jefmcg
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Um, peanut butter?
Are we allowed to swear on this forum?
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Yellow Saddle
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Try these seven words.
jefmcg
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Well, a quick search says that's not true ....
All depends on context?
I was one of those who used the word, but I would still feel that in the context it was used it was not inappropriate
jefmcg
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Surely that is true of every word, though?
Dayvo
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[QUOTE 4828845, member: 43827"]I'm genuinely not disapproving but I just don't get the swearing thing, other than trying to fit in with the group.[/QUOTE]
Hmmm, I swear too much (mild Tourette's
) and often, and in three languages. But I do (somehow, and quite successfully) moderate it depending on whose company I'm in.
Also, I've played a lot of team sport and worked on building sites, which presents more opportunity for swearing.
I can't think of a day where I haven't (probably) sworn in over 35-40 years.
And I can't imagine that I've been awake very long every day before the first profanity escapes.
Hmmm, I swear too much (mild Tourette's
) and often, and in three languages. But I do (somehow, and quite successfully) moderate it depending on whose company I'm in. Also, I've played a lot of team sport and worked on building sites, which presents more opportunity for swearing.
I can't think of a day where I haven't (probably) sworn in over 35-40 years.
And I can't imagine that I've been awake very long every day before the first profanity escapes.
Sunny Portrush
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Can I by-pass the swear filter by adding a Billy Connolly video about his views on swearing??
Don`t worry, I wont but as the great man says, You never read "fark-off, he hinted!" lol
Don`t worry, I wont but as the great man says, You never read "fark-off, he hinted!" lol
mickle
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That's worth a read through every once in a while. Funny as fark.
briantrumpet
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I was trying to explain Cockney rhyming slang to a Frenh cycling friend, in particular ones that had lost the rhyming part of the pair (e.g. "loaf" has lost the "bread" part that rhymes with "head"). Anyway, thinking that there were more like that that I couldn't remember, I googled them, and I found out that "berk" is not an inoffensive term... Berkeley Hunt...
Slick
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[QUOTE 4828845, member: 43827"]I'll come out and admit here that I don't feel comfortable swearing so I don't do it, other than the odd use of mild words such as bugger (so that is a bit of a cop out I suppose).
In my late teens I worked as a labourer for three summers on Wimpey building sites and I took a lot of stick for my mild language, which they attributed to my being a "posh" student.
One aspect I can never understand is selective use of swearing. One of the drinking group I hang out with is a primary school head and his language is heavily littered with the strongest swear words, yet he never swears if our wives are present, and I assume he doesn't swear like that in front of the kids. So he chooses to swear in one environment but not in others. I know my Dad used to swear like a trooper in work and with his mates, but I never once heard him swear at home.
I'm genuinely not disapproving but I just don't get the swearing thing, other than trying to fit in with the group.[/QUOTE]
Your probably right. I have never once used a swear word in front of my wife or parents when they were alive, but I think that was just a respect thing. After 30 odd years on construction sites and oil rigs my language at work is very different. It's a deliberate choice, when I use it and when I don't, and I find it very easy to slip between the two.
In my late teens I worked as a labourer for three summers on Wimpey building sites and I took a lot of stick for my mild language, which they attributed to my being a "posh" student.
One aspect I can never understand is selective use of swearing. One of the drinking group I hang out with is a primary school head and his language is heavily littered with the strongest swear words, yet he never swears if our wives are present, and I assume he doesn't swear like that in front of the kids. So he chooses to swear in one environment but not in others. I know my Dad used to swear like a trooper in work and with his mates, but I never once heard him swear at home.
I'm genuinely not disapproving but I just don't get the swearing thing, other than trying to fit in with the group.[/QUOTE]
Your probably right. I have never once used a swear word in front of my wife or parents when they were alive, but I think that was just a respect thing. After 30 odd years on construction sites and oil rigs my language at work is very different. It's a deliberate choice, when I use it and when I don't, and I find it very easy to slip between the two.
Sunny Portrush
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That thread is priceless - I had snot running down my nose by page three = ****face has to be my favourite phrase on it!
Just looking at the website now
Dayvo
just passin' through
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Any chance of digging it out?
hopless500
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- not-as-flat-as-you-think Norfolk
Same here. Swap building site for stables and we're on a par. I always seem to swear more when subconsciously I feel I shouldn't.Hmmm, I swear too much (mild Tourette's
Also, I've played a lot of team sport and worked on building sites, which presents more opportunity for swearing.
I can't think of a day where I haven't (probably) sworn in over 35-40 years.
And I can't imagine that I've been awake very long every day before the first profanity escapes.
