(September 26, 2012 at 6:34 am)Zen Badger Wrote: But then, most mechanics are pragmatic enough to realise that "fuck" and "cunt" and similar words are just that, words.
Absolutely. It has been said that there's no such thing as bad language, only bad people; and they can be bad in any language.
Offensive language, now, that's another subject. Personally I find a hefty percentage of the judgemental vocalisations emanating from the relevant orifices of self-aggrandised moral guardians deeply offensive, but on such differences of opinion does the world turn.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'