The "F" bomb
 

As recently as 10 years ago, television programs didn't use the words damn and hell, and other mild 4 letter words. Then about 5 years ago, they were spoken but bleeped out. Then suddenly it became okay to use all of the mild 4 letter words without any qualms. P***ed off, B***h, B*****d, A** and so on.

Now, we are at a point where the "F" word is still spoken but it is "bleeped out." No mistake what the lips are saying.

Since that word is now part of the worldwide lexicon, and used by virtually everybody, when will it be spoken on TV as part of the normal dialogue?

It's gonna happen soon you know! I'll bet within a year.

JLK

I've noticed the same thing and frankly, I've been a bit shocked at some of the 'professionals' I hear using the 4 letter words on t.v. Regardless of how, when or why it's used the 'F-bomb' makes me cringe everytime I hear it, no matter who says it, like fingernails on a chalkboard!

remember the smothers brothers show?
 

I'm showing my age, but I do remember them and the fight they had each week with the show's censors. I too have noticed that it seems OK to say p***ed and the other words mentioned. It bothers me to see the values and morals that used to be the standard - just go away. We seem to be living in a society where nothing is "wrong" anymore. Yeah, the F word is probably next. Sad, but true:ohdear:

I have always liked this quote, and consider it to be true.

Swearing is usually a good indicator of an inadequate vocabulary with which one is unable to adequately express their true feelings in an appropriate manner.

I don't know who said it.

For the past six months, I've been playing golf every Wednesday with a foursome that includes a very laid back, quite cardiologist who is of Pakistani origin. He usually says about 10 words during the whole match. He is an excellent golfer.

Two weeks ago he was having a bad putting day. When he missed the third short putt, I heard every variation of the "F" word that has been uttered and then some. Like the drill instructors back at Parris Island. The whole while he was swinging his putter over his head like a bolo.

JLK

Excellent. Nicely said....and pretty soon I am gonna suspect you of being one of those gol darned English Majors, iandwk!!!!

My dearly departed mother, who was the mother all my friends wished they had, never had a bad word to say about anybody...and I never heard her utter a curse word until she got hooked on PacMan in the 70's. Woke up one night to the sound of "You f*****g cheating b*****d!" I never told anybody while she was alive - it was our little closet secret :)

Now that's FUNNY


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That will be my wife, the English teacher, retired.

Swearing is a way to let off steam and it works for me. Last Mothers Day Obama said of his then chief of staff that Ron Emanual wasn't used to using the word "day" after mother. I guess it goes all the way to the white house.

I remember a radio show in DC many years ago where the talk host, Grease Man Manielli, spelled wrong I am sure, but he had another word for every bad word there was. Once you listened to him a few times you picked up on his alternate language. He could talk about anything and use his word substitution and be understood by all. He is probably still on the air somewhere.

and yet another useless piece of info stuck inside my head for some reason...
 

Even though I was a teeny-tiny baby at the time (Yes. Uh-huh. Fer sher. That's it. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.) I somehow remember when there was quite a tizz over Jack Paar saying, "water closet" on the Tonight Show.

Boomer

I agree....
 

...and the "F" word is used mostly when one is not intelligent to think of a better word!!!

That's the best one yet!

There is only one curse phrase that bothers me and I get the urge to chastise a person every time I hear it. I've sent emails to TV shows because it has now become acceptable -- putting the Lord's name before "damned." That, to me, is much more obscene than the F word.

Course, it might be that I don't mind what words people use because I can probably out curse them. I know I can cuss wayyyy better than any sailor I've ever met. And we won't even discuss my first words in English, but suffice it to say we can across on a troop ship and a certain greeting got the biggest grin when said to another soldier. (If you ever want to hear the phrase, just ask me but TH would ban me for this life and any other lives I might have if I posted it here -- even abbreviated.)