re: When did it become ok to drop "f bombs" in mixed company?

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Nope. When he was not cursing he was railing about global warming.

Which my wife and I both found hilarious.

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Ok...so it's just the cursing.

I'll ask again, and if you're not interested in explaining it, or don't really have an answer beyond "Because" then I wish you'd just say so and I'll move along. You keep avoiding this particular portion of my questions while answering other parts.

But...I'm asking civilly because I'm genuinely curious and I'd like to give you the opportunity to EXPLAIN your position more fully. I'm suggesting that there are many people like you who seem to get upset by word usage but seem to have far less of a problem with their stand-ins...meaning that it's not WHAT the words represent, but thew words THEMSELVES, which makes no sense at all to me.

I care about word meanings, not words. Turning a "bad" word into a pre-school version of the same word and meaning does not alleviate the person from saying a word with the same meaning. Telling someone to "eat shite" is no worse, in my mind, then telling them to "eat poo poo." You're suggesting someone ingest feces, regardless of whether or not you use a swear to do so, right? Clearly some people thin the swear is worse...why???

So...one final time...what is it about words themselves illicit this reaction when it seems that words with the same meaning that are NOT considered swears do not illicit?