I admit (and you are all witness to the fact) I have a foul mouth. However I do understand the concept of the time and place…
US Vice President Joe Biden has revealed an unhealthy habit for bad language during the signing of Barack Obama’s historic bill.
“This is a big fucking deal.”
And Press Secretary Robert Gibbs just blew it off.
WTF, Bob, you cuss?! I’m shocked!!
Will someone please try to explain to these idiots about microphones?! I am sure the explanation will be that he didn’t know his mic was still open. Libs seem to be incapable of understanding technology that has been around for nearly 100 years.
Stay classy, Joe!
Be yourself, Bob. While I’d appreciate it if you didn’t use foul language, it doesn’t dimish what you do and say.
Biden, OTOH, is an idiot studying to be a moron.
Igor
Igor, I can understand that.
However as I’ve said before, I’ve met many prominent people who have this public persona and behind the scenes are as foul-mouthed as I am.
I prefer to only have one face.
@eNeecie:
“Libs seem to be incapable of understanding technology that has been around for nearly 100 years.”
Indeed. I work in Internet/Cable/Telephone tech support field and honestly, I have stopped counting how many people I can speak to in a week that don’t even know what a POWER CORD is…(with terms such as “electricity cord” “electricity wire” “power plug” and the like being used to make it “easier” to understand.)
I once had to remind a customer that ANY electronics, no matter if its a toaster or a tv, has a cord sticking out of it that you connect in the wall, and he STILL didn’t get it.
“I admit (and you are all witness to the fact) I have a foul mouth..”
if anything, Bob, you certainly use it like a guided missile: aimed where it needs to go
me, young guy that I am, randomly shoot from the hip with obscenities
still need to learn tact…
great clip, Bob. Made me uncomfortably think of a slave scenario, as if Biden, the slave master, took his slave, Obama, to a ritzy event and said “This is a big fucking deal, boy! put on your best face!”
@Nicolas:
In the same situation as you, except for when I’m at work.
I must admit however that my language in both english and french is sprinkled with foul language. (moreso in french, because terms like “fuck” are commonly used, but are not considered swearing (for instance, the f-word would be uttered commonly when we drop something)
We have an entire lexicon of swears, including many levels of them, which can be interchangeably be turned into nouns, adjectives and verbs.
Just teaching a new arrival about our local swears can easily take several hours to ensure they understand them and in which circumstance they would be deemed passive and in which they are deemed aggressive.
The very fact that our swearing system is so fleshed out and detailed is probably a good reason why I (and most Québécois) swear a lot, especially between men.
For every thing, there is a season…
@fboiteau,
I have stopped counting how many people I can speak to in a week that don’t even know what a POWER CORD is
Well, that is just … depressing.
Sooo, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that a politician can’t understant that the thing pinned to their clothes picks up sound and that those big things with round glass in the front take moving pictures. And that would explain how they seem so shocked that there are these videos of themselves saying things that they swear they never said–even though they said it while standing in front of a crowd of thousands with 20 cameras pointed at them.
Fred – too funny!
@Nicolas:
If this was in reference to the power cord thing…trust me, when you speak with those idiots all day long, it gets tedious…
@eNeecie:
“And that would explain how they seem so shocked that there are these videos of themselves saying things that they swear they never said–even though they said it while standing in front of a crowd of thousands with 20 cameras pointed at them”
Indeed it would…
And then those same Libs call US cavemen…
And yes, I assume those idiots I speak to on a daily basis are Libs… I do live in the most left-wing province of an already left-wing country…
Now here’s a nice little quote to go with the subject of this thread, and I believe in it.
You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.
Scott Adams
And…this one’s golden…
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Rick Cook
Where were these microphones of which you speak so that Barney Frank can prove that a teapartier shouted an unkind word at him this weekend? All this great technology and nobody has a video with the evidence? Could it be possible this name-caller is a figment of Barney’s imagination?
@Palmetto:
Ya think?
@ Palmetto…oh how Barney wished someone had really yelled it…but the mainstream media didn’t need any facts to back them up for reporting it. Damn, what is happening to our country?? I’m waiting for the National sales tax to kick in to pay for the so called great health-care bill they just passed. Then I’ll be given my right to die ticket because I’m a baby boomer!!
I’ve always maintained that if I have to watch my language, I may as well make it colorful.
mause – I have it on my channel if you want to put in your favorites on youtube
The F word no longer bothers me, as any Mall I go to there are 10, 11 & 12 year old’s using language that would make a Trucker blush. If I eve used that kind of language even when I was 17, my Mother would have stuck a bar of Lava soap in my mouth. Since I had two Daughters, I was very careful with my language at home, but not necessarily at work when writing some new Software that was f***ed
up & not working correctly. My co-workers always knew when I was having a problem & would usually leave the area. If provoked enough, any of us can create a new language & kill an old one. Since I have aged, I find fewer things that provoke me that far. That said, this Congress, Palousy & Obummer ain’t helping matters any.
if anything, Bob, I think I have you to thank for inadvertently integrating the word “Bonehead” into my vocabulary as it’s starting to replace saying “asshole”, “dumbass”, etc when tension rises
must be thanks to mentioning all those boneheads in the world, so that you for that, among countless other things you do for us!
ugh..typos be damned..I meant “so I thank you for that, among countless other things you do for us!”