I don’t need more shows to watch, honestly. I vault have time and energy to watch my one show that I’m currently trying to finish. 😅

Not a show we get in my country but I bet it’s good. 🙂

Never too late!

I was curious when I learned people considered it to be really well done, and it really is.

I’ve only watched a few episodes, but it is good. I’d look up some sort of “best episodes” list and hit a few you find interesting.

Oh biscuits

You will roux the day you asked that

I think there’s a component where the words matter and the intent/inflection/tone matter and that combination can be used as a whole.

Also, the desire to comment to the world when things happen is pretty human.

“That was unpleasant and hurt” when you smack your thumb with a hammer could come out as a variety of things, such as: “fuck!”, “ow!”, “Jesus Christ!”, “yikes!”, “damn!”, “aaaiiiee!”, etc. Are these ALL swearing, or does the word matter? I would say it does, but we may disagree.

But I think the intent is the most important component for me. If my kid says “fuck” after smacking his thumb, that’s not going to bother me. I’ll ask him to code-switch around me and use something else, but I fully expect that his friends are cursing all the time. The code-switching is the lesson, not the word.

If he says “fuck you” to someone, that’s a different scenario and the words are actively hostile. It doesn’t really matter what the words are, if the goal is to hurt someone verbally, then it needs to be reasonable and sometimes it can be. Telling a bully to “fuck off” won’t bother me, telling a teacher to “please depart from this facility” would. Some of the best disses in history were made without swear words, but were devastating because of it. Be eloquent.

The grey area for me come in when the ‘swear’ is an adjective. I try to coach my kids to not do this, but it sometimes happens in my speech, and I don’t bother with it in text when I can assume my readers are old enough to code switch: “These legos are fucking stuck together” is not acceptable, nor is “these legos are frikkin stuck together”, but “these legos are really stuck together” is. Sometimes, though, you need the extra emphasis a swear word gives you.

My kids read the good books, so sometimes they’ll pull a swear out of a novel. Brian Sanderson has a whole pile that my oldest will sometimes use. I find it charming when he yells “Storm it!” when I tell him to go brush his teeth. Maybe that’s just me.

The intent does matter, and I swear too frequently to have it bother me, but society decided certain words are swear words and it just is what it is.

please stay wholesome

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Uh, no I literally don’t give a fuck - I just think it’s funny that you have a problem with a kid saying “oh biscuits”

I’d say a swear is a swear - you know what swear words are, and I didn’t decide anything, society did. Personally I don’t really care and I swear like a sailor but there’s probably been books written about what is and isn’t a swear word, how they came to exist and why they exist for all cultures and societies around the world. Maybe there are some exceptions but every language I’ve learned about has swear words in it.

Language is silly.

“real” swear words practically all have a cultural history tied to either blasphemy or sex.

I ain’t never gotten kicked outta Dennys for calling someone a “shitass” just more flapjacks

I mean, it’s okay to swear regardless of what anyone thinks of the words.

Unless you’re being an unserious silly pants and I’m too autistic to tell.

Nicotine is a useful pesticide, so I would actually partially agree with you.

Kids watching excessive TV is a symptom of a larger problem. The negative effects mostly come from those problems, not the screen time itself.