F**k, and cursing in general

[wicked]

I've noticed the past few years that fork and other previously frowned-upon words are is being used more and more regularly. More people are using it in the course of conversation. People I never thought would use it in the course of conversation are. I've always had a potty mouth and used it regularly. More media outlets aren't censoring it. One of the first I remember not censoring it was when The Washington Post ran deck Cheney's quote about telling Patrick Leahy to go fork himself.

Is it a sign of us being a little less uptight? Are more vulgar influences giving us the green light to use it more?

 

[jr/shotglass]

Part of it is people feeling freer to say anything they want to.

It's good for saying fork, because it's a Grade-A modifier. It's not so good if you're bashing gays on social media.

 

[DanOregon]

Loosening moral standards and less respect for others, we've seen a decline in people's ability to coexist in public spaces since COVID - I think its part of that.

 

[Batman]

Loosening moral standards and less respect for others, we've seen a decline in people's ability to coexist in public spaces since COVID - I think its part of that.

Agreed. It's a little thing, and some will accuse you of pearl clutching for pointing it out, but it feels like a real coarsening of the culture on some level.
"shirt" and "asshole" are used on a lot of TV shows now without being bleeped, and it's noticeable. Even 10 years ago I don't think those would've made it through editing in a lot of scripts. I remember the "Breaking Bad" creators talking about how they were allowed a certain number of curse words per season by AMC, so they tried to make them count by saving them for impactful scenes. Now it seems like there are a couple per episode.

 

[MileHigh]

This kinda steamrolled when Trump said "shirthole" countries and AP ran with it.

AP Definitive Source | Why we quoted the president's vulgarity

 

[Starman]

fork all that, we gotta get on with these.
(fork all that, fork all that.)
Gotta compete with the wily Japanese.
Too many fires in Canada
And not enough trees.
So fork all that, we gotta get on with these.

 

[Driftwood]

I have been in locker rooms, worked night stock at a grocery store with a bunch of older guys, was in the Navy, and worked second shift in a factory with older guys all in my formative years. I can turn it on and off at the flip of a switch.
If you get me alone, get me riled up, especially if I'm drinking... I will string together expletives like the world has never seen. If I am in polite company, if I say "dang" or "son of a gun" then that's as far as it goes.
I get on kids all the time for saying "that pissed me off." "Hey, watch your language." "That's not a bad word" "In my room it is."
That's super hypocritical of me because the first word out of my mouth most mornings as I roll out of bed is "fuuuuuuuuuuuck."

 

[Spartan Squad]

 

[tea and ease]

"fork" is on shirts, flags, cars, EVERYWHERE. I find it offensive. I'm not a prude. It's just a low class way to not find a better word or sentiment. Think it, say it your own house, but wear that shirt where 5 year old early readers are? I think it should be regulated.

 

[Starman]

Everybody here knows I get salty at times and in fact frequently.
Over the last... yeeesh ... 40 years... I coached a total of, if my counts are correct, 22 seasons of youth sports in basketball (B/G), baseball/softball and football ... including practices, games and team meetings ... and never once dropped an F-bomb. Never once. Not even in football.

My filthy talk in front of players was limited to occasional "hells" and "dammits" and some intermittent muttered "ahhh shttts." But that has been it.

At work, in newsrooms ... holy fork. LMFAO.

 

[garrow]

I see it all the time on flags round here...followed by "Biden."

 

[WriteThinking]

No one gives a shirt.