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?

Why do you get to decide what language grown adults use?

People swear, if you don't like it, don't visit the site.

Wasn't there a study somewhere that said people who swear a lot were intelligent. Went along the lines of there not waisting there time with how they feel they just say and move on. Can't remember where I saw it.

Oh no, I love a good swear.

I also teach, so know when and where is/isn't appropriate to use it and fully comprehend that it's not necessary to swear to truly enjoy language. I simply believe it adds to it.

Thumb, love it and have just sent it to dds to send on to whomsoever they choose!

Ah for fuck sake, not this pretentious shite again!

There's bugger all wrong with a bloody good curse sometimes.

Oh my goodness is it that time of year again?
Mmm let me think...

There's nothing as satisfying as shouting 'Fuckity, fuck, fuck, FUCK!' After a bag of flour emptied half in the washing up water and half on the sink edge and draining board.
Swearing helps me express my feelings.

I do have a degree in English!

The aristocracy are well known for swearing the worst of anybody, so I am not sure why you think it's a chav trait?

I also wonder if their parents would be proud of how they post on the internet

My mother, on Facebook, queried as to why I had merely referred to Jamie Oliver as "the rubber faced olive botherer" instead of my usual "spouting cunt turd".

So there you go op

Extrapolate the fuck out of that.

I fucking love swearing.

I'm going to pretend your post was serious and that each point you make merits a response. So:

I wonder if they talk like this in front of their children.
Of course I fucking well don't.

I also wonder if their parents would be proud of how they post on the internet.
Why would I give a shit about that?

Swearing every time isn't big and it isn't clever.
I am fucking big and I am fucking clever.

It makes people come across as uneducated chavs.
Uneducated my arse. I tell you what makes people come across as uneducated and twattish, though- it's using terms like 'chav'. People see you using words like that and they know you are a wanker.

Betcha the Daily Heil don't lift this thread...

Glad you liked it, Dawndonna!

I'm 40 years old, why would I give a second thought to what my parents might think of what I write on the Internet? They're a pair of disinterested, self-absorbed cunts. I couldn't give a rat's left one what either of them thinks. About anything. I'll do swears if I fucking like. Great big fucking swears. And lots of them. Fanfuckingtastic.

Sure.

I agree with the point made up thread about the use of s (as in fck). Write the bloody swear word or don't. There are plenty of other words to use if you can't bear to type it.

Fuck.
Cunt.
Two of my favourite words.
Fucking cunt - someone who has annoyed me, usually a man. But in this case, just anyone who doesn't like swear words. Use them, or don't, but don't complain.

Fuck fuck fuck

It makes people come across as uneducated chavs.

In my experience, it bifurcates. There are those who swear due to a limited vocabulary; however, there is also a group of very highly educated, professional women for whom it's almost a badge of honour and a sign of confidence to be able to swear and cuss with conviction. I would say it's quite a strong marker of "middledom" to have a pearl clutching reaction to adult swearing.

I am disappointed in this thread. I usually learn new words on the "stop swearing you lot" threads. Come on, you can do better!

It makes people come across as uneducated chavs

Because your OP has REALLY made you come across as frightfully intelligent and erudite rather than merely tedious

I can imagine you are a proper Hyacinth Bouquet mother fucking cunt. Actually are you my MIL?

I've never understood people who claim that swearing "shows the person has a poor vocabulary" or other such offensive nonsense. A person who is able to use every swear-word under the sun has more words potentially available to them than a similarly well-informed person who chooses not to swear.

Words are just groupings of letters, the meaning and potential for being offensive depends wholly on the motives and manner of the person using them. I've been called a cunt in a friendly way, similarly I've been very upset by someone's cruel but supposedly "polite" words.

I really object to the suggestion that swearing is the hallmark of the "uneducated chav", OP. I'm afraid that's a typical petit bourgeois attitude and shows you've plainly never mixed with the truly posh.

In my professional life, I have worked with viscounts (2), baronets (2), a marquess, a hereditary peer and several hons. Every one of them was properly fucking sweary. The landed gentry are a foulmouthed bunchacunts.