This 'thought' contains a number of obscenities, expletives, and content that would be considered unsuitable for children by any decent parent.
For this reason, not only is it rated with the PICS scheme, you have to actively click on the link below in order to read the document. The link is not forced on you. You must choose to click it.
What's it all about?
My mother was sent the following email:
hey. i dont want to worry you but i am seriously scared for your sons mental he alth. i am a doctor and after examining his web page i have come to the conclus ion that he needs help. and fast before it is too late and he ends up being hos pitalised because of his conditions. if you have any questions please e-mail me at idontlikethedrugsbutthedrugslikeme[...]@hotmail.com
As all email passes through my eyes (I'm the debatcher!), I intercepted this lame insinuation and wrote a reply to it. Obviously I was angry.
Hence the vulgarisms. But it got me to thinking. I am what I am and I have - as you may have noticed - a peculiar take on life, yet my "conditions" might end me up in hospital. What, is the stuff I write classic for hardened drug users? Or maybe I'm just cynical and bored-already without the need for a 'Habit'?
I bring all of this into question. But since I was angry when I wrote it, it is littered
with swear words. This, I am slightly ashamed of, because we're always taught that only
illiterate losers swear. Oh, and angry people too.
But I bluntly refuse to edit the article. The reason why is given at the end.
Either you accept, or ignore, the language and read it for what it is...
...or you go away and read something else. Typing a common phrase into Google brings up fourteen million matches, so there is no shortage of stuff to read on-line, okay?
Final time - you MUST click on the link below to read this 'thought'...
If you're an irate parent who has found your child reading my article with all of its swear
words, hopefully your browser history has brought you here. Hopefully you read the above text a
little better than your child did.
Do not write to me to complain about my language. If you really do feel like venting steam, go
ahead, hatemail once in a while reminds me that people are actually reading this stuff (hello
Clive!)...
Don't bother to quote the communications decency act at me. I'm not American.
Don't bother to threaten to close down my host. Despite what you might think, I am allowed
to express my opinions and I have made it pretty clear in two different ways that the content is
not suitable for children or the easily offended.
So, take your argument to whoever you feel might listen, from the media to religious fanatics to
politicians. Ask them to email me too, I'll quite happily defend my side of the argument...
Just don't expect me to edit or remove the article in question. Because when you really
look at it, there is only one person at fault. You.
You should better look after your children when they are unleased on the Internet.
There isn't one month goes by that some trashy newspaper reports on the porn and sleaze rife on
the internet - so to actually allow a youngster on with little in the way of supervision, that is
just plain irresponsible.
Oh, and don't trot out the "I don't understand computers" rubbish. Go find yourself a
night-school course. Go chat up a local nerd and ask if s/he will explain the basics to you. What
you are doing is essentially giving your child a power drill, then like acting totally surprised
if you find the odd hole drilled in the walls.
Get a clue, and do it now before you child stumbles across something much more insidious than
the crap that I write...
Thank you.