It's so easy to slip
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.
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!
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 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.
If my last act on earth is to go sky diving and discover my chute fails to open, I doubt I'm going to yell "Oh shucks"......
How do we know you don’t have a high voice? :)
Eph 4:29 - 30
[29] Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. [30] And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
If you’re living for yourself then relieve yourself emotionally all over everyone else in the world any time you want because it’s all about you.
If you’re striving to die to yourself and let Jesus live through you, then the above verses (and others) apply.
Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
Evidence of saving faith is obedience to the Lord & his Word.
“”Language is infectious, which means I do curse from time to time, mostly when I’m alone. But I don’t like that in myself, and I don’t want to die someday with the last word from my lips being some stupidity like “s%#t,” so I’m always working on self-censorship.””
Yes, it is contageous and yes, the more you’re around someone that cusses, the more likely you are to pick up on it, too. That said, I must confess to having a perverse sense of humor. While I may not want to use cusswords myself, I still find some cussing funny. For instance... someone sent this to me the other day in reference to my irritation with automated voice customer service that runs you in circles, wastes your time and gets you nowhere. I tend to want to cuss at those machines.
Even with all the cusswords, I think this is pretty funny....
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OWIC8BXcDtQ
with the exception of the F word, mild swear words are ok... we are adults. naturally never directed at someone personally. making up words to say ass or hell or poop is no different than the meaning of the actual words.
Lets grow up a little and put forth your efforts to something constructive instead of being a tattle tale because johnny said a bad word. jeeez....
Because vulgarity is degrading, and enhances a conversion about much as passing gas does in close company, and both bring attention to the source. Meanwhile, I have enough issues with my own heart without being reminded of a bedroom and or bathroom by listening to someone.
If our speech and or writing was a plate of dinner, would anyone want to eat it?
Moreover, profanity exposes the destitute authority of the speaker, as he must invoke deity for authority.
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. (Exodus 20:7)
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. (Ephesians 4:29)
But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness. (2 Timothy 2:16)