I won't address this to any one person so hopefully I won't hurt anyones feelings.
Having been born & raised on "The River" and spending a lot of time with the commercial fishermen growing up, I can assure that the "B" word is a rather mild word in my rather extensive vocabulary, and doesn't cause me to shudder if I hear it. Those who know me know I've never been adverse in using four letter words either.
With that said I don't know what Josh can do to trim the objectionable word list down. It might be "hard-wired" into the program, or more than likely it's either "on" or "off", with no way of selecting those words no one has objections to.
So, it doesn't really make any difference to me if I can use a word or not. Seems like a lot of fuss over virtually nothing. The argument that we're all adults on here is facetious at best since we have no way of knowing the age of anyone here, or whether they find mild or harsh gutter language objectionable.
In most cases I try to write on these Forums in a way that any age group can read what I say without their parents feeling they have to censor the Forum from them.
Asking for an opinion poll of who cares, or doesn't care, whether we control the language is also facetious since everyone knows that 10% of the people do 100% of the emailing here, or on any Forum, and the rest never say a word one way or another. They will cast their vote by leaving!
The other thing to remember is that Josh is the sysop here and in that role is the next thing to God. I have no idea how Josh feels about this situation, but as far as I'm concerned I'll leave it up to him how he wants to run this Forum, since I think he's done a pretty good job of it so far.
The hard truth is, if you feel your rights are being trampled on by not being able to use certain words, then it is also your right to find a Forum that suits your tastes better.
Actually I get quite a kick out of seeing the word "thingy" used in reference to the shortened version of Richard.
PETE