Post by osrb on Aug 25, 2011 11:52:59 GMT -5
Marine Corps Times is a family newspaper and we only rarely have offensive language in our stories.
But this week the word “fart” appears in a story I wrote about the importance of trust between Marines and the Afghan national army soldiers they work with.
I didn’t want to write this little blog entry about farts. It’s not even on my beat. But my colleague Dan Lamothe, whose byline you have seen here quite often, shamed me into it.
“You owe it to all Marines,” he told me.
So here’s the news: audible farting has been banned for some Marines downrange because it offends the Afghans.
For Marines in Afghanistan: be careful where you fart
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The is one of the asinine things I have ever heard. They are in a country that thinks bathing is an evil western idea and people are worried about farting. This is just too wrong for words.
But this week the word “fart” appears in a story I wrote about the importance of trust between Marines and the Afghan national army soldiers they work with.
I didn’t want to write this little blog entry about farts. It’s not even on my beat. But my colleague Dan Lamothe, whose byline you have seen here quite often, shamed me into it.
“You owe it to all Marines,” he told me.
So here’s the news: audible farting has been banned for some Marines downrange because it offends the Afghans.
For Marines in Afghanistan: be careful where you fart
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The is one of the asinine things I have ever heard. They are in a country that thinks bathing is an evil western idea and people are worried about farting. This is just too wrong for words.
