Comments on: No swearing pls, we’re British http://www.liberalconspiracy.org/2008/04/25/no-swearing-pls-were-british/ If there wasn't one before, it's time we started it... Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:05:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Jennie http://www.liberalconspiracy.org/2008/04/25/no-swearing-pls-were-british/#comment-9151 Jennie Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:17:10 +0000 http://www.liberalconspiracy.org/2008/04/25/no-swearing-pls-were-british/#comment-9151 Trying to stop her from dating is the worst possible way of going about assuaging your worries though, that way she will just think you don't understand and go behind your back. [/stating the obvious] Trying to stop her from dating is the worst possible way of going about assuaging your worries though, that way she will just think you don’t understand and go behind your back. [/stating the obvious]

]]> By: Aaron Heath http://www.liberalconspiracy.org/2008/04/25/no-swearing-pls-were-british/#comment-9145 Aaron Heath Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:32:42 +0000 http://www.liberalconspiracy.org/2008/04/25/no-swearing-pls-were-british/#comment-9145 #5 That's what I'm worried about! #5

That’s what I’m worried about!

]]> By: Jennie http://www.liberalconspiracy.org/2008/04/25/no-swearing-pls-were-british/#comment-9130 Jennie Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:41:59 +0000 http://www.liberalconspiracy.org/2008/04/25/no-swearing-pls-were-british/#comment-9130 LMAO you're hoping to stop her dating till she's seventeen? What's the weather like in cloud cuckoo land? Don't you remember being a teenager? LMAO you’re hoping to stop her dating till she’s seventeen? What’s the weather like in cloud cuckoo land? Don’t you remember being a teenager?

]]> By: Aaron Heath http://www.liberalconspiracy.org/2008/04/25/no-swearing-pls-were-british/#comment-9129 Aaron Heath Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:39:53 +0000 http://www.liberalconspiracy.org/2008/04/25/no-swearing-pls-were-british/#comment-9129 I know the Victorians were actually a bunch of sex pests. I was just playing. My daughter is one in June. I'm rather hoping I can keep her under wraps for a while yet! I know the Victorians were actually a bunch of sex pests. I was just playing.

My daughter is one in June. I’m rather hoping I can keep her under wraps for a while yet!

]]> By: Jennie http://www.liberalconspiracy.org/2008/04/25/no-swearing-pls-were-british/#comment-9128 Jennie Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:16:02 +0000 http://www.liberalconspiracy.org/2008/04/25/no-swearing-pls-were-british/#comment-9128 Your daughter is minus three, Aaron? To be serious, do you not think there has BEEN a Victorianesque lurch back towards social conservatism the last ten years or so? It's just that we're actually seeing the stuff that the Victorians didn't talk about - the seedy underbelly, etc. was still there in Victorian times. Your daughter is minus three, Aaron?

To be serious, do you not think there has BEEN a Victorianesque lurch back towards social conservatism the last ten years or so? It’s just that we’re actually seeing the stuff that the Victorians didn’t talk about - the seedy underbelly, etc. was still there in Victorian times.

]]> By: Aaron Heath http://www.liberalconspiracy.org/2008/04/25/no-swearing-pls-were-british/#comment-9123 Aaron Heath Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:21:41 +0000 http://www.liberalconspiracy.org/2008/04/25/no-swearing-pls-were-british/#comment-9123 I was chatting to someone last night and this subject came up. I mentioned that the country is becoming overly vulgar and squalid, and that I expect a Victorianesque lurch back towards social conservatism. I suggested that this would be most-welcome in about 16-years, around the time my little girl starts dating... I was chatting to someone last night and this subject came up. I mentioned that the country is becoming overly vulgar and squalid, and that I expect a Victorianesque lurch back towards social conservatism.

I suggested that this would be most-welcome in about 16-years, around the time my little girl starts dating…

]]> By: Jennie http://www.liberalconspiracy.org/2008/04/25/no-swearing-pls-were-british/#comment-9068 Jennie Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:59:24 +0000 http://www.liberalconspiracy.org/2008/04/25/no-swearing-pls-were-british/#comment-9068 Are we swearing too much? Fuck, no. But seriously, the telling sign that that article has put the cart before the horse is almost at the end of it: "to understand that vocabulary speaks volumes about prevailing social conditions, and that all our swearing says something very powerful about what a mutually contemptuous, atomised, inarticulate society we're becoming" Our society is fucked. A sign of that is that we're all swearing more. And thus, if we stop swearing our society will be healed? That guy is confusing cause and effect, surely? If we heal our society, people will feel the need to swear less might have been a better conclusion. (Oh, and thankee for the link) Are we swearing too much? Fuck, no. But seriously, the telling sign that that article has put the cart before the horse is almost at the end of it:

“to understand that vocabulary speaks volumes about prevailing social conditions, and that all our swearing says something very powerful about what a mutually contemptuous, atomised, inarticulate society we’re becoming”

Our society is fucked. A sign of that is that we’re all swearing more. And thus, if we stop swearing our society will be healed? That guy is confusing cause and effect, surely? If we heal our society, people will feel the need to swear less might have been a better conclusion.

(Oh, and thankee for the link)

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