Council proposes fines for swearing

[Fluffybob]

What a load of Billhooks

 

[Rroff]

"A PSPO makes it an offence to refuse to stop drinking alcohol in public, leave the area or use foul and abusive language if requested by a police or council officer."

That almost reads like you get fined if you refuse to use foul or abusive language if requested by a police or council officer! LOL.

I'm intensely disliking the increase lately of people pushing through or trying to push through restrictions or regulations based on personal agendas, prejudice or small minded measures which will just penalise the law abiding without actually tackling the problem.

 

[Efour]

One of the most refreshing things about moving to the Nertherlands is that they don't censor anything on TV or Radio.
I was quite suprised at the amount of swearing in pop music actually.
When watching Formula 1 (when the drivers were allowed to swear on the radio), the commentators would translate it into Duch complete with the swear word

Same in Sweden full blown swearing at 3pm. Loads of people swear in English too so it's like it doesn't count.

My boss will drop 3 or 4 f bombs in a meeting just talking about a broken dishwasher. To me its horrific sounding lol.

 

[Hagar]

Having worked in construction all my life , I am pretty immune. It is like punctuation to many people. I do object to councils monetising it purely so they can waste it elsewhere though. Council employees in baseball caps and stab vests no doubt eavesdropping on every utterance.

 

[Nasher]

Having worked in construction all my life , I am pretty immune. It is like punctuation to many people. I do object to councils monetising it purely so they can waste it elsewhere though. Council employees in baseball caps and stab vests no doubt eavesdropping on every utterance.

You'd think people want to stab them or something.

 

[Thekwango]

One of the most refreshing things about moving to the Netherlands is that they don't censor anything on TV or Radio.

we're still very much a nation of fuddy duddys in the UK. oooh someone said a swear word, they must be stupid/drunk/scum......nope, they just like swearing to annoy uptight *****

I'd prefer the Austrialian approach where we just call everyone the C word whether they like you or not

i work with a couple of aussies that moved over here - it's great, they don't give a flying fig and just use the c word as when they see fit. i get so much joy out of watching the knicker twisted old farts get all uptight when the aussies drop a few f/b/c's into Teams calls.

 

[JonRGV250]

Send one of these jobsworths into our garage when we’ve got a few French cars in for work, they won’t be able to write the fines quick enough.

 

[mattyfez]

I used to work in first line tech support yonks ago, one of our customers was internal support for a Norwegian company.
It was hilarious...

Me: good afternoon , blah blah how can I help?

Them: it's this laptop, it's a ******* piece of ****.
I'm going to ram it up some ******** ****.

Me: ermm OK, could you be a little bit more specific about the issue you are experiencing?