Quote: Jack Massey @ May 26 2010, 10:20 PM BSTI like it. There's a good bit of humour in it. It is the only soap I watch though. I wouldn't touch EastEnders with a barge pole.
Very sensible a Cockney barrow boy bit me once.
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People smoking is bad enough, but when they feel the need to refer to it as a 'ciggy' that takes it to a whole new different level.
Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ May 26 2010, 9:47 PM BSTAwww - Aawon is so angwy todayyy.
Hee!
I don't know how to put this properly, but when people (usually footballers) pronounce it 'footblers'.
I really can't think how better to spell that. Hopefully you know what I mean.
Using the vulgar 'sarnie' to refer to a sandwich. It's terribly common.
And not showing the sandwich the respect it deserves.
Quote: chipolata @ May 26 2010, 9:03 AM BSTSwear words. In public. It's lazy and uncouth.
I could not agree more-particularly from kids in school uniform, and parents using profane language in front of their offspring.
Having lived in the West of Scotland for some considerable time one wonders if use of the F word as punctuation was originally derived from Scots Gaelic.
Please excuse me while I reference BBC Alba (That's not a joke-it really is called that!)
Something to remember about swearing, is that it can only function if the listener interprets the words as being offensive. The listener has to have this predisposition, before the swearer can exploit it.
I would reply Bollux to that. I do not believe that being aware of offensive language in any way implies that the reader would find its use acceptable.
Kind regards,
Betty Hutton of the hairy mutton
Quote: Nogget @ May 27 2010, 10:37 AM BSTSomething to remember about swearing, is that it can only function if the listener interprets the words as being offensive. The listener has to have this predisposition, before the swearer can exploit it.
Balderdash with bells on!
Quote: John Mairs @ May 27 2010, 10:45 AM BSTI would reply Bollux to that. I do not believe that being aware of offensive language in any way implies that the reader would find its use acceptable.
You can't be offended by words you don't understand.
Quote: Nogget @ May 27 2010, 10:37 AM BSTSomething to remember about swearing, is that it can only function if the listener interprets the words as being offensive. The listener has to have this predisposition, before the swearer can exploit it.
So if I stab someone in the colon it's only really a crime if they chose to take offence?
One smells the minora of dissent.
Of course one can be offended by words that one understands to be offensive, silly!
To say otherwise would be a folly majora!!
Quote: chipolata @ May 27 2010, 10:59 AM BSTSo if I stab someone in the colon it's only really a crime if they chose to take offence?
I refer you to 'sticks and stones'. The tagline is 'words will never hurt me'.
Knives don't require the victim to understand them, you can be stabbed to death without ever being aware of what's happening. You can't be offended by a swearword that you don't find offensive.
If I use a foreign swearword, it is unlikely you will be offended, because you don't know it's meant to be offensive.
Quote: John Mairs @ May 27 2010, 11:04 AM BSTOf course one can be offended by words that one understands to be offensive, silly!
Is there a typo in there?
Quote: Nogget @ May 27 2010, 11:09 AM BSTI refer you to 'sticks and stones'. The tagline is 'words will never hurt me'.
So you're okay with everybody swearing like dockers all the time, what about using racially offensive words like n****r and p***i? I assume they're also okay providing we chose not to be offended by them.
Quote: James BradburyHarding @ May 26 2010, 10:51 PM BSTUsing the vulgar 'sarnie' to refer to a sandwich. It's terribly common.
