It's so easy to slip
Posted on 03/23/2025 7:04:15 AM PDT by DoodleBob
Jim Robinson
Posted on 7/9/2023, 2:33:27 AM by Jim Robinson
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Incidentally, we are getting way too much profanity. This is NOT DU, this is NOT CNN - (in deep voice) this IS FR!
“Given our propensity for four-letter words, it should come as no surprise that America leads the world in swearing.”
I’m not sure the author has ever attended a typical Australian corporate board meeting.
Exactly! And this isn’t that Neo Nazi rag Stormfront either.
I highly recommend Jennifer Kerns’ book, ‘Feminist Exit: How Liberals Have Betrayed Women and Why It’s Time for a Feminist Exit’
If only the code of conduct applied to everybody here.
I think public cursing has always been here but got a big boost with all those Reality Shows that bleeped very obvious profanities. People complete that bleeped profanity in their heads. Some shoes seem to sprinkle profanities in a gratuitous way, needlessly , the way a Cook will keep on adding more and more garlic, and peppers when they don’t really need to.
I say things to my television that I would never say in public.
Very good piece! Hope this grows into a “movement”...we’ve become way to crude.
This OP violates JR’S directives for no masked profanity.
Free Republic would be a better place.
We need Jesus!
Except for George McFly in 1955, who really needs to swear?
Not only is it unbecoming, it ruins the Christmas spirit. It’s bad enough already that people have to cover their ears for “All I want for Christmas is *@#!”
Besides, we all know that the pun is mightier than the s-word. Goy to the World!
I watch quite a bit of Aussie “reality TV” and Utube. Even I am sometimes shocked at the “cursing’ I hear. Copious use of the “c” word and stringing curse words together to form a sentence.
I learned to cuss in steel plants and I can still put a string together that is amateurish by Aussie standards.
My High School English teacher said “Cursing is a direct reflection of one’s upbringing or your parents lack of trying. It’s lazy to use a swear word when using ten others available makes one’s statements more memorable and make you seem smarter than you are.”
Thank you Alma Norton.
“”I watch quite a bit of Aussie “reality TV” and Utube. Even I am sometimes shocked at the “cursing’ I hear. Copious use of the “c” word and stringing curse words together to form a sentence.
I learned to cuss in steel plants and I can still put a string together that is amateurish by Aussie standards.””
Remember the term “cuss or swear like a sailor”? In the good ole days... that was the phrase used when someone used profanity. Presumbably, military men would ‘pick up’ swearing from different ports or areas of the world and bring it back home. It’s a culture thing now.
I have watched a lot of UK and Aussie shows and they use the “c” word like we use the “b” word. It’s no biggie to them. And I have noticed that even in some of my favorite TV shows, the use of the “f” word is becoming more and more “normalized”. It’s all part of the bringing down of our culture of Christianity and traditional American values. It’s “progressive” destruction.
I think public cursing has always been here but got a big boost with all those Reality Shows that bleeped very obvious profanities. People complete that bleeped profanity in their heads. Some shoes seem to sprinkle profanities in a gratuitous way, needlessly , the way a Cook will keep on adding more and more garlic, and peppers when they don’t really need to.
Some may call bull Schiff on this.
That phrase has gone through my mind recently as I reflected on the increased use of vulgar words across all media.
When I was an enlisted man in the Navy (50 years ago) we were told not to swear in front of officers. I also never heard an officer swear in font of us, although I imagine they did when among themselves. The point was to uphold military decorum and protocol.
It would be nice to see the FCC do it’s job and clean up the airwaves. The hip-hop “music” is disgusting. They could get rid of the non-stop ED commercials while they are at it too. Young children don’t need to hear that. I would be all for more civil discourse in our society.
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