Do people have no shame.

[Geoffrey Carter (Buttercup)]

Just driving down Scarborough sea front with a car in front of me.

He stops and starts shouting to a chap over the road.

Every  other word is a swear word and he is shouting and having a conversation with this man.

People arond and also young children.

Some people have no shame.

[Northwarks]

At 16 I was working in the haulage industry and exposed to a new toe curling  but there is clearly a time, place and context.

I was on a long haul flight to California for work, 2 guys closest to me were using very colourful language to the point one of the crew came down and asked them to stop, they didn't and in the end one of the pilots came from the pointy bit and kindly explained them it was his aircraft and his rules are final - Keep their voices down or be prepared for US law enforcement to meet/greet them when we landed - That worked but those around them had endured every word in the Anglo Saxon profanity dictionary for about 3 hours  to that point.

As you say so shame some folks ...

[pistonbroke]

What to say when you switch on TV  watch a Chat show or most panel games and every other word begins with F .

How do we teach our children its wrong when every Pop star ( with the exception of Sir Cliff ) can't seem to express there selves without use of the vernacular

Unheard of in my day , when the use of even the mildest  swear word in front of parents or elders  would get you a thick ear !   

God knows what the next generation will be like 

[Rory's Dad]

There's a rubbish crime drama on Sunday evening called 'The Loch' which in order to appear more gritty and dynamic uses the 'f' word or the 'f...ing' word regularly. A female detective is the prime offender...

[Robin Parker (Red Spider) - Yorkshire AO]

I work in a factory where swearing is the norm, and yes me included,  but it stops when I get home and mostly when I'm out too, although the odd one does pop out from time to time. I don't do it in front of my 23 and 19 year old children, they probably use it more than me, in fact, I only remember my dad, who was in the RAF and worked in industry all his life use the F word twice. 

[dombanks]

Watch love Island 

[pistonbroke]

2 hours ago, dombanks said:

Watch love Island 

No F in Way 

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman]

I swore once in front of my Dad when I was young, by accident, I'd just hurt my self helping fix a fence in the garden.

He stopped, put his tools down, came checked I was al OK, assured me that yes, the finger I'd just hit with a piece of 2"x3" would have a nasty bruise in the morning, but no wasn't broken, and I would be ok. Then gave me a thick ear for swearing.

A few years later, helping him change a tyre on the car, he slipped with a wheel wrench, gashed his hand badly and swore like the Merchant Navy seaman he'd been during the war!

He stopped himself very quickly, realising I was staring at him open mouthed. He hadn't even checked his hand at this point, but just looked straight at me and apologised for the language, then told me if I ever used those words and wasn't at least bleeding on the ground, I would be when he found out.  

Bue from an early age, you were taught there was a time and a place for somethings.

[John K]

I think there is a difference in swearing as an adjective and swearing at somebody.

I swear at things a lot, an effing lot, my dad says I swear "like a blind cobbler" and my language last weekend whilst trying to wire in a 13a socket into a restrictive alcove was biblically bad.

But IMHO there is a difference between "you ****** ****ing socket, get in the ****ing gap you ****, Oww, you mother ****er, **** the blood is dripping on the mdf, **** , please get me a ****ing plaster"

And "you are a **** "

[Steve (sdh2903)]

On 12/07/2017 at 11:15, Geoffrey (Buttercup) - North Yorkshire AO said:

Some people have no shame.

I think it's more people don't have standards anymore. I work In an engineering environment where people swear a lot. Including one guy who uses the C-bomb as a term of endearment. But I have been brought up to know that it's not to be done at home or in front of my kids.

Yes the kids hear the language in the playground but we've installed into them it's not to be repeated. We as parents have laid down the standards of behaviour. Lots of parents now a days don't do this and expect the kids to learn how to behave from their ipads or Xboxes.

We were recently on a 5hr flight home from holiday and there was a kid probably around 4-5 year old. He was running the length of the aircraft the whole flight the crew were tripping over him and asked for him to be returned to his seat at least 3 times. He then found a new game by pressing everyones tv screens as he passed. My 5 year old daughter was sat open mouthed at this kids behaviour. The dad was sat with headphones on the whole time whilst mum was mixing her own vodka and cokes and proceeding to get smashed. I actually felt sorry for the nipper in the end despite his hugely annoying behaviour. What chance does he have.

[pistonbroke]

Poor kid will probably get sent to boarding school , Eton ?  and end up as an M.P. 

 

[Man On The Clapham Omnibus]

On 7/12/2017 at 12:46, pistonbroke said:

What to say when you switch on TV  watch a Chat show or most panel games and every other word begins with F .

How do we teach our children its wrong when every Pop star ( with the exception of Sir Cliff ) can't seem to express there selves without use of the vernacular

Unheard of in my day , when the use of even the mildest  swear word in front of parents or elders  would get you a thick ear !   

God knows what the next generation will be like 

I have heard every Anglo Saxon four letter word on Radio 4 - during the morning! When you challenge them, as my wife did once for Joan Bakewell saying "rowlocks" (well, nearly) on the News Quiz on a Saturday lunchtime when our young children were in earshot, they excused it by saying that she was quoting someone else in a news item.

'Hill Street Blues' was one of the first hard-nosed cop shows in the 1980s and was much copied ('The Bill' for one was a clone), but it never used any swear words at all. Nevertheless it was terrifyingly frank in its portrayal of US city life in that time. It can be done - William Shakespeare wrote some erotic and blunt stuff but you didn't even realise unless you listened hard!

I heard my dad swear only once and that was when I drove his car through a barbed wire fence... 

[pistonbroke]

Ha Ha!  I think I may qualify for that club , except in my case it was a brick wall not a wire fence , to compound the issue it was a wall my father had built and it didn't fall away from the car ( a Bedford Dormobile  in this case ) it fell on it , all 8 ft tall of it . I didn't actually here him swear though he probably did ,  all I could hear was a loud ringing noise in both ears .

Surprisingly little damage to the vehicle just a few scratches  

[jeff oakley]

What I find strange is how quickly standards have fallen. I am no prude but hard core swearing in front of women and children is simply wrong. The problem is we have pop stars signing using those words, we see films using those words so the examples are set.

The owner of Sam Smiths brewery has banned swearing in his pubs, his attitude is seen as old fashioned yet many support him, but it is trying to push water uphill with a straw.

What I find most shocking is now women, especially in business, feel they must do the same and use as many swear words as they can in presentations to appear one of the guy's or hip. It is sad and unnecessary to do so.

No doubt some will say it is down to us older people wanting to turn the clock back, yes I would to a time where respect wasn't something gained by a gun or by being a criminal. A time where being a criminal didn't get you a better job or a TV show. A time where the police were a force, not a service and where they knew what was right and wrong and were supported by the public to make things better. A time where parents taught their children to sit down and behave in examples like the aeroplane journey. Probably too late to turn it back now.

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman]

Respect, there's perhaps the key word. Too many people lost sight of what the word respect really meant, now to so many it's some distorted gagsta speak concept that only applies to others treatment of themselves, rather than the proper meaning of respect and how it's applied to others.

The thing with the swearing is it's not the words, the language as such, it's the lack of respect and thought for the other person that it's use often implies.