BushidoTiger's response was mostly, if not entirely, rational and grounded on reality, and I would have said the same thing. It was not "rude" by any definition. Offensive? Literally, yes. Bushido was on the offense because that's how these things should be dealt with.
Emoticons, i.e., EMOTional ICONs, are there so that people can express their feelings like they do in real life.
And about the G rating, it's worthless. If you think the kids who visit this site don't already know or will never know the stuffs that are regularly censored here, you are sorely mistaken. And sometimes the censorship goes to a ridiculous extreme. For example, Chinaman (this is not a personal attack against him, but a random example) deleted the word "coward" yesterday. In my opinion, such ridiculousness is a systemic byproduct of censorship.
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