Dear Americans,

[blamebrampton]

On the whole, I love you. I have long loved many of your countrymen, sometimes from afar as with Frank Capra and Katherine Hepburn, and sometimes from up close as with some very lucky young people in the 1980s and '90s.

I think your land is beautiful, your governments uniformly mad, your religious leaders alternately inspiring and depressing and your jazz miraculous.

But.

I would like to impose a rule on you all. If you cannot say the word penis, you may not handle, draw, write about or otherwise involve yourself with them. Babytalk derivatives do not count. Similarly, the F-bomb and C-bomb may no longer be. "That person used an expletive I am not comfortable with" or "Fuck me! She said cunt!" are your two options.

That is all, please go about your business.

With love,
Brammers

Comments

[luthien82]

*lol* What happened?

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

One of my comms has some really sweet and enthusiastic young people who will regularly say things along the lines of "a bit of peen in this one" and "I drop the F-bomb a few times!" in their warnings. I can actually deal with that 95% of the time, because I just imagine they are all secretly Amish and typing furtively in the stables.

An hour ago, fresh home from work, I did the thing I like to do once every few weeks and just clicked a random link. Where Harry described how much he loved Draco's peen. And once I finished laughing ...

[libby-drew.livejournal.com]

because I just imagine they are all secretly Amish and typing furtively in the stables.

I just spit my coffee everywhere.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Sorry! I hope it was instant ...

[daybreaq.livejournal.com]

As a forty year old (Ack!!!) American, I've never heard the term "peen" until reading this. So I don't think it's so much an American thing as the latest teen slang. I suspect they think it sounds cool rather than "secretly Amish."

Kids are cute really.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I suppose you're right and it's not their fault. And at least they're playing with gay porn rather than reading about Britney -- I find that strangely comforting.