How about an agreement also not to use what they used to call '4-letter words' [a usage started in the Lady Chatterley trial iirc] quite so readily, even with asterisks? One gets so tired of the constant reiteration of 'fuck' and 'cunt' and 'shit', or even 'f**k' &c. When I joined the Cat 4 years ago, I used to employ such, as everyone else did so. But then I realised the extent to which such knee-jerk obscenity, apart from the filthy-manneredness of it all, so counter-productively detracted from the effect of one one said, and resolved to stop such locutions ~~ a resolution which I have, I think, maintained about 98%, with just the very occasional lapse in moments of high stress or dudgeon; and have become something of a joke in some circles, I am told, for falling back on such unspeakable obloquies as 'scoundrel' or, in moments of real anger, 'swine'. I really do, seriously, think the Cat would be a much more agreeable environment without all of this tiresome, tedious, relentless fucking·&·blinding.

~M~