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As in "Normal for Norfolk"? I can imagine....

MontysMerkin wrote:

super_realist wrote:No Monty, I was just brought up to know when and when not certain language should be used.

Sounds idyllic.

You have little confidence in your next man.. do you work with immigration issues?

Fuck knows what happened during Super's upbringing, but thankful it isn't the norm.

McLaren wrote:Frak knows what happened during Super's upbringing, but thankful it isn't the norm.

How would you consider you are any more normal than me?

There is just something really odd about you.

McLaren wrote:There is just something really odd about you.

Says the man who is too scared to say what he does for a living, who is an adult who watches High School Musical, Glee and who has an obsession with teenage actresses.

super_realist wrote:

McLaren wrote:There is just something really odd about you.

Says the man who is too scared to say what he does for a living, who is an adult who watches High School Musical, Glee and who has an obsession with teenage actresses.

I don't watch High School Musical.

super_realist wrote:Christ, everybody knows swear words, they are exposed to them on a daily basis, but it doesn't mean that you repeat it.
I was young when I first heard swear words, but it didn't mean that I started saying them at every opportunity.

You obviously don't have kids and don't remember being one.

As you grow up you learn to moderate your language and behaviour to what is appropriate to the situation. 10 year olds will understand what is appropriate. 5 year olds won't.

Yes, I do remember being a child, and I always knew what situation the language could be used. It's simply parenting.

Ooops - I seem to have opened a can of worms here. And here was me thinking we might have a sensible discussion about the overly sensitive media when it comes to censoring and/or apologising for sportsmen (and sometimes women) dropping the occasional swear word in the heat of battle. Silly me

Fortunately, because of the language barrier, I'm not perceived as swearing over here as I always swear in English.

PS: Also completely agree w/super re children's language.

Nothing wrong with the C word Kwini, seems to make Yanks recoil, whereas in Australia it's a term of endearment.

Where did Kwini (or anyone else) mention the C word? Or do you mean "Children"?

You can quite easily get away with "bollox" over here as folks don't tend to know what it means. It's frequently said by on tv shows which have English characters; the two that stand out to me are Elementary and Lie to Me. Always raises a smile considering who sensitive mainstream tv channels are.

Super 6 Perth is playing consolation matches for 7 & 8th place

and 5th and 6th.

I remember when Poulter had a temper tantrum for having to play consolation matches for 3rd and 4th in the WGC Match Play/

B0ll0cks is such a great word, so versatile and never understood by Americans, who can't swear any better in English than we can (or would want to, silly and ignorant even to try) in American.

super,
Agree, of course! Not exactly the word I was thinking of, but you're right about the "recoil"!

Paul Lawrie won on the sunshine tour earlier.

Good spot, Mac. And a good win for Lawrie. Justin Hicks 2nd, another good result for him.

Westwood also-ran, Pepperell with a missed cut.
And: A name from the past appears close to the bottom of the field: Anton Haig. Once a young gun, chat about an undisciplined lifestyle, now just another pro, seemingly with his glittering future fading behind him.

Davie wrote:Where did Kwini (or anyone else) mention the C word? Or do you mean "Children"?

What Davie? Did you not read what Kwini wrote? He said he swears in English, and the C word, is more the preserve of the Brits than Americans

super_realist wrote:Yes, I do remember being a child, and I always knew what situation the language could be used. It's simply parenting.

So as a one year old you instinctively knew the situation language could be used.

Look, I'm with LP on this, I think it's silly when commentators apologise when a player swears, most of the time I've never even heard the swearing and have to rewind to pick it up. But, young children are impressionable and will copy what they see and hear: whether that's Wayne Rooney giving a referee an aggressive mouthful of abuse or Wayne Riley mumbling the word bollox off camera.

Talking about swearing. Did you watch Adele at the Grammys last week? Didn't realize she was such a nut case.

pedro wrote:Talking about swearing. Did you watch Adele at the Grammys last week? Didn't realize she was such a nut case.

She's an absolute horror. Avoided at all costs. Sounds like a cross between danny fackin dyer and a deflated bagpipe :shudder:

I wish all these celebrities would stop trying to make statements when they do these ridiculous awards, or just in general when idiots like Lily Allen started apologising on behalf of the UK, just get lost. They should give the crowd rotten tomatoes and just get them off.

raycastleunited wrote:

super_realist wrote:Yes, I do remember being a child, and I always knew what situation the language could be used. It's simply parenting.

So as a one year old you instinctively knew the situation language could be used.

Look, I'm with LP on this, I think it's silly when commentators apologise when a player swears, most of the time I've never even heard the swearing and have to rewind to pick it up. But, young children are impressionable and will copy what they see and hear: whether that's Wayne Rooney giving a referee an aggressive mouthful of abuse or Wayne Riley mumbling the word bollox off camera.

I very much doubt I could even speak at 1 Ray, I never even knew swear words until I was about 5, but knew I shouldn't use them.

I've got young nieces who are exposed through media etc to swear words but they don't swear, I don't see the problem if you bring them up correctly.

I agree with you about apologetic commentators, I don't think we need it, and if golfers were mic'd up, I think they'd tailor their language a bit, couldn't care less about footballers, people like Rooney have the brain of a Toxteth 5 year old deadbeat who probably taught his parents new words at that age.

