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.

I will only swear in front of my DH and certain friends ( not at, in conversation). I have never sworn in front of my parents, in laws and friends who I'm not as close to as others. I like to maintain a certain standard in front of some people. I'm not really offended by swearing but when it's over the top or directed at children, it's unnecessary.

My brother’s toddler told him to “fuck off” when he was trying to strap her in her car seat.

My daughter hears occasional swearing. She’s never sworn. Oh, apart from once after watching Drop Dead Fred. She was ambling around the room and just blurted out “piss off.” 😂

I know I shouldn’t laugh but it was funny. And I know DDF isn’t really a kid’s movie but it does appeal to children and I know many who have seen it.

At which point you could refer them to your posts on here and they’d be able to see how thick you are?

@TheSassyTraybake So witty. Nah, I may be thick, but I don't think I'm a scumbag who can't carry on a conversation without dropping swearing into every second word.
Not saying that you are, of course......

Nothing invigorates me more, helps me process upset and anger, and re ground, than shouting...

You total cunt

I don't understand why it has such power for me. It's preferable not to be in company, or be heard during my declarations.

I sometimes have a session with a friend where we go on about the cunts we're presently dealing with. Incredibly cathartic.

I swear like a sailor…..but when it’s appropriate for that conversation/environment. I’ll occasionally have one slip in front of my kids like if I drop something in the kitchen and “bollocks” slips out. And I’ll admit I do have some flare ups in traffic 🫣🫣 I’ve only sworn directly AT one of my DC’s once. It had been a trying day, and my middle one was just antagonising all of his siblings simply because he was bored. In that moment, I just couldn’t find the right word to describe the behaviour, so it came out as “Will you please just stop being a dick?” 🫣🫠
I don’t litter every sentence with swear words - I’ll admit that annoys me aswell. I used to work with a woman where she said some variation of “fuck” every couple of words. It was weird. I think it was her way of filling the time before she could think of her next contribution to the conversation - the same way people “ummm” a lot between words.

Replace the swear word used constantly as punctuation with any other word and it's instantly evident how stupid and irritating it sounds

I agree. There was a group of schoolgirls on my train the other day and one of them said f*ing almost every other word. It was ugly, and so boring. It took her twice as long to get to the point, because of all the unnecessary words.

'I rhubarb got up late so I missed the rhubarb bus and I was rhubarb late for rhubarb school so I got a rhubarb detention.' That's not what she was saying, but that's what her general conversation was like.

I was in a supermarket once and there was a youngish lad on the checkout and his friend was there chatting to him in between customers. Their language was dreadful and I did say something to the supervisor on my way out, because that lad needed to be told it wasn't appropriate where customers could hear.

But where do you draw the line, when it comes to which words - that you very well know offend many, many people - you feel are their problem if they hear you freely saying them in public?

Would you tell a black person or a gay person that they have a perfect right to leave if they hear people using offensive racist or homophobic language - and that they have no place challenging or 'policing' other people's choice of language?

If the people using the contentious words aren't directing them towards anybody there or using them threateningly, but are 'just' referring to certain groups of people in general that way?

I mean, the words they're choosing to use clearly aren't offensive or taboo to everybody, if they themselves are merrily saying them; so do you think they're just freely expressing themselves too, and it's your issue if it offends you?