It was obvious spam, and your language wasn't all that bad. Compared with
the expanded vocabulary I learned in the U.S. Navy* it was very mild
indeed.

*I'm sure British Tars are far more polite. But then, nearly all I know
of
the subject I learned from Gilbert and Sullivan, and that is suspect...


Gary there is a time and place for everything. I was in the Royal Navy from
Lower Deck to Wardroom. I have also been in Industry having served an
apprenticeship in Shipbuilding and going on from the Factory floor to the
Board Room. I adopted a policy a long time ago not to swear. I have worked
with and in front of females and I was brought up to respect females and the
older generation, sorry if it is old hat, but it is old breeding.

ANYONE who swears in front of others, especially females, and/or on a
newsgroup such as this where we don't know who is reading, in my mind is
only fit for the gutter where such language belongs.

Mike
who doesn't knowingly lie either.

NOW watch the flack fly

Mike wrote:
[...] ANYONE who swears in front of others, especially females,
and/or on a
newsgroup such as this where we don't know who is reading, in my
mind
is only fit for the gutter where such language belongs.

Mike
who doesn't knowingly lie either.

NOW watch the flack fly

Can't offer flak, I'm afraid. But I don't patronise women by
adjusting my vocabulary for them.

--
Mike.

Mike Lyle wrote:
Mike wrote:
[...] ANYONE who swears in front of others, especially females,
and/or on a
newsgroup such as this where we don't know who is reading, in my
mind
is only fit for the gutter where such language belongs.

Mike
who doesn't knowingly lie either.

NOW watch the flack fly

Can't offer flak, I'm afraid. But I don't patronise women by
adjusting my vocabulary for them.

Sorry, forgot to add "...or by calling them 'females'".

--
Mike.

Sorry Mike, it was the way I was brought up. I still walk on the outside of
the pavement. I still open doors and stand back to let a lady/female call
them what you will go through. I still like to see the feminine gender, if
you prefer it that way, to be served first at the table and have told
waiters such, quietly and to one side I might add.

Sorry, blame in on my upbringing.

Another point which used to infuriate my wife and myself when we lived in
Leicester were the adverts for female staff, "Girls" for the shop floor,
"Ladies" for the offices.

Sorry, blame it on my parents, but I won't be changing now at my time of
life.

"Mike Lyle" wrote in message
...
Mike Lyle wrote:
Mike wrote:
[...] ANYONE who swears in front of others, especially females,
and/or on a
newsgroup such as this where we don't know who is reading, in my
mind
is only fit for the gutter where such language belongs.

Mike
who doesn't knowingly lie either.

NOW watch the flack fly

Can't offer flak, I'm afraid. But I don't patronise women by
adjusting my vocabulary for them.

Sorry, forgot to add "...or by calling them 'females'".

--
Mike.

Why not go full hog and call 'em ladies.....H

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from "Harold Walker" contains these words:

Sorry, forgot to add "...or by calling them 'females'".


Why not go full hog and call 'em ladies.....H

Because that's a very precise term, often loosely applied.

--
Rusty
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"Jaques d'Alltrades" wrote in message
k...
The message
from "Harold Walker" contains these words:

Sorry, forgot to add "...or by calling them 'females'".


Why not go full hog and call 'em ladies.....H

Because that's a very precise term, often loosely applied.

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

Being polite one night in Picadilly circus I used the work lady as in "no
thanks lady" and the response was "I aint no lady"....believe she was
thinking in terms of 'Lady of the Night"....which I suspected she was...H

The message
from "Harold Walker" contains these words:
"Jaques d'Alltrades" wrote in message
k...
The message
from "Harold Walker" contains these words:

Sorry, forgot to add "...or by calling them 'females'".

Why not go full hog and call 'em ladies.....H

Because that's a very precise term, often loosely applied.

Being polite one night in Picadilly circus I used the work lady as in "no
thanks lady" and the response was "I aint no lady"....believe she was
thinking in terms of 'Lady of the Night"....which I suspected she was...H

That's a standard (egalitarian) response from a woman with no
aspirations to grandeur.

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
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