chrpai
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Just curious.... why is the word "stroke" banned but "muppet" isn't? We all know where "muppet" came from and what it's meant to imply.
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What about the word 'muppet'?
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Just curious.... why is the word "stroke" banned but "muppet" isn't? We all know where "muppet" came from and what it's meant to imply.
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Just curious.... why is the word "stroke" banned but "muppet" isn't? We all know where "muppet" came from and what it's meant to imply.
I was kind of wondering the same thing. I suppose it's fine until someone feels offended by it and clicks on the 'Report Post' button. Maybe some of the more sensitive types have not read through this thread yet.
For those of you discussing the supposed banning of words like stroke or muppet....
Neither word is banned. The word stroke is often discussed in relation to diving, given its history associated with DIR. There have been countless discussions of the term, how it has been used, and how it was intended to be used.
In the case being referenced in this thread, an individual who had had a history of warnings about aggressive and antagonistic posts called a specific ScubaBoard poster a stroke. In that case, the word was used to attack a person participating in a thread. Given the history of the term as a mean-spirited attack on a person, that usage was a clear violation of the ToS. We do not allow personal attacks on ScubaBoard.
Note that the attack was on the person, and that was what made it a violation of the ToS. Had the post said something along the lines of "the diving practices you describe are the kind that GI3 would have said were characteristic of a stroke," that would have been different. The characterization focuses on the argument and not the arguer.
As for muppet, I have no idea how the term has historically related to diving.
Neither word is banned. The word stroke is often discussed in relation to diving, given its history associated with DIR. There have been countless discussions of the term, how it has been used, and how it was intended to be used.
In the case being referenced in this thread, an individual who had had a history of warnings about aggressive and antagonistic posts called a specific ScubaBoard poster a stroke. In that case, the word was used to attack a person participating in a thread. Given the history of the term as a mean-spirited attack on a person, that usage was a clear violation of the ToS. We do not allow personal attacks on ScubaBoard.
Note that the attack was on the person, and that was what made it a violation of the ToS. Had the post said something along the lines of "the diving practices you describe are the kind that GI3 would have said were characteristic of a stroke," that would have been different. The characterization focuses on the argument and not the arguer.
As for muppet, I have no idea how the term has historically related to diving.
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chrpai
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So I could call you a cute little muppet?
Hint. mark Powell coming out of the closet.
Hint. mark Powell coming out of the closet.
As far as I know, it is not directly related save its frequent use by Brit and ex-pat Brit divers to describe a person who has someone else's hand up their arse moving their lips.
There you go. All cleared up for you.
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dbulmer
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The spelling is behaviour - muppet
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