Entertainment industry and profanity

Brookswood

Brookswood

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I spent a good part of the day yesterday out and about in my community. Among the places I visited were a grocery store, a hardware store, the senior center, a public park, and a local coffee shop. About 6 hours of time for all of this. I heard the F-word once. I heard some swearing twice.

Upon returning home I put a DVD in my player and started a very well known series that many people think is one of the best ones on TV today. In the hour long first episode I heard more F-words, swearing and nasty language in that one hour than I heard all day in real life.

Why? Do they think people in real life actually use this much profantiy? Or are people who work in movies and TV just more profane than the general public? Is this normal for them? I don’t know. Perhaps others can enlighten me.

I will be returning the DVD disks to the library today. I will not continue watching the show.
 

Some segments of society (like prison inmates) spew F bombs excessively. The post incarceration culture continues their prolific potty mouth. The entertainment script writers make the excuse of "art imatating life", which I view as "art influencing life"...
 
Nathan said:
Some segments of society (like prison inmates) spew F bombs excessively. The post incarceration culture continues their prolific potty mouth. The entertainment script writers make the excuse of "art imatating life", which I view as "art influencing life"...
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If it’s “art imitating life” then why don’t I hear F-this and F-ing that all over the place when I am out shopping or having a coffee or walking in the park? Maybe it’s their lives they are imitating, not the lives of most of us? I don’t know.
 
Brookswood said:
If it’s “art imitating life” then why don’t I hear F-this and F-ing that all over the place when I am out shopping or having a coffee or walking in the park? Maybe it’s their lives they are imitating, not the lives of most of us? I don’t know.
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You're just in a different place. Be grateful for that instead of complaining about it.
 
It is unnecessary and not the average in my area either....
some do this in real life and have a hard time adjusting to polite society... as i had a co-worker told several times to watch language until it ended up with them out.....
i find it awful ........but notice some people whom decide that is a way to tell someone off etc ........only it just makes the speaker look nasty does not get anyone else to see their point.
 
Jeni said:
It is unnecessary and not the average in my area either....
some do this in real life and have a hard time adjusting to polite society... as i had a co-worker told several times to watch language until it ended up with them out.....
i find it awful ........but notice some people whom decide that is a way to tell someone off etc ........only it just makes the speaker look nasty does not get anyone else to see their point.
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How exactly did it "end with them out "? Are you saying somebody lost their job over swearing ? More details, please. JimB.
 
Brookswood said:
I spent a good part of the day yesterday out and about in my community. Among the places I visited were a grocery store, a hardware store, the senior center, a public park, and a local coffee shop. About 6 hours of time for all of this. I heard the F-word once. I heard some swearing twice.

Upon returning home I put a DVD in my player and started a very well known series that many people think is one of the best ones on TV today. In the hour long first episode I heard more F-words, swearing and nasty language in that one hour than I heard all day in real life.

Why? Do they think people in real life actually use this much profantiy? Or are people who work in movies and TV just more profane than the general public? Is this normal for them? I don’t know. Perhaps others can enlighten me.

I will be returning the DVD disks to the library today. I will not continue watching the show.
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Honestly? I can hardly believe that in 2024 we're worried about profanity. Movies are..... movies. Fictional. Portrayals. They exaggerate for effect, they blow things up. It's nothing to worry about. I'm still offended by use of the C-word, but other than that, I'm not bothered.
 
jimintoronto said:
How exactly did it "end with them out "? Are you saying somebody lost their job over swearing ? More details, please. JimB.
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yes they were told they would be reassigned to a NON customer facing position and if they offended more co-workers they could no longer work there. faced with the choice they said "F off " to manager and that was considered a quit.
 
There is altogether too much WHINING in this thread.

Entertainment is about what sells. If you are offended by profanity in entertainment, I suggest sticking to reading your local newspaper and other sources of "clean" entertainment. But make sure you avoid the old testament of the Christian bible. Lots of porn and murder in the oldie. Interesting to note, Jewish people read only the old testament. In the oldie, they knew how to have a good time.

I'm the same age as y'all, and I was using profanity at age seven, when I was hospitalized with third-degree burns over 20 percent of my body.

You can only control what you do. If you don't like profanity, it is your obligation to avoid it. It always has been, and speech patterns follow societal trends. Oops.

I was watching the movie about Taylor Swift's Eras tour. She writes her own songs and there is occasional cursing in her lyrics. She's America's Sweetheart fer chrissake. I'm not a fan of her music (I'm an old-school Who fan, I LIKED the guitar smashing) but cursing in music has always had profanity, unless you were listening to Lawrence Welk or something. Listen to the song, "Who Are You." Cursing.

Entertainment is like a Chinese restaurant menu, you take one from column A and one from column B. When making entertainment choices, might be a good idea for those of you who are offended, get a couple egg rolls and some Mu Shu pork.
 
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DaiwaGuy said:
But make sure you avoid the old testament of the Christian bible. Lots of porn and murder in the oldie. Interesting to note, Jewish people read only the old testament. In the oldie, they knew how to have a good time.
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Christians seem to pick and choose. Ten Commandments? Sanction. The rest of the inconvenience murders and wars? Replaced by the New Testament.
 
Times have changed, and the coarsening of society is real and ongoing. I can remember coming home from elementary school, and using the sh*t word because I had heard it there. My mother in response was literally dragging me off to the bathroom to wash my mouth out with soap; she would have done it, too, had I not screamed tearful contrition. As for the F-bomb, I can remember asking a peer in school what it meant. That peer was shushed by others and admonished not to tell me “because I was too innocent.“ 😇

Back in the day, such talk was called “gutter language,” and thankfully kept there and relegated to those termed “low lifes.” Today, the bar has been lowered into the ground, in part because of bad modeling on even the highest levels, and the acceptance of it…😈
 
Profanity is "gutter language" and makes folks who can't have conversation without cursing
seem very low class.
I detest the f word and steer clear of people who continuously use it.
 

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