F#[at]&*%g S&*%# Australians.

**Cujo** · 18-08-2009, 03:46 PM

I swear a lot when I'm pissed.

Australia famous for foul mouths

Australia

Kevin Rudd has done it on national television, the Broadway musical Avenue Q won Tony awards for it, and celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay can't finish a sentence without it.
It seems swearing is everywhere, with one language expert suggesting Australians have some of the foulest mouths in the world.
The University of Queensland's Roly Sussex, a professor of applied language studies, said that in terms of attitudes to swearing, the US and Australia were on opposite ends of the spectrum, with Britain in the middle.
He pointed to the Prime Minister's dropping of the word "shitstorm" on national television in March as a reflection of Australian mores.
"The sort of words that Mr Rudd has been using in the media are completely unacceptable for President Barack Obama to be using," Professor Sussex said.
"Some people even thought the Prime Minister's use of the S-word in the media made him sound more like an everyday person."
So, too, Tourism Australia's 2006 campaign, "Where the Bloody Hell Are You?"
"That had trouble in England because of the word 'bloody' and it had trouble in Canada because of the word 'hell'," Professor Sussex said. "Neither caused the slightest trouble in Australia."
But on why Australians swear so much, Professor Sussex was not so certain, suggesting that there was a "laid-back" quality to social behaviour in general. "We have become much less church-oriented and that's a definite difference between us and the US."
He said public standards in what was considered vulgar had changed significantly in the past five decades.
"When I was at school in Melbourne in the 1950s, using 'bloody' was terrible and people would get physically punished for it," Professor Sussex said. "Nowadays, you can hear both the F-word and the C-word on Sex and the City."
The South Australian Liberal senator Cory Bernardi who last year chaired a Senate inquiry into swearing on TV, said that while social standards had "dropped enormously" he predicted a conservative backlash.
"Perhaps the low was Gordon Ramsay swearing on his television program," Senator Bernardi said.
The inquiry produced 10 recommendations to the Australian Communications and Media Authority, which is to review the code of practice regulating free-to-air television next year.
The recommendations relate to tightening regulations, modernising the complaints process so that viewers could air their grievances via email rather than written letter alone, and bigger penalties for broadcasters that flout the rules.

Australia famous for foul mouths | Stuff.co.nz

**Wayne Kerr** · 18-08-2009, 03:49 PM

Aggh fark off mate

**Cujo** · 18-08-2009, 03:52 PM

Originally Posted by Wayne Kerr

Aggh fark off mate

Mind yer fucking language mate, there's fucking sheilas present.

**davearn** · 18-08-2009, 03:52 PM

^^abso-f#c&ing-lutely, what dumb c#nt wrote this shit?

**Loy Toy** · 18-08-2009, 03:53 PM

Can someone get Terry57 on the line about this thread OP!

Ridiculous, scandalous and down right [at]344%$#2& wrong!

**AntRobertson** · 18-08-2009, 03:54 PM

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Filthy focking mouthed Aussie fockers!

**Texpat** · 18-08-2009, 03:54 PM

Tsk tsk tsk.

potty mouths

Mother would have you bite a hunk out of a bar of soap.

**Cujo** · 18-08-2009, 03:57 PM

Originally Posted by Texpat

Tsk tsk tsk.

potty mouths

Mother would have you bite a hunk out of a bar of soap.

For fucks sake what's the fucking matter? You one of those sensitve cvunts?

**Gunslinger** · 18-08-2009, 04:22 PM

Originally Posted by Texpat

Mother would have you bite a hunk out of a bar of soap.

Nah, that won't do mate we're talking Australians here...they need to gargle with Domestos.

**blackgang** · 18-08-2009, 04:42 PM

Originally Posted by Dug

The University of Queensland's Roly Sussex, a professor of applied language studies, said that in terms of attitudes to swearing, the US and Australia were on opposite ends of the spectrum, with Britain in the middle

Everyone already knows that Americans have the best use of the fucking English language in the fucking world and sure as fuck always have had, them is some cool motherfuckers alright.

**Texpat** · 18-08-2009, 04:54 PM

That church connection is pure garbage.

My family never went to any church and I never heard either of my parents say "fuck." And I don't swear around kids either. Nothing to do with any goddamn church.

**Happyman** · 18-08-2009, 05:05 PM

Professor Sussex said. "Nowadays, you can hear both the F-word and the C-word

So what does the exalted professor say when he hits his thumb with a hammer , or has a heated argument ?

Gosh ! That hurt !

or

I think you are a stupid person !

**kingwilly** · 18-08-2009, 05:14 PM

**barbaro** · 18-08-2009, 05:20 PM

We should all stop swearing.

**hillbilly** · 18-08-2009, 05:28 PM

I was alway taught the profanity showed a lack of education. My vocabulary is rather limited.

**Rural Surin** · 18-08-2009, 05:42 PM

Originally Posted by Milkman

We should all stop swearing.

....f*ck off

**AntRobertson** · 18-08-2009, 05:48 PM

Originally Posted by Texpat

Tsk tsk tsk.

potty mouths

Mother would have you bite a hunk out of a bar of soap.

Just out of interest but did anyones mum actually ever do this to them?

My mum used to threaten it a lot so I called her bluff. Just the once. Bloody unpleasant it was.

**JoGeAr** · 18-08-2009, 05:50 PM

^^^^^

Farkin ball-tearer !!

**Texpat** · 18-08-2009, 05:50 PM

^^ Many times.
Once with diswashing soap. Then made me say, "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers," to ensure a good soaping.

**JoGeAr** · 18-08-2009, 05:54 PM

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

Just out of interest but did anyones mum actually ever do this to them?

No, but my grandmother did, along with the daily dose of cod liver oil. Or was that castor oil?

**AntRobertson** · 18-08-2009, 05:57 PM

Originally Posted by Texpat

^^ Many times.
Once with diswashing soap. Then made me say, "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers," to ensure a good soaping.

Inventive, your mum!

I remember the worst part for me (bar of soap) was when I swallowed all the little flakes that had grated off on my teeth.

**dirtydog** · 18-08-2009, 06:03 PM

At last, something Australia can be proud of, well sort of anyway.

**JoGeAr** · 18-08-2009, 06:06 PM

^ I reckon by lunch on Sunday we'll be The Ashes holders as well !!

**nedwalk** · 18-08-2009, 06:33 PM

for fuck's sake, whats all the fucking fuss about? just because some fucking smartarse reckons we fucking slip up the fucking 'F' fucking word every fucking now and then. all i gotta say is, its got me fucked! and they should just go and get rooted~

**AntRobertson** · 18-08-2009, 06:46 PM

Originally Posted by nedwalk

