Quote from Senator Blutarsky on October 1, 2024, 11:31 PM

I've been around the block in life, forums too, and with the amount of time I spend here I think I have somewhat of a pulse. 

First and foremost this isn't a children's, under 18 website, the mere subject matter of gambling puts us outside that range.  Despite the fact that some of us, definitely myself were corrupted at a pre-teen age to be sexually charged, smoke, drink, do drugs, cursing, and by a dear family member - taught to gamble. 

Before we talk about what is "OFFENSIVE", let's introspect do we live Rated "G" lives?  I don't.  I curse like a sewer rat at times and what I feel are the appropriate times.  Most times I'm professional, articulate but there is that natural hybrid.  I can be a sarcastic prick and also very self deprecating which I find better than being on the attack of others.

Now when it comes to here, we're so lily white it's almost unnatural ie Seinfeld type, not a bad word and some innuendo.  For quite sometime while we've grown in member size the conversations have slowed to a crawl almost radio silent. So what is offensive? Not cursing -  I heard in the AMac video recently when JMac dropped the F-bomb because he didn't want to video blog with his bro - he wanted to catch a plane, probably tired too.  You all heard that, I didn't hear any uproar it was refreshing, real.

If I say F this situation ( a driver just screwed me for example) it is different than a member saying to another member here F you, why? well one is using an expletive to exhaust and harms no one, and the other is attacking and hate speech.

Ultimately the decision is in the hands of ↑ not myself, however I want to see this place rock (and it will, and if I'm here I'm going to see to it along with y'all, and for the founding members - you all -  you'll be proud to be an Original THR Member, and for the Site Management / Owners see this place become a very popular chat and media marvel), people start showing up here more often, start chatting more, feel comfortable, come here to chat with their partners, teammates, other like minded enthusiasts, even their adversaries, and I think we can do it in a healthy adult manner, not excessive expletives and vulgarity, but ya know the kind of things we say and do and hear others say and do in our lives and do it here as well - this place will become the place we come to do and say the things we can't in those other places - talk horses too. 

If we don't attack each other in a very unkind way - be  offensive to ones personal beliefs, also try to stay off the hot button topics - religion, politics - unless it somehow ties to harness / horse racing we've done some great complex stuff.  Things have changed a lot after the world we lived in survived Covid, people are less afraid, have more fortitude.  I read news articles where it's no longer censored, so you must too. 

Hey, I'm mostly in handicapping and wagering threads here with real time and real money in play, total dedication and transparency, just like most of you owners too - I highly doubt if someone screwed you out of money or you made a serious error, you say oh golly geez that's awful, but more like wtff I can't believe I'm such an A......or that so and so screwed me what a C.........!  And if anyone doesn't like being the target of a THR Member's vitriol, than become a member here too and that's f'ing that!!

Does any Member, The Powers To Be Here find cursing offensive if we limit it to non excessive exhaust and not hate speech?