bad language

I hate swearing although I do it under my breath quite often. However, like Baubles, if I ever do say the eff word, it doesn't half make people sit up and take notice

I'm just not sure that swearing works when you write it down. Either as a steam letter offer or anything else. Other than perhaps a deliberate insult.

Oh,thats good.

She wasn't gone for long ....

Didnt know until reading this thread that Crimson has left?!
How sad, I always enjoyed reading her posts and usually agreed/related to them.
How sad! A loss to the GN site thats for sure.

tag not take

#getonwithyourjobswoman

hashtags explained by Twitter Although I think a lot of people just use them to take a bit on the end of a tweet. Sort of like an 'aside'.

Lilygran Didn't know about the expletives, although I'm not surprised but am fed up with gray and color.

Running into problems with online word games. The dictionaries all seem to be American (cuts out a lot of standard British words they don't use) and puritanical (won't allow mild expletives). District nurse!

I think on Twitter it is used like a thread, and if you search for that hashtag you'll come up with that conversation. There are some famous ones like
#blamethemuslims, started by a young Muslim girl objecting to the way every time there's an atrocity (I think in this case the Norway shootings) the knee-jerk reaction is to blame the Muslims.
I think on here it's just being used to summarise the essence of a post, or the poster's feelings.
#dokeepupattheback

No! It's not an expletive!!! It's just a thing from Twitter (but on there it actually does something) God knows what

Can some kind person like Kali explain to this simpleton the use and meaning of the hash tag. Is it an expletive?

"Sorry Bags and Jo7 are you related in some way or are you one and the same person?"

OMG! Not another one of those! #getoriginal

I don't think using swear words indicates a lack of intelligence, breeding, education or morals. A well chosen swear word can be just as appropriate to the situation as other emotive or strong words. I don't choose to use swear words in front of children, although over the years they have overheard me, but they have also overheard me behaving responsibly and not slagging people off or disclosing information that should not be imposed on children. We can get on our high horses about swearing, but ignore other behaviour that would be better addressed.

Three of my four children swear every now and then. The other one is so placid that she rarely feels the need to use strong words. None of us use swear words as a way to be aggressive, but generally for humour or emphasis, and not that frequently.

I watched an episode of Celebrity Big Brother with my daughter the other day, and we roared laughing at Rylan Clark, who does swear a lot, but called Razor Ruddock 'you cheeky f***er' in such an affectionate way, no-one could possibly be offended by it. A very funny moment

Little boy was about two or three

I don't think swearing is used to express anger nowadays I think most swearing seems to be to avoid thinking of a vivid adjective to fill the blank. Outside the Theatre Royal in Newcastle I saw a young man with his little boy sitting on his shoulders ,deep in intent conversation. How charming I thought fathers get such a bad press these days. As I passed the little boy wanted to carry his father. Fathers reply was if you f******think you can f**** carry me you f**** can't . Really depressed me.

Sorry Bags and Jo7 are you related in some way or are you one and the same person? .You are always backing each other up with any thread that you are taking part in. Using the F-word on this thread is entirely unnecessary Bags even out of extreme annoyance. My father used to say that people who resorted to foul language are unable to express their anger in an educated and intelligent manner.

Children swear anyway, however good an example parents set them.
DS was educated at the English Schools Foundation School in Kowloon until he was 7.
One day he came home muttering 'doy lay mo, doy lay mo!'
We discovered that this apparently common Chinese expletive means 'F**k your grandmother'

I don't swear often, but when I do it's because I'm angry. I don't use the 'f' word, nor the 'b' word which starts with a 'bu.......', but am known to shout 'bo....cks' , as in 'bo.....cks to that, or that's a load of old 'bo.....cks'. I don't know why - habit maybe. Perhaps it's because I find the word has a good hearty kick to it.

......and no, I'm not advocating violence to the male anatomy.

When absentdaughter was little I made an effort never to swear so that when she picked up inappropriate words at school or wherever – as she inevitably would – I could truthfully say "We don't use that word in our house". Jolly became my default qualifier. Consequently, all my lovely German au pairs went home using expressions like jolly silly and jolly good.

Swearing can be so freeing.

Flak being educated all the time.

I like 'jolly silly person'.

I might try saying that when arguing with DH instead of my usual offensive language.

Diva, yes. Chuckling at your "vapours" remark. That's just what it is.

In answer to ga's question: yes, the way my child does it.

That's the short answer. Actually, I don't swear much. I am rather too proud of my level of education to feel the need or to bother [ooh! get her emoticon!], but DD1 has taken to chucking in the occasional f word recently because it's "the thing to do" when you're at high school. Remember that? I do. Not that we used the f word in those days.

Anyway, it doesn't bother me in the slightest. If anything, it makes me smile at the phase she's in.

It does bother me if she is rude, or even merely not quite as polite as I'd like her to be. But that's different from just playing with 'bad' words to see what the effect is. And it's different from expressing irritation with some nicely forceful words that grown ups get in a tizzy about.

Isn't being a teenager all about finding out what puts grown ups in a tizzy?

Hey Jingle and Bags, I seem to recalll we have had this discussion before - it p****d me off so much last time that I went back to my other boards who didn't get the vapours about a bit of bad language.
I see lots of things on here I don't like, even the odd opinion I find offensive on a personal level, the secret is to walk on by if you don't like it.