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Why do the Irish not realise swearing is offensive?

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  • #202
    RainMaker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 459 ✭✭RainMaker


    I guess you have never seen:

    Goodfellas
    Casino
    End of Watch
    Summer of Sam
    Pulp Fiction
    The Big Lebowski

    All those movies have over 250 uses of the "F" word.

    Add in "The Sopranos" for example and that's a lot of good movies and TV you are missing on just because you take offence so easily...


  • #203
    wolfpawnat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,124 ✭✭✭wolfpawnat


    All I did was read the thread title and thought "Is this person for fúcking real?"


  • #204
    RossyG
    Registered Users Posts: 297 ✭✭RossyG


    Doc Ruby wrote: »
    The sooner you realise that Irish people are basically pirates, the happier you'll be here.

    All rise, please, for the national anthem.



  • #205
    Dejvice
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 74 ✭✭Dejvice


    listermint wrote: »
    Its not offensive.

    You sir offend me with your off the cuff comments and general sneary attitude

    Why is it not offensive?


  • #206
    Nicole Short Toenail
    Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Nicole Short Toenail


    I don't like excessive swearing, but that's personal preference really


  • #207
    MurdyWurdy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,043 ✭✭✭MurdyWurdy


    Dejvice wrote: »
    Why is it not offensive?

    Did you bother to read the rest of the thread that came after that post before commenting? There's a huge number of posts about why people don't think it's offensive :confused:


  • #208
    strobe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭strobe


    Doc Ruby wrote: »
    The sooner you realise that Irish people are basically pirates, the happier you'll be here.

    :D


  • #209
    wolfpawnat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,124 ✭✭✭wolfpawnat


    Dejvice wrote: »
    Why is it not offensive?

    Because this is Ireland, we don't find every second word people say offensive. It's just part of who we are. I am friends with people from different European countries and they swear just as much as us.


  • #210
    Dejvice
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 74 ✭✭Dejvice


    wolfpawnat wrote: »
    Because this is Ireland, we don't find every second word people say offensive. It's just part of who we are. I am friends with people from different European countries and they swear just as much as us.

    Funny.....I was expecting such a reply.

    'Because this is Ireland'...I look forward to reading a billboard in Dublin Airport........ 'Because this is Ireland.......... it is ok to swear. Failte.'

    'We don't find every second.......' I can only assume you are now speaking on behalf of all the population?

    'I am friends with with people from different countries and they swear'........so that makes it ok to swear?

    If that is your opinion why it is not offensive to swear then good luck to you.

    Regards


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  • #211
    wolfpawnat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,124 ✭✭✭wolfpawnat


    Dejvice wrote: »
    Funny.....I was expecting such a reply.

    'Because this is Ireland'...I look forward to reading a billboard in Dublin Airport........ 'Because this is Ireland.......... it is ok to swear. Failte.'

    'We don't find every second.......' I can only assume you are now speaking on behalf of all the population?

    'I am friends with with people from different countries and they swear'........so that makes it ok to swear?

    If that is your opinion why it is not offensive to swear then good luck to you.

    Regards

    But you have stated you don't live here so you are not used to it like we are.

    I grew up with it, I went to school with it, I hear it everyday around me, is it right, I dunno. To others probably not, but to the vast majority of Ireland, it is. And if you think that is me talking for the vast majority, then read through this thread you will find it is pages of people who for the greater part seem to agree.

    The reference to foreign friends is to signify it is not solely an Irish thing, it is International, so those who think it is only us, it's not.


  • #212
    Reoil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,126 ✭✭✭Reoil


    Dejvice wrote: »
    If that is your opinion why it is not offensive to swear then good luck to you.

    What exactly do you find so offensive about the word "f**k", for example?
    Is it the 'f'? The 'k'? The fact that it sounds like "duck"?
    What actually "offends" you?


  • #213
    Dejvice
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 74 ✭✭Dejvice


    Reoil wrote: »
    What exactly do you find so offensive about the word "f**k", for example?
    Is it the 'f'? The 'k'? The fact that it sounds like "duck"?
    What actually "offends" you?
    I never said I find it offensive. I asked firstly asked 'why is it not offensive'.

    Then wished him / her good luck after they explained opinion why.


  • #214
    Dejvice
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 74 ✭✭Dejvice


    wolfpawnat wrote: »

    I grew up with it, I went to school with it, I hear it everyday around me, is it right, I dunno.

    Each to his own I guess. Horses for courses.

    Regards


  • #215
    Madam_X
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,327 ✭✭✭Madam_X


    Hearses for curses.


  • #216
    Dejvice
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 74 ✭✭Dejvice


    :D
    Madam_X wrote: »
    Hearses for curses.
    :D:D:D


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  • #217
    BBDBB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,899 ✭✭✭✭BBDBB


    feckin deadly! :D


  • #218
    the purple tin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    IrishEyes19 wrote: »
    I'd say ditto right back if I were the OP. But it's no surprise that the OP just makes a comment about disliking swearing, and the next 82 comments all think a good old "oirish" fk off is in order, extremely original I must say :rolleyes:

    It's neither here or there whether swearing is right or wrong, in front of kids and by really young kids, yeah it's a turn off. If people want to do it, fair enough, its their mouth after all. But I dont personally, its not a snobbery thing, I just didnt swear when I was a kid and I didnt pick it up, simple as. And to be honest I think you should respect peoples views on it. I dont for instance like people swearing at me, calling me a "b**ch" or C***t in a jokey term. just dont like it. so I make it clear if it happens once.

    But telling the OP to get a life, grow up ect. Give over lads. Its not everyones cup of tea!! Doesn't mean anything.
    Noted, but I was actually talking about the op's diva like strop not their dislike of swearing.


  • #219
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O8fikwP014


  • #220
    Legs.Eleven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,987 ✭✭✭Legs.Eleven


    Shenshen wrote: »
    As a non-native speaker, I can assure you they don't swear more than others.
    It's just that for some very odd and unfathomable reason, a lot of the English-speaking world seems to be obsessed about being offended by words. To the point of ****ing or beeping them out where possible.

    Germans and French swear just as much, they're just not offended by it. And they'd have no qualms at all teaching their kids new interesting turns of phrase.

    Fact. Other nationalities I've encountered find us English speakers ridiculous when it comes to how precious we can be when it comes to swearing.


  • #221
    Solair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭Solair


    Legs.Eleven wrote: »

    Fact. Other nationalities I've encountered find us English speakers ridiculous when it comes to how precious we can be when it comes to swearing.

    You'll find it's mostly a certain section of American society too, not the whole English speaking world and not even all of America either. I'd wager the average New Yorker, Bostonian, Chicago resident etc could easily out swear your average Irish person while in certain aspects of US society mention the F word causes them to drop their guns in horror !


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  • #222
    wendell borton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,336 ✭✭✭wendell borton


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbZhpf3sQxQ


  • #223
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    Put that in your pipe and fuck it OP.

    http://omg.wthax.org/fUK_word.jpg


  • #224
    ashers22
    Closed Accounts Posts: 289 ✭✭ashers22


    I met someone last year and she wouldn't let me swear. It was the weirdest thing, I became almost touretty as a result. The more I was reprimanded the more I needed to swear. At one stage I'm pretty sure I had tics.


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