freedom of speech?

If it was me i would swear more, no one is going to tell me to watch my language, it was proposed by a 14 year old. trying to dictate what adults do???


Calif. community declares itself a cuss-free zone
Teen behind drive in South Pasadena to elevate quality of discourse

SOUTH PASADENA, Calif. - This tranquil community on the edge of Los Angeles has become a cursing-free zone.

Under a City Council proclamation approved Wednesday, those who use profanity or make rude gestures could find themselves shamed into better behavior by the unsettling glances of South Pasedena residents who take their reputation for civility seriously.

"That's one of the purposes of this," Mayor Michael Cacciotti said of his city's proclamation designating the first week of March as No Cussing Week. "It provides us a reminder to be more civil, to elevate the level of discourse."

The proclamation will be in effect until Friday, and then the first week of every March hereafter.

South Pasadena, a tranquil city of tree-shaded cottages at the base of a mountain range eight miles north of downtown Los Angeles, is not the first to try to rein in potty mouths. Earlier this year, the St. Louis suburb of St. Charles, Missouri, proposed banning swearing in bars. Last year, hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons called for an industrywide ban on racially and sexually charged epithets.

Proposed by teen

But what is different about the latest push is that it was proposed by a 14-year-old boy.

"My mom and dad always taught me good morals, good values, and not cussing was one of them," said McKay Hatch, the founder of South Pasadena High School's No Cussing Club, during a recent break between study hall and tennis practice.

"I've cussed before, I'm not gonna lie to you," Hatch quickly added. "But I try not to cuss any more."

He was in junior high school when he became fed up with all the blue language around him.

He understood why his friends use foul language: "They just want to fit in like everybody else and they don't know how. They figure if they cuss maybe it's an easy way to do that."

But it wasn't for him.

"I finally told my friends, `I don't cuss.' And I said, `If you want to hang out with me, you don't cuss.'"

No cussing club

It took a couple of years, but enough friends finally came around that Hatch formed a 50-member club, handed out fliers and called the group's first meeting, held June 1.

Nine months later, the No Cussing Club has a Web site, claims a membership of 10,000 and boasts chapters in several states and countries. Hatch considers his greatest achievement, though, to be getting his hometown of 25,000 to become a cuss-free zone.

Cacciotti, the mayor, is not surprised that South Pasadena started the movement. He noted that the city broke off from its much bigger neighbor 120 years ago when residents unhappy with the saloon trade in downtown Pasadena voted 85-25 to go their own way.

By midweek, however, it was unclear just how many people in South Pasadena knew about the no-cussing edict.

A clerk behind the counter at Buster's Ice Cream & Coffee Shop just laughed and said, "That sounds pretty funny."

David Salcedo, who manages High Life Burgers, a popular hangout near the high school, hadn't heard of it either.

But, come to think of it, he said, the language among the after-school crowd has been pretty clean lately. The biggest problem these days, Salcedo said, is kids talking too loudly.

"But they're good kids," he added. "They just eat their chili fries and go home."

For his part, Hatch hopes his No Cussing Club will lead to cuss-free zones in other cities. He believes it could be a quality-of-life issue, and that there may be less violence if people behave better.

"You have to start with the little things," he said.

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Lord, what fools these mortals be!
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act III, Scene ii

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"Elevate the level of discourse," huh?
What pisses me off about teens, and even a lot of twenty-somethings, is their lack of communication. Here are some behaviors:
• Starting most sentences with a loud "UM" especially when replying to a question. (I really *fucking* hate that!)
• Saying "like" every two words.
• "Hella" is a favorite descriptor.
• Grunting, mumbling, and little to no eye contact when communicating with elders.
• "Please" and "Thank you" rarely if ever spoken.

I bet that kid's real popular at school

Heaven forbid his classmates be "shamed" by "unsettling glances"! Ouch!

What a crock of shit...it isn't as if cussing is going to kill anyone. Stepford much?

A few years ago, in Calabasas, Ca., a teen girl decided that adults shouldn't be allowed to smoke in the city anymore. Of course, it passed. I'm glad I moved prior to that, or else I would have held a smoke- in at the bitch's house.

Where the fuck do these little do- godder assfucks get off telling adults what they can and cannot do? Better question may be why anyone would listen to them, anyway.

Because they're chyyyyyyldruuuuuuuun. You KNOW if an adult starting going around telling people "This is a no-cuss zone" people would promptly tell him or her to fuck off and die and then continue cussing as much as they goddamn want. But when a chyyyyld does it, they're so nobly and so goddamn saintly.

I hate children.

Sometimes, the F-word is my best friend, it's all you have left sometimes, and sticks and stones... You know what I mean.

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"I have learned that pleasing everyone is impossible, but pissing everyone off is easy and fun as hell"

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I've never understood what is so bad about cussing. It's just words, for chrissakes!

I wonder what they do at their club "meetings". Plan how they're going to continue not cussing????

I just had an evil idea.

How about sponsoring a gangsta rap concert in South Pasadena?

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA....

Foshizzle, CFB! I be down wid dat. :spin

Saw a cool t-shirt design on tshirthell.com. It says "How dare I wear this fucking shirt in front of your goddamn kid!" Well said...

You fucking people sure swear a lot!!!

Sorry, but not until all the unmarried sluts stop breeding and sucking welfare dollars, when all the parasites stop using the emergency rooms as their family physician, when all the drug dealers and child and animal abusers are behind bars, and when the veterans and elderly are finally taken care of properly in tis country, THEN AND ONLY THEN WILL I WATCH MY FUCKING LANGUAGE.

UNTIL THEN, FUCK OFF YOU STUPID ASS!

PEOEXARTHROTRIA ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
Sorry, I don't know why I said that........just panicked, I guess.

Goddamned hell fuck yeah we swear a lot...and you should hear me in a bar with children around, it induces tourettes and an eyeball headache.

"It truly is the one commonality that every designation of humans you can think of has, there's at least one asshole."
--Me