Re: Improper language??

[Guilden <guilden -at- IQUEST -dot- NET>]

> Why?  If someone who has just finished a liverwurst sandwich is belching
> in your face while he is talking to you, should you ignore the stench
> and keep listening?  Or do you ask him to refrain from the belching,
> step back, rinse his mouth, and then state what he has to say?  To me, a
> person who resorts to profanity has already lost the discussion.  The
> profanity belies his frustration and his ability to support his views.
> >
> >To all those people who were so mortally wounded by the use of a certain
> >"foul" and "vulgar" term - how have you managed to survive so long?

> The wound was self-inflicted.  His resorting to a "single" vulgarity
> took more away from his views than he could put back in.  This even if
> he had expressed them with the wisdom of Solomon and the writing flair
> of Shakespeare.

> >Come on, you're grown-ups, nobody's going to collapse or explode if
> >someone occasionally slips into the vernacular.

> But someone has collapsed - the original poster!  And by supporting the
> use of the vulgarity and chastising those who speak against it, he has
> sucked

I'm afraid I was with you up until the word "su***d" above.  Now, I can no
longer continue after such a display of
profanity.

Cheers,
Ben Milstead

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