Time for me to put on the helmet. I'm taking on the b-word

Ellen Forradalom

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Fri Oct-19-07 01:42 PM
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Time for me to put on the helmet. I'm taking on the b-word

This time in connection with Benazir Bhutto. The B-Word is getting very tiresome indeed.

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MountainLaurel

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Fri Oct-19-07 01:54 PM
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1. Best of luck.

Do you have your flame-retardant suit on?

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Ellen Forradalom

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Fri Oct-19-07 02:03 PM
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2. You betcha.

Please keep a hose of water trained on me at all times. I'm going in!

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ThomCat

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Fri Oct-19-07 02:03 PM
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3. I don't think we'll ever get people to stop using

loaded language. They feel like it's their right to use slurs. x(

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Ellen Forradalom

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Fri Oct-19-07 02:04 PM
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4. But you all have given me the strength

to take it on. Otherwise I would not bother.

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Ellen Forradalom

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Fri Oct-19-07 02:05 PM
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5. Hey! There are FOUR posts calling him on it!

:wow:

hooray

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ThomCat

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Fri Oct-19-07 03:37 PM
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6. Actually, it's up to 7 people right now.

Yay! :P

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Ellen Forradalom

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Fri Oct-19-07 05:30 PM
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7. And the original post was deleted.

I'm glad to see there's some decency to be found.

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bliss_eternal

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Sat Oct-20-07 01:12 AM
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8. Nice work...!

:applause:
Sorry I'm so late to this. Looks like you did well, and the post was deleted. :bounce:
Thank you for speaking out against the word. I appreciate that so many in this group regularly stand up against negative language.

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iverglas

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Sat Oct-20-07 02:09 PM
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9. I do alert whenever I run across it

with reasonable success, I think.

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