I think you do children a dis-service when you suggest they are impressionable, yes they are, but they can be taught what is right or wrong or what can be said and what cannot, and if you don't believe that, think back to the respect you had when you were that age. Did you call your mum a c-word at 5? No

My son heard Groove Armada, I see you baby, we switched it to shaking your thing. He repeats it a lot, but he is 2 and half, and its hard to get him to understand what he can cant say.

super_realist wrote:I wish all these celebrities would stop trying to make statements when they do these ridiculous awards, or just in general when idiots like Lily Allen started apologising on behalf of the UK, just get lost. They should give the crowd rotten tomatoes and just get them off.

Completely agree. The Grammys wasn't too bad in that respect but some of the other ones this year (Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild) were cringeworthy and infantile to say the least. STFU please.

Oscars this weekend, get ready for some grandstanding.

Ja man! I'll parallel park my ar$e in the sofa, duly tanked up with popcorn and pepsi ready to take fauxfence at the fauxfended.

PS. La La Land at odds 11/10 for best movie. Better return than my savings account?

Does anyone genuinely have interest in Award ceremonies? I couldn't give a toss about them. Self congratulatory toss. It's pretty meaningless stuff and I'm sure Mac and Monty would be up in arms about the elderly, white, men who make up the Academy.

super_realist wrote:Does anyone genuinely have interest in Award ceremonies? I couldn't give a toss about them. Self congratulatory toss. It's pretty meaningless stuff and I'm sure Mac and Monty would be up in arms about the elderly, white, men who make up the Academy.

Don't even cause the smallest blip on my radar. Surprised you're not frothing about them though.

Absolutely not Monty, I couldn't give a toss about their crocodile teared speeches.

super_realist wrote:Absolutely not Monty, I couldn't give a toss about their crocodile teared speeches.

Are you sure? You seem the sort who would watch them in your pants, seething with rage before going out and killing the neighbours cat.
I on the other hand would only watch to ensure they adhere to highest standards of political correctness.

I've never watched them Monty. I simply hear about the sort of rubbish that the fat sloth Adele spouts on the news the next day.

It's not her size, it's her absolute lack of manners and empathy. She moaned like Frak about having to pay tax (and no doubt she payed a massive chunk) without acknowledging in any way the fact that she is a product of the Brit academy - a tax funded stage school for luvvies.

She is a disgrace, no doubt and I also think she's a totally over-rated act of mainstream mediocrity.

Super

Do you ever challenge your friends or family who are fat on why they are fat and that they should do something about it?

pedro wrote:Ja man! I'll parallel park my ar$e in the sofa, duly tanked up with popcorn and pepsi ready to take fauxfence at the fauxfended.

PS. La La Land at odds 11/10 for best movie. Better return than my savings account?

Haha.

I don't actually understand why anybody would watch these awards ceremonies. Fair enough if you're in the industry it's a good event to attend as a celebration of success and networking with your peers. But why watch on TV? What is entertaining about them? Walk up on stage, shake hands, say thank you, mumble a short speech, maybe go on a bit and go off topic and get ushered off stage... next award, repeat ad infinitum. There seem to be loads these days, they are breeding and multiplying.

McLaren wrote:Super

Do you ever challenge your friends or family who are fat on why they are fat and that they should do something about it?

Of course I do Mac. Why wouldn't I? Why would I side-step it or keep quiet just to hurt their feelings?

super_realist wrote:

McLaren wrote:Super

Do you ever challenge your friends or family who are fat on why they are fat and that they should do something about it?

Of course I do Mac. Why wouldn't I? Why would I side-step it or keep quiet just to hurt their feelings?

I love it when you answer your own questions! Just to hurt their feelings?! Get many Christmas cards?

super_realist wrote:

McLaren wrote:Super

Do you ever challenge your friends or family who are fat on why they are fat and that they should do something about it?

Of course I do Mac. Why wouldn't I? Why would I side-step it or keep quiet just to hurt their feelings?

That really is quite surprising. I don't know of any situation where my friends or family members have told another that they were fat.

Would you mind expanding on an example of a time you have done this and how the conversation unfolded?

Secondly, did your conversation result in the person you were speaking to changing their lifestyle to try and loose weight?

Mac, I'm a little more subtle than that.

I've mentioned that they could do with losing a bit of weight in order to improve their golf fitness and improve their diet. Didn't make a blind bit of difference though, because the person is idle and lazy like the majority of overweight people.

By the way Mac, I don't know if you have to prepare any documentation or reports for whatever it is you do for a job, but if you do it must come back with a red pen through a lot of it.

super_realist wrote:
By the way Mac, I don't know if you have to prepare any documentation or reports for whatever it is you do for a job, but if you do it must come back with a red pen through a lot of it.

I don't get this?

Your spelling is atrocious Mac, that's what I mean. No company would accept such ineptitude.

I don't see any spelling mistakes and neither does my spellchecker. Would you care to point out exactly what you are talking about?

You said loose instead of lose and some American spelling for some other word too.

super_realist wrote:You said loose instead of lose and some American spelling for some other word too.

What do you think of run-on sentences?

I've mentioned that they could do with losing a bit of weight in order to improve their golf fitness and improve their diet.

Says the man who is too scared to say what he does for a living, who is an adult who watches High School Musical, Glee and who has an obsession with teenage actresses.

I wish all these celebrities would stop trying to make statements when they do these ridiculous awards, or just in general when idiots like Lily Allen started apologising on behalf of the UK, just get lost.

Ha ha. Thanks GPB

McLaren wrote:Ha ha.  Thanks GPB

I can go full GRAMMAR NAZI with the best of them.

I see nothing wrong with super's grammar. Opinions maybe, but not grammar. Must be a US grammar nazi I guess. Oh the irony

Davie

The the bashing of all things yank on here can get a little tiresome. They are different to us. Deal with it.