It's ok to swear according to CNN

MarciKS said:
Aunt Marg's quoted entry as highlighted by MarciKS: I have never agreed with the sometimes stated fact that swearing is intelligent, in fact, I think people who swear are the opposite.

Aside from it sounding stupid, especially when every second word is an f-bomb, it tells me the person has no class.
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Yes, it does sound stupid to me, Marci.
 

Aunt Marg said:
Who said anything about them being stupid?
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You did, from just above....

"I have never agreed with the sometimes stated fact that swearing is intelligent, in fact, I think people who swear are the opposite."

Stating that someone is the opposite of intelligent , is IMO the same as saying they are stupid.
 
rgp said:
You did, from just above....

"I have never agreed with the sometimes stated fact that swearing is intelligent, in fact, I think people who swear are the opposite."

Stating that someone is the opposite of intelligent , is IMO the same as saying they are stupid.
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According to Oxford Languages, the opposite of intelligent is "nonrational".

Word Hippo, lists a number of opposites... words such as "unaware", "unskillful", "dumb", "uninformed", "clumsy", "incompetent", "foolish".

You and Marci, feel free to pick one of your choice if it'll help make you feel better.
 

Society seems to follow the lead set forth in what we watch for entertainment and apparently it's what sells now. Hard to believe Clark Gable was harshly criticized for "Frankly Scarlett, I don't give a damn."

I'm inclined to believe it is used for shock value or to cover for a limited vocabulary. I do hope it will not become the new norm but times do change. Remember when Ronald Regan loved smoking so much he encouraged others to do the same with magazine ads and billboards.
 
gennie said:
Society seems to follow the lead set forth in what we watch for entertainment and apparently it's what sells now. Hard to believe Clark Gable was harshly criticized for "Frankly Scarlett, I don't give a damn."

I'm inclined to believe it is used for shock value or to cover for a limited vocabulary. I do hope it will not become the new norm but times do change. Remember when Ronald Regan loved smoking so much he encouraged others to do the same with magazine ads and billboards.
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Sorry to be petty but it's "Frankly My Dear I don't give a damn" I think :unsure:
Why would CG be criticized when he didn't write it?

Also, RReagan was paid to do smoking promotions, he didn't do it out of love, but money.
 
Aunt Marg said:
According to Oxford Languages, the opposite of intelligent is "nonrational".

Word Hippo, lists a number of opposites... words such as "unaware", "unskillful", "dumb", "uninformed", "clumsy", "incompetent", "foolish".

You and Marci, feel free to pick one of your choice if it'll help make you feel better.
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bet you're finding your own words for me right now. 😁
 
Sunny said:
Land sakes, I don't think that trying to sound like a "proper" Victorian maiden makes anyone superior, it just makes them sound like a tight.... um....

What I think is fascinating, and pretty funny, is all the words that are "polite substitutions" for the swear words. They mean exactly the same thing, and usually begin with the same letter. We can probably all make a long list of those words, such as dang, darn, bull, flipping, flaming, heck, crud, gosh, golly, gee, geez, shucks, and you can probably think of plenty more!
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There is a term for this, "minced profanity". When I attended church with my wife for a while, the words I heard most were "flippin", "freakin", floppin", "shoot", and the phrase "shut the front door" (for "shut the f--- up"). I heard these things quite a bit, and I am sure that these folks knew exactly what they were actually saying. I always wondered why say anything at all or just use the real words if you are going to express in that manner anyway?

I have mentioned this here in other threads...

When we first moved here, we were the youngest in our condo association, in our mid-late 30s, so most of the folks then were in their late 50s and upward. Many would gather in the community room for coffee every week day around the time I was getting home from work, so I would join them from time to time. They loved to talk about sex and various bodily functions, but they talked around it so that they were very obviously suggesting these things without actually saying them. I would have fun by pulling back the covers and saying "oh, you mean to say...". The "code of conduct" apparently was that you could talk about these things to your heart's content as long as you didn't actually say the words. I found it odd and rather entertaining.

Personally, I don't care if people swear or not. I figure everybody has their own ways of expressing themselves, their own vocabulary. I suppose having been around it long enough throughout my life, it just doesn't stand out as anything out of the ordinary. I guess we all choose what we take offense to. For me, it is the extreme political correctness that I can't take, people that seem to try so hard to be completely non-offensive, that I just feel like slapping them and telling them to wake up and be normal. This political correctness thing is a more recent thing that does not include what I described at those afternoon coffee sessions. To me, that stuff was funny and just a part of that generation.

When I worked full time, I was frequently one of the engineers on projects in which we had to meet with "big wigs" from a number of household name large companies. These guys would show up in their suits and ties looking and acting all proper and business-like, while we showed up in jeans and T-shirts. One of the other engineers had a real "potty mouth" and used the "f---" and "sh--" words a lot in normal conversation. He didn't talk about "nasty" subjects much, but these swear words were just a big part of his normal every day vocabulary. It was fun watching these big wig people react to hearing that throughout the meetings. I think the men were more embarrassed than the women at those meetings.

Tony
 
Pepper said:
Sorry to be petty but it's "Frankly My Dear I don't give a damn" I think :unsure:
Why would CG be criticized when he didn't write it?

Also, RReagan was paid to do smoking promotions, he didn't do it out of love, but money.
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Thanks for corrections. Not petty at all. Facts matter.

See how easy it is to have civil conversation.
 
It's disappointing when directors of tv shows/movies feel it necessary to include lots of cussing, but I'm used to it now, so it doesn't offend me anymore, which is a bit sad.
 
Keesha said:
I think it depends on the movie , the type of cuss words and how often they are used.
Not ALL movies are GP based. ( in my opinion )
I’ve heard jay Leno cuss before.
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Seems so unlike Jay, to me. :)

I've always respected Jay Leno, because in my eyes money and stardom never changed him.

He seems so real, so down-to-earth.
 
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