to think that bad language, especially in a lady,is very vulgar -

[LittleNorse]

• a sure indication of lack of intelligence, education, vocabulary and what my mother used to call 'breeding'?

Who ninah - me or died and gone to devon? Are you a laydee D&GTD?

CUNT CUNT CUNT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

antidisestablishmentarianism

The use of the word "lady" is more fucking vulgar IMO.

Why haven't we had YABFU before - it says it all?

Nothing hits the spot like a good Fuck.

'Lady' and 'bad language' are offensive, but not a good old swear in the right context.

Also, rather a few intelligent people swear afaik; I'm thinking of writers like Irvine Welsh, James Kelman, pretty much any of the great modern Scots.

Is 'lady' offensive? Truly? How? Why? Is 'man' offensive too?

cock juggling thunder cunt... one of my current favourites!

...and I l've got a phd so clearly an idiot!

It's WOMAN, as well you know.

Lady is the feminine of gentleman.

Lady has connotations, some of which women do not particularly want to be associated with.

Come on, you are so at it!

An awful lot of loos are going to need new signage.

Still unsure what the negative connotations of 'lady' are. To me 'gentleman' is a complimentary term.

Remember Lisa Stansfield? I may not be a lady but I'm all woman. That's me. I even sit with my legs wide open

fuck off cunt

It is vulgar and common for ladies to swear!!!

Feck off ....

I actually do think that swearing is unnecessary in general conversation.

There are so many words to choose from. What does it say about you if you can only fall back on the same few time after time?

I'm not talking a therapeutic curse when you've just stubbed your toe but more the "I got out of effing bed this morning and the effing dog had thrown up on my effing shoes.." conversational swearing. It's, well, frankly it's dull.

You don't need to add obscenities to your conversation, it doesn't add anything of value.

I know I sound like I am typing this with my best cat bum mouth, but I really really really do hate habitual swearing.

YANBU

Whose wind-up is this?

junglist, I went to school with Lisa Stansfield

she was no lady

btw, OP, do fuck off, dear

Ooh, i knew a girl who drank in the same pub as her

breeding? FOR FUCKS SAKE

I am no lady, and you clearly haven't read many posts on here.

And in RL, I am a very well brought up woman. I am intelligent and articulate and can choose any manner of words to use in various situations and circumstances. And on this occasion, the best choise of words is 'fuck off'.

Thank you. (Because I'm polite as well).

no, it is no longer related to that list of things. swearing is just swearing; I never swore when I was younger ; but once i started i sure made up for lost time. i used the word "crap" in a conversation with ds' teacher and i regretted it immediately as she is a prissy little thing. mind you, i was talking about school dinners, nothing else

blimey, BOF

not so unexpected really

Manchester/Merseyside....only a cock-stride really

nah. I love birds who swear their fucking arses off, me.

Different classes just swear differently. I do agree with Heqet on conversational swearing though. If you use expletives all the time then they lose all their power surely?

Actually heqet is right. I have a friend who uses the f-word as punctuation. "Well I was at fookin work and this fookin woman she said she couldn't get the fookin report done by fookin Tuesday..." You get the idea. It does lose its impact.

On the other hand, it's amazingly effective when dropped once into the conversation by someone with a cut-glass accent who usually doesn't swear, like, I dunno... Sophie Ellis-Bextor or someone.

[Bextor moment...]

Sigh...

yabu