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I can't find a 'sensible' thread about prudish people and it's a subject I've been thinking a lot about recently.

With the exception of religious types I'm of the thinking that most folk, certainly in my experience, are just as smutty minded as me.

They may pretend to be outraged and offended by certain things but chip away at that and in no time at all they will be joining in with the filthy talk and surprising you with their own toilet and sexual humour.

Perhaps it's just the circles I move in.... I don't know, but I have worked in a variety of jobs and have friends and contacts from all walks of life and pretty much everyone I've come to know has a pretty filthy sense of humour underneath it all......

Is this true?

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Friday, 9 December 2005 09:01 (nineteen years ago)

you disgust me

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 9 December 2005 09:17 (nineteen years ago)

Come on, you love it

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:02 (nineteen years ago)

I feign prudishness on occassion. It's all a part of my contrary directive, it's the only way sometimes.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:23 (nineteen years ago)

Are we all dirty minded little sewer rats underneath our polite facades?

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:30 (nineteen years ago)

no, it's just you.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:31 (nineteen years ago)

Prudishness is cute

― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:31 (nineteen years ago)

i pretty much never make crude or smutty jokes but i'm pretty far from being a prude. i just don't think they're funny most of the time.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:40 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not talking so much about smutty jokes, just general conversation. I've found that the majority of women LOVE to talk about their cycles and bits and smear tests in great detail, caring not a jot for any man in the vicinity. In fact, in here we revel in it more 'cause there are males present. Nothing is sacred.

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:43 (nineteen years ago)

you disgust me

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:44 (nineteen years ago)

So this is another thread about the differences between men and women is it?

― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:45 (nineteen years ago)

i like the minority of women.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:48 (nineteen years ago)

theorry otm

― thor heyerdahl (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:54 (nineteen years ago)

What Freud never realised is that men are totally jealous of women's cycles/bits/smear tests etc. That is why many of them do not like to hear talk of such things in graphic detail. It's pure envy.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:59 (nineteen years ago)

No no no, not about the differences at all! Sorry!

A new bloke started in here a couple of weeks ago, a Portuguese guy. At first he came across as disapproving and a bit stand-offish, and we all calmed things down a little bit for his benefit. Nobody quite knew how to take him and he was labelled a prude.

Then he got his email account up and working and within ten minutes had sent us out a glut of shagging santa forwards and filthy jokes. On monday he announced that his "arse was still rancid" after a weekend curry binge. Now he's one of us.

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Friday, 9 December 2005 10:59 (nineteen years ago)

Bits envy? (xpost)

― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 9 December 2005 11:00 (nineteen years ago)

What Freud never realised is that men are totally jealous of women's cycles/bits/smear tests etc. That is why many of them do not like to hear talk of such things in graphic detail. It's pure envy.
-- Sororah T Massacre (stevem7...), December 9th, 2005.

haha yerce.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Friday, 9 December 2005 11:02 (nineteen years ago)

Anyone who forwards "shagging Santa" emails and discusses their bodily functions out loud is not likely to be someone I would willingly associate with. Saying that, one of my colleagues does similar, and I really like her. That, however, is DESPITE these things, not because of them.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 December 2005 11:04 (nineteen years ago)

depressing

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 9 December 2005 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.twitchfilm.net/archives/pics/fatslags.jpg

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Friday, 9 December 2005 11:15 (nineteen years ago)

has there ever been a funny 'work email'?

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Friday, 9 December 2005 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

Anything to relieve the tension in here I'm afraid. They're not particularly funny but seem to be a kind of bonding thing in my workplace.

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Friday, 9 December 2005 11:25 (nineteen years ago)

http://subhuman.homestead.com/files/miscpics/santagift.jpg

― retarded and gay (bato), Friday, 9 December 2005 11:30 (nineteen years ago)

I'm glad that only one of my co-workers bothers to forward me all the emails that go around the office; and he only bothers with the ones he knows will make me laugh, or intrigue me - puzzles and cool optical illusions, not the annoying cartoons and gifs of winking kittens, etc.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 9 December 2005 12:09 (nineteen years ago)

I like the Naked Man advent calendar....it gives us girlies something to discuss.

