[Magdalen] The Deen controversy

[Jay Weigel]

I'm right there with you, Marion. My language won't pass muster with the
Altar Guild either, and frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn <g> Although
I never did release an F-bomb in front of my parents........

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I wouldn't survive in today's climate.  Although that sort of thing wasn't
> tolerated at home, my mother did speak of a touch of the tar brush and of
> priest-ridden bog Irish and such like, which to my credit I don't.
>  However, spending a lot of years  in close proximity to the military and
> being quick to adopt the lingua franca of whomever I associated with, I
> have a pretty salty turn of language, much of which I don't even hear
> myself saying, especially if caught off-guard by something.  Dear heaven, I
> shocked an Altar Guild lady when I said that I was pissed off about
> something.
>
> Oh well.  There it is.  Mea maxima culpa.
>
> Marion
> On 9/24/2014 11:44 AM, M J [Mike] Logsdon wrote:
>
>> The complaint came from an employee. Words like this ***used
>>>>>
>>>> in the workplace *** are unacceptsble IMO. And actionable-M<<<
>>
>> Absolutely.  But considering how "Both sides agreed to dismiss the
>> lawsuit 'without any award of costs or fees to any party'" (Wikipedia),
>> Food Network Etc should have been willing to accept her apology/explanation
>> and merely monitor the situation from there, like any good network should
>> do.  Even "Former President Jimmy Carter urged that Deen be forgiven,
>> stating, 'I think she has been punished, perhaps overly severely, for her
>> honesty in admitting it and for the use of the word in the distant past.
>> She's apologized profusely'" (also Wiki).
>> _________________________________________
>> "O perplexed discomposition, O riddling
>> distemper, O miserable condition of man!"
>> - The Rev Mr John Donne
>> (in a not-so-chipper moment)
>> .
>>
>>
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