Should people 'mind their language' in pubs?

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Was in the pub yesterday (only a wetherspoons) and someone uttered a swear word (shit) and the table in front had a child with I guess their mum and dad. The dad turned around and said (mind your language will you?). The man apologised to him and then to the kid.

Now I think you should mind your language in front of children, but if you're in an adult setting, should parents expect only clean language? Pubs are supposed to be adult places. And Wetherspoons are always full of people drinking cheap lager at all hours of the day.

It'd be one thing if he was repeatedly swearing or used a stronger word, but it is a pub ultimately.

I have a potty mouth. MN does not help!!

However, I have a 'child filter' that automatically activates.

I wouldn't have said shit in front of a child,but I certainly wouldn't have been telling someone in a pub to mind their language, nor in a cafe etc unless it was utterly vile.

maybe if it was constant in a designated kids space (soft play)

No, not in a pub. In a soft play, yes.

If you choose to bring your child to the pub, then that's what to expect.

You can't always sanitise adult environments.

Excessive swearing is bad anywhere but parents can't expect a PG suitable setting everywhere.

As adults, we cringe in pubs sometimes listening to language on some people, but we don't swear ourselves and don't really like it.

I think these days you have to appreciate that a lot of people are now only out for themselves and don't want to consider others, so swearing around children would be OK. But I think if you have your kids at the bar or in a bar area, then it is to be expected but if you are at a table eating it would be nice for others to be considerate.

There was a young woman effing and blinding on the phone in Greggs when I was sitting eating lunch with my 2 year old the other day. It did make me think it was rather rude of her, but I wouldn't say anything. Luckily DS didn't hear (or at least, didn't repeat the words!). He has heard a swear word before and repeated it himself, and I'm glad he's forgotten it now!

The owner is apparently a massive dick and absolutely hated by the locals.

I think mumsnet is worse than a pub for swearing. Every second post it's cock this and balls that

Dunno, you hear endless 'fuck' this 'fuck' that just walking down the highstreet. I think swearing has become very much part and parcel of the current time. I mean loads of popular culture now has swearing.
When I was a teen 'a fish called wonder' came out it was a 15, I reckon it would probably be a PG or 12 now....ditto ghost busters!

At some stage it will swing back and swearing in the street will be a total 'no no' but at the moment the pendulum hasn't started to swing in the other direction.

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Best pint though and great atmosphere.

I'm not fussed about bad language per se, but I'd rather sit next to kids in a pub than a loud potty mouthed bloke.

A in is a place for adults so you have to expect some bad language. I worked in a pub for a few years and learned many new swear words 😂

if you don’t want to hear swearing then go to soft play or McDonald’s, though the McDonald’s near us is as bad as the pub!

Good job there's no small children here then!

Nope, I’ll speak how I choose, and I will choose how or if I moderate my language, thanks. Especially in a pub setting. Obvs it might be different, eg in a primary school, lol. If someone told me to mind my language I would suggest they move if they don’t like it, people are offended at anything these days.l

Absolutely ridiculous of the dad. I mind my language if I'm specifically in the company of children, but if there are simply children around, I'm not going to monitor how I talk. Children probably aren't even taking much notice of the conversations going on around them.

Nope, the sooner we ban children from pubs the better. Why can't adults have a space that isn't child friendly?

I swear like a trooper but I’d be aware of my surroundings and wouldn’t be swearing in a pub, cafe, etc at a volume that the next table could hear me particularly if there were kids

I also wouldn’t take kids in whetherspoons though as I’d kind of expect it in there. 😁

Was it not 'A fish called Wanda's? I was v young at the time so could be wrong!

*Wanda

We take our daughter to Spoons and sit in the family area. Sometimes, there's a bit of swearing and often, the person will look over and apologise, or one of their companions will. I think that is pretty decent of them.

My granny was notoriously foul-mouthed and was once banned from her local for a week. She upset some Irish road engineers, who asked her to tone her language down.

She told him not to be such a fucking wet ponce. I was in kinks, every time one of her pals re-enacted it!

Do you mean your children can use fuck and cunt whenever they like, in front of whomever they like? Or maybe call someone a bitch or a cocksucker? I'm no prude but I don't think that's going to help them very much in life.

Daddy snow flake should not be taking his kids to pubs if he can't cope with swearing.

He should have just said swearing is what adults sometimes do. But its not ok for children to say them words.

I don't swear around kids regardless of setting

Sorry, that should read that you shouldn't shout swearwords, not that you should!!

It is indeed 'A Fish Called Wanda'.

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