to be really bothered by a thread title, to complain about it & not be satisfied with the response?

[allhallows]

Maybe gross blasphemy is acceptable in the UK these days. Maybe I'm too sensitive. Tell me what you think:

Regarding a certain thread title "oh my f*cking god". I complained about it to MN, saying it was unacceptable, especially as a thread title, where you can't avoid it. I asked that it be deleted. I'm not easily offended but this was beyond the pale for me. Here's the response I got from MN:

Hi there
Many thanks for bringing this to our attention.
We agree that this comment was in poor taste but we don't tend to delete on
those grounds because it would be really hard to know where to draw the line

• what one person thinks is funny can be another person's sensitive spot and the truth is we don't think we should be the arbiters of what people should fine offensive and what they shouldn't. On the whole we think it's better to let the boards self police in these instances, as it's very rare that a tasteless comment is left unchallenged. Certainly in this case, it wasn't and the OP has apologised. Best wishes

I'm not satisfied that in this case it would be "really hard to know where to draw the line".

AIBU?

No, more likely an old-fashioned sit-up-and-pray one, surely willow

round my way it used to be Christ on a Moped.
sometimes with a sidecar.
nonsense, really, because a moped couldn't handle a sidecar could it?
unless you were the Messiah or something...

Ah, but he could balance his teachings on the handlebars.

"For all we know he did have a bike
(not that he exists imo)"

ahh now whether you are a Christian or not - there are secular references to Jesus having existed - the question is whether you believe his teachings or not

I think YABU.

Mhummy - my DD loves ITNG - her fav being Maka Packa

yes, Jesus existed, probably, although the evidence is often very contradictory
but was he Christ?
you would think he owuld have mentioned it
anyway, burn the blasphemers, burn them alive! and even that will be too good for them

What does Christ mean? I always used to think it was his surname

Jesus wept.

you would too if you had to balance your teachings on a moped lol

Is superstar not his surnae after all?

the Messiah, the one foretold, the one prophesised
you know, like in the Matrix.

Christ means 'anointed one'. It's Messiah in Anglicized Greek. So Jesus was his name in life (probably Jesus Bar Joseph or something like that) and Christ is his title, iyswim.

YABU in that the thread title was changed and the OP apologised.

YANBU at being offended by it as it jumped out at me every time I clicked on active convos and I was surprised it was just about a spider loofah

....and on another note, it strikes me as odd that you are irked by the blasphemy, but are calling yourself "allhallows" which is a pagan festival not exactly celebrated by the Christian church ?

No Superstar would be when he got married surely - double-barrelling it

Ah, thank you. See, Catholic education not wasted on me at all

actually allhallows is a festival celebrated in the catholic and anglican churches. It's Samhain that's the pagan festival.

Jesus Bar Joeseph...........that would make him Irish so.

And did those feet? etc. [rolling eyes at the many puns coming to mind emoticon]

oh, I stand corrected

Tell you what I am offended by - that grim Lovefilm advert that keeps showing me a silhoutted man being blood-spatteredly eaten by a shark. Ew.

"the question is whether you believe his [JC's] teachings or not"

Or, for me, not whether you believe them as such but whether you believe them to be divinely inspired.

I happen to think a lot of what Jesus said - and I'm pretty sure he existed - was good sense. But I first don't think it's exclusive to Christians, and second don't consider it ton be divinely inspired (I don't have a concept of the "divine").

reminds me of an eddie izzard bit where god says "jesus christ" and jesus goes "stop taking my name in vain" and god says "alright, jeezy chreezy"

Jehovah, Jehovah, Jehovah!!!!

runs away before stoning begins

this thread title didnt offend me. but the one saying the same phrase, but with allah and muhammad did offend me.
and i realised that if i was offended buy that, then i should be offended by the original one as well. logically both names for God.
before i could get too stressed, mnhq changed the thread titles

gracious some people have a lot of time on their hands. Still I suppose Being Offended is as good a hobby as any other.