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Friday, 9 December 2005 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

I like the Naked Woman advent calendar....it gives us boys something to discus.

DYS THE DOUBLE STANDARD

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Friday, 9 December 2005 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

I was only talking about the currently circulating forwards....

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Friday, 9 December 2005 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

**Anyone who forwards "shagging Santa" emails and discusses their bodily functions out loud is not likely to be someone I would willingly associate with.**

Ailsa Totally On The Fucking Money! We have a few people like this who talk about their arses or whatever really loudly at the coffee machine, and it's so bloody BORING, disrespectful, ignorant etc etc. It's gross exhibitionism really - the ones I know are definitely trying compensate for the fact that they have nothing of any value to say. If they stopped talking about their piles or vaginal thrush there would be a deafening silence in the office. That would be good.

I don't think I'm a prude, but if I am, I am...whatever. It's gross.

― Dr.C, Friday, 9 December 2005 13:01 (nineteen years ago)

He was merely an example that nothing is sacred.

Nobody in here is shy, nobody will hesitate to discuss their problems however unpleasant they may be. The atmosphere is actually very nice for it, you know that if you're constipated all you have to do is mention it and somebody will be able to suggest a remedy.

My boss nipped out to the health-food shop and bought linseeds as a couple of us were a bit bunged.

There are no lemon-sucking faces in here.

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Friday, 9 December 2005 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

Hey Rumpie, didn't you once post about how you and your family all sit together on the sofa and try and out-fart each other? I think you did, didn't you? Nice.

― Dr.C, Friday, 9 December 2005 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

Nobody in here is shy, nobody will hesitate to discuss their problems however unpleasant they may be.

well, MAYBE THEY SHOULD.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Friday, 9 December 2005 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

I am by no means prudish, I post on ILX, FFS. However there is a time and place for these things. Giggling over a glass of wine with your pals when you've pretty much sussed out that they are OK with talking about bodily functions, the intricate details of their sex lives and won't take offense at rude/offensive jokes, yes: at work with people who you don't know and who don't care, no. Trouble is when you are the only person who doesn't find this funny, I am pegged as the one with no sense of humour.

For example the other day one of my colleagues emailed this to us. I was the only one not roffling like a hyena on nitrous oxide = I am the office dullard.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 December 2005 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

Nope, I did however mention that we fart quite comfortably if and when the need arises.

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Friday, 9 December 2005 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

ailsa QUIT NOW OMG.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Friday, 9 December 2005 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, quit...but cudgel the sender of that e-mail to death first.

― Dr.C, Friday, 9 December 2005 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

We're quite a close bunch in here I must admit.

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Friday, 9 December 2005 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

That's nice for you.

― Dr.C, Friday, 9 December 2005 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

I am very happy that I do not work in an office, and as such the only ppl sending me this type of junk are vague acquaintances whom I don't have to interact much with.

Rumpie, you've certainly managed to build an instantly recognizable ILX persona, I'll give you that.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Friday, 9 December 2005 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

What's worse is that he's looked it up on the internet especially to show me because he thought I might find it funny. He's actually an OK bloke, in an "office joker" kind of way, but I don't think he's quite got me sussed yet.

I haven't been there long enough for them to realise I'm not exactly "one of them". However I think being frowned at for going to arty-farty films, gigs by bands that play venues smaller than the SECC and reading the Guardian has led them to realise I am the office weirdo. I would love to subvert from within, but I doubt I'm up to it.

