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I must admit I do swear to a degree but only with close friends, otherwise I usually watch my P's and Q's around different people and never swear in front of children. My OH hates women who swear although hes heard me a few times LOL. Well sometimes he makes you swear. There are certain words which I find disgusting and would never use.

Peeing myself laughing.

Bless you Gilly. A friend a few years back kept typing LOL at the end of every sentence and it use to bug me what it meant until he told me. Im not too bad now. Yvonne x

Hi Gilly I have nudged up the Board abbreviations thread for you, it might give you an idea of what some of us are on about when we go into 'text' speak ;-)))))

Dont you think its the same as sex and violence I ts on the tv all the time Which make yougsters think its the norm or run of the mill If its on tv must be ok Please bring back Mary Whitehouse Maureen

The swearing has to be taken in context. What you say to the sewing machine, lawn mower, computer or less liked relations may not be appropriate to say to/or even let be heard by your kids teacher, your kids, your boss or your more adored relations. yvette x

I am more upset if my daughter swears than my sons { the teens that is} she is doing it a lot as her peers all do and I hate it! I do admit to swearing but only when really mad, cazxxxx

I have never sworn and neither did my parents or my children...!

Hi Maureen I think television does have some influence on what we say, especially some of the reality programmes that are shown I also think that some of the 'role models' for our youngsters have a lot to answer for, but then the pop/sport personalities of my generation also had an influence on behaviour, so that is not necessarily a recent thing ;-))

When I was growing up swearing wasn't considered dreadful in my house. I don't ever say the 'c' word, but when I do swear, it's usually used to emphasise something and in good humour. I don't swear when talking to strangers, friends and family who don't swear, and when I do swear it's usually no more severe than 'bl**dy'. If I say worse, I'm either very mad or have hurt myself. I've never sworn at someone, and would be upset if someone swore at me with the sole use of offending me. I don't think the words are offensive, but the way in which they can be said.

I do swear but only when appropriate ie either hurting myself or trying to emphasize a point. I see nothing wrong in swearing, I do not class it as an act of low intelligence as very few other words have the right emphasis. Having 3 small children, I do not swear in front of them or other children. I learnt my lesson after calling some person who was driving badly as t*ss**r and my 18 mth yr old repeated it. I have adapted my language and my favourite swear word is now SAKE! dropping any preceding expletive I may have used before motherhood. I believe that swearing is okay for people who are bright enough to make the distinction between when it's appropriate or not. Sadly there are fewer and fewer people making that classification. I will add pmsl or lmao in a post because it seems acceptable language on this board and in some circumstances I would use the phrase in conversation. Dianna x

when I was 11 I got sent to my room for saying blast. My Mother never ever swore, she didn't even say damn and wouldn't say blimey because to her it meant 'God blind me'. So I grew up not swearing, then I went out to work and started occasionally to swear if stressed but not very often,never swore when the children were around. I worked in a large secondary school lunch times running a disco where the language was pretty bad and I used to tell them to stop and listen to themselves, couldn't they express themselves without swearing etc (in the 70s) Then I went to work for the military!!!! swearing was general language there, although it was toned down to b****y, b****r, s*** etc, no really bad 4 letter words in front of we 'ladies'. So my language expanded to include the above swear words . And I do swear under pressure or for emphasis when annoyed. But I have never and would never use the F or C words and neither does Tony. On the boards I use Lol! because we don't have emoticons and I want people to know when somthing i say is light hearted. I don't use PMSL because i wouldn't say that in real life, it is not me. But I accept it on here and it doesn't bother me. Sorry a bit long winded. ann Glos