Swearing

kwmlondon

jellyhead wrote: »

I'm stealing jambadgers! :T

Well, make sure you don't get caught with any in your pockets when you leave the store.

You can have creamy flame crimper too.

j.e.j.

marisco wrote: »

I dont know if it is just me but I hate hearing people swearing, especially so when there are children around. I had the joy of the weekly shop in Asda this morning and could not believe the language a mum was using with her very young child. He could not have been more than about 5, was playing her up something rotten and her responses to this had people literally stopping in the aisles with their mouths open.

The ASDA near us is full of potty-mouth mums and their hoard of out-of-control kids, especially on a Saturday. I try to avoid the place!

Most people don't feel it's appropriate to swear at a child. You see it occasionally and it makes you wonder what that child's going to be like in a few years time.

RAS

There are a number of guys on our allotments site who gather to dig a bit and natter a lot. Every second word is !!!!$ng literally in some cases. They do not do it when they are with other people.

It was only when I visited there home area and sat behind a very Sunday suited couple on the bus that I realised that this was the normal way of expression there. The seat was !!!!$ng, the bed was !!!!$ng, the ladylady was !!!!$ng, breakfast was !!!!$ng (every single item and the wait for extra toast), as was the walk along the sea front.

So I close my ears now.

On the other hand as small boy about 3 or 4 years old was nattering his mum, "That's an A, isn't it? An A, isn't it?" on and on about every letter on the advert infront of him. She refused to answer him once and when he started to whine, smacked him, then bellowed when he started to cry. "If you don't effing stop effing crying, I'll effing give you something to effing cry about" Gobsmacking. Bright lively intelligent kid wrecked.

ostrichnomore_2

I do swear quite a lot in my natural relaxed state - but there's a time and place and I understand when it's inappropriate. I don't swear in public, or at work, around my family, or around children, or certain friends. It's just with the friends who are an equally sweary mary bunch, for effect (usually comic). I hate it when it's just a habit and people don't even know they are doing it.

I never swore at my child either, I think that's awful.

thistledome

Swearing is very much like farting. One's own are hilarious and other people's are disgusting.

I don't like to hear children swearing though, that's why I don't shop at ASBO's. Sorry I mean ASDA.

BJV

If children are raised thinking that it is acceptable to F and Jeff at everything that it what they consider to be normal.

I have two children and would be horrified if they swore.

I think it is up to the parents.

But just as i do not have the right to impose my views on everyone they should not have the right to imposed their foul language on me. Ok I understand heat of the moment, its possible as another post said almost a outburst, a release but really buying a tine of baked beans! Is there any need?

MrsAtobe

Futtocks is my favourite replacement swear word, and yes it is a real word, and not a swear word either!

geri1965_2

I only swear when I lose my temper, not just in general conversation.

My mum used to occasionally say "Balls!" if she dropped something, but that was pretty much the rudest thing I ever heard as a child.

Torry_Quine

I don't swear even if I drop something on my foot for instance. To me it's just not nice or appropriate when there are so many more words which fit the situation better.

My parents and my husband never swear either.

Rottensocks

I feel awful for this, but on reflection it is true that the only place I have seen children being sworn at is (various) branches of ASDA.:embarasse

Usually they are being yanked by one arm too, if they are still small enough to drag.