Being a fan of language, this sort of thing has always gotten on my nerves, especially since I grew up in suburban Utah- a place that apparently actively encourages these things. I mean, what is up with people half-assing their swears? If you're going to use the word, f[[NinjaEditor ***]]ing use it. If it's a mere interjection? It's classier just to drop it. It's not like an asterisk changes the word- people still know what you mean.

Short version, well, [[ItJustBugsMe half-hearted censorship just bugs me.]]

* Shouldn't this belong to JustBugsMe/RealLife instead? That is, if RealLife should ever had a JBM page... 
** Didn't the "Sexuality" JBM get bowdlerised? What the hell? I mean, really. What the hell. 
* Making [[UnusualEuphemism your own expletives]] is kinda fun.
* "[[{{Recess}} Whomp]]", "[[RedDwarf Smeg]]", "[[MorkAndMindy Shazbot]]" and so on...
* This Troper found some of the TroperTales pages to be the victims of a bowdlerizer, having such gems as "All glory to the '''[[{{Labyrinth}} AREA]]'''" and "Hurts like a '''''[[TheUnfairSex PERFECTLY NICE WOMAN]]'''''". WHAT GIVES?!
** I've never actually heard of that phrase used ''except'' with [[AC: the AREA]] (well, apart from [[{{Futurama}} Hypnotoad]] and various tyrants, of course). Are you sure your first example was the result of a bluenose bowdlerizer, and not the original wording (see the next section)?
*** I'm pretty sure that terms always been used to...describe Bowie in Labyrinth. It's either that or '''PACKAGE'''.

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