Swearing

Person_one

Is there anyone you care about who isn't related to you pigpen?

pigpen

Person_one wrote: »

Is there anyone you care about who isn't related to you pigpen?

Yes, a few. Probably more than I am willing to let on to. I do have a few friends.. 3 or 4 to be precise. I just find people very hard work so only go places I have to and I don't want any relationship with the people there.

j.e.j.

marisco wrote: »

I am going to have to remortgage and start shopping at waitrose :cool:

It's actually not that expensive! And at least the products are good quality

You don't get so many chavsters in there swearing at their kids :rotfl: Mind you, there's a bench right outside the Waitrose I go to and the local wino club seem to have taken a liking to it. They sit there drinking out of tinnies and swearing and slurring a lot at passers-by :undecided

Rottensocks

j.e.j. wrote: »

Mind you, there's a bench right outside the Waitrose I go to and the local wino club seem to have taken a liking to it. They sit there drinking out of tinnies and swearing and slurring a lot at passers-by :undecided

You don't get this sort of riff raff outside Lidl.

marisco_2

Rottensocks wrote: »

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

This little kid was being dragged around. Sometimes I have seen parents getting angry and swearing at kids that are small enough to be sat in the trolleys. To be that size/age some of them must just be learning to talk and the things they hear are swear words. Maybe I am totally old fashioned and out with the times but that seems very wrong to me.

POPPYOSCAR

marisco wrote: »

This little kid was being dragged around. Sometimes I have seen parents getting angry and swearing at kids that are small enough to be sat in the trolleys. To be that size/age some of them must just be learning to talk and the things they hear are swear words. Maybe I am totally old fashioned and out with the times but that seems very wrong to me.

No you are not.

My daughter who is 16 is disgusted by this as well.

jellyhead

Person_one wrote: »

The Asda nearest me is always full of students, they swear a bit but the most annoying thing is the way they meander aimlessly in large groups.

My dad said last week that the collective term for teenagers ought to be 'a meandering'

little-spender

Reminds me of the time when a tot(could only have been 3 at the most) was going round on the little merry-go ride and dad would do the "2 finger salute" sign to it and each time the child did it back , it was met with applause from mum and dad.

kingfisherblue

I used to work in a bookshop and we had a couple of ladies (I use the term loosely ) who came in regularly. They were mother and adult daughter. The daughter had a little boy, maybe three years old the last time I saw him. His language was somewhat ripe, and he used to get dragged away from the bookshelves with his mum shouting 'Don't you effing say that, you little ******! I don't know where you get the effing language from!' - sad, but true. And this was about twenty years ago, so it isn't a new phenomenon, just a more frequent one.

My personal favourite substitute swear word is 'Bumblebees!' - by the time you've said that, there's no need to swear. And what's more, it works when you step on plugs, Lego, and all manner of things . I do admit to the occasional blip though (and as I said in an earlier post, my son points out that I'm swearing, in a very disapprovong voice )

aileth

Regarding shops/supermarkets... my OH recently told me something he saw going to the corner shop. There was a little girl there who couldn't have been older than maybe 6 or so wearing pyjamas. She went in, got a basket and started doing a food shop, dragging the basket along the floor, and as she was paying for it all (yes she had a purse with her) what I can only assume is her mother came in and started swearing something incredible at her because she was, (a) taking too long, and then (b) apparently she'd forgotten something.

Shame it was my OH seeing this, as he only tells me these things months after they happen when his memory is jogged by something completely irrelevent, else I'd be straight on the phone to SS.