Told off for swearing

arcon5

Staff probably just have tables they prefer to sit at for whatever reasons. Seems fair enough to me.

esuhl

dacouch wrote: »

Not necessarily anymore http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2008207/Officers-told-arrest-people-scream-obscenities-courts-wont-convict.html

Excuse the Daily Wail

That's been the case for ages. The courts got fed up of police officers lying about being psychologically scarred and upset after hearing a swear word! It would be pretty worrying if police officers were too sensitive that they couldn't cope with certain arbitrary sounds. They wouldn't be able to do their job properly.

Similarly, in public, unless you're shouting at someone and trying to intimidate them (which I assume is a crime in itself), where's the problem? I'd worry about the mental state of someone who can't cope with overhearing a word in a conversation that they aren't even a even a party to! Haven't people got better things to worry about!

I'm surprised that a pub would have a language usage policy! I suppose you could get round it by substituting a banned exclamation such as "F*** me!" with something that uses polite non-swear words, like, "Ejaculating semen from a masturbated penis!". A bit of a mouthful, but at least it's not swearing and won't upset the strange people that aren't able to cope with "swear noises".

If people grew up a bit and stopped pretending to be offended at silly noises, then swearing loses its power.

mattyprice4004

Good. Well done on the pub.
If the majority of us can manage not to swear in public, I'm sure deep, deep down you can too.

27col

cookie365 wrote: »

So that's why I keep being asked to leave shoe shops!

Apparently it's ok to pee on the floor in a shoe shop, but not in the shoes unless you have paid for them.

Marky-Boy

Torry_Quine wrote: »

The pub were correct and you should have been mortified and given a profuse apology rather than it seems you weren't really sorry as you didn't think it was wrong to swear!

It isn't wrong to swear, it doesn't harm anyone.

Viberduo

Mild swearing is fine with me, some swearing is unavoidable, at most with me unless its a loud bunch of women or some drunk louts swearing every few words it doesnt really annoy me unless its loud and even then you just roll your eyes.

If the person is in a corner of the bar and no one can hear them bar someone who goes out of their way to sit near them then who are they bothering? and in OP's case it could of been them trying to cheer their friend up by joking.

I dislike the PC crowd of now where anything can be offensive but when something actually bad occurs its nothing.

Torry_Quine

Marky-Boy wrote: »

It isn't wrong to swear, it doesn't harm anyone.

If you want to use language such as swearing then do it in private. Most people find it unnecessary in public and there are many other words which can express the feelings without being considered rude.

pmduk

The OP probably won't be back as the new school term has started.

hollydays

Marky-Boy wrote: »

It isn't wrong to swear, it doesn't harm anyone.

It may well harm your career prospects..

George_Michael

If Marky-Boy actually believes their comment and isn't just posting to elicit a reaction, then I think that their career prospects are probably pretty low anyway.