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Old Sep 5, 2000 | 12:34 pm
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Catman
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Join Date: May 1998
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I will make one more point on this language thing...

I showed this thread to a friend of mine with a young child and a young niece. She saw the words liked P*@#ed and the WHoopie Goldberg Oscar joke (I never found her funny IMHO) and she said "While it doesn't bother me, what if young children read this forum and start asking their parents what's this word?"

(I remember this is the same child who picked up some very foul words from "south Park" because the babysitter fell asleep with the t-v. The child is very smart and aborbs things like a sponge.)

I have friends with children who also know me as UNCLE Catman. And their parents, some who are not even as liberal with their views on language as SURPRISE me... My friend's husband saw a few threads and said "so these are the kind of people you hang out with. I'm disappointed in you."

Just watch the language please. There are other people are reading and their children are even reading too.

ON another note that bothers me:

1. I am NOT a Puritan
2. I am NOT advocating censorship or anything in that vein.
3. I like James' idea of a filter device to put asteriks in potentially bad words (I think they need to update the software though.)
4. I am NOT the KING of FLyertalk and I only made my views because I feel we can be classy and mature without being totally "adult."

I don't care if you agree or not. I'm just stating one CAT's Views.

Thank you for reading.
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