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In article et, "Dwight
Stewart" writes: "N2EY" wrote: The days when the nests were all empty by the time Mom and Dad hit 50 are long gone, Dwight. And that's in "typical" America. That may be typical in your world. It's typical in much of the USA. However, I haven't met a single 40 or 50 year old recently with a young child. Do *you* have reason to meet such people, Dwight? How many "parent's nights" have you spent recently at the local elementary school? In fact, I only remember meeting one in my entire life - a couple with an adopted child. Whatever the case, I haven't seen it to be commonplace. But you've spent a good part of your adult life outside the USA, haven't you, Dwight? Why does that matter? You may have noticed that I don't talk about my domestic situation here. It matters only in the context of the discussion - how many in our age group have young children. Just among my family, friends and acquaintances, the number of families with at least one parent over 40 and at least one child under 10 exceeds 40%. Suppose, just suppose, that I have 5 children ranging in age from toddlers to teenagers. (I don't, but that's not the point). Would you then say I was right and Kim's call was inappropriate? Have those supposed children also talked to Kim on the radio, hearing her callsign and making something out of it? You're avoiding the question. Lets not discuss hypothetical situations, Jim. Why not? Anything can be justified or condemned using that. Not true at all. And your source is? Fifty years of life, meeting thousands in that period. My 49+ years has resulted in meeting a lot of 40+ parents of small children. Do you consider that to be "old"? I don't. I consider it to be "middle aged". Forty or fifty is certainly not young. Not old either. Both. I say neither is appropriate. Appropriate for what? Appropriate for the amateur radio service, which should be G-rated. As I said earlier, it's not my job to decide what is appropriate for others in this world, or demand they conform to my ideas of what is appropriate. Either a call such as Kim's is appropriate for the ARS or it isn't. If you have no objection to it, you're saying it's appropriate, and therefore the rest of us should accept it. Well, I don't. Period. You and Kim keep using the term "vukgar" actually, "vulgar" rather than addressing whether it's "appropriate". I've addressed the issue of appropriateness several times. And you think it is. 73 de Jim, N2EY |
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