You have to watch when the reporter says the crowd is yelling "Let's go Brandon". That is clearly not what they're yelling.
OMG HILARIOUS!
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WingsOfGold
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LOLOLOL gaing momentum, they were doing it at college football games!
"**** Joe Biden" is the new 
Tech
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Could go old school, tar and feathers then out of town on a rail.
Civility left the building quite some time ago. I remember the first time I heard someone say "bitch" on TV back in the mid-late 90s - I about fell over. Now people are shouting the F-word in public in front of kids (and the kids are probably shouting it, too).
Nerd alert! Don't read any further if you are bored by my wonky sociological observations....
Profanity is a social construct. Someone several millennia ago decided that the f-word was profanity and we've stuck with it ever since. But all of them are just words with no right or wrong value other than what we have attributed to them as a society.
Which is not to say I'm opposed to social constructs - I'm not, and I think they're necessary to have a cohesive society with common goals and values. A community. But profanity is pretty much what the majority has decided IS our societal norm now, and it started back in the 60s. Got looser from there. And now I'll stop before I go off on a tangent.
black dog
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As soon as a kid gets on a school bus or is dropped off at school they are bombarded with language...
You have to watch when the reporter says the crowd is yelling "Let's go Brandon". That is clearly not what they're yelling.
Hijinx
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I agree with Henry Drummond, and I believe most of these people do too.
They are not using the F-word for the hell of it.
They really mean F**K Joe Biden.
So is almost every social interaction held among humans, including morality, common courtesy and laws. Nobody can ever say "that was rude" without some concept of social constructs. You can scarcely be offended by any behavior unless there's something human beings have set up as relevant. I've learned that around the world, being ON TIME isn't as highly valued as it is here - or wasting someone else's time. Among my Asian friends, "saving face" is more important that being truthful - hence they would accept invitations to come to my home but without intending to do so. In their mind, graciously accepting an invite was more important than actually arriving, because it honors me to do so.
The gesture we use to say "come here" - with your finger - is considered crude and vulgar in other countries. Ditto the "ok" sign. In our culture, showing the bottom of your feet means nothing, but it's kind of like saying "eff you" to people in the Middle East and towards Asia - so you don't, for example, fold your legs exposing the bottom of your foot TOWARDS someone.
In this country, racial and ethnic slurs are taboo, and if you're a celebrity, it can end your career.
I agree a lot of them are stupid, but I recognize them and I flout them at my peril.
BOP
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Civility left the building quite some time ago. I remember the first time I heard someone say "bitch" on TV back in the mid-late 90s - I about fell over. Now people are shouting the F-word in public in front of kids (and the kids are probably shouting it, too).
Nerd alert! Don't read any further if you are bored by my wonky sociological observations....
Profanity is a social construct. Someone several millennia ago decided that the f-word was profanity and we've stuck with it ever since. But all of them are just words with no right or wrong value other than what we have attributed to them as a society.
Which is not to say I'm opposed to social constructs - I'm not, and I think they're necessary to have a cohesive society with common goals and values. A community. But profanity is pretty much what the majority has decided IS our societal norm now, and it started back in the 60s. Got looser from there. And now I'll stop before I go off on a tangent.