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37. Context is everything as far as I'm concerned...

I'll be upfront. While I don't use the offending word much, I've uttered it in real life about our RW politicians, and sometimes used it when someone steals my carpark. And I've been called it as a greeting thing between friends a few times, but it's all good coz of where I live and the word doesn't have the same usage here...

But I won't call anyone it at DU. I will utter it without the stup*d asteri*k if there's a discussion of the word itself. And that's because that's very different than aiming it at someone in anger. I was just on a jury for a post where the blanked out weird version of the word was used, and I voted to leave it because it's so stupid to alert on a discussion on the use of the word where the sanitised G-rated version is used. And I know I'm safe as houses and won't get nuked or censured in any way because I'm pretty much 100% sure that Skinner and EarlG get the whole context thing...

I get that what NYC_SKP did was use a spoonerism a nuked troll he was replying to had used, but what he did was pretty stupid. He should have stuck to my guidelines for use of the word and he would have been fine...