Posted by oracle on July 12, 2002, at 21:42:12
In reply to socially appropriate behavior » Ron Hill, posted by beardedlady on July 12, 2002, at 15:06:34
> In my circle of friends, cussing is socially appropriate. Those who choose to do it aren't any less adult than anyone else. That something doesn't fall into the psychobabble rules of civility doesn't make it socially inappropriate. And no one was suggesting mental disorders were an excuse for anger and incivility.
Same here, cussing is great stress release ! %^$$T% *(&&% *&^%&^& (oracle laffs)
"socially appropriate" is not what I have in mind.
Not adult to me ment to more overt posts/persons.
Really rude or nasty.Everyone who responded to my post is someone who I respect
very much. I enjoy all of your posts. I was taken
a back (not in a bad way) by beardedlady's post,
she is someone I really respect. I think pehaps some
had a different idea of the behaviors I ment.
This is a flaw of this medium, it is so easy
to interprate this in different ways.It sure does not help that I am often very blunt.
We are all lucky this is not 1990, and I am posting !
It has gotten better. The problem with short and blunt
is it is hard to really know exactualy what I ment.
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