I except this as a most reasonable response.
Thank You
Keep Playing,Thats what I'm doing.

Does anyone see my offensive word? neither do I. I was simply curious,as to why such a small thing is so important. I know why people take offense to words. Humans are a contentious bunch(consider this thread) I would just like to know when people will stop empowering meaningless words,and empowering themselves instead. I see you are another who just wants people to go away(me?) Thats how we sovle a curious problem then,right?
I also do not have a point that needs to be proven. I am not here to change anyones mind or ask them to leave. I just like to talk.

"Asked and answered!" as my attorney colleagues would say.

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Isn't it interesting how anonymity brings out the aggression in people. I also went to law school,although I returned to engineering. In law there is a model used for developing anologies towards laws. The reasonable(and prudent) person. A non existant person with whom all things being equal is perfect in their considerations of things. A very important quality of this "person" is their questioning of all things. i.e Why. there are no genuine left or right or black and white answers to things. One must question,see prefix "quest". Seek answers,not bluster and puff. You did not answer the question you simply proffered your point then asked me to leave. A simpering tactic in debates. But thats okay as this is a guitar site. I will say that I had hoped for more discerning discourse. I suppose this is not the place. I do however enjoy the information on music and instrumentation having been buying and using Fender products going on forty years. I hope to continue bending this forums "cyber ear" and learning more about all this fun stuff.

good luck settling this. doubt you will.

BTW, I meant to ask, are there any Strats still being produced in Korea or Japan? How would you rate their quality? Which catalogue items would they be?

Ciao,
Johnny.

guys and girls when you bring an political correctness to such a degree your bound to raise some issues, so leave it alone, ive got a mex strat a usa strat and a $@! strat, i listen to brit pop and im a paddy (irish), I ride a black motorcycle and my favorite bass player Geddy Lee who is a canuck is a $@!, one of my favorite guitarists Ritchie Blackmore is a Brit. fellow irishman and one of the greatest artists Phil Lynott from Thin Lizzy was a black irishman, im not intending to purposely discredit or insult anybody but to prove a point thats the english language.

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12 guitars 2 hands not fair!

My wife, a personal injury/med mal attorney for over twenty years, now retired, has familiarized me well with the philosophy of the 'reasonable man.' I've also served as an expert witness, and written 'a few' opinions and briefs in my time.

The Fender Forum Rules are clear. I doubt that a 'reasonable man' would take issue with the company's right to have promulgated them, It is their field, their bat, their ball, their game. To date, the contributors herein, have had no issues with that. Excepting a few instances, less than the fingers on one hand, Brad has chosen not to exercise these rules to their fullest, when he has done so, it has been with our advice and consent.

Sampling other responses, a 'jury of your peers', so to speak, seems to have found for the company. In this jurisdiction, you have no recourse to appeal.

The company reserves the right to eschew the language the censorship of which you objected to, and has done so.

It's a tempest in a teapot which is not worth the brewing.

Doc.

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Of course your position is well taken. Eyerish has burr under the saddle about having been 'bleeped' so to speak. The media does it every day, in audio bleeps, in visual blurrs, at times to the ridiculous. Fender Forum has it's rules. We live with it. It's that simple.

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This forum is for the international language of the world, music. i dont see how this topic can be taken any further, Admin i propose you take this thread and put it in the bin, now lets talk more about music and guitars!

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+10

Crikey!

There was some fun stuff to be said on this topic - but not when it's so heated!

Maybe it's a good thing certain words are "bleeped", or by now we might have heard them thrown around on this one.

Let's be nice to each other - and to the Japanese. I like them and their gear!!

Cheers - C

Claude.

You mentioned Blackmore and Lynott in the same post...sweet! Ritchie has the tapes of him, Lynott and Ian Paice jamming...it was going to be a band before Ritchie decided to reform Purple and record the Burn album. I'd love to hear those tapes

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Now there's a departure from the subject at hand for certain.

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I can't beleive this %6$3 is *&)% then you go and %$#^$# and the next thing you no $%*^$% and then $%@# so just tell me why they #$@& at this time of $%%# in the world? WELL?

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