Posted by morgan miller on January 31, 2011, at 23:10:14
In reply to Re: blocked for 5 weeks, posted by ed_uk2010 on January 31, 2011, at 15:59:51
> > > As for the asterisking.. I don't get it, really. Would it have been fine had I written "sh*t"?
> >
> > Yes.
> >
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> Not sure why? Everyone knows what it means.
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> It's very American, like when you show the breast but blank out the nipple.
>It's a Puritan thing. I'm not sure people from other countries realize that the majority of America no longer follows many of the more rigid Puritan values and ways that were set in place 3 hundred years ago.
poster:morgan miller
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