Swearing. What's acceptable?

Raymond Lin said:
Evidentially !

Side note, no one has got back to me with regard to using words that is permitted on dag time TV Pre-watershed:-

Frack - battlestar galatica
Frick - Scrubs

It's obvious what that is but its a made up word purely to get round the TV commission.
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The sweary for poo was on bbc before the watershed, i guess i can use that :D
 
Skillmister said:
And it depends on whether it's used referring to someone else, or yourself, or anything else. Plenty of people seem to use it in various contexts just fine but i got an infraction for calling top gear complainers one.
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In which case you were using it in the pejorative rather than a valid description of illegitimacy.

Hence the infraction.:p
 
Skillmister said:
Like i said, infront of children i'd probably not. Women? I know just as many women that swear as men.
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I swear all the time in RL....far too much in fact. I have heard my Wife swear once in 15 years of marriage...and we were all really shocked by it, which is strange considering the amount of swearing that everyone else does. I think it is down to class.....you either have it (like the wife) or your don't (like me)...;)

It goes to show that it is not always the word that becomes acceptable, but the person who uses it that does....if you get my meaning.
 
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Antar Bolaeisk said:
I was banned for that before, disguised swearing apparently even though it's a valid word in the Irish language.
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Yep. Its also not considered a swear by the BBC. Yet everything Raymond Lin has posted is perfectly fine, even though they are made up words solely meant to represent the swear they replace.

And how is ****ing not disguised swearing?
 
Skillmister said:
So do plenty of other people without receiving infractions.
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Maybe they just don't like you.....:p


Seriously, I no more understand how some of the decisions are made than anyone else....I do know that it cannot be easy to be completely consistent and unless the RTM is used relating to the swearies that get through then it is understandable that some get missed.
 
5UB said:
It is out loud, however typing it surely has no affect.
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Very little other than frustration in that context I suppose, however on the other end it can have literary impact depending again on your style and tastes.

Think of hugely popular comedians who swear like troopers for example, it might not be the most educated way to conduct yourself but quite often it can lead to enjoyable experiences.

Likewise if you are relaying a story or event, it all boils down to your sense of humour I suppose.
 
Dimple said:
So it's OK then?
You would go in a room full of women and just because they are 'normal' words you would use them because there's a chance that they have used them?
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I wouldn't see it as a problem.

Put it this way, my parents swear (my mum occasionally my dad rarely, although virtually never when i was younger), my lecturers swear occasionally, my friends swear often, my school teachers never swore infront of me until 6th form iirc, random people in town or wherever swear all the time, am i really expected to see these words as inappropriate?
 
MooMoo444 said:
nothing imo, its unnecesary
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To quote Stephen Fry's video I mentioned earlier:

Or they say "It's not necessary". As if that should stop one doing it. It's not necessary to have coloured socks. It's not necessary for this cushion to be here. Is anyone going to write in and say "I was shocked to see that cushion there, it really wasn't necessary"? No; things not being necessary is what makes life interesting, the little extras in life.
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Burnsy2023 said:
To quote Stephen Fry's video I mentioned earlier:
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just to add to the esteemed Mr Fry's speech......It's not necessary to punch someone in the head, or to call the Fat Kid names, or jump to the head of queue, or refuse the man the job because he is gay.....but it makes life interesting.....;)

It may make life interesting, but that doesn't make it right.
 
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