Thread: Language?

Us hunting/shooting blokes are such sensitive types.

This discussion is similar to one previously on another forum.

Originally Posted by dogmatix

Us hunting/shooting blokes are such sensitive types

This is the bit I find the most interesting. Do people feel the need need to overly permeate a sentence with cussing because it is seen as the thing to do amongst "blokes"?

Originally Posted by Pointer

This is the bit I find the most interesting. Do people feel the need need to overly permeate a sentence with cussing because it is seen as the thing to do amongst "blokes"?

Nah mate, you aren't a man unless you drink copious amounts of beer and swear heavily.

Or something like that.

I think it is just the way language is going and has been for a very long time.
I F&C this, that and everything in between except in a public environment as does my wife (who works in the same industry as GD) . Around my parents I mind my P&Q's as they don't swear - respect to them. The bosses at work (male and female) say cnut this that and everything else. Sit down at a cafe with my brother who is a national sales manager and he is fcuk this and fcuk that while I sit there and cringe.
Hands up anyone who hasn't said "ya fcukin cnut" or similar when stubbing a toe, banging a finger, got scoped, fell down a hillside loaded up with venison etc? I bet HM The Queen has said a few quiet words to herself when one of the Corgis has pissed or shat on her bed

Originally Posted by sako75

I think it is just the way language is going and has been for a very long time.
I F&C this, that and everything in between except in a public environment as does my wife (who works in the same industry as GD) . Around my parents I mind my P&Q's as they don't swear - respect to them. The bosses at work (male and female) say cnut this that and everything else. Sit down at a cafe with my brother who is a national sales manager and he is fcuk this and fcuk that while I sit there and cringe.
Hands up anyone who hasn't said "ya fcukin cnut" or similar when stubbing a toe, banging a finger, got scoped, fell down a hillside loaded up with venison etc? I bet HM The Queen has said a few quiet words to herself when one of the Corgis has pissed or shat on her bed

My point isn't about swearing in itself, Iv been in construction smoko rooms for 30 years, I'm not offended by it and as Iv said my language is sometimes well below the belt, its a time and place thing and having a little self control, I just think its a bad look for any forum, far more so when its in the title.If the swearing pressure is so great you cant hold it back how about letting a few out verbally so you can at least get the title typed in before the flood gates burst.

Originally Posted by Pointer

This is the bit I find the most interesting. Do people feel the need need to overly permeate a sentence with cussing because it is seen as the thing to do amongst "blokes"?

Yeah some do,some just do what their parents do,some don't even realize they are doing it. One fellow springs to mind that couldn't fit enough four lettered words into a sentence to satisfy his need so he would split words up and throw an extra one in the middle,like
"f@#kin stayed at a f#@king Mo f#*king tel".
Got the piss taken out of him endlessly.

Those who know me realise I'm not shy with the course language, but I really don't think that its okay to have it in a threads title.

The title is there for all to see, without opening & reading the thread.

I have noticed that the language on TV is getting worse & worse have heard C--t twice now.....& obviously F...... more times than I can remember.

My 2.5 cents for what it's worth.

Some valid points being made in this thread & I'm taking note of your concerns, remember the forum is still young & finding it's feet so it will take time to work out things such as whats seen as productive for the forum as a whole & what isn't


So for now Ive fixed the title of GD's thread