freedom of speech......

There was another great episode where the boy asked a teacher "where did we come from?" and they didn't know, so they held a competition for who could come up with the best reason for the universe, and the winner was something to do with a giant potato. It was then written out with rules and laws, and anyone who didn't believe it was burned to death. It's out on DVD I think, I might get it

I've said "****" to a policeman many times and it's used in the media all the time.

Ice

Im sure there is, and those people are the nice mature people ignoring the grammar and respecting the posters thread. But fact still remains tho...your post was way off-topic and not nice.

I'm following you completely. In this case, I just thought it was pretty clear what the poster was trying to say and thus I wouldnt call the post "a mess" altho it perhaps could have been displayed better.

What I'm annoyed at... is how some people react to a "supposedly messy" post, playing forumcops who needs to make an appearance to show people, they're betterknowing, more clever etc. And it certainly aint helping that the same forumcop later in the thread starts indicating that the poster is a loser with no future ahead of him/her.

The person who made the post that started all this was not only an English person, but apparently a writer - so it was pure lazyness on their part and nothing more. No-one is trying to be a 'forumcop' here, it's just common courtesy to each other to type messages in a fashion which can be easily understood.

Just as well as its common courtesy to reply in a nice way. Whether the poster is native-english + writer or not, doesnt give people the right to be rude, go off-topic and ruin the thread. Send the poster a personal message instead of taking the "fight" to the board.

If a person is so lazy as to type out a full post in such an illegible fashion, why should they expect anyone to be nice to them? No-one here would pull up a person who was making mistakes by accident, be it that they weren't a native English speaker or whatever else, it's only when someone obviously can communicate but chooses not to that this sort of debate begins.

"in such an illegible fashion". I thought this part is way overexaggerated. As other people also pointed out, they could read and understand it fine. I see you and Iceman shares the opinion that if someone is lazy, its ok to be rude with them. Tsk tsk...

Maybe, but it takes more effort to understand it. It would be far simpler if the person posting put in the extra effort to type in English and not in txt, then everyone would be happy. You don't hear people complaining about a person using English too well.

Damn right! They are being rude by choosing to be lazy, so they will get nothing else from me.

Now whos the lazy ones then? (takes more effort to understand a post) By your logic I should be really rude to you too now

I totally disagree. Being lazy in THIS exact way can NEVER be considered rude in my opinion. Now if someone on purpose walked slooowly in front of me in a supermarket queue...THAT would be rude to me.