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Re: WILL.I.AM's comment on Einstein
I've contemplated this for a few days now. I don't think the problem is that we haven't heard the words before - in fact I've heard at least some of them in church. Probably FLL'ers have heard them before too.
My concern is not the appropriateness of the language, but the appropriateness of it in that setting. If it was just words, there wouldn't be these huge discussions going on. Let's face it, the words are being discussed because of their shock value. No one expected to hear them onstage at FIRST.
I worked at a company with a VP of Manufacturing who seemed incapable of putting more than 3 words together without including a cuss word. Maybe he "came up thru the ranks" or maybe he thought it gave him cred with the union, I don't know. All I know is that it made me uncomfortable hearing him talk in a business meeting.
I think that's the issue we have here. When we have to mark videos of it NSFW, should we have applied the same to CMP? I wonder if it will have an effect on sponsors or schools, who might not be impressed.
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