I’m disgusted with the language I hear when I’m out or on the bus. There’s no reason to swear the way so many people do now. If it’s for emphasis, well, it’s lost on me since I HEAR IT ALL THE TIME. What’s the point of all the foul language? All you sound like is someone who has to resort to crude words and expressions to articulate your thoughts. Shame on you all! Beyond being an assault to my ears and a stressor, I find it extremely disrespectful. I’m not even 30 yet and I’m appalled at the lack of manners my generation and the next one exhibit. To be honest, this was the deciding factor for me to buy a car. I’VE HAD IT. Go suck an egg. —Bleeding Ears
This article appears in Dec 15-21, 2011.
I agree with you 100% OP!!!
Try saying ‘seal in french’ every time you feel the need to swear everyone!
“zeal”.
ZEAaaaaaaaaaL!!!!!!
I don’t see it.
Wp
Well played wheeliep, haha. They talk funny talk.
It’s called free speach OP.
“If you can’t say fuck, you can’t say fuck the government”
Lenny Bruce
That being said I have heard some pretty disturbing things that some people seem to think is everyday conversion on the bus. You gotta understand you’re not riding with the most sophisticated demographic of our society.
You bought a car because of this? Ever heard of an mp3 player?
And french people have no trouble with S’s, it’s the “th” sound they have trouble with.
*wags finger*
Bonjour. Je m’appelle Ivan. Je suis walking dan Le Parc de Pleasant Point en Novembre et je regard un Phoque dans la plage. “Bonjour”, il dit. “Je m’appelle Ouat”
Ouat?
“Oui”
Ouat le Phoque?
“C’est vrai, Ouat le Phoque”
Merveilluex, je pense, parce que je cherche Le Phoque, tout les temps. Maintenant, Ouat le Phoque est mon bonne ami. Tout le monde aimer Le Phoque, n’est pas?
Le Giggitee>: )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnDUqof1KoM
Watch and learn.
Get fuckin used to it.
I have to agree with the OP – there is freedom of speech and then there is just plain decency. I don’t travel the bus but this goes for almost everywhere these days. I find it awful when I take my mother or anyone elderly and especially children out and this happens. It is so disrespectful and unnecessary it is pathetic. I think people can swear up a storm around their friends and their family but when they go out in public they should be able to clean it up for those around them. The village raises the children and if young children have to listen to this language there is really something wrong with society.
I used start feeling reeeeal punchy when people would yell curse words around my kids on the bus or wherever, but what can you do? Yell at them? Assault them? Explain it to them patiently? You just gotta accept that this is the world we live in. People swear.
People who get riled up over swear words are fucking hilarious.
Excessive swearing is used by those too lazy or ignorant to use proper English. Same with the overuse of “like”. People particularly younger people also like to sound badass hence the profanity. Myself, I don’t like swearing because it makes you sound less intelligent.
Congrats OB on the new car. You’ve stepped up to being a civilized human being now by leaving those lowlifes to ride the loser cruiser.
It’s good that you bought a car OP, instead of just mindlessly bitching about what a shock it is that PUBLIC transit doesn’t cater to your personal standard of right and wrong.
The funniest thing about this? If a person cusses in Chinese or Hindi, you don’t even realize and aren’t offended. You’re reacting because you were told you were supposed to. Nothing more than that.
And for the record, i’d rather hear someone cuss honestly than lie blatantly. under 30 my ass… “Bar of soap”? “Go suck an egg”? My GRANDMOTHER is too young to use phrases like that..
And sebastian, you yokels crack me up. Halifax is the only city where regular people don’t use public transit. Go to Montreal, Toronto or London England (all cities i’ve had the unfortunate opportunity to reside in) and MOST people take public transit. Don’t get me wrong, it’s one of the things i like about halifax. That you bitch about carbon emissions with one hand and drive your SUV with the other (that’s so darn cute!) but quite honestly, it’s the small town mentality that makes you do this.
You’re a city now. it’s time to start acting more like one.
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Myself, I don’t like swearing because it makes you sound less intelligent.
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I dunno, dude. You’re missing out on a lot of fucking words cuntshitpisscockfuck.
Wp
o.p., a bar of soap, no, a baseball bat, yes. some of these misbegooten little bastards, need a good smack, in the head. and some of the so called adults also. buses are for one thing only, getting you to where you want to go. not talking on the cell phone about the great sex you had, or how drunk you got last night,or even just fucking texting, which by the way, drives me fucking crazy. wait til you talk to person face on for christ’s sake. and then there are the loud music or noisy assholes too. give them all a good swift kick to their collective asses.
As my high school English teacher used to say, “profanity reflects the mind of a dullard”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJQU22Ttpwc
According to the editors of the Coast (who recently dropped the F bomb on the cover) if you don’t like it, you’re just unenlightened bourgeois backward thinkers. Get with the fucking program, you whiney-assed crybaby.
life sucks.. dude where did you learn your bus etiquette? 1984?
It is another symptom of societal devolution. The simple fact is that we are losing our ability to conduct ourselves in public. It bothers me when there are obviously older people or young children obviously within earshot. (Insert obligatory “Won’t somebody PLEASE think of the children” comment here) I’m just old-fashioned enough to think that they shouldn’t have to listen to it in a public place. The worst of it is, if you decide to play Politenessman and confront the Urban Baboons you will be met with dull incomprehension, self-righteous indignation and possibly violence. The people you are concerned about will be treated to an even more grotesque exhibition of socially aberrant behavior. Ignore it, for their sake and yours and you feel like a cowardly bitch who has just surrendered another freedom to the barbarians at the gates. FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK!
I agree that way too much profanity floats around in public … but I can’t control it and don’t let it bother me. Hell, I’m guilty of it from time to time, but I do my best to make sure it’s not going to be offending anyone when I do it, or within earshot of little ones that shouldn’t hear it.
If I do get irritated at all, it’s because my children hear it … but, I just use it as an opportunity to talk to them about the importance of being able to express yourself without it. And that just because one person speaks that way doesn’t make it acceptable for them (as children) to speak that way, but when they become an adult then they can choose if that language is appropriate for them. They get it … and when they hear it, they usually just look at me with a grin and wide eyes … or a roll of the eyes and shake of the head … and then they tell me that it’s not appropriate.
But … will they use that language when I’m not around … I’m not so naive as to believe that they won’t.
There’s this old line from ‘that’s not funny that’s sick’ by National Lampoon ( http://www.last.fm/music/National+Lampoon/…)
Nice mouth-
You eat with that mouth?
You kiss your mother with that mouth?
(NB: it helps to say this with a Jersey accent)
uh, nothing helps with a Jersey accent…
nor boston… nor alabama redneck…
Z, haven’t you ever heard Jon Stewart? Lots of things sound better with a Jersey accent! ‘Yo, Adrian’ (f’rinstance)
he’s hilarious…
but certainly not because of the accent.
It helps in no way….
although I do like that you equate it with being repeatedly pounded in the head to sound that idiotic.
they’re just words for emphasis. Sometimes you need to tell someone to go fuck themselves. It has a lot more power and inflection than “go suck an egg” for some reason.
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