Well now I've been educated. But I probably learned something other than the intended lesson.

[heaven05]

75. In my

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experience with americans, I have found them to be HYPOCRITICAL, preening, oh so self righteous word police who pick certain words to be offended about while screaming bloody murder about words some deemed offensive in our lexicon. All of the British flavored shows I've experienced have used words like the one under discussion, liberally, in their culture. Don't mean nothing. Here in our country because of the usage, liberally, of the n.....word, the c... word, the k... word, the g... word, the w.. word, the s... word, the sand n..... word and the h..... word we have tried to eradicate and/or police linguistic behavior and it is not possible to do. Yes, all those words are extremely offensive to some segments of our population and should not be used in polite company. But you can be damn sure in private company all those words are used every day by multitudes of americans. The overbearing word police tend to sound silly, in my book, when they start screaming about word usage that WILL NEVER DISAPPEAR and most of them in private company use them also. Look how long, for example, the n..... word has been used in this country to describe a race of people. At least 400 years. It's still here and with the current political/sociological climate, being used a lot, even as a description of our POTUS. Americans are a joke trying to police every word in the world and get arrogantly stupid when the policing is not successful. Just my take on this discussion. Bravo you are a 'real one' in my book. That's a positive thing to any word police who might take umbrage to that term.