One More (trivial) Thing

Sploid is also making some hay that Utah County Sheriff James Tracy claimed that, among other (worse) things, none of the officers used profanity during the raid. This, despite the fact that the video clearly shows an officer saying "Turn that off. Turn that music off or I'll take your ass to jail."

This hardly matters, but the video is irrelevant, profanity-wise. "Throw your ass in jail" is a vulgarity, not a profanity.

Here's the difference. Vulgarity takes impolite, crude things and elevates them to the level of conversation. "Gladys, I'm gonna take a shit in your sock drawer" is vulgarity.

Profanity is taking the sacred and lowering it to the level of casual conversation. Taking the Lord's name in vain (such as "Sweet Jesus on a tandem bike!") is profanity.

Just so we're clear. And so Jesus gets his exercise.

Rob