People who swear all the time

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You are not big and not clever. Had to endure a woman on bus who swore at every other word.

Hate parents swear at kids. Best thing I heard was “stop f*cking swearing”. Well if you keep using swear words, kids won’t know if these words are fine.

Swearing is so context dependent, isn’t it. I have a friend who swears like a sailor. Her DC have grown up round it. Every sentence would usually have a “fucking” in there somewhere. All 3 of her DC have grown up and done very well for themselves, so clearly never did them any harm. She was an excellent mum and although she swore a lot, she never called her kids nasty names - so there’d be a bit of “stop fucking around” but never anything like “you little shit”.

I swear, but not as much and it depends where I am. Current workplace no. Previous workplaces yes. Round my own DC yes (although moderately even now they’re grown up), never around other people’s. Out and about where what I say will be clearly overheard, no. Socialising at the pub at normal
volume heard only on my table, yes.

I don’t really care about swearing, although it makes for a very long sentence if literally every other word is a swear word…

Exactly this but a lot of posters never let the facts get in the way of a good pile on!

you would not be thrilled if you went to see for example a surgeon and they swore every other word. Or a barrister. That’s is not to say they don’t swear at all but when it’s used as a filler word rather than an expletive that’s the issue.

however don’t be like my husband who years ago asked someone to stop swearing in front of his wife ie me. Don’t bring me into it!

I swear more than I should, I notice when I am around non family or work as I consciously don't.
However to me there is a big difference between swearing generally in conversation for emphasis and swearing AT people, or even about people.
The first might be a bit uncouth but doesn't bother me, the latter can be really aggressive and just nasty.

'What the fuck are you doing?' Is borderline, but less offensive than 'fucking stop that'

@TheSassyTraybake I didn't say that I don't swear, you need to brush up your reading comprehension skills. What a ridiculous over the top reaction. Stop pretending that it isn't true just because you don't like it and cut out the faux naivety.
I know lots of middle class people who swear regularly in public. I don't care what class you are you are - lots of aristocrats swear constantly. However, whatever their income I think swearing constantly in public is nasty and unnecessary and shows a lack of consideration for other people

And there are obviously some places you wouldn't swear e.g. work meeting with a client.

I once said “bollocking” in a job interview. I realised as soon as I’d said it and was thinking “Shit, did I really just say that?”, but I had to just keep talking, or I would have got completely distracted and lost my thread.

I got the job 😄

Agree. Some people seem to replace "um" or another filler with "fuck". My ex neighbour used to use it as a noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, adjective and exclamation, sometimes within the same monologue. If he was doing so deliberately it would have been impressive but an average speech went like "alright you fucker, how you fucking doing? I'm so fucking pissed, I went gym and only fucking pressed 180, it's fucking shit, I'm fucking fucked off."

If you think its only the lower classes who swear then you are woefully inexperienced when it comes to the uppers.

Please read my previous post.

I used to be a primary school teacher. I once had to talk to a parent about the bad language her Y2 child was using. She was most apologetic. She said she didn't know where he fucking got it from!

I don't like swearing around children. But find it liberating with adults.

When needed. Not in every sentence because that takes away the emotional component of the swearword.

Personally I don’t swear unless I’m really angry but my husband and kids do a lot , every other word . I guess it’s my age and my parents never did . It mostly goes in one ear and out the other now . I can understand it when you are emphasising a point but when it’s just part of a normal conversation I don’t get it . I know I’m in the minority here 😉

Then, again, what were you trying to imply with your goady post?
Perhaps the issue isn’t the comprehension of others but the clearness of your rather inflammatory posts?

That sounds exactly like her 😆 I think I was the only one not offended by her because I knew it was how she was brought up to speak. Thankfully she wasn't customer facing haha

The rowback one?
Yes, I saw it.

I love it too and most of the time it’s necessary.

@Bundleflower If you think my post was goady or rather inflammatory you must lead a very sheltered life.
You know perfectly well what I was trying to say so stop pretending otherwise.

@Bundleflower And if you don't know what I was trying to say why did you think it was goady and inflammatory
@Verv What's a rowback post?

Words are words. The meaning attached to them differ from person to person. My kids were taught that swear words are just words but aren't appropriate within certain contexts - never at school or work and only with people who are like minded. I am sweary. I like swear words. I think they add emphasis. I don't swear AT people.

I’m glad you’ve seen sense and don’t care to expand on your classist bullshit.

I agree OP.

I didn't think I was that bothered by it and myself love a well dropped F bomb. But then in my dating days I went on a date with a man who every other word was fucking.
I'm not joking. Every. Other. Word. People were even turning around and looking at him as he was also uncommonly loud with it. It was a huge turn off and just made me think he didn't have a very good vocabulary.

I do swear quite a lot. It just comes out. I must be reaaallllly thick according to some posters here 🙄

I wouldn't paint you as an upright cow but I'd suggest you stop trying to police my language and leave my presence if my choice of language offended you. You have no right to tell people how they should communicate. You have every right to walk away if you don't like it.

Where you say something deliberately inflammatory and then post something which contradicts your original statement, which you then refer people to when they respond.

For example - invoking deprivation (as in poverty) and social services (as in an inability to operate successfully within society and thus requiring assistance from the state) paints a picture of an underclass, which is the description you tied to those who swear, regardless of their intelligence.

You then made a following post which "rows back" on that aspersion, by claiming to know middle class and aristocratic swearers, which is apparently supposed to mitigate the fact that you initially very deliberately tied it to an underclass in order to goad.

I didn't tie swearing constantly to the underclass to goad, I did it to reflect what I see and hear in real life which is something that all the virtue signallers on Mumsnet don't appear to have much experience of. It's reality for a lot of people.
I seem to have touched a nerve with all the posters who appear to think that constantly swearing in public is fine and that it's OK to swear at your kids, because, you now they've turned out all right.....
If I heard someone swearing repeatedly in public, yup, I'd think they were thick.