Depends on the setting and whether the swearing is accompanied in an insulting manner. If there's no children around, then you may deserve to get popped if youre being rude and disrespectful to another person by telling them off or talking in a condescending manner while telling them what to do.
No. Profanity is the language of anger. The person is already angry. Maybe having a really hard time and showing it that way. Maybe it's real problem child type person. As long as someone isn't being physical or demonstrably aggressive , be kind, or mind your own business.
Not foul mouthed wrote:
Let's say you're at a bus stop and someone is cursing. Should you tell them to watch their language?
Only if you're an a**h***
We live in a country where American athletes take dumps on public tracks, and you're worried about potty mouth at a bus stop?
I think you need to realign your alleged principles.
I did it once. My wife and I were having lunch in a fairly nice restaurant. The booth behind us, a young woman (~25) was eating with a friend and about every third word she said was an f-bomb. I leaned out of the booth, looked right at her, and asked her nicely to stop cursing so much as we were trying to enjoy our lunch. She looked stunned, but stopped cursing.
I think you should. There are many foul mouthed people and
it's unpleasant to be around someone running their mouth.
Borque wrote:
We live in a country where School District Superintendents take dumps on public tracks, and you're worried about potty mouth at a bus stop?
I think you need to realign your alleged principles.
FIFY
Jerry Maguire wrote:
Yeah if you want to start a fight. This happened to me few months back actually. out to dinner with my wife at a live music / bar / restaurant type place.
I curse all the time when I’m talking. Well a woman decided to interrupt my wife and I to tell us to stop swearing. She got shut down very quickly by my wife and I. My response was “excuse me? Do not speak another word to me”. Started to get heated. The waitress overheard and the manager came out and moved the woman and her friend(who was clearly embarrassed) to a new table. Both the waitress and manager came over and apologized to us.
Unless we are at church, don’t tell me how to talk or we are going to fight.
I'm more offended by your lack of grammar skills.
Ever come across homeless people? Many are deranged, confused, angry, hungry, depressed, stoned out of their flippin minds, on a bender etc...
I dare you to correct any of them at a bus stop. I double dog dare you to show some compassion and lend them a hand up.
Maybe you could ask them why poor people swear?
Only address it if you are responsible for their behavior in some way. Otherwise, be gracious and ignore it.
naw just realize that they are cringe if they say multiple "bad words" per sentence. or once a sentence even. the occasional bad word isn't necessarily bad.
track chick wrote:
No, don't be daft.
Good answer.
westsouthrunner wrote:
1st amendment
Freedom of speech and expression
Americans love to talk about the First Amendment, but not enough to learn what it means.
I don't see why. Who elected or appointed anyone to be the czar of public decency?
stan the corgi wrote:
Think about it. Someone who does that usually has no idea, or cares, what manners are. They will probably direct it at you or worse. You can say something but beware.
I know people whose whole family talks with such foul language. They seem to think that every sentence must include sh*t or f*ck or some variation thereof.
I’m not allowed to curse on letsrun so I don’t curse ever.
Get a car then its all hand gestures
I am an usher for a minor-league baseball team, and I tell foul-mouthed spectators to "keep it clean" all the time.