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What's your view on swearing?

posted by ohphukimintrouble on AskPhuks

In my music post, I mentioned that swearing in songs sticks out like a sore thumb. It's something that makes my ears immediately perk up.

I would say I am much more foul online than off. Swearing is apart of my digital vocabulary. I do it excessively online. I swear online without even thinking about it. Scaling it back wouldn't be a bad thing.

Offline, it's a different situation. Swearing isn't a sentence filler as much as it is for me online. By no means am I the Virgin Mary of bad words. I will drop a 'shit' if I stub my toe, for example.

Something that soured my view on swearing in real was my eavesdropping on some chick who was on her phone. I was walking into the shops, she was walking out. She was on the phone swearing like a sailor while pushing a child. I found it to be quite distasteful.

My family weren't hyper Christian goody two-shoes. Swearing is something my dad will do every two minutes. My mum does it less often, but it's still there. I've just always found it to be a bit weird. Especially in the case of people using it where it's not necessarily needed.

In my music post, I mentioned that swearing in songs sticks out like a sore thumb. It's something that makes my ears immediately perk up. I would say I am much more foul online than off. Swearing is apart of my digital vocabulary. I do it excessively online. I swear online without even thinking about it. Scaling it back wouldn't be a bad thing. Offline, it's a different situation. Swearing isn't a sentence filler as much as it is for me online. By no means am I the Virgin Mary of bad words. I will drop a 'shit' if I stub my toe, for example. Something that soured my view on swearing in real was my eavesdropping on some chick who was on her phone. I was walking into the shops, she was walking out. She was on the phone swearing like a sailor while pushing a child. I found it to be quite distasteful. My family weren't hyper Christian goody two-shoes. Swearing is something my dad will do every two minutes. My mum does it less often, but it's still there. I've just always found it to be a bit weird. Especially in the case of people using it where it's not necessarily needed.

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[–] Butler_crosley 1 points (+1|-0)

I try to keep mine at a minimum as much as I can but some curse words will slip out in response to pain or if I'm really ticked off. My 5 year old is more likely to say one after hearing it (he's been known to sing "you son of a bitch" while listening to Devil Went Down to Georgia) but my 8 year old did tell someone to "shut the fuck up" one day in class. Being the gentle soul my 8 year old is he realized the word he said and started crying over saying it (he didn't get in trouble from the teacher because he knew he shouldn't have said it). My wife and I have actually taken pride in being complimented on our children's vocabulary because we make an effort to not use curse words around them which makes us use a larger vocabulary.

That said, when I play golf with my best friend we make sailors and Marines blush with our cursing. We would probably fill very large swearing jars using just pennies. The rest of the time I try to avoid cursing in normal conversation unless the other person has cursed already.