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Re: Swearing in public

Darren Ferguson — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:43:57 -0000

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'It’s been a good two years since I’ve been out of high school'

I would have reacted as you did when I was a kid. Now in my 30's I'm a little more reserved with my language in public places.

Just a part of growing up.

Re: syslogd and my wondering wtf is going on

sbostedor — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:52:20 -0000

syslogd is the daemon that handles logging. I would check your system logs to see what is writing so many log entries that it's causing this to spike.

Re: Swearing in public

robrogan — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:13:45 -0000

Yell FUCK in public *may* cause some 102 year old sweet great grandma to have a heart attack. But that aside, I think there are two ways to look at it: the practical and the social/etiquette.
The practical view is that kids learn to swear and do so at a very young age. I remember cursing in every other sentence by the third grade on the playground. Of course I never dared to do that in front of my parents, so I assume they're clueless to that behavior (unless they did it themselves at that age). So probably, most parents think that their children are currently innocent in many aspects and that being unexpectedly exposed to things like curse words, they are now tainted. Hard to imagine that their child (had you never sworn next to them in the mall) would live his life w/o cursing. It's just an appearance thing. Which is why I think there's the social view to it that is way separate from the practical. Since the practical says, don't bother sheilding your child, he will find it on his own (ie I couldn't watch rated R movies with sex, but saw porn on the internet with friends in the 5th grade).

Anyway, the social view is simply that children are 'blank slates' as Rousseau puts it, and it's a parent's duty to cultivate the best damn "slate" out of their kid as they can. So obviously, keeping it from undesirable influences is important. Unfortunately that's impractical.

So because those two points of view are almost equally imporatant, it stands that perhaps both of you were wrong.
-You were "bad" in the social view, for tainting the poor innocent child. And rather or not anything *practically* bad happened, you should be respectful of the general moral/cultural expectation of acting in public.
-The father was wrong to even bother yelling at you, and impolite to impede on your right to speak what you want to speak since you are your own, free person. He should understand that to guard his child is pointless and that your behavior was impeding on his dream more than it was on his child's developmental path.
You can live by one of the two rules, both, or neither... haha
In my view, there is no correct answer for behavior in stuff like this... I generally choose to fit mostly with what's appropriate to our culture simply so that I don't get yelled at. If I felt like it was hindering my personal liberty though, I suppose I wouldn't do that.

Long comment turned into a blog of its own. Sorry.

Re: A sleepy insomniac

robrogan — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 07:31:47 -0000

That sounds like a minor version of the effects Beckey's meds gave me.
Or, as I described it, and she verified, it was like having ADD times 10 (or like the most severe form) combined with insomnia, because the pill is still releasing the chemicals, my body is feeling kind of tired around 3:30 now, but my mind is racing like I just saw a real UFO and I need to tell you.
lol
Although, I do feel a lot like that when I'm not on the drug, but I am more able to sleep. Some days I sit at the computer and I don't realize how late it is, some days I realize how late it is and it requires a pzizz to help me sleep when I know I should be tired.