Do you class swearing as the norm?

I swear a lot but I find it depends on the company I am in.I wouldn't do it in a meeting with managers but out on the shop floor maybe.
 
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I get allot of American pop culture through podcasts, and yes, it is normal. Aggressive swearing like Brit thug football hooligans is gross, but throwing in a little **** every now and again is icing. Sensitive mums net ears can go swivel.
 
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BUT IT'S ALL IN THE BEST POSSIBLE TASTE!
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if he was alive today, the newspapers'd be branding him a paedo.
Yeah, I remember Captain Kremmen (made up here in Manchester) and The Kenny Everett Show on ITV week day evenings and who can forget the spider man sketches, especially the one where he has to go to the toilet but ****es himself?
 
People's misunderstanding of swearing is making the verbal act ill-condusive to the frame that which one would expect more reward from.

To summarise, high usage means we ultimately relinquish our greatest weapon.
 
I don't really understand people that swear in normal conversation. What words do you use when you actually want to swear?
 
I don't swear around kids or women. Every time I did I got told off as a kid.

Now I hear shouted out "mum, what's for dinner?" "dunno, ask you ****** dad!".

That's when you know society have no real class any more.... lol.
 
**** :D

Swearing around kids is something that does irk me these days but I do recall swearing (just one word, not that it matters) at a kid when I was around 17/19. Cringe :o They're just words really, no harm meant by them most of the time. I love how casually some people I know (especially Scots/Irish friends) slip swear words in sentences and it sounds fine.

Nobody since the creation of the universe has ever worked on a car or done some diy and not sworn. Factoid.
 
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I've never used a swear word and don't ever intend to. The company that I keep shares the same opinion, including my employer, who doesn't tolerate it either. If you were to swear in my company, you'd find that no one would be best pleased, and you could get marginalised or fired.
 
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Tend not to in conversation but do when I'm on my own in moments of frustration.

Seeing parents swear in front of their kids fills me with ****ing anger though ;)
 
I go both ways (fnar). I can sometimes swear like a trooper but I can also behave very well, depending on the situation.

I've often pondered the use of profanity myself and I find that people who swear a lot are usually young / aren't around kids much.
 
I do try not to swear at all in front of women but with men as someone has already mentioned I tailor my language to fit the situation and company. But I do feel the younger generation including the girls use foul language as a matter of course and that includes in front of their young children. Which will mean that these kids of kids will see nothing wrong in using this type of language.
 
loads of interesting comments on this thread.

I am fascinated by it's origins my parents would give me a clout on the ear if I swore when I was young so I tend not to swear.

Sometimes it has it's place google youtube billy connelly talking about swearing where swearing has a better use than simply saying "go away".

I loved the comment by nana saying it should only be used with an exclamation mark.

I don't get offended when people swear but do not accept it from my son at home but I'm not daft and at 9 it's probably used in the playground.
 
Only time i swear at work is when i have to deal with rubbish software then i end up just cursing at microsoft or java all day, when i had to deal with MDT i was cursing non stop. My colleague had to tell me to tone it down a bit but i never swear in client meetings or what i would call unnecessarily. Just adding it in all the time. It is more just when i get annoyed.
 
Depends on the context. At work? Swearing definitely not appropriate. In casual circumstances, I can swear like a trooper if something annoys me. However, very little annoys me, so it rarely comes out. :p
 
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