Profanity In Films & Pandering to a Youthful & Black Audience

Dame Warrigal said:
An exclamation of surprise/astonishment is "shit a brick !!"

Careful, ladies, we are in danger of teaching the Americans how to swear with flair.
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And let all our " Friends " know we are more than a little country town with kangaroos jumping down the road LOL ..
 

Dame Warrigal said:
An exclamation of surprise/astonishment is "shit a brick !!"

Careful, ladies, we are in danger of teaching the Americans how to swear with flair.
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Oh, I can assure you Americans can swear with the best of them. I used to say shit a brick many years ago. ;)
 

I can honestly say I have never used the phrase *shit a brick* although other people do use it around me but not regularly..

I've never been big on swearing other than bloody..and usually instead of shit..I say sugar..but I do say feck a lot which is a Celtic version of the F bomb ..LOL
 
WWII ended a few years before I was born. However, I remember by dear, sweet Mother telling me about how much nicer and kinder the men were "back in the day." My Dad was at war, so my Mom did her part serving in the USO and going to dances to dance with GI's coming home or on leave and had to go back. She said that a few hit on her, but mostly they were gentlemen and bad language was never tolerated. She told me that very seldom did she ever hear a cuss word and never an "F" bomb. I don't know if movies in that era had certain rules for swearing or not, but I can't remember ever watching a film from that era and maybe not before the 60's until I started to hear the cussing. Last night, I watched Tora! Tora! Tora! for the umpteenth time and I can't recall if anyone swore or not. If they did, it may have been only a very few less foul words.
 
Yes... but women were also treated like children and taught to know their place. Discrimination against women ran rampant and there was little opportunity other than being a wife and mother. So I think when I look back at the "Good old days... when men were men and the womenfolk kept their mouths shut... I seldom wax nostalgic. I'd rather put up with a few F bombs than go back to subservience.
 
QuickSilver said:
Yes... but women were also treated like children and taught to know their place. Discrimination against women ran rampant and there was little opportunity other than being a wife and mother. So I think when I look back at the "Good old days... when men were men and the womenfolk kept their mouths shut... I seldom wax nostalgic. I'd rather put up with a few F bombs than go back to subservience.
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It was the good ole' days for white men. Period.
 
I watched an episode of "Ozzie & Harriet" on TV yesterday afternoon on RETRO-TV. I found it to be a huge difference from today's TV. I probably watched every episode of their's. Even the shows of "Father Knows Best", Leave It To Beaver", the "Dick Van Dyke Show", along with many others are actually refreshing to watch. No bad language and they speak about family things and what they did together. Overall, they are really corny to watch now, but back then, they were funny. It's like the world today has done a complete 180 from the 50's. How did we every get by without foul language and sex?
 

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