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   JOE MACKEY to GEORGE POPE   
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   14 Mar 22 06:45:52   
   
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     CP wrote --   
      
   > But, yeah, more likely just his unthinking habit.   
      
     That's it in a nutshell, "unthinking habit".   
     So much is said/done without thinking and after awhile it becomes a habit   
   that one doesn't even notice, and worse when others do it around that   
   person, which re-enforces it to be "normal" (everyone else is doing it).   
        
   > Yup, it's tough with a higher up; you just have to grin(grit) & accept it.   
      
     A co-worker told this person once not to use that language around her and   
   he pretty much stopped, around her.  Of course he was speechless a lot of   
   the time.  :)   
      
   > I used that language, as a kid   
      
     I never did, nor did my parents or siblings or many I was associated   
   with, for the most part.   
        
   > & as a teen, hanging out with 'the bad crowd',    
      
     Yep.   
     There were one or two other kids I knew who did, but not close friends of   
   any sort.   
       
   > my partents, even at my worst.   
      
     I would have soon learned what a bar of soap tasted like if I had.   
     Kids today (broadly speaking) have little discipline at home.  That is   
   now viewed as some sort of repression of their expression.   
     Joe   
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