I have a little booth at the back of the office where I hide. It doesn't stop emails, but it does mean I get to stay out of conversations.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 December 2005 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

7 Are you ready for seconds yet?

IN WHAT POSSIBLE FUCKING UNIVERSE IS THAT FUNNY? hellfire, i still buy and read "viz". i'm the king of immature double-entendres. but that's just ... beyond woeful.

they might as well put "eat" and "swallow" in the list as well. and "sprout", because, you know, they're wee and round, and if you got two of them and they were a bit bigger, and pink, and in a sack, they'd look like bollocks. maybe.

what has happened to humour in this fucking country? my god, ailsa. buy a gun.

nobody will hesitate to discuss their problems however unpleasant they may be

woah. really? i now look upon my workmates, even the old ones who stink of stale booze, with a whole new fondness. indeed, i cherish them for their stoicism and silence.

if any of them ever mentioned any of their "problems" in my earshot, i'd raise a fucking grievance against them. and complain to the union. and punch them in the face.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 9 December 2005 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

I'd like to ask what my supposed 'persona' is...

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Friday, 9 December 2005 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

You're the person that grosses ppl out. :)

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Friday, 9 December 2005 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

Right okay, we'll leave the workmates thing out of it, obviously it was a reet bad example. I guess I'm just fortunate enough to have quite a close relationship with my colleagues, apologies for any offense I may have caused anybody.

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Friday, 9 December 2005 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

that's not really narrowing it down enough. (xpost)

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Friday, 9 December 2005 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

people can be close with their colleagues/friends without needing to talk about their piles or whatever. i mean if you need a remedy for that there is one internet that can be searched easily enough. or indeed a GP.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Friday, 9 December 2005 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

ailsa you should send an re: picture of some peasants beating a dead horse.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 9 December 2005 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

Nobody in here is shy, nobody will hesitate to discuss their problems however unpleasant they may be.

Unless it's your stinky colleague in which case you will post about him on the internet and send snarky emails which he's liable to see, eh? Nice.

(xpost Jocelyn, hahaha)

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 December 2005 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

Alright, I'll leave this thread now, sorry for starting it and using such bad examples. I didn't realise it would turn into this.

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Friday, 9 December 2005 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

ANYWAY SO ME AND THE BOSS'S GRAN ...

― GARUmly G (grimlord), Friday, 9 December 2005 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

why is it not cool to talk about being grossed out, Rumpie?

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Friday, 9 December 2005 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't say it wasn't.
Anyway, this is obviously just a bad attempt at a thread.

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Friday, 9 December 2005 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

People not automatically going "yes! you're so right" does not constitute a bad thread.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 December 2005 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

No, I didn't say that, I came out with a couple of shit examples and I'm regretting it now. I know that everybody isn't going to agree that we've all got a seedy undercore but I thought it would be a debate about that, not about me.

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Friday, 9 December 2005 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

But you asked "is it true that we are all secret smut-mongers" and people said "no, it isn't" and explained what annoys them about people that were - yourself included since you've set yourself out in this thread as someone who DOES find this acceptable. What exactly did you expect?

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 December 2005 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

Look, I've backed down.

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Friday, 9 December 2005 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

Humourless ILX drones in playground bullying shockah!

― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 9 December 2005 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

Rumpie, I am aware you've backed down, but I thought you might want an explanation of why I've responded to your thread the way I did, obviously I can't speak for everyone else who may have some other motives. Certainly *my* answers weren't intended as a dig at you personally, just at the sort of workplace that you seem to like and I don't. I don't think I've said anything personally to upset you.

xpost - hurrah, the paranoid cavalry arrives :)

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

Well done ailsa, that was almost funny

― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not trying to be funny. I'm trying to justify posting my own opinions on a thread on a public messageboard (something I didn't even realise you had to do), and wondering exactly what I've done to piss a couple of people off so much today. I'm not exactly , you know.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, I was just sticking my head round the door, back to ILM for me

― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

oh you're a music fan? ;)

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

More than I'm snide snarky snippy shitfest fan, it's true

― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

I'm away to talk about Paiste cymbals and tuning pegs!

― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

oh, some of my post got eaten. I was trying to say "I'm not exactly [insert trolling "controversial" flamethrower of choice], you know" but I did it with pointy tags and the html-pixies took it away.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

All right, wait, I like this topic. I think prudery is entirely situational, sometimes it's appropriate and sometimes it's tiresome, depending on circumstance & company. It's not being prudish not to want EVERYONE to know EVERYTHING.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

What in the holy shit.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.charliestoo.com/gpx/sm_snackbr.jpg

Charlie's Snack Bar in 1984.

Open for the summer season, a happy customer walks down the street eating her ice cream cone.

― Dan (EW) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

hahahahahahahahaha

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

I have never met a woman who revelled in discussing the fine details of her pap smear until I had the misfortune of reading the ILX pap smear thread (and I haven't actually met most of the women posting to that thread so fair enough).

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

i will sort you out some linseeds you sound a bit bunged

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

I don't even know what that means!!!

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sadly very inconsistent in my prudishness. I don't like posting about*real sex* (performed by *me*), but I do not have a problem saying I love porn. I realize that doesn't make sense, but that's how it is.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 9 December 2005 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

So, this one time at work...

― giboyeux (skowly), Friday, 9 December 2005 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

It makes perfect sense!

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Friday, 9 December 2005 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

Prudishness is mostly a byproduct of sexual frustration - essentially saying, "I feel acutely uncomfortable about this reminder of your and my sexuality, because it can only cause me pain to be so reminded." In rare instances it is caused by religiomania, where the sufferer finds all reminders of our carnality to be distressing, including eating, sleeping, sneezing or salivating.

― Aimless (Aimless), Saturday, 10 December 2005 01:31 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

OMG OMG OMG

-- ailsa (ailsa_watson7...), December 9th, 2005.

now the infection has reached me, in an email which included the words "hehe- this is funny"...

"21 things you can only get away with saying at Christmas

1. I prefer breasts to legs
2. Tying the legs together keeps the inside moist.
3. Smother the butter all over the breasts!
4. If I don't undo my trousers, I'll burst!
5. I've never seen a better spread!
6. I'm in the mood for a little dark meat.
7. Are you ready for seconds yet?
8. It's a little dry; do you still want to eat it?
9. Just wait your turn, you'll get some!
10. Don't play with your meat.
11. Stuff it up between the legs as far as it will go.
12. Do you think you'll be able to handle all these people at once?
13. I didn't expect everyone to come at the same time!
14. You still have a little bit on your chin.
15. How long will it take after you put it in?
16. You'll know it's ready when it pops up.
17. Just pull the end and wait for the bang.
18. That's the biggest bird I've ever had!
19. I'm so full, I've been gobbling nuts all morning
20. Wow, I didn't think I could handle all that and still want more!
21. I do like a good stuffing.

Have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year"

ALL IN COMIC SANS

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Thursday, 5 January 2006 12:16 (nineteen years ago)

LOLLIDAYS ARE HERE AGANE

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Thursday, 5 January 2006 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

The slow topic-drift from prudery to smut proceeds apace.

― Aimless (Aimless), Thursday, 5 January 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

Rumpie, I'm in your corner. I grew up with many brothers and tend toward raunch and gross-out, especially after a few drinks.
My pet peeve: the phrase "too much information." I hear it and I just want to scream "fuck off, you fucking nun! Go find yourself a blue-hair tea party. YOU ARE A SUPPURATING BOIL ON THE ASS OF THIS CONVERSATION."

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 6 January 2006 23:36 (nineteen years ago)

you are a bad person

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 6 January 2006 23:41 (nineteen years ago)

I don't care.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 6 January 2006 23:50 (nineteen years ago)

oh, you're worse than I thought

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 6 January 2006 23:50 (nineteen years ago)

You have no idea.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 6 January 2006 23:55 (nineteen years ago)

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