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Each post in the Soapbox is like toilet paper - handy at the time, singularly important while using it, but as soon as you send it down the pipe it's not something worth thinking about.

Frankly my dear, I don't give a dang. There are some incredibly sane points made in that video.

His English is just fine. He's originally from the Dominican Republic and has a thick Spanish accent, but he knows, understands and speaks English very confidently. He is a permanent resident of Boston, and is a US citizen. He knows all the words.

Newp. You said it yourself, "Words are a tool to convey thoughts and information." When you remove one of those tools to convey the emotion, the missing emotion isn't conveyed. It may very well be felt, but the same emotion cannot be conveyed in the absence of being able to convey it by the...

I think so, too.

I do have to wonder how many participants in this thread have actually read the FCC Public Notice on this issue, and understand why the FCC issued the Notice, and what the changes, if any, might actually mean.

I agree. But Leo does not. That's why I asked him to prove his statement isn't meaningless.

One is a financial news network and the other one isn't. Granted, I rarely watch either of them very often anymore, so they may have changed their focus.

The premise, set forth by you, by the way, was the same speech with the f-word omitted, not "using different words." But, OK then, rewrite his speech to convey the same, exact emotion.

MSNBC or CNBC?

Probably not, but the Commissioner's office hasn't received a single complaint, nor has the Boston Red Sox organization, nor has the FCC, who routinely gets complaints (current backlog: 1.5 million) for every little thing. As for never knowing if it would have had the same impact if that word...

So now it's just about degrees of profanity? Good grief. Of course someone can do a comedy routine without profanity and it still be funny. So what? That's got nothing to do with what the FCC is looking at. I never said it was wrong, I said it shows a weak and closed mind for those who do the...

Well, the examples above were aired on network TV. The second one was live on national television, and is precisely the type of profanity that the FCC is seeking comments on and looking to allow. If you can't see how that's relevant to network TV airing the f word, then I got nothing. You must...

For something as squirrelly at the alternator on a Sprinter (that decoupler pulley specifically), it's probably best to rely on the OEM Bosch alternator. A dealer or Europarts will have those, of course, as does many NAPA stores.

You'd have to define "excessive." Often, a well placed, properly used profanity can correctly convey a message like no euphemism or alternate phrasing could ever hope to. Like when Clark Gable uttered, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a d?mn" at the end of 'Gone With the Wind.' Any other phrasing...

Horse hockey.

Same here, only 17 miles from my drop. Only mine ain't going to Wisconsin, mine's going to the western part of the Bluegrass. On a side note, if you ever get a load offer picking up in downtown Boston, at 0900, on a day that Joe Biden is speaking at MIT, say yes. Don't even think about it...

It might be fine, but a couple of things give me pause. One, in the description he compares the quality of this inverter to that of the uber high quality Vector, the Gold Standard. The problem with that is, on the Gold Standard Top 100 List, Vector is about 87 places down. Also, he states that...

I've been trying to figure out how this is scary, very scary. I was at a loss. Then, I came across this: 15-year-old Rylee MacKay, a student at Hurricane Middle School in Southwestern Utah, was given an in-school suspension for sporting a new red hair color that violated the school hair...