Do you class swearing as the norm?

I didn't swear that much until i started working, I have spend a lot of the time chatting with factrory staff/ drivers and they swear constantly and now i swear all the time

I don't like it and I trying to do it less, but it just seems normal now.
 
The thing about Stephen Fry is though is that he's not likely to mix with the dross that are **** this or **** that every other word.
 
I rarely swear but at the same time I don't get all offended and take the moral high ground when I hear someone else swear.

I don't even understand how swear words came about I mean sex and the word that rhymes with duck mean the same thing, is it just that governments didn't want certain 'unofficial' words to become mainstream and so they made them a social taboo? :confused:
 
Freefaller said:
No women aren't fragile jkb is just a well mannered person. Some would say old fashioned but I don't see anything wrong with that. Wish more people behaved that way.
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I kind of understand that (and perhaps he is very well mannered) but i don't agree with there being some kind of distinction between swearing in front of men or women. It's a very old fashioned way of thinking that is more suited to say, the year 1880 when women weren't allowed to vote. Most women I know or come across swear at a very similar rate to men.
 
phonemonkey said:
Why single woman out as specifically needing to be protected from swearing though?

Surely well mannered is not swearing in public at all....
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I don't disagree. However a bunch of lads generally behave in such a way that can be seen as crass.

FWIW most of my friends don't swear so it isn't something I find to be "the norm" which is quite nice.
 
Freefaller said:
No women aren't fragile jkb is just a well mannered person. Some would say old fashioned but I don't see anything wrong with that. Wish more people behaved that way.
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I hope you do all your swearing in French. My uncle was in the Legion, so he will kick off at the drop of a hat and do it all in French. Sounds hilarious in French with a Scouse accent.
 
Lima said:
I kind of understand that (and perhaps he is very well mannered) but i don't agree with there being some kind of distinction between swearing in front of men or women. It's a very old fashioned way of thinking that is more suited to say, the year 1880 when women weren't allowed to vote. Most women I know or come across swear at a very similar rate to men.
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I don't disagree but again it depends on your experience and social circle etc. A lot of my female friends seldom swear even less so than my male friends which again is rare.

It may be old fashioned and I accept that but I still get up when a woman walks into the room, hold doors open and let ladies go first. Perhaps that makes me a mug but I don't care it wouldn't feel right for me to behave any other way.
 
Freefaller said:
I don't disagree but again it depends on your experience and social circle etc. A lot of my female friends seldom swear even less so than my male friends which again is rare.

It may be old fashioned and I accept that but I still get up when a woman walks into the room, hold doors open and let ladies go first. Perhaps that makes me a mug but I don't care it wouldn't feel right for me to behave any other way.
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I think it's great that you are like that. It shows you are a stand up person, however I think it's more of a case that how you behave and the things you do are very nice, very polite and quite unique to find nowadays but that's not to say people that don't quite do these things or treat women differently are particularly impolite or ill mannered. For the record i hold doors open (for men and women) and do let women go first dependent on occasion. I don't stand up upon them entering a room however.
 
FoxEye said:
The telling question is this:

Would you swear around your children, and would you let them swear in front of other people?

If you can honestly answer, "Yes, that would be fine," then you don't consider swearing a bad thing. If the answer is "no" for any reason, then you do at least subconsciously consider swearing wrong.
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No, out of respect for people that still have that quaint notion that some words are worse than others.
 
I don't swear much and certainly not every other word. We had builders doing work recently and one introduced himself as "I'm ******* Jonny" which was bizarre although maybe it was just a statement of fact :D
 
They used all sorts of dirty language back then, including moist to refer to an aroused woman. Just go read James Joyce dirty letters. Novelist and poet, literary great. Wrote absolute filth to his mistress (who I think he went on to marry).
 
Lima said:
I think it's great that you are like that. It shows you are a stand up person, however I think it's more of a case that how you behave and the things you do are very nice, very polite and quite unique to find nowadays but that's not to say people that don't quite do these things or treat women differently are particularly impolite or ill mannered. For the record i hold doors open (for men and women) and do let women go first dependent on occasion. I don't stand up upon them entering a room however.
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I slam then in the face of men :p

It's a shame that this behaviour isn't more normal these days I guess it is just the way it is!

I don't think I am a better person for it I just have never been a "lad" or that aggressive a person. And would never unduly judge someone but I do find people who excessively swear a little tiresome.
 
You're not alone in that aspect. However upon getting an earful from a feminazi for holding a door for her I closed it in her face :D.

I only swear when I've lost control.
 
Sadly i see it as the norm. I do work in the trade and have friends who are in the trade, so i'm surrounded by it day in day out. but i suppose i'm quite tame compared to others.

I wouldn't swear in front of kids because thats how i was brought up. it was always something that adults were allowed to do, but not a kid. But i wouldn't say women are fragile, only the people who are offended. its just a word, grow up and worry about more important things.
 
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