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?

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Yes, you're quite right. I can't stop someone being offended if I swear. That is their prerogative.

I do think that dismissing opinions on that basis is daft, though.

And perhaps it is a question of degree.

Swearing is a funny one. Particularly on an anonymous forum. I'm sure most posters do not go around in real life deliberately offending people.

Online seems to have rules all of its own. I find it quite interesting. Everything about a person is distilled into a comment that you can read. You form a mental picture. Often completely different to the real life person. Preconceptions are therefore far more rare. Your judgement is confined to that little post.

Perhaps that's why something like swearing polarises opinion. It's a marker that you can grab hold of.

Since when did foul language improve anything?

Since Chaucer?

(Through Shakespeare, Rochester, Bronte, Steinbeck, Faulkner, Scott Fitzgerald, Vonnegut, Heller, Pynchon, and countless others.)

Since when did foul language improve anything?
fuck off is way more effective that simply go away

Credit: Billy Connelly

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Crap sentence construction credit: bastard iPhone

I'd like you to know I'm a teacher and head of department and swear like a sailor. No, I didn't swear in front of my kids but I do now, because they're 16 and, quite frankly, aren't offended by words.

"Since when did foul language improve anything?"

Often, in my opinion.

A well-placed expletive can help to dispel angry feelings and prevent a build up of rage. "Oh my goodness", "oh dear", "sugar" etc. really don't cut it in the same way.
Depends on how you're using them.
Right up in someone's face, spitting expletives at them = bad, of course, and likely to promote violence.
Turning away and swearing instead of hitting someone = reduces chances of violence.

No one size fits all, IMO.

As you can see there seems to be a certain type of person overrunning this forum lately. Certainly the chave screaming Fuckity cunty splatting wankchopped pissflaps is obviously uneducated and spends her benefits on cider. You mention the disgusting chav language on here and people respond by swearing at you. What a disgusting forum this is where people are very brave hiding behind a pc and would never say it to your face. I'm off because this is a home for degenerates and illiterates. Not my class of people at all.

Thank god.

U Ok hun?



Thanks for that rant @svalentine60 . I needed the "laffs".

Stop being such a fucking bellend OP. 😂

Yep. You're being totally fucking unreasonable.

The exact reason I swear so bloody much is because I have to hold it in all the time I'm around kids.

Oh no! It's only a bloomin' ZOMBIE!

@svalentine60 Your grammar is abysmal and you have the audacity to call people illiterate. Thank you for bumping a year old thread for your wise words.

Uneducated? Mais non:

www.sciencealert.com/swearing-is-a-sign-of-more-intelligence-not-less-say-scientists

news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/01/science-swearing-profanity-curse-emma-byrne/

I don't even care that this is a zombie, svalentine60's reply is hilarious!

Swearing may have a place, but for me it is for when speaking not writing, unless you are a playwright perhaps.

Im almost definitely more educated than you, valentine, and I don't cunting drink

Hope that Fucking Helps.

Puts feet up Who's got popcorn?

Yawn.

You can have so much fun around swearing. A young teacher was told to 'Piss off' by a scrote to which she replied 'Off where?', his little brow seemed to become permanently furrowed and his friends mocked him mercilessly, a far better result than reporting him to his Head of Year for a verbal slap on the wrist.
In Gibraltar when the taxi-drivers waved their arms and shouted insults in spanish I used to respond 'Hey, Schleswig Holstein', every syllable stretched out, they used to be furious.

I do swear in front of my children. I tell them they must abide by a cultural aesthetic that prefers children not to swear, even though swearing is actually quite fashionable among certain groups of adults. But I also tell them that when they reach an age or find themselves within a context whereby swearing is socially acceptable, they should never direct their expletives maliciously at an individual. Because that is really very rude, and disrespectful.😇