Reading through the 'filth' thread reminded me of something. On the way home yesterday I stopped at a fine dining establishment. I got myself a booth rather than using the drive-through as I often do. A pair of males about 20 years of age sat at a nearby table and conversed loudly enough that I could not help but overhear, mostly on the topic of sports. One of them in particular made liberal use of the 'F***' word and the 'Sh**' word. I would estimate the former was used about three times per minute (as noun, adjective, imperative verb, etc) and the latter about once per minute.
My question is to those who employ the same words at roughly the same rate of usage of the fellow in the restaurant. Are you able to turn it off when the occasion calls for it? Say at a job interview? Or maybe when you are visiting the grandparents? Or when in a social setting that includes your family's pastor/rabbi? Have you ever regretted letting a word slip out in some circumstance where you were trying not to use it?
4 swears a minute? That's one every 15 seconds. Oh won't somebody think of the children?!
I don't swear frequently. However I don't care if people swear lots. Doesn't bother me. Why should it? They are just words.
The only reason I don't swear much is that there are better ways of expressing myself.
Originally posted by Paul DiracAre they making a sequel to Pulp Fiction? Perhaps you were on the movie set.
Reading through the 'filth' thread reminded me of something. On the way home yesterday I stopped at a fine dining establishment. I got myself a booth rather than using the drive-through as I often do. A pair of males about 20 years of age sat at a nearby table and conversed loudly enough that I could not help but overhear, mostly on the topic of sports. ...[text shortened]... ever regretted letting a word slip out in some circumstance where you were trying not to use it?