General Chat

I agree with the majority here; swearing is best avoided (and I am in a profession famous for its language, and use it a lot when at work!). It is useful for letting off steam in a stressful situation; when it becomes part of everyday parlance, the effect gets lost. However, I do find it especially annoying to see swearing referred to as "strong language"; please keep it as "swearing", or "foul language". It is anything but strong; it is weak, the sign of someone who cannot think of what to say next, or who feels the need to exude "machoness", or who has to pad his otherwise empty statements. Rob

Can I just say again that this wasn't a who's right and who's wrong thread, it was simply to guage reaction. The person in question wasn't "having a go" at me, just making a request. I do take issue with Roberts comment though, that he is agreement with the majority. It seems to me from re-reading this thread that the majority were not bothered.

The majority Paul remember the song and the pythons and smile the minority complain and find fault :)

Paul, was somebody having a laugh by objecting to your wording?? Im not taking the mick (could have put that a bit stronger but i won't) but i really am amazed that it could cause offence to anyone. Rob, what job is it that you do that swearing is a common practice?

he's a rapper - MC Rob lol

paul...two nasty emails,ran me off this site........dont let it happen to you......your a nice guy,same as sharon, ignore the prudes,that end up as prunes.....bryan.

BRYAN and everyone else, I will stress once more, it was NOT a nasty email that I got, it was a polite request, which I accepted... I was not trying to stir up ill feeling here, just see what opinion was. please lets not turn this into a big issue.

sorry paul,will start again.....no,i dont find the odd offensive word,unacceptable...best wishes....bryan.

swearing dont bother me at all never has its only words................

sounds like a cue for a song Lou :)

Linda, A very well put arguement, however what I personally would say is... live and let live. It's OK for you to not like it, that's your personal opinion. But perhaps you need to accept that the majoirty on here don't seem to mind, and therefore perhaps you just need to accept that there will be the occasional post that you don't approve of. I'm sure most on here accept your viewpoint, what they don't want is to be told what to do (which I accept is not what you were doing). oh and one more thing - this is a friendly debate, not a slagging match, if anyone posts anything nasty on here I'll just delete the thread. Paul

well its nice to see an healthy debate that as been kept civilised, a lesson to us all WELL DONE Linda and paul. Pat x