Hello Noel (see what I did there?)

And herein lies yet another problem… I do not swear just because I have the right to do so. I have not said that at all. I believe in congruence and being who you are.

Contrary to what you say about people objecting…. If you flick through the pages of recent months editions of the Daily Express and Daily Mail, you’ll see national campaigns of people who really do object to swearing – who are calling for it to be outlawed in some way and certainly not form part of any public media… It is that stance that provoked me to write in the slightest.

And yes, I like a fevered discussion… I like to debate in a heated manner, I like to provoke, I like to state my opinion… That is being alive… My job is never, ever, ever to please everyone and anyone.

Would you prefer me to discuss my own topics of interest and offer up some bland sitting on the fence stance, which does nothing more than simply reiterate points?

If so, there are other blogs far better equipped to serve your needs.

My blog, on my website, is written by me. It is utterly self-centered, I am not writing to attempt to be anything or anyone else. It serves as a means of people knowing and understanding who and how I am and also forms part of my marketing methodology.

Thank you for your contribution Noel, and for keeping me on my toes this morning.

Best wishes to you, Adam.

Do you have a right to swear? Yes. Should you? In consideration to others, maybe not. Just because you have the right to do something doesn’t mean you should do it.

Many people have grown up around swearing and still simply choose not to because they don’t want to offend. Perhaps that’s the point of this article though. merely to offend.

(BTW, I’m not offended)

Hitler than objected to their foul language. That guy could be such a Nazi sometimes!

There are a whole lot of things more offensive in life than swearing. The kind of people who get their knickers in a twist about sex words are often people who are happy to turn a blind eye to racism, bigotry, sexism, and oppression. The Nazis didn’t like young people swearing. (Fuck the Nazis, incidentally.) The Daily Mail are now on a campaign against Ross and Brand but they were happy to support Hitler’s blackshirts before the war broke out. The message is clear: persecute minorities, but keep it clean.

There’s a bit in Apocalypse Now where they muse about the fact that they’ve been reprimanded for painting “fuck” on the side of bombs. So it’s okay to blow up villagers, but you have to use clean language doing it. Somewhere along the line, our moral priorities went completely haywire.

Even more bonkers: some of these words are only “offensive” because of religious connotations: Jesus Christ! Bloody Hell! For God’s sake, how offensive is mythology, by Zeus’??

That said, I totally agree with you that words are just words and the meaning is most often in the mind of the listener rather than the speaker. However, I have to add that I don’t like to hear children in the street using words that are generally accepted as particularly offensive.

I believe that in many cases (though obviously not in yours, Adam) the use of swear words is a substitution for those who lack sufficient vocabulary to be able to put their point across any other way, and as such are not meant to be offensive.