Swearing In Public

Swearing In Public Isn't Cool

I understand that swearing is to be expected in certain places and at certain events. In the public bar of a pub for instance, go there as someone offended by profanity, and you’ll be offended, and you should leave don’t expect the people in the bar to stop swearing because you’re offended. Go to the footy and you’re going to hear some choice words and you’re likely to get a punch in the mouth if you say something about it.

What shits me though is when I am somewhere other than one of these locations and especially if I am with my mum or girlfriend and one or more dickheads start mouthing off with the expletives.

I was reminded today of a trip to a hotel with my mum, I think it was at Christmas time, and she likes to have a go on the pokies so we went in after lunch. Me, my dad and mum and there were a few other older people in there, including women. Then a few young blokes, looked like builders come in and start playing and they’re “fucking this” and “fucking that”. It’s not right is it? Yes it was a hotel, but it was not the public bar area, it was the pokies lounge, surely we can expect quiet, courteous behaviour in there?

Then there’s public transport, I covered that in this post some time ago. It’s the young blokes mainly, school kids sometimes. Shame.

Shopping centres is the other place I notice this sort of behaviour, and on several occasions it has been the young girls doing it! Cheap slags. You can picture the sort of blokes they’ll marry and the upstanding children they’ll breed.

I wonder what the best approach is when confronted with this situation. Do you just put up with it, move away if yu can or do you say something, and if so, what?

Don.