To ask people to stop swearing so much

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Frankly, the language of some of the posters on this site is disgusting and I wonder if they talk like this in front of their children. I also wonder if their parents would be proud of how they post on the internet. Swearing every time isn't big and it isn't clever. It makes people come across as uneducated chavs.

AIBU to ask people to clean up their act and stop swearing?

What the fuck do people who start cunty boring Fred's like this hope to fucking achieve?

1. My children don't read what I write on t'internet and obviously I don't swear in front of them. There are lots of other things I discuss with adults but not children. Lots of people can actually understand the difference between a nice stress relieving swear with other adults and appropriate language for children.
2. My mother taught me all I know about swearing - we often bond over a good fucking sweary rant about something that pisses us off. We are both pretty well educated and respected members of society.
3. Only wankers judge people and brand them as 'chavs'.
4. Research shows that those who swear also have a larger vocabulary of non swear words. They are also far less bastarding irritating than those who never swear.

YANBU

Frankly, the language of some of the posters on this site is disgusting and I wonder if they talk like this in front of their children

Frankly, Helen Lovejoy, I don't give a damn.

I'm an educated chav. Is that better??

Morning fuckers!! 😁

Hope you don't have a cuntfest of a day x

I have a great vocab, including creative use of expletives. Just get me angry and out they come, otherwise you would be none the wiser. I find people who are offended by swearing a little uptight tbh.

Bastarding irritating - going to shoe horn that in today Probably use it on the way to work or to ds 14 yo when he can't find his tie again x 5 perhaps

Any high ground you had went as soon as you started insulting people by calling them uneducated chav.

Swearing is great in the right amount, place, context etc.

Obviously saying you're going to get fucking pissed off because the fucking bin men are cockwombles and then using fuck as a bloody comma on a regular basis sounds ridiculous, but otherwise who cares?

Still just the one post from the OP then?

I swear quite a bit in my real life.

I don't swear much on here and think the preponderance of swearing in some not really very angry topics comes over like a group of kids doing it because it's forbidden - a bit like people in the offline world who can't hold their drink. It rarely supports an argument.

Swearing isn't supposed to support an argument user, how could it? People swear on not very angry topics just because thats how they want to express themselves. Its a release, an intensifier, also a chance to break free from forced careful parent child talk that many of us have to do.

Gosh for someone so passionate about telling others what to do OP has gone very quiet.
Apparently can't support her own opinion with any kind of argument.

Must not be as intelligent as she thought she was🤔

frogsgola - you've really only got yourself to blame. I did warn you, in big letters 'n' everything.

Not RTFT but agree the language on here is terrible at times.

As I've said before on here, there is no reason to swear when you are typing. It's different when you are talking, things just slip out (especially in the car or when you eg drop something on your foot). It dilutes your argument and just makes you sound uneducated.

There was a very interesting Twitter thread about using the c word recently, I would urge you to read it and consider whether, as women, you really should be using it.

twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/873207949564497920

you don't need a Twitter account to read it

Wasn't cunt reclaimed?

And haven't studies shown that intelligent people tend to swear more?

It's just that we say fock as opposed to fook.

So, you know, fock off!

I have a strange inhibition about swearing in writing; I swear more in IRL, but in moderation. It has been shown that therapeutic effects of swearing work best if you aren't a habitual swearer.

Except I can do it in acronym form. I haven't RTFT but in case no-one has said this yet:

OP - ODFOD

Yesterday 18:37 Teutonic

Bollocks. If I want to fucking swear, I'll bastard swear.

Now kick yourself to cunting death while I nail my fucking chavvy pissflaps to the coffee table.

Fucking cloud of bastard sheep's quim.

Now, you see (with the very possible exception of the recommendation for self violence), that is a very neat demonstration of creative swearing.

Imaginative, bloody funny, links back to the opening poster's comments, a nice hint of suppressed rage, inventive use of inanimate objects and includes the satisfying word quim, describing it, poetically, as a cloud. Juxtaposed to the sheep who is a bastard for emitting it in the first place.

Why does swearing make someone sound uneducated, Mulled? If someone is making an articulate, informed argument, but then slips in a sweary, does it then negate everything they've said?
Is it that your sensibilities are so shocked you can't then focus on the content of what they're saying so can't appreciate any insight, knowledge or logic, you can only think "oh swearing, how uncouth!" and fail to hear the actual point?

No one has yet explained why sweary is an educated thing to do. I know loafs of very intelligent and educated cursers.

*uneducated!

Bit late to the party - bollocks.

Degree in classics here, and perform an occupation described by many as elitist.

So I feel fairly well-qualified to splutter WHAT a load of shite, OP.

Get to fuck

You can never be too late to a party RagingCunt as long as there is alcohol left.
However if someone has fucking eaten the last bastard sausage roll then that's fucking cause to bastard swear and call everyone all the cunts under the fucking Sun.
The fucking greedy twats.

It dilutes your argument and just makes you sound uneducated.

Only if the person reading it is so narrow minded that they think lack of education is correlated with swearing. Imagine being that ignorant and, instead of being ashamed, advertising it to millions like you just did!

I swear more in real life than I do on here. Mostly when on my own and the world is conspiring against me then I let rip with stuff I would never have said years ago when young and naive.

But I have no fucks to give over what people write on here, their post their choice. I can actually manage to get the point of a post without freaking out over a swear word! Wouldnt say much for my intelligence if I got stuck on a swear word and couldnt get past it!