Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:28:01 11/03/00
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On November 03, 2000 at 02:11:01, Ratko V Tomic wrote: >> I am still wondering if this is completely cultural, > >I think it was mostly cultural. In most places, including my old country, that >word doesn't make nearly as big a splash as it does here, in US. Coincidentally, >the toilets here are also designed to have much larger standing water pool than >anywhere else I travelled to. > >> or if this is a case of two different types of thinking: >> >> 1) People who view CCC as a collection of adults. >> >> 2) People who wouldn't talk that way around kids, and >> view CCC as "around kids". >> ... > >I was just about to comment here, on these two different types, when a sudden >twitch of my pinky reminded me that the local PeeCee Cell would promptly >dispatch their anti-sexism squad to go after me. > >> If you are a parent, and your kid says, "oh shit" loudly and publicly >> when he falls down, what do you do? > >My wife would tell them to say "fiddle sticks." And I would tell them, "your mom >would tell you to say fiddle sticks." I would probably say "Goddammit, watch what you are doing, that is a good way to get hurt." :) Then my wife would erupt. :)
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