geeks : not good, thank goodness I was able to work around them most of my career, not the only group of creeps on this earth but one of them

science: very good. that is nature itself

My point, nature is beautiful despite the creepy nerds that inhabit and think they own science

When I was on a work trip to a remote satellite receiver station several years ago, I was fiddling with our computers and overheard two people talking in the garage area. One guy was dropping an F-bomb literally every four seconds. Effing this, effing that, the effing thing.

And he wasn’t angry or anything. He was calmly describing some stuff they had to move for a big project somewhere else, and the logistics involved. I had to go see who this was, so I walked through the garage to where our project’s crates were. It was some guy in a shirt and tie- total executive looking type. Turned out he was one of the managers in charge of that other project.

I never heard anything like that even back in grade school. It was beyond “potty mouth” into some sort of Tourette’s style mental problem, but where the obscenities are inserted smoothly into normal conversation. I not sure he was even aware he was doing it.

That’s the great thing about opinions, we don’t have to agree. I would say that strong language does have it’s place, but when someone is described as a “potty mouth” that signals to me overuse for comedy or shock value to the point that it’s just annoying. I’ve never seen someone who was offended or put off by someone’s lack of cursing, and if given the choice I’d rather not be offensive on purpose. Maybe I’m just not hip enough to “get” it, but foul language when not coupled with extreme emotion appeals to me about as much as taking up smoking (ie, not at all).

Yeah, you’re just ruling the world, aren’t you? That’s why we are clearly heading toward a peaceful world where science and engineering are respected fields and religion is on the wane and governments use reason and logic to… wait a minute… oh yeah… *I* live in the universe where scientists are depicted as bespectacled misfits who are either stumbling over their own feet or trying to destroy the world; where engineers, the ones who deliver to the world most of what makes civilization wonderful, are in one of the most ridiculed professions around; and politicians either treat science with disdain or use it to push one wacky agenda or another.

Now give me your lunch money.

Smart people should really be more original.

Smart people should stop calling themselves geek and nerd.

the ongoing worldwide eclipse was pretty much what killed Heroes for me,

Their mistaking “incoherent and rambling plotting” for “epic heroic storytelling” is what killed it for me. I gave up and went over to Burn Notice which knows exactly what it wants to be an pulls it off nicely. And it has Bruce Campbell.

@2. Wayne on the plains – I really have to disagree with that opinion. To suggest use of such words denotes a lack of creativity is really quite a shallow way of seeing things. These words are used because they are clear and concise and can convey emotions in ways that other words or phrases are incapable of doing so. Listen to a great comedian like George Carlin and you can see this in action.

@Daniel J. Andrews – the ongoing worldwide eclipse was pretty much what killed Heroes for me, though I stayed watching to the end.

J/P=?

@2 Wayne. Yeah, I expect more creative clever use of language too. Shock value can be funny when unexpected but it loses value when used all the time. Just my taste in humour though…(but I never understood the 3 stooges either).