To be appalled by the bad language used on this forum

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I know I will probably be shot down as I am a newbie on here but I recently found this site whilst searching for something and found the AIBU threads very interesting. I find it intriguing how different people react to the same situation and it really makes you realise that we are not all the same, and the world is better for it.

What I have found so appalling though is the frequent use of swearing throughout these posts. I have been truly shocked by this as it is a forum used mainly by parents. Is this the example to set children?

There is something about swearing in writing which makes it so much worse than in conversation, although that is not nice either. It seems so much more deliberate in writing.

When did it become acceptable to use such language unnecessarily and excessively just for effect?

Stoke on Trent? Is that near me (Louth)?

Erm have never heard of Louth before. Its 5 mins from Alton Towers and is famous for Robbie Williams and Anthea Turner

Err Louth. Lincolnshire Wolds. Sort of due east of Sheffield, trying very hard to think of someone famous.

Tennyson came from near here?

I know where it is, Vajazzle - I'm in Crewe. Lucky me

Ooh you mean that policewoman. Your not far from Stoke actually. Maybe the thunder will get to you in a couple of hours. Tis very windy and hailing here too.

Ooh Abby i have friends in Crewe, have you got thunder and hail too.

YY local news has just said storm on it's way. Um Tennyson the poet, don't think he was a policewoman.

I'm inbetween stoke and crewe (stoke postcode though) and haven't had any thunder, love a good bit of fucking thunder me (the swearing is to keep in context with the fucking thread )

we are on the shropshire/wales border, no storm here.

it is cowd though.

No storm here in sunny Portsmouth.

Night my fellow sweary peeps.

It's been fun.

I have been trying to learn to swear in Urdu so I can whisper abuse at my nieghbours as I walk past. I want them to be like 'did she - whaa - no - she cant have - can she? Nah - but I am sure she just said....'

Disclaimer - I am not swearing at them because they are urdu speakers. I am swearing them because they are wankspanners who happen to speak Urdu.

I would like to be able to swear in several languages. So useful I think. I feel quite constrained by my monocultural cussing.

Scarah, Jarvis Cocker is from Sheffield, will that do?

I'd have kept schtum about anthea turner though vajazzle!

Oh im thinking of Prime Suspect. Im Cheadle so really more Staffordshire then Stoke but everyone just says Stoke.
Thunder has now stopped. Still hailing though.

I love swearing in other languages! My favourite at the moment is 'cazzo' - an Italian word that can mean dickhead or cunt or anything in between depending on the circumstances!

sunny Portsmouth fabby
Your in a different Portsmouth to me then - its windy and cold outside my window!

ooooh

Night Fabby. Erm Phil Taylor darts champion is from here too. He can replace Anthea Turner

wankspanner!am stealing dat for future use,fuckin ace

We have hail but no thunder! Am going to leave himself snoring his cunting head off on the sofa and get to fucking bed

Am laffing & laffing at DI Tennison & Tennyson mix-up

DC - So Tennison - what do you think Gov, he says he didn't do it

Tennyson - A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies

DC - But guv, he has an alibi

Tennyson - Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

DC - That's all very well but we have a dead body & a suspect here

Tennyson - Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

DC - So, did he do it then?

Tennyson - To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Fades to black...

Wankspanner is brilliant. How about 'cunting bollockwagon'. I think it was from some highbrow David Baddiel novel.

Helen Mirren was the first person who came into my head. I dont seem to know many poets

Cazzo.
Cazzo, cazzo, cazzo.

Yup I like that, rolls nicely off the tongue.

John Smith aka Mr Pocahontas was from this way. Went to DD's school apparently, along with some martyrs or something.

Pissing down now. Think Mortimer must have known, he put himself to bed in the outhouse instead of the Crow's Nest.

DD wanted The Raven Haven. Was too close to shaven so vetoed.