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Message: [QUOTE="Mark McIntyre, post: 2437730"] Indeed you did. indeed you can. No offense, but I have to say that the expletive I used is a ludicrous one to get worked up about, and one needs to take great care not to take righteous indignation at offense to one's sense of morality too far. There are other codes of morality, other levels of offense which differ from your own. You cannot expect the entire of usenet to fit in with your code. I work in the City where as I'm sure you're aware its commonplace for traders to call their brokers the sort of thing that'd make a boilermaker wince. The word I used earlier is one that is so inoffensive in my line of work, and for that matter in my private life, that its not even an expletive. One might casually say "its a bit of a b***er isn't it?" referring to a bad footie result or having to work late on a friday. I fully appreciate you have a different moral code, and take offense at such words. Thats unfortunate but this message *isn't* a private email, nor is it a conversation in your house. Its a conversation in the equivalent of a smoky pub, which you just happened to listen in on. Would you actually tap someone on the shoulder in a pub or at the railway station and tell them to mind their language? Perhaps you would. If, after all this, you choose to killfile me, thats your decision. Frankly i'd consider it a shame. You may want to consider whether you're doing precisely what I was doing earlier, vis overreacting. [/QUOTE]