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Swearing

It seems like using vulgar language is the way a lot of people talk, anymore. Bobby and I were just discussing that, and how bad the movies are with several f-bombs per sentence for the whole movie.
It used to be, we could watch a movie, enjoy all of the action and adventure, and didn’t need to hear people cursing the whole time. Now, it seems like that is the only words in some people’s vocabulary.
 
It depends who you ask and what decades they are basing their opinions on. Based on the norms of the 1960s when I was growing up, you would say I swear. But based on today's norms, I'm a choir boy. Remember back in those days when in movies and TV if a man and a woman were on a bed, one of them had to keep one foot on the floor? And now they show people gettin' busy on broadcast TV. Times change, but sometimes people's values do not.
 
Joe Riley said:
... After a time, non-stop swearing loses it's shock value and becomes uncreative repetition. It reduces the users to cookie cutter members of the herd.
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There are people around me who do so but I try not to. I aim to be well mannered and civilazied person. I don't do it so that I can say: "I am better than you". I mearly feel deep in my heart that is the right way.
 
Sitting here on our front porch, there is rarely an hour that passes when someone(s) doesn’t go by spewing a whole string of “adjectives” and expletives that have no reference points in which one can decide what the conversation is about.
Whether from one person to another or speaking very loudly on their cell, [which is the most prevalent case], there is no way I, an educated person of yesteryear can transpose the language into something remotely intelligent much less understandable.

As for myself, sure. On the occasions when I hurt myself or make a major blunder, the severity of the deed is the deciding factor as to whether I say dern or d**m, etc

Now, have I cursed when I’m EXTREMELY angry? Yup. Got to admit to that one.
Notably, I spent my stint in the military during a time when as a 17 year old, the drill sergeants taught us how to wreck things, kill people and the fine art of cursing which at the time, seemed like a good mixture since one rarely goes without the other.

That said, even during those days, we still knew that those words were never to be used in front of the fairer sex and rarely even in a conversation with fellow males.
“It’s better to be thought of as a fool than to open one’s mouth and prove it”.
 
Yvonne Smith said:
It seems like using vulgar language is the way a lot of people talk, anymore. Bobby and I were just discussing that, and how bad the movies are with several f-bombs per sentence for the whole movie.
It used to be, we could watch a movie, enjoy all of the action and adventure, and didn’t need to hear people cursing the whole time. Now, it seems like that is the only words in some people’s vocabulary.
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Yvonne even worse are the leaders cussing some even F word, remember Trump using it?
Hollywood also using Gods name in vain a lot.
 
It’s terrible I’ve never used such foul language in my life …but it’s an everyday word now …..
My hubs worked in the heavy machinery industry and he said he could swear as good as anyone at work ,but in the just over 39 years we’ve been together I’ve never once heard him swear
to be totally honest when I hear our neighbours using such language I say to hubs ,there’s the Smithfield / Elizabeth breeding coming out in them
Smithfield and Elizabeth which are the same area just a road dividing the 2 suburbs …in the northern parts of Adelaide city ( about 39 km from the city )
Until about 20 years ago ,it was all government owned /funded / housing for the ….single mothers ( dumping ground as it was labelled)
the no hopers /and full to the brim ~ with undesirables .

However the homes which were all double units (Single story / 2 homes joined together ) were originally built for the 10 pound “ Pom” scheme
as it was called to encourage people from the UK to immigrate to Australia to work in the Holden car manufacturing plant at Elizabeth.
which in now no longer a car manufacturing plant .

In the last 20,years housing land has become very expensive,~~ so what we call the Housing Trust has sold off 90% of the homes to developers who knock them over and sell off the land to private buyers .

The area of Elizabeth was named after the late Queen Elizabeth ,and there is a “road “ named after the late Prince Phillip at a Elizabeth

Called Phillip highway , apprently it was named ….Phillip road …..but it was quickly changed when the powers to be …

woke up to the fact ~~~Phillip …road …Elizabeth:oops: ….was a totally inappropriate name

We personally call the area Ferals -ville ….yep we lived near Elizabeth when we first got married ….even tho we were 40 and 41 at the time we didn’t have the $$$ to buy a home at 18. % interest so we were forced to settle where we could afford to …..I was sooooo happy the day we sold our home and left the area in 2004

Aussie definition of a feral
related to a rough, unkempt appearance or rude behaviour . The term has roots in describing domesticated animals that have returned to a wild state.
 
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Everyone I've ever talked to has said that Feral means roughly the same as Wild. The first time I ever heard the term, I was about 10 (thus about 1966) and this family named Merrill moved to the tiny town I grew up in. They had three very "unruly" daughters. They said that they had the nickname "The Feral Merrills" where they had moved from, and it stuck... They weren't mean or any of that. They were just wild party girls that brought the concept of "Pot Smokin' Hippies" to our little corner of the corn field.
 
Swearing? It's my second language! I'm Irish so have a natural propensity for it.
 
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