I've Sold The Swear Filter To The Russians....

[AB Editor]

Or not. Maybe we should have pitched for the contract?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-27294848

/// One commenter notes that expletives are part of everyday speech. "If they ban swearing in Russia, all technical progress will grind to a halt," he says. "Warehouses will close and the army will lose its combat readiness. For our Motherland, it will be the end," he adds, deploying a euphemism that sails close to the official guidelines. ///

Do you feel the same would be true in this country, if we banned swearing?

Would you support some kind of intervention regarding swearing in the UK?

[ummmm]

I like swearing when it's used correctly. It's funnier to watch someone hurt them self and say fcuk fcuk fcuk than it is if they said 'oh bother'

And when I say hurt I mean like stubbing their toe or standing on a piece of lego.

[mccfluff]

flipping flip flops is my new swear

i like it

[weecalf]

I'd ban so called comedians from using it as when they say it to make their comedy funny its annoying

[Nibble]

Oh sugary sugar sugar, there goes another part of our British culture....


Merde!!!!

Egal!

[Nibble]

Oh good, EU rules that multi-lingual swearing on Ab IS now the de facto usage of swearing..

[Canary42]

Swearing shows intellectual poverty.

[ummmm]

No it doesn't.

[sp1814]

A well-timed expletive can enrich a comedy act. However, overuse renders expletiives pretty much useless.

Anyone who has seen 'Kick Ass' knows how shocking/funny 'that' particular word coming from a 14 year old's mouth was.

If the film had been littered with swear words, the impact would be lost.

Also...'sub-swears' are quite nice to use.

'Cobblers' is more effective than 'rollocks' with a 'b', because rollocks (again, with a 'b') has been used to death (IMO).

[carrust]

Swearing's ok if it's used as an exclamation mark & not as a 'king comma:-)

[dunnitall]

Swearing, part of the tapestry of language but used in the "right" places can really add meaning to things and be funny at times. Do you think the Queen swears? I'd love to know she does lol.

[Old_Geezer]

Personally I don't give a darn, but there are folk trained to do so, and I don't think you can risk giving this place a dose of reality without losing those "customers".

[ludwig]

It's fine in moderation.

I agree with sp about 'sub-swears'. I remember a bloke caling Boris Johnson a pompous twit (to his face) on telly once, and it somehow was far more apposite and funny, than if he'd said anything stronger.

[youngmafbog]

I'm happy to bow to popular opinion and change the avitar, it perhaps was a bit OTT. Still for the point of this question the reactions to it answer it !

However I am not allowed. There is no option anymore to change it on AB, just says your avatar is banned. It is changed on Gravitar, did that straight away.

[ludwig]

I don't even remember what it was youngmaf. I couldn't have found it particularly offensive.

[youngmafbog]

It was a Middle finger with the EU flag in the background.

I didnt intend it to be offensive( and the middle finger is pretty common these days), my views on the EU are well documented on here it was simply to reinforce them.

Like I say I would be happy to change it if it offends, just had to be asked, instead I appear to have been banned for life from having an avatar!

[Quizmonster]

Would it be acceptable on AB to use the 'proper' names for human actions and body-parts to criticise people? I'm thinking of words such as copulating and anus instead of effing and...well, you know what!

[snags]

''Would it be acceptable on AB to use the 'proper' names''

'you anus' just doesn't have the same ring to it...

[Lie-in King]

Bozhe moi...