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I've often wondered why people with turrettes syndrome spout expletives. Given that this disease is usually spotted rather early in life could sufferers be reprogrammed to spew colors instead? All they would have to do is go room to room in a building (followed by a group of toadys with clip boards)
shouting out ... "MAUVE" ... "PUCE" etc. Said toadys then simply nod in agreement and murmer things like "brilliant" "inspired" and so on. Sounds like a win, win to me.
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This is the #@*(i^/ #@$& color blue I've ~<>+ my #*@! |
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Oh. I thought it was something about Technicolor gun turrets (a domelike structure, usu. revolving horizontally, in which a gun is mounted, as on an armored vehicle, ship, aircraft, or fantasy videogame mechanism). I was clearly aiming in the wrong direction. Sorry for shooting off my mouth. That reminds me: My uncle was a Human Cannonball for the circus. You don't find people of that caliber these days. |
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what's wrong with cussing? |
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1st day of term - yellow, yellow, yellow. |
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[raisin] sufferers of tourettes can't help themselves swearing/cussing and can therefore yell an expletive at the most inappropriate of times. |
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I'm beginning to see why no one likes me in forums. I always am trying to clear up stereotypes, but then most jokes and comments about them would cease to make any sense. My advice would be; make new ones.
My boyfriend, who has Tourette's, has enlightened me of the horrible truth that it is, weirder than what the layman would have you believe... Basically, it is the irresistable urge to swear, kick children in the face, crush kittens, or whatever else you would least like to do in any given situation.
Frightening prospect.
Lucky for the both of us, he has never severed my spinal cord, or even sworn because of this, by employing what are known as 'nervous tics.' Twitching, making strange noises, or a lot of other things usually serve as a very effective outlet for these overwhelming urges. So that is how it is generally suppressed, although it won't exactly make one popular.
Therefore, it is indeed possible to do what is proposed, and though bizarre, it would be a good idea.
I am now looking at what I have just written and thinking that if I had been smarter than a floor tile, I would have registered a lot earlier. Behold the power of the pent-up desire to post something!!! |
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I happen to have Tourette Syndrome myself. My childhood was rather awful because of it. Regardless, I managed to get a good job and marry a great woman. I do however think it will be funny if Grimrock ever gets purple cancer or burnt sienna parkinson's disease. Reprogram? What am I, a f**king VCR? Am I a f**king parrot to train? There's your curses you F**king moron. |
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There've been a few ideas recently, making fun of mental illness (and neurological conditions or whatever whatever). A bit disappointing. |
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I had an idea while playing the video game zuma, in which
there is a central frog that pivots around and spits up 4
colored ball-emotions so that they can be aimed and
"filed" away with like ball-emotions, that stuttering and
tourettes syndrome are conditions that involve a similar
mechanism in the brain. In Zuma there is a case when
the central frog is pointing in one direction and the
colored ball-emotion configuration that you want to aim at
is on the directly opposite side of the screen, and when
you pull the mouse over to that side of the screen the
frog turns the opposite way to which you expected -- CW
instead of CCW -- and your attempt to correct it creates a
stuttering sort of overcompensation. Anyway that made
me think that a stutter is something similar going on at
whatever level of configuation of the nurons or whatever
that would create that kind of effect and that when you
hear someone stutter it is a really good chance to hear
the physicallity of the mechanism that is sort of over-
compensating or whatever. And it occurred to me that
Tourettes is sort of the same thing but on a system wide
level where the mechanism that is doing the over
compensatory steering is the one that choses phrases or
actions. So it seems to me that listening to stutters and
tourettes outbursts would be a really good way to
interface with a really micro level of the brain -- without
any intervening technology. Does that make any sense? |
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I think this has been done. French touretters shout "Sacre bleu!" |
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[+] I like the premise of this idea, though not to mock people with these type of disorders. |
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I presume that Tourettic coprolalia arises from an involuntary
urge to shock, rather than to say selected words. So, I think
the closest you might get would be something like "cunting
green*!" or the like. |
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(*which, oddly enough, is a village in East Anglia). |
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Come to think of it, perhaps one way to mitigate Tourettic
coprolalia would be to follow each expletive with some
defusing follow-up. A prefix would not work, I suspect; but
a suffix might. |
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As in "Shit! ake mushrooms!" or "Cunt! inue as you were!",
"Fuck! rying out loud!" |
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On the other hand, I think it's better for people to just
realize that it's just an involuntary fucking tic. |
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I was under the impression that the swearing tic in tourettes is, in fact, a very rare element in those that suffer from the syndrome. |
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Anyway, if we were going to treat humans like animals or automatons and condition/program them (to be fair, most psychotherapy and psychiatry is a form of reprogramming in some sense), ought to at least make the replacement expletive something pro-active, like words of encouragement. Instead of 'fuck-ball-swine' - 'stirling job, old boy'. Instead of 'cunting prick clunge' - 'jolly good show', and so on. |
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For the reasons that my good friend [MaxwellBuchanan]
pointed out, I think that is unlikely to work. I found his
suggestion far more alluring. |
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