re: Profanity in Tiger Stadium

We've read a ton of stuff on what's bad about public profanity. Maybe the pro-profanity crowd could enlighten us on the positive aspects of screaming profanities in public?

I'll start things off: screaming profanities in public is an excellent way to identify yourself as a moron who should shunned by anyone with an IQ above 70.

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It's like nobody can be creative anymore.

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There are so many words that go unused in the English language these days to describe things, and yet F-bombs are in no short supply either. Honestly, when people curse like this around kids, I tend to look at them as the bottom of the barrel, a pretty low bred group of humanity. There's just no getting around that when it's every other word out of their mouth really. But you can bet that the same people will look at you with this puzzled look on their face when you bring out a couple of five dollar words that in many other English speaking countries, and in parts of this one as well, is just part of their every day vocabulary, but not here. Whip one of those out and those folks think you're from a different planet. Pull out a MFer though, and you're one of the clan. They know what that means.

WooooHoooo... Dang.... He's one of us.



I wonder if our lack of reading books compared to being entertained by the TV culture and music culture has anything to do with that? Hmmmmm.

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Have thicker skin people.

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Thick skin doesn't do anything to shield kids from that kind of nonsensical behavior from adults who you would think should know better, and have a little more control over their own tongues in public. And hey, if you can't control your own behavior when drinking, maybe you're too immature to drink, or maybe you don't need to get hammered.

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We've read a ton of stuff on what's bad about public profanity. Maybe the pro-profanity crowd could enlighten us on the positive aspects of screaming profanities in public?

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Profanity is really nothing more than an artificial social construct. There's nothing inherently classless or offensive about those words.

i'm certain that i let a few vicious f-bombs, s-words, and gd's fly at the game on saturday.

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Profanity is really nothing more than an artificial social construct. There's nothing inherently classless or offensive about those words.

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+1

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they need to learn how to follow the band and chant. They are always speeding things up. I thought the ACT scores were higher than ever before.

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Agreed, but ACT scores dont translate into rhythm.

the profanity and vulgarity has increased over
the last few years. in spite of that i see more
women and chlidren at lsu games.

its clearly out of hand....much worse than my experience at saints games.

the problem of the crude vulgarity is that it
not sporadic ...it is constant all game long.

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Profanity is really nothing more than an artificial social construct. There's nothing inherently classless or offensive about those words.

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A point not lost on the typical eight-year old attending a game.

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I really don't want to sit near some drunk, obnoxious, foul-mouthed, jackass for 3 1/2 hrs.

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I couldn't agree more!