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since when is the word ****ed? (Papa, India, Sierra, Sierra, Echo, Delta) automatically **** out? Is this what we can expect from the new administration?

I wasn't aware that PW has a new administration.

That word has been on the bleep list for quite sometime - at least a year or so.

And PW doesn't have a new administration. I believe he's talking about Obama.

I need the list, ****ed should be allowed vote up for ****ed!

I agree with the “administration” who ever that is.

I’m not a saint myself, and I can use an off-colored term on occasion, but the word in question is somewhat of an off-colored street term. In other words, it’s not a high-class word that high-class professionals usually use. It’s a street term that a lot of red-necks, thugs and gangs use.

Of course, if you were to say “you urinated me off”, it might be a little more politically correct, but still not very nice language on a public forum. Let’s keep the forum as civil and “G” rated as possible.

Best regards,

Rickster

I agree with Rickster. This is about the only forum that I have found that stays on topic and actually contains useful information. Base off -color language doesn't add to that.

What about out international friends? In England, the term means *drunk*

H1

I agre with Rickster. And as for the British, I know more about getting drunk then they do. And I don't have to use that word.So there!

censorship of any kind sucks to be honest

Only a government can censor in any meaningful sense. Any privately owned entity can set whatever rules they want in regards to language use.

hehe I don't want to get drawn into pointless semantics, as I am not particularly bothered. Personally I am not precious about what kind of language adults use when conversing with one another ,as I stopped blushing years ago but am happy to respect the rights of the forum owners etc. A little 'bad' language never hurt anyone - it's all there to be used as with any other form of expression

I don't see how profanity could add value to a piano forum. In any case there are better ways to express emotion than resorting to obscenities.

each to their own i guess, seems somewhat conservative to my mind but perhaps we are somewhat more liberal hereabouts

I come to this forum to GET AWAY from politics, especially this year. The old Coffee Room was rather rough and tumble. Frankly, I don't miss it.

Exactly!

I tried relaxing the rules, and it quickly turned nasty. Having grown up working in construction, on the sea (tug boats, fishing draggers, off-shore lobster boats, on the docks with the long-shoremen), and cross-country trucking, I'm no prude.

But I made a concious decision to keep things clean and G (or at the most PG) rated on the piano forums. This is a family friendly site, and I'd like to keep it that way.

As they might say in Leicester, a tempest in a teapot.

That thumbs up is for Frank's determination to maintain a family friendly site.

The economy is going down the toilet, and the piano industry led the way. We have more pressing issues to be concerned about. YMMV.

I rest my case - the administration has not changed.

"And that's a good thing!" (Thank you Martha Stewart)

Thank you Frank!

Yes, my liege.