i don't understand who the non-swearing rule is meant to protect. children do not come on here - and why would they? teenagers might ocassion the place - when sniffing about for an apprenticeship - but teenagers all swear more than we do and are far more proficient and inventive with it - ever travelled on a bus? and i would say it's absolutely and utterly not true that swearing is evidence of abusive or intimidating behaviour. and even if it might be, it is perfectly possible to be intimidating and abusive without it. most swearing, where it does still occur, is done as a form of exclamation and almost always in an attempt to be amusing. which of course it is. i suspect the real reason is under the false belief that swearing is offensive to many and that this would worry sponsors. which of course i understand is the only reason we're here afterall thank you very much etc. but it is amusing to watch a bunch of plumbers being told off for swearing. is there a dockers forum? that might make for the most amusing prohibition.
i hope, in a thread about things getting your goat, i am allowed to express this opnion without reprisal. but if not, my sincerest apologies, please remove and chastise at will.
