People who swear all the time

Please read my previous post.

If you think its only the lower classes who swear then you are woefully inexperienced when it comes to the uppers.

Agree. Some people seem to replace "um" or another filler with "fuck". My ex neighbour used to use it as a noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, adjective and exclamation, sometimes within the same monologue. If he was doing so deliberately it would have been impressive but an average speech went like "alright you fucker, how you fucking doing? I'm so fucking pissed, I went gym and only fucking pressed 180, it's fucking shit, I'm fucking fucked off."

And there are obviously some places you wouldn't swear e.g. work meeting with a client.

I once said “bollocking” in a job interview. I realised as soon as I’d said it and was thinking “Shit, did I really just say that?”, but I had to just keep talking, or I would have got completely distracted and lost my thread.

I got the job 😄

@TheSassyTraybake I didn't say that I don't swear, you need to brush up your reading comprehension skills. What a ridiculous over the top reaction. Stop pretending that it isn't true just because you don't like it and cut out the faux naivety.
I know lots of middle class people who swear regularly in public. I don't care what class you are you are - lots of aristocrats swear constantly. However, whatever their income I think swearing constantly in public is nasty and unnecessary and shows a lack of consideration for other people

I swear more than I should, I notice when I am around non family or work as I consciously don't.
However to me there is a big difference between swearing generally in conversation for emphasis and swearing AT people, or even about people.
The first might be a bit uncouth but doesn't bother me, the latter can be really aggressive and just nasty.

'What the fuck are you doing?' Is borderline, but less offensive than 'fucking stop that'

Exactly this but a lot of posters never let the facts get in the way of a good pile on!

you would not be thrilled if you went to see for example a surgeon and they swore every other word. Or a barrister. That’s is not to say they don’t swear at all but when it’s used as a filler word rather than an expletive that’s the issue.

however don’t be like my husband who years ago asked someone to stop swearing in front of his wife ie me. Don’t bring me into it!

Swearing is so context dependent, isn’t it. I have a friend who swears like a sailor. Her DC have grown up round it. Every sentence would usually have a “fucking” in there somewhere. All 3 of her DC have grown up and done very well for themselves, so clearly never did them any harm. She was an excellent mum and although she swore a lot, she never called her kids nasty names - so there’d be a bit of “stop fucking around” but never anything like “you little shit”.

I swear, but not as much and it depends where I am. Current workplace no. Previous workplaces yes. Round my own DC yes (although moderately even now they’re grown up), never around other people’s. Out and about where what I say will be clearly overheard, no. Socialising at the pub at normal
volume heard only on my table, yes.

I don’t really care about swearing, although it makes for a very long sentence if literally every other word is a swear word…

That if you weren’t born into a middle class, well off family you’re a scumbag was my interpretation. @AmadeustheAlpaca might not swear but appears to me to be pretty terrible person. I’d rather swear a bit and be a decent human being.

What exactly are you trying to imply?

Agreed. In the same way I’m not impressed by OPs moral high ground.

I always wonder which an individual who dislikes swearing finds more egregious - that another autonomous adult uses a vocabulary of which they disapprove, or that they care nothing for their disapproval?

Snap

Unless some dickhead cuts me up, then I do but only realise when my DD points out that I said 'a swear'

I don't particularly mind swearing, although I don't like people doing it liberally in front of children. But like so many other social mores, it ain't what you say its the way that you say it...

Occasional, well-placed and colourful expletives when they are deserved are absolutely fine in my book (yes even sometimes around children). A harmless bit of expressive catharsis and light relief.

F-ing and blinding constantly is ugly and the swearing loses its power and becomes part of the fabric, making the swearer seem brutal, ill-educated and lacking in self-awareness. If it's a stream of consciousness with f-ing this and f-ing that every third or fourth noun it lends itself to a sense of stupidity, brutality and an inability to read other people's needs.

There’s a time and a place to swear.

i was out to dinner on Saturday and it was only 6pm and my friend was telling a story (loudly) with tonnes of sweating. There were kids next to us and it made me cringe.

if it had been 9pm I wouldn’t have cared because the parents would have made the decision to be in an adult space at that time.

What a wonderfully judgmental post.

Now that was just the first article that came up when I Googled having read similar things before, but Professor Emeritus I’m guessing means pretty qualified, phone him and tell him he’s stupid if you like but he’s more than likely much brighter than you.

To summarise, and in the spirit of the thread, if you don’t like it feel free to fuck off!

It's the ones with every other word is a swear, that gets me., Either in real life or a film, peppered into every sentence. It's not offensive to me, it's just annoying. Would be the same if they said for example 'banana' in every sentence. Jarring and unnecessary

reminds me when a poster said they hated all the swearing on MN and a poster replied “fuck of then cuntychops “

There's always someone who quotes this stupid statistic in threads like this. There are clearly lots of intelligent trustworthy people who live in the deprived areas of town who are well known to social services.

Would you? By who?

My recent ex swore in every sentence is really irritated me. Apparently all scosers swear. I hate it.

I assume they have a limited vocabulary and intelligence

I can (and often do) swear like a trooper but not in public/in front of colleagues, and never in the company of children. Usually when trying to catch a horse that's refusing to be caught or at my evil cockerel when he stealth sneaks up behind me and launches an attack 😂
It does make me cringe when people drop the f bomb into every sentence. Or casually use the c word.

I wonder if we were on the same bus, I had a woman like this a couple of days ago on the bus. She sounded thick as shit (sorry for the swear word but she did)

I swear A LOT but never ever in front of kids (I don’t have any but I’m always aware if there are any nearby). In my garden is different though, I don’t filter my language when I’m gardening.