To be on the safe side, since I don't read all the threads (and hadn't read that one (around then I was havig computer problems I think), I ought to have written:"the tone of discourse on this has generallystayed pretty courteous towards each other."

But in fact, when I followed up that link Nigel gave, I didn't really think it crossed the line - all right, Shambles was being a bit over emphatic in his atempt to get people to react to a particular situation, but there weren't any interpersonal attacks.

I don't think courtesy is determined primsarily by whether people use or avoid using taboo words, but by whether they listen to what the other person is saying and avoid being rude to them in their response.