In my opinion, on Monday afternoon/evening we all witnessed another example of what I'll term a "Pack Attack" on one contributor to the board. That person used the term "sucks" in their description of whatever they had an
opinion about.
According to
Urban Dictionary, June 19: , the term is "believed to have originated from street racing or traffic light racing in the USA. The slower cars are left "sucking" the exhaust fumes and smoked rubber of the leaders. Something is crap, a loser, broken, second rate".
Lots of people jumped on the opportunity to belittle the poster and their poor choice of words, lack of social skills, limited vocabulary, etc.
Sucks, it sucks, or some combination thereof, had previously appeared in over 100 different threads on this board before yesterday. One popular poster said, "...signed up for Embarqs alledged Hi-Speed service and as the Kids of today say,"it sucks".... No negative comments. Hmmm..guess the term wasn't offensive then. Or maybe this board was a kinder place then.
Oh, and if you're one of the grammar critics on here please make sure that you use the following words correctly:
1) your and you're
2) advice and advise
3) their, there. and they're.
Thanks for listening.