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ORIGINAL: Arpig

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I honestly can not recall ever hearing cursing from peers til junior high school.....I still believe that any child who uses curse words at the age of 6 is only parroting what they ehar at home.  I have seen too many examples that prove this to be true in my 20 years working in elementary schools.

I could not recall saying that the only way kids learn to curse was from home, so I went looking to see if I had said it and forgotten.  The above is the closest I found, and it clearly states that "I have seen too many examples that prove it to be true in MY 20 years working in elementary schools.

You might want to look a little closer at what you said....I've bolded the relevant section for you...

Being disingenuous about what you said in a medium where what you said is permanently preserved is a pretty dubious tactic. Quoting the section where you did say what you claim you didn't say is a...well...lets just say its pretty special...in that short bus kind of way.

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ORIGINAL: GreedyTop

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if it was my daughter/niece/cousin/close friend/etc...   I'd smack her seven ways to sunday for being such an incosiderate/ill-mannered little twat.

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ORIGINAL: Arpig

That's odd Edwynn, because I just went back through the entire thread and ...

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You might want to look a little closer at what you said....I've bolded the relevant section for you...

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ORIGINAL: juliaoceania

I worked in customer service and I had a high tolerance for self absorbed stupid twats. That was what I got paid to put up with...

I just have a different opinion...

About a year ago I got REALLY mad at my cable company, as in seeing red mad. I was mad because they raised my bill by 50 bucks a month. The reason I got mad was because I got a phone call from one of their reps about how to continue to get the same rate on my tv and internet service even though my contract had expired. He told me that if I got a phone bundled on my service then I wouldn't have to pay anymore. I asked him three times to assure me that my bill would remain the same if I added the landline, and he said THREE times that it would. It didn't make sense to me, but hey, if he was promising my bill would remain the same by adding more services, I was in!

I didn't even own a phone at the time. I told the guy i had no interest in a phone, but he said in order to add the service I needed to get a phone. I went to the store and bought a phone for my unwanted and unneeded landline. I figured it was 25 bucks, and it would save me 30 a month....

When I got my bill I called to straighten it out and they repeatedly told me that I agreed to something I had not agreed to I was so pissed, yes, I lost my temper, yes I yelled. Yes, they had to transfer me, and in the end, they not only took off the extra charges, but they credited my account for the phone I bought.


Now, someone listening to portions of that phone call might think I was an out of line customer. I wasn't. I was a pissed off customer. And I was about two seconds away from firing their asses and going without TV ( that was the only service I could get in a historic building)

My point of relating the above is that I know from personal experience how frustrating it can be dealing with people on both sides of the equation. And even though I had never in my life yelled on a phone before, even I had my limits.

Such conversations shouldn't be aired for shits and giggles

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Such conversations should never happen.  If you can not right a wrong about a service issue without screaming and yelling to some poor sap who is making $10 an hour, you (generic you) deserve to be made fun of. 

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Such conversations should never happen.  If you can not right a wrong about a service issue without screaming and yelling to some poor sap who is making $10 an hour, you (generic you) deserve to be made fun of. 

If you are asking to be transfered to someone who can help you and being told repeatedly that you have ti wrong, when you don't you get frustrated... especially when you do not have the funds to pay the overcharge...

Some of us are pretty protective of our credit rating.

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Short bus kids are more exciting anyhow. Communication is not my strongest suit, so i will concede I sucked at making my point.

I do stick by the fact that the children I have had to deal with, who curse, have all learned it at home. As for the millions I have not had to communicate with the parents regarding, well, I never intended to speak of them.

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Wow. That's some seriously energetic tail-chasing there, with ostentatious finger wagging all at the same time.


Most impressive.


One can easily see how the minor detail of actually having a point might have been overlooked in all that.

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ORIGINAL: Arpig



Kids don't learn to swear at home, they learn at the park and playground, where they learn most of the important life skills.

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Short bus kids are more exciting anyhow. Communication is not my strongest suit, so i will concede I sucked at making my point.

I do stick by the fact that the children I have had to deal with, who curse, have all learned it at home. As for the millions I have not had to communicate with the parents regarding, well, I never intended to speak of them.

Fair enough. Let's consider this little issue resolved to the satisfaction of all parties, shall we? [:)]

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ORIGINAL: LadyConstanze

Topping, I can only say that your upbringing seems to be as different from mine as it possibly can be. I don't think I ever heard my parents swear and the swear words I brought home I lost fairly quick, let's just say swearing was strongly discouraged at home, you got one warning and you used that word again - well, being grounded just wasn't fun...