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by AtomKraft » Wed Mar 23, 2022 10:40 am
Well, you would say that boac- because you lefty types love to limit the discussion to content that fits your own ever-narrower Overton Window.
For my part, nothing typed on a forum will offend me, and I've spent my entire life, as have most of us in aviation, trying my best to use language (all of it) to communicate as clearly and succinctly as possible- including 'swearing'.
Sometimes, there's little to replace it.
I like to use naughty words to communicate emphasis, strength of feeling or frustration, amongst other things.
For brevity and clarity, there's little to compare with that well known British phrase, of which the second word is 'off'.
The ever-so-useful 'F-word' is seen these days as very much less offensive than in the past, and to hear it usefully employed on BBC TV and Radio, not to mention YouTube etc is extremely common these days- albeit not everywhere.
In a forum populated mainly by robust people, like pilots (OK, like pilots used to be...) is to me, completely inoffensive.
As I mentioned earlier (but you deleted it) in a forum devoted to Nannying (looking after other peoples children), certainly its use is mostly inappropriate. But this forum isn't that, although you seem to be trying to make it so.
