Sorry, but the burka pales to insignificance....

Don't disagree with you jingle but I certainly don't like your heading.

I'm not a prude - far from it - but I agree with you on both scores, kitty.

Is that really your best response?

Some things need strong language.

Counterproductive for me, jingl - you could have drawn attention to this much more effectively.

Counter-productive?! What on earth do you mean by that?!

I think anyone who uses that f word must need to find a much better one probably the best place is in a dictionary.You can buy these in W>H>Smith or any good book shop.

Hitting a nail with a sledgehammer does not get it to go into the wood any quicker, it just bends the nail.

FGS are we all so mealy mouthed that we object to a swear word and can't get beyond that?

Not mealy mouthed and I did get beyond the F-word. I took J's point, however crudely she may have signposted it.

Anno

As did I, as I said in my post. Some people, but not me, find swear words offensive and wouldn't get past the heading which surely defeats the object of posting.

Agree with OP but also agree with kitty and anno. jings would you use that word in front of your GC? Don't get me wrong I have been known to use it myself but it actually takes the power of your heading away.

The video and song are very moving. We all feel helpless in this war but at least we can donate to a charity like Children in Need who are respected and whose aid workers are risking their lives working in a war zone.

Sorry. Are someone's grandsons reading this?!

j08 We don't agree, I know, about the need for western intervention, but I absolutely agree with your sentiment in this post. Surely we should be more outraged and shocked by what is happening in Syria (and about the various countries that have sold chemicals to it and other countries in the past and who continue to arm the various factions) than about what is a fairly commonplace swear word these days.

I'm leaving this now. I don't want it to go down the usual road.

Thanks though Aka and Eloethan, for your posts

I agree, Eleothan, we should be offended in proportion to the offence. I don't like the swear word particularly, but it got people into the thread, didn't it???

It got people discussing the unnecessary language, rather than the stuff Jo8 was protesting about Hence a counterproductive title

Ever wondered why the press uses asterisks in some of their quotes???

Mmmm. Yes. I see what you mean.

Sorry pedants some of its quotes.

Just because the burka/niqab is being discussed doesn't mean Syria or any other horror can't be discussed equally.
These things aren't rationed, so multiple threads could started without any need for swearing.

If some posters find swearing more objectionable and comment-worthy than the issue in question, that is hardly*j08*'s fault surely.

Fuck is a commonly used word in the world at large these days, all over tv programs and used frequently by the younger generations.