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@ArishMell: you seem really hung up on words.

Cunt is the word used to describe the vagina. Are you also so offended by the word COCK?! PENIS? DICK?

Calling someone a Cunt is entirely different than using the word how it was intended in the first place.


Fuck. Fucking. Fucked.

They are words that express a feeling and sometimes the feelings are best expressed with the right words.

I find it hilarious that people like to assume that anyone who might use these words are of little intelligence or class.

Last time I checked...specific word usage was not an indication of such things.

@JaggedLittlePill: I think you are missing the point. In the situation I was describing, the word was used with no purpose or meaning at all. When people use it deliberately for effect or to express a feeling, that's a completely different matter.

@JaggedLittlePill: With respect you have misunderstood me.

I KNOW those words are slang for bodily organs and functions, but I happen to find some of them deeply unpleasant and cheap; but find some others just rather silly slang and if anything sometimes a sort of misfired euphemism.

If I want to talk biology I use the right words. If I want to talk about sexual intercourse and sexual relationships I use either that term or "making love". There is nothing either clever or romantic about bordello slang.

Yes, I do swear sometimes but only from sudden stress of some sort. I do not like doing so, and I don't understand the apparent need some people have to do so gratuitously.

The OP was a complaint about having foul-mouthed people enforcing their language and attitudes on those around them, and I share that view just as I dislike graffiti-sprayers and fly-tippers inflicting their squalor on others, or people making you listen to their own music whether you want it or not.

The problem is not so much that people swear all the time; it is that many such have no consideration for others, and cannot understand that others do find it unpleasant, irritating or even sometimes, just boring by its over-use.

I did NOT say swearing gratuitously is a sign of low intellect or poor education, but its excessive use makes the speaker sound dull-witted and semi-literate even if actually they have a university degree and an IQ of 150! It does so because they seem to be telling everyone within earshot that they can neither string a coherent sentence together in speech, nor show basic social etiquette.


The four I encountered were probably semi-drunk, but I gained the impression they were trying to out-do each other in puerility including continual swearing in very small talk indeed at the tops of their voices. I wonder how they would have felt if someone could have played a recording of them back to them next day when sober.

I don't play my music or shout crude obscenities at volumes calculated to irritate everyone within a fifty-yard radius. Why is it clever to do so?

@daydeeo: Precisely.

@JaggedLittlePill: You make some good points. I think I find the word offensive, or at least annoying, in the context I described precisely because it is not used descriptively. "The f***ing beer", or "the f***ing bus", are obviously meaningless phrases.

But I disagree with your fourth point. I think everyone has an obligation to try to behave in public places, in all respects, without annoying or discomfiting others.

@MartinII:
@JaggedLittlePill: exactly. Society rests on a foundation of mutual respect. Simple common courtesy and consideration for others goes a long way. When those attitudes are replaced by, "If you don't like it, f*** you", we find ourselves in the the sorry condition we're in today.