[Noisebridge-discuss] unannounced groups of non-members at Noisebridge (esp. kids)

[Al Billings]

On 6/1/09 2:42 PM, Jason Dusek wrote:
> 2009/06/01 Al Billings<albill at openbuddha.com>:
>    
>> I don't know about other kids but my daughter certainly has
>> heard a few swear words before.
>>      
>    Yeah, but schools/teachers don't want to take the rap for
>    "real life" stuff like that. The connection between "hacker
>    space" and lots of R-rated material is not apparent to most
>    people -- it was not even clear to me, at first.
>
>    

Maybe we have different ideas of "normal" speech. After all, my dad was 
a shipwelder and his dad was a Teamster.

Are we really concerned about people swearing in front of kids? Most 
people self-censor pretty well.

Al