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"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."
“I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.”
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It's not the words that we use specifically, it is how we behave. I'm not a puritan, I fully expect swearing in conversation, it's a useful form of communication. But what happened in PB7 wasn't acceptable IMO, and the language used there was used in a different context. The context can't be moderated except by banning posters.
However, all this is mute: this is a private forum, free speak doesn't apply etc and T-hawk is the benevolent overlord that can ban us for all eternity.
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*moot
Unless you were making a clever pun 
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I have a bad sense of humour, I admit it...
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Nicolae Carpathia Wrote:clever pun
Never seen such a beast. 
Krill, on the private forum issue, I personally take that as less of a reason to censor language just because some people get an attack of the vapours any time bodily functions are mentioned.
What happened in PB7 was out of bounds, but it was between two members, and I strongly adhere to the principle that the many should not be punished for the actions of the few (which is what a blanket censor filter would be).
But the point is moot as it was just a temporary fix to let tempers cool a bit and not a blanket ruling for ever more.
Travelling on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.
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Ruh roh...got a database error trying to visit Ichabod's profile.
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I got the same thing trying to visit Brick's profile
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ditto...
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I got it when trying to access Sunrise's. What's going on here? 
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...and mine, Krill's, dazedroyalty's, Nicolae Carpathia's, and ASM's. Not NobleHelium or Brian Shanahan yet. It seems to be spreading though. What is this?
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