swearing lately

[Hawk81]

Has the rule about swearing changed on the forum?? I have noticed a lot of swearing recently. Ok maybe one or 2 letters * but it does not take a genius to work out what is trying to be spelt out.

 

[Hawk81]

hows it going hawk81, hows working life treating you

Not so bad mate can't complain. Kept going steady enough. What about yourself?

 

[i=p/u]

was working in rathcoole with some dude from dungannon doing kitchen rewires, for miserible money and long hours and a moaner so think im off with new contractor to belfast this week or next week if gets the all go... ya know... do my own we bits too.... mostly for family and for little, but it stops me from being rusty , the dream is still to work for myselfff, bet you;d never look back

 

[High Tower]

was working in rathcoole with some dude from dungannon doing kitchen rewires, for miserible money and long hours and a moaner so think im off with new contractor to belfast this week or next week if gets the all go... ya know... do my own we bits too.... mostly for family and for little, but it stops me from being rusty , the dream is still to work for myselfff, bet you;d never look back

Dungannon now that's my part of the world

 

[rsmck]

You mean like the censored version of lethal weapon lets go get the funsters

Or, as someone pointed out to me recently, the censored version of "Snakes on a Plane" .. "I'm tired of these monkey-fighting snakes on this Monday to Friday plane" ... made me laugh anyway

 

[Adam W]

I agree with just about everything said on this thread - the analogy I always use is that you wouldn't go into the post office and ask the old dear behind the counter for "a book of effing stamps" so why use that kind of language anywhere else?
At the same time it can be appropriate to swear in the right place at the right time - my very much middle class Oxford educated mother who works as a historical re-enactment teacher in the county museum under the professional pseudonym of 'Miss Proper' would ordinarily have given me a right dressing down for swearing, but I remember I once found something incredibly annoying and uttered "Oh FFS [elongated version]" under my breath which she found highly amusing.

To me, the neanderthals on site who feel they have to crowbar in the F word several times in a sentence come across as being a bit, well, thick. Also it takes them twice as long to say anything.

I'd hope that if I reported a post with swearing on it the offending word would just be starred out or substituted for something comical, rather than being removed completely.

 

[malcolmsanford]

The 'F' word is the only word in the english language that you can make a sentance of.

"The ....ing thing is ....ing ....ed"

Amazing what you learn over the years