Foul mouth complaint

Shaz82

Shaz82

Location
Essex, U.K.
I had this with a man that Maisy barked at, I tried to diffuse the situation but he was so far 'over threshold' so I just left it and walked away. But it really bugs you for days after, the attitude, the anger and hatred that is aimed at you and worse - your dog.

If his bush is so precious (unicorn tears :ROFLMAO:) he should plant it somewhere else, Simba was probably lured by all the other dog wee on it.
I can see the guys point but Simba wasn't exactly prancing round his garden hosing it down was he. Prat! (not too bad a word)
Such a minor incident would not bother most people but there is always one!

Also, I get the odd look @Charlie when Maisy wees, because she bobs down people assume she's having a poo and I am leaving it.
Can't help that, but I am quite conscious of where she goes.
 
Jen

Jen

I’m a bit of a bugger for swearing - my mam tells me off.

Sometimes there’s no other words that will do it. I would never scream at another person like that though. More like when your dog rolls in fox poo only a “for f**ks sake” will do 🤷🏻‍♀️
 
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FayRose

Location
Close to Devon/Somerset border
SwampDonkey said:
A good swear does you good be creative not boring. Inventive is fun. I worked in the construction industry they taught me everything I know
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Ah, another construction industry worker here. I agree, I learnt several very useful and basically descriptive words during my time there :rofl:

However, I used the 'f' word (trying not to offend anyone) in a text to my brother who had made me furious about a family matter and as a result he has virtually frozen me out. So, although as you say @snowbunny , just a group of letter, the 'sense' of some words through usage are such that they cause real offence. Shame.
 
snowbunny

snowbunny

Location
Andorra and Spain
FayRose said:
However, I used the 'f' word (trying not to offend anyone) in a text to my brother who had made me furious about a family matter and as a result he has virtually frozen me out. So, although as you say @snowbunny , just a group of letter, the 'sense' of some words through usage are such that they cause real offence. Shame.
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Oh, I totally agree that they can and do cause offence. I just think that's a bit strange how we as a society have been indoctrinated into being offended by simple words regardless of how they are used.
 
Charlie

Charlie

Location
Argyll & Bute, Scotland
snowbunny said:
Oh, I totally agree that they can and do cause offence. I just think that's a bit strange how we as a society have been indoctrinated into being offended by simple words regardless of how they are used.
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Personally I don't think it's strange. Children should be advised at a young age not to use foul language as it sounds just awful. I swear but it's not every other word out of my mouth as it seems to be these days (now I sound old :oops:) My Mum would actually wash our mouths out with soap if we swore :eek:and I'm glad she did as we have a healthy respect for what comes out of our mouths. If my grown up children swear I advise them to look in the mirror and repeat what they have said just to see how horrible they look. I guess times change but sometimes not for the good of society. xx
 
Charlie

Charlie

Location
Argyll & Bute, Scotland
snowbunny said:
Why do you think it sounds awful? What makes it awful? Who told you that, and why?
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It's vulgar especially from women (don't shoot me please!) just my view. When I do swear I always say to myself "why did I say that, I didn't need to" My parents, Teachers people I respected said it's not nice to swear. I have made my own mind up as I grew up and agree it's very unpleasant to have to listen too. Why do we need to swear at all? x
 
snowbunny

snowbunny

Location
Andorra and Spain
Like most people probably, I shudder when I hear children swear. But I do also think that's bonkers of me, and demonstrates how well I've been manipulated into feeling that way by other people.

So I totally disagree with the concept that it should be considered unacceptable, whilst accepting wholeheartedly that it often is, at least in our language/culture. A very respectable Spaniard would say "joder" and no-one would bat an eyelid. Same word, different culture. Why is it "vulgar" in ours, and not in theirs, when it is the same word, with the same meaning?

But, similarly, I don't find it offensive in the slightest if someone says "Jesus", "damn", or "hell". I wouldn't even consider my audience before using them, because they are "normal" words to me. Yet I've been pulled up on their use on more than one occasion as being hugely offensive by religious Americans! Those people have been conditioned that the use of these words is totally unacceptable, and I never have.

For me, the context of language is what makes it offensive or not. I have a couple of Irish friends who stick "feck" in every other word. It's not offensive in the slightest.

Charlie said:
My parents, Teachers people I respected said it's not nice to swear.
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I wonder who told them? :D

Charlie said:
Why do we need to swear at all?
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My counter to this is, why should we limit our vocabulary based on something so arbitrary as the categorisation of a word as being "bad"? And on whose definition? Why do "they" get to say which words are "bad"?

This is a fun article to read: Swearing Is Good For You—And Chimps Do It, Too
I think the thing that is most interesting (especially with the example of the chimps) is how what we consider to be swear words highlight the things that we consider to be "dirty". That's eye-opening, when we consider that lots of these words are based around sex, and body parts and functions. The fact that we still consider those things to be shameful really isn't very 21st century. :D
 
Jen

Jen

snowbunny said:
Like most people probably, I shudder when I hear children swear. But I do also think that's bonkers of me,
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BUT! I have to admit it’s slightly funny - when it’s not your child. Like I will really try not to swear in front of Rory and I will never knowingly allow him to swear.

But sitting in a cafe with my best friend and her nearly 3 year old. Rory dropped his dummy and her daughter went “ohhhh fucking heck”. My friend was mortified and it took every single bit of effort I could muster not to laugh.

It’s not even a phrase anyone I know would use 😂🙈
 
snowbunny

snowbunny

Location
Andorra and Spain
My best friend's little boy went through a phase of shouting "COCK" at the top of his voice. He was learning the time and couldn't pronounce "clock". Of course, everyone laughed so he kept on doing it at the most inopportune times, when it would get the biggest reaction :D

"Yes, Jack, that's right!", my friend would say loudly, and rather hysterically. "Tick tock, CLOCK!" :cwl:
 
Charlie

Charlie

Location
Argyll & Bute, Scotland
Maybe swearing just becomes a horrible habit, then it becomes every other word. It's distasteful. I try very hard not to swear because I don't like the way I sound when I do, maybe people that know me don't either. I have a dear friend that has recently become so potty mouthed I hardly recognise her, it's effing this and effing that I just want to tell her to "shut up" because that's all I hear and not what she necessarily wants to tell me. I don't like sitting on a train or in a pub and hearing swearing all the time because I don't see why it should be used with such frequency. Also if we don't listen to parents, teachers when we are growing up how will we learn what is acceptable. In my view swearing is anti social xx
 
edzbird

edzbird

Location
Isle of Man
It's all about the tone. I hold my hand up to being quite a foul mouthed bitch in the company of friends - but I wouldn't use it in anger toward a stranger, and I wouldn't swear in front of children, but I certainly don't find it anti social among friends.

OH's mum thinks BELLY & KNICKERS are swear words! I used the word belly once and his then 10 year old niece went into a fit of giggles behind her hand.
 
SwampDonkey

SwampDonkey

It depends on the teacher and parents. Why would their teaching and rules any better than anyone's elses. They can teach you unethical nasty things which they believe are ok. Why would we listen to them ? They are the ones that are saying they are right. Why would you trust them to he the arbitrators of our lives. When some says this is the way you need to do things I just ask why
I am very anti establishment

Belly?
 
Charlie

Charlie

Location
Argyll & Bute, Scotland
SwampDonkey said:
It depends on the teacher and parents. Why would their teaching and rules any better than anyone's elses. They can teach you unethical nasty things which they believe are ok. Why would we listen to them ? They are the ones that are saying they are right. Why would you trust them to he the arbitrators of our lives. When some says this is the way you need to do things I just ask why
I am very anti establishment
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I was lucky enough to have good parents that guided me, I trusted them with my life. They gave me the tools to be able to make my own decisions and not always take the advice I was given if I didn't believe in it. When you're a child you really don't have an alternative but to listen to parents and teachers etc. I'm not saying they are/were always right but who else should you listen too at such a young age? Surely suggesting to a child that's it's not very nice to say f**k is correct? x
 
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