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SavvyAnsley

To what extent are you offended by swearing/cursing/cussing/foul language? Are you okay with some 'bad' words, but not others?

This could be a really funny poll. 

Posted - November 10, 2018
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  • 34441
    I don't like swear words at all. I have a curse censor on my TV so I don't have to hear it. It works with the closed captioning and mutes the curse words. It is called TV Guardian.
      November 10, 2018 7:54 AM MST
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  • 10052
    Sounds like a good tool for parents of young children. 

    Are you able to customize it, or does it just mute anything that might be offensive?
      November 10, 2018 8:15 AM MST
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  • 34441
    You cannot customize but it has two choices. One is more strict than the other. We put it on the more strict one. It is a problem if watching a religious program, it censors Jesus because in regular showing usually they are using the Lord's name in vain. So if watching one we have to change the setting. Took us awhile to figure out what it was censoring on those channels....lol. 
      November 10, 2018 8:22 AM MST
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  • 10052
    That is truly funny! 
      November 10, 2018 8:25 AM MST
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  • 44652
    A few offend me. I was watching a TV show called "The Magicians". After the third 'f***', I changed channel. The show disappeared. Also, it bothers me greatly when folks swear around my grand children. That includes my daughter and her husband.
      November 10, 2018 8:13 AM MST
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  • 10052
    One of my biggest pet peeves is when people swear around young children, then punish them if they repeat it. Drives me up the ******* wall! 

    I used to find some swears offensive, but I got over it. I do find racial slurs offensive, and those that mock people with disabilities. 
      November 10, 2018 8:23 AM MST
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  • 7280
    Looking on the bright side, the children learn the power of the swear word and the definition as well as example of the word hypocrisy.
      November 10, 2018 11:13 AM MST
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  • 10052
    True!
      November 10, 2018 8:54 PM MST
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  • 13277
    Your daughter and her husband are also your grandchildren? Grrrr.
      November 10, 2018 8:27 AM MST
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  • 44652
    We're from West Virginia. Anything's possible.
      November 10, 2018 9:21 AM MST
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  • I don't like that shet at all! xD
      November 10, 2018 8:42 AM MST
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  • 5391
    Like SavvyAnsley, I only have a real problem when cursing occurs in front of small children. 
    The rest I gauge to the context and the speaker. 
      November 10, 2018 9:28 AM MST
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  • 7280
    When my 53 year old son was a toddler, I accidentally knocked the electric fry pan that was cooking my breakfast of bacon and eggs off the kitchen counter.

    I made a one word comment---starting with s and ending with t---that I would even now defend as both fully expressive of my feelings at the time and also quite appropriate under the circumstances.

    I don't know how my toddler felt, but he liked the word so much, it became his favorite for the next week; and he played with it constantly.

    Fortunately, the fascination wore off; and it was not a common word that I used, so along with some encouragement from me, he soon dropped it as a not particularly "fun" toy.  


      November 10, 2018 11:38 AM MST
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  • 5391
    Heheheheh.
    S**t happens, after all. :) 

      November 10, 2018 2:39 PM MST
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  • 19937
    I don't like hearing that in front of children.  I'm not totally opposed to some swear/curse words although I think that on here they are a bit too strict with wheat I consider mild expletives.  The hard stuff is not necessary for the most part - surely you can find another word to use.  Having said that, there are occasions when  hearty "F-U" is appropriate well-deserved.. This post was edited by SpunkySenior at November 10, 2018 8:56 PM MST
      November 10, 2018 9:40 AM MST
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  • 13277
    And appropriate as well.
      November 10, 2018 10:00 AM MST
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  • 19937
    And appropriate. :)
      November 10, 2018 12:20 PM MST
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  • 10052
    Absofrickinglutely! 
      November 10, 2018 9:35 PM MST
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  • 628
    Hello SavvyAnsley
    Offended?...not really. I look at the habit of swearing as a cheap way of expression, a lack of creativity.
    There are more civil and thoughtful ways of adding intensity to a statement and most of the time the alternatives are far more descriptive and powerful than the use of an unimaginative " $#&*@(! "
      November 10, 2018 10:23 AM MST
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  • 10052
    I hear you. There are a plethora of articles on the internet like this one, though. :)

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/health-benefits-of-swearing_n_5a5e44a8e4b0106b7f65b3a6


      November 10, 2018 9:00 PM MST
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  • 6988
    My grandchildren used to go to a nearby dam with me.  They had to refer to it as 'the waterfall'. 
      November 10, 2018 10:55 AM MST
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  • 10052
    WOW! That seems extreme. 

    What did they call waterfalls?
      November 10, 2018 9:02 PM MST
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  • 6988
    The kids' parents did not allow cussing. I guess the good news is that the dam has been removed now. 
      December 2, 2018 5:09 AM MST
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  • 7280
    Generally speaking, words serve speech; but for me, the "overuse" of such words tends to interrupt the train of thought by the speaker.

    A child psychology professor I had remarked that "The high point of a two year old's day is a good "sh*t." 

    So, although I seldom use that word, I am rather tolerant when I hear it.

    (Unfortunately, it can be the high point of an adult's day as well.)  


      November 10, 2018 11:09 AM MST
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