What does 'TightPants' stand for?
POSTED BY: Esther
UPDATED: Saturday, August 26, 2006 16:05
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Originally posted by JonnyQuest:
Also, Finding Serenity is an EXCELLENT read. I highly recommend it.
Well, here I am.
I agree heartily with that statement. Lotsa good stuff in there.
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Originally posted by JonnyQuest:
It's been a long time, but I do remember. I guess some of us live closer to the Rim and we're a mite less particular about our verbage. Don't mean no offense.
None taken.
I'm a bit more on the Rim side these days, but grew up Core; soap in the mouth if you said the word 'hell' let alone 'ass.' My brother ate a lot of soap. I learned from his mistakes.
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Off topic, Aren't you a MI_Browncoat? Shindigging tomorrow night?
I grew up with a strict standard of behavior that oddly did not include language restrictions. Europeans I think have a different way. It's okay to call someone a sh*thead, but not okay to dump sh*t on someone's head. Esther might want to sound off on this. Nichtwahr?
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Originally posted by JonnyQuest:
Off topic, Aren't you a MI_Browncoat? Shindigging tomorrow night?
Yep. I hope to, but there are a few other things I gotta sort out tomorrow, like a doctor's appointment in Canton. You goin'?
Back on topic, you're probably right. It's that whole 'Puritanical' thing here. It goes with that folks in the US get more upset about sex on TV than they do violence, whereas in Europe, it's the other way 'round. Show a booby and the censors go ape-shit. Show someone shot to death, and it can go on in the 'family' time slot. *shakes head in bewilderment* I think we are worrying about the wrong stuff here.
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Hey, wow. I have a Dr. appt. in the morning...go figger. But yeah, I'll be there.
Don't get me started on the sex/violence dynamic. I gotta get to bed! Lookin' forward ta meetin' everyone.
Damn. I hyjacked, didn't I? Sorry all.
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Originally posted by DonCoat:
So what you're saying is, that scene in Trash came as no big revelation to anybody in the cast or crew... right?
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I forget where I read it now:
Nathan said he was talking to his mother and she said, "I hope this won't be one of those shows where you're taking your shirt off all the time." (She must have been the only one.)
He was just reading the script for Trash so he said, "No..."
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Originally posted by JonnyQuest:
Damn. I hyjacked, didn't I? Sorry all.
No problem, my question was answered, so use this thread for whatever ...
Coming to "vulgar" language: I always think it's odd, that a country like the US, where freedom of speech and such is so high valued, has these verry narrow ideas on "political correctness", which sometimes just seem ridiculous over here.
Plus: I'ts no use.
There is a line going from "negro" to "black" to "coloured" to "afro-american", but using different words doesnt change, what people really think. language follows thought, not the other way around, and if people do not change their thinking, "afro american" one day will be used as disdainful, as "negro" before.
Esther
Love my captain!
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Oh dear, don't start me on 'political correctness.' I can see what is was originally intended for (that folks should be able to designate how they are described/labeled by others) but it went haywire later. The whole 'let's rename all the job titles' is such a crock. I'm a medical biller. My job title, however is 'claims processing representative.' Try writing *that* on your W2.
Gah!
It got so bad that as a joke I came up with a politically correct term for snow as one of my co-workers hated hearing the word. Henceforth we had "thermally-challenged precipitation" in the winter. 
Well, off to the shindig!
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Getting back to the original question:
What does "TightPants" stand for?
I'd say: truth, justice, and the Independent way.
What does "TightPants" not stand for?
Betrayal, meddling, attempting to discover the "real me", professions that involve systematic lying, and "making people better".
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