropping, that's really not an excuse. what about the ""check six"" button? it's much much faster, and really it doesn't matter what is diving on ya, as long as ya get outta his guns.

anyway, now that that's said.........here's the best way to avoid being muted.


imagine there's a 5 year old child sitting right next to you watching you fly and fight. now......would you say chit, or noodle, or drop the eff bomb with that 5 year old there? didn't think so.

 if you won't say or type it in front of a 5 year opld, then don't say or type it ingame. most of us are older...but there are kids in here.

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[Masherbrum]

anyway, now that that's said.........here's the best way to avoid being muted.


imagine there's a 5 year old child sitting right next to you watching you fly and fight. now......would you say chit, or noodle, or drop the eff bomb with that 5 year old there? didn't think so.

 if you won't say or type it in front of a 5 year opld, then don't say or type it ingame. most of us are older...but there are kids in here.

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Don't matter if someone and starts cussing at you on private vox.   I've been the recipient of this more than 10 times since I started playing.   A couple of times, my kid was either flying or right next to me.   

[CAP1]

Don't matter if someone and starts cussing at you on private vox.   I've been the recipient of this more than 10 times since I started playing.   A couple of times, my kid was either flying or right next to me.   

ooooooo.....i better go back and re-read..i thoujght they were talking about open channel.
even on private vox though, isn't there a ""report xxx" function though?

[hlbly]

"Dude, I just RAPED him!!!"


"Man he just got RAPED!"

Ok I aint smart like all you fellas but....how is this not sexual ?

[Ghastly]

Hilbly, I'm apparently not "smart" like them either, and for that I'm thankful. 

Kong, I'd assume that the Sandy's that's being quoted is a 16th century poet who translated Christ's Passion from the Greek, as you quoted it "as is" from a site that that purportedly took it from the 1913 Unabridged Websters (unless "Websters 1913" was the guy's alias....  (Yes, I can search the Internet too.)   

And even then - in the quote you've provided the word isn't applied to the orphans, it's something they "complained of".

By the way, what is the ISBN and year of printing of your dictionary, or did you simply search the Internet?  I actually meant for you to refer me to some real literature that you've read, not something someone referenced that someone wrote (probably several hundred years ago) that you found on an Internet search..... 

I have the Webster's New World Dictionary printed December 1982 (ISBN 0-446-31299-1),and below is the definition of rape as accurately as I can quote it without using the accented symbols for pronunciation:

 Rape 1 () [prob. <L. rapere, sieze] 1. The crime of having intercourse with a woman without her consent. 2. To plunder or destroy (of a city, etc.) as in warfare --vt

Rape 2 () [< L. rapa, turnip]  a plant of the mustard family...

Sorry, but I'll go with the definition from the dictionary I have in hand, especially when they correspond to the actual current usage. 

Bill Clinton would be proud of those of you who think that using the word makes you cool and then claiming you mean otherwise than you do when you use it based upon what is almost certainly an archaic meaning referenced from what appears to be 300 to 400 year old poetry.

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[CAP1]

Ok I aint smart like all you fellas but....how is this not sexual ?

BUT YA SEE..THIS AGAIN BRINGS IT BACK TO whether or not you'd say it in front of a 5 year old.

sorry bout the caps...

[BaldEagl]

2. To plunder or destroy (of a city, etc.) as in warfare --vt

Maybe I'm missing something but doesn't this definition fit precisely into the war game we're playing here?  So in effect "We raped them" carries no negative conotation at all unless of course you're on the losing side.

I guess people shouldn't be named Dick either.