General Chat

Is it just me or is everyone my age(65) fed up with the language the younger folk use these days?
Just been to Farmfoods where a young mom was on her mobile phone F***ing and B****ing at the top of her voice with not a care in the world.
No one said a thing , when I worked in a shop in the 60s she would have been either sent packing or the police sent for, not that young men let alone young ladies ever swore then.
What is the world comeing to?


chris

I personally don't swear badly, my choice. My children don't find the need to use really foul language they are quite capable of expressing themselves without the need to resort to profanities.

I cringe when I hear the language used by people in public and don't see why I should be subjected to it. Yes, it is mostly youngsters.

Sue

chris, I have a 20 year old and one of comprehensive age.
I agree the swearing is not acceptable and hope that mine would not use language like it. They dont in my company, and hope they dont in other peoples, they would get a short shrift from me if they did!

The problem is that swearing is used on television as a matter of course, nowadays and its almost like an accepted thing which is wrong.

Its strange in this PC world of ours that many things are banned or frowned upon but foul language doesnt seem to be one of them

Teresa

Christine I am about your age and I can remember if any young lads started to use the F word when I was young, my boyfriend or other older men would tell them to 'keep it clean' as ladies were present!! They would do too.........imagine what would happen these days if anyone spoke to them.

I swear ..when I'm angry and when I am in my own home, partly because my OH will also. and believe me I could put a trouper to shame.
But I used to cringe if OH said bl**dy infront of his mother let alone mine
I have never sworn in front of parents or other people certainly those who do not. I do often listen to conversations littered wih the f or b words and wonder why. Once whe somebody apologised to me for swearing my answer was if you are intelligent enough to apologise it's a shame you wasn't intelligent enough not to use the language.

It is a shame that swearing now is acceptable in TV and even some books. Even internet can be blamed as ffs is an acceptable comment ..
lol I used to say flying fish ..

I am not sure it is only in recent times that the f word and other unpleasant swear words have come into fashion. (I am not referring to b****y or similar here I consider that mild swearing and have been known to use it myself.) I worked in a large comprehensive school as a lunch time assistant from 1973 to 1976 and the four letter words were much in evidence then. I can distinctly remember saying to one lad, Have you listened to yourself? And they really didn't think anything of it, it was everyday language. My children never swore at home and neither do the grandchildren. My parents never swore ever and my OH rarely in front of me. And never four letter words. It is another result of the lack of respect but I think it started earlier than we think.

and another thing why do they insist on getting on the bus with the big contracption of a push chair for 3 stops why dont they walk,

I think its a bit unfair stating that its modern mothers and younger people that swear.

Plenty of old folk swear, after all the young learn from their parents and the older generation.

George

i really have to disagree that young people are the only users of bad language these days.you should all come and do a night shift on the AE in the local hospital on a sat night.ive had drunks ranging from 15 to 80(yes 80) the language is awful and i really have to say that the older ones give the younger ones a run for there money.has this behaviour been inbred over the generations x :-D

I never swore when my children were young but gave like for like when they were teenagers!
My eldest aged 31 with 3 children doesn'r swear now and has chastised my neighbours for playing unsuitable music very loudly when her children have been visiting!

I was brought up on a coal board estate in the 50's and 60's, and never heard any sort of bad language from anybody. I am sure that the men swore at work,but it was an unwritten rule that it didn't come home.

I remember once when I was a young teenager,my Mum heard me say" sod it", and she washed my mouth out with Fairy Liquid. I can still taste it.

When I hear youngsters swearing,it makes me sad more than mad. :-S :-S :-S

It's not only swearing that annoys me.It's also the sloppy ways that seems to be acceptable...like not pronouncing "t's" etc and " basically" and "you know".after every sentence.
Growing up in hard times you never heard language like you hear today.People may have said the odd swear word when something went wrong,but not part of everyday language.

i was always told that it's a lack of vocabulary!!