In these days, there were more effective ways to verbally counter your conversation partners's banter, without having to resort to mindless profanities. I really do not see why we should limit ourselves to mindless (and unfunny) profanities when there are much more effective (and funny) ways available to provide a voice to our discontent.
See now, I don't think they are mindless (or unfunny) profanities. I think they are just part of people's vernaculars and vocabularies. Personally I like swear words; some of them are really well suited to be rude words. You might get offended if people on the forums (or the internet in general, I guess) are being called punks (fucking punks, if you want to be specific), but everyone else who he was referring to didn't care.
Yeah sure, you might be old and been on the internet for ages or whatever, we don't care. No one here cares about how old you are. Paul is cool because he doesn't constantly bring up the fact that he is older than most of us, and when he does it's to prove his point, not to wag his dick around. You are a veteran to the internet, but you are still a newbie here, on a forum that hasn't had any newbies for about a year. Take your time to see how this place works before getting preachy about telling us what to do.
See now. I see how you don't care. I am sitting here, thinking I don't care that you don't care. That makes us even. If we both don't care, that's pretty relaxing. Let's work from there.
I also don't care that this forum hasn't had any newbies for around a year. The very fact that this is the case makes your forum more of a shut-in than me.
And don't make the mistake of thinking that I was offended. Personally, I do not dislike swear words, I just tend to think that it's a waste of testosterone if they are used in a context that does not serve any purpose.
I mean, I could just call you a mindless fuck, but that wouldn't serve any purpose if I wouldn't come up with a useful context to do so. And even if I could, calling you a dolt, rather than a fucking punk, is just as useful.
And trust me: I have seen how "this place" works, for about a year or so. There is no single way in which it works any differently than the rest of the Internet works.
And if you think I am preachy about telling you what to do, you may want to learn to read. Start reading your own post, in which you are telling ME what to do.
I rest my case.