Poll: How do you feel about profanity?

[Fijiman]

Couldn't give less of a fuck.

I tend to moderate my language when I'm around a friend of the family who happens to be a priest, but otherwise I swear quite regularly. Both for emphasis and to relieve frustration.

This is basically my opinion as well. I'm pretty indifferent about swearing and I'll just ignore it if I see or hear it used every now and then, although it does start to annoy me if every other word that a person uses is a swear. I use to try and avoid swearing as much as possible, but at one point I just said to hell with it and stopped caring as much. I do try completely avoid swearing when I'm with family or out in public just to be polite, but if I'm on the Xbox with friends and no one else is in the house I do tend to swear fairly often, but that's about the only time that I do use a lot of profanity.

 

[Doneeee]

While I do use profanity quite frequently there is one thing I cannot stand. I HATE it when someone, usually a dude, calls a woman a *****. Disrespectful, unintelligent and just stupid. Of course there are evil sniveling girls, that's an exception. But I am talking women in general.

 

[Versuvius]

Oh noes, i voted for the wrong one. Clicked bottom when i mean;t the top. I hate being tired.

 

[brainslurper]

I don't have a problem with it, it is just extremely uncreative.

 

[renegade7]

Doesn't fuckin' bother me a whole god damn lot =P

 

[Chewster]

I am a fucking fan, though I do have the good sense to know when it should and should not be used.

 

[Random Fella]

Don't really care, and i'll use it around certain people but not others

 

[SadisticBrownie]

I swear a lot, probably too much. I try to moderate it around people I don't know well, but it never really works. I blame my mum, she's always been really sweary.

 

[itsausernamewhatofit]

I swear frequently when I'm completely comfortable with the person I'm talking to and there aren't too many others around. I don't swear around my family though. I try to speak clearly and in a civil manner when in most other scenarios although often I'll speak sarcastically or make jokes.

 

[Blow_Pop]

I'm originally from Scotland. What do you think? I have a mouth like a sewer.

I'm not from Scotland but I'm constantly on skype calls and talking to a boy from Scotland...well few boys....but one in particular. He tells me I sound like I'm from despite my American accent. Though I've been told by other guys in England that I occasionally develop a nice Glasgow accent if I get angry/tired enough.

I only moderate my language in professional settings when I'm "expected to be a lady".

 

[dogenzakaminion]

I do swear, but not excessively. I hit myself in the face with a spoon by mistake, I might swear...probably just laugh though.

 

[Vault101]

its great, I do it quite a bit

however it can be missused and make you sound like a trashy idiot

 

[itsausernamewhatofit]

Profanity is fine when it makes sense in context.

It starts bugging me when you're watching a movie and all the characters are saying fuck all the time as if the writers wanted to pad out the script

I'm reminded of this:

 

[DSK-]

I swear a lot. So much so I don't even notice. It actually puts a lot of people on edge, I found that out during University.


It's like, whenever I say someone is a "Fucking bastard" normally, it's like I mean "Oh you silly sausage!".

I swear all the time. It just rolls off the tongue and comes to mind so much quicker than using complicated and posh wording.

 

[spartan231490]

I try to avoid heavy cursing in public, but I find the idea that certain words are somehow "bad" or in any way worse than the double fist-full of other words that mean the exact same thing to be supremely idiotic. A couple years ago my friends and I actually started using our class titles as curse words to show how stupid it was. Physics is actually a pretty satisfying curse. Calculus is a bit too long, but Calcing works alright

 

[Wintermoot]

I don,t see why people hate profanity. They are just words!

 

[Akytalusia]

indifferent. word. emphasis. context.

Mods.

 

[Bomberman4000]

As with anything funny, it should be used in moderation. I well placed and well timed use of profanity can be hilarious where as overuse waters it down to the point of being meaningless.

Kat Williams swears too much. Even watching it uncut I feel like his show would only be half as long if he didn't swear.

I don't swear a lot. But I don't mind when people do around me.

 

[Vykrel]

im fine with swearing. just dont go overboard with it, especially around kids.

in fact, it upsets me that it is treated as such a big issue, at least here in America.

especially when it comes to television. you know what ruins a scene in a great movie? dubbing over the actors lines because they swear. movies like Die Hard 2 suffer the greatest. John McClanes FUCKING PUNCH LINE is ruined when that movie is on tv.

also, the networks are all over the place when it comes to what is and isnt okay to say, and when it is or isnt okay. for example: It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia does not bleep the word "shit" when it is on FX (its original network). now that it is aired on Comedy Central as well, "shit" is bleeped out every time, as well as words like "retard" or midget"... i am dead serious.

and yet Comedy Central allows South Park to have special episodes in which they allow EVERY single curse word to go unbleeped. there is no uproar over these episodes, either. nobody gives a damn.

it seriously drives me nuts.

 

[DanielBrown]

Indifferent. I curse a lot when I talk, being Swedish and all, but on the internet I try to keep it polite.
I don't like when cursing is forbidden however. Seems pretty stupid considering that the people browsing the internet should be old enough to use them anyways. Racial slurs are one thing, but how people can get offended by curse words used as enhancers is beyond me. It's especially retarded in LOTRO. Haven't been in a single kinship there that didn't put a ban on profanities, in spite of the average player being at the age of 25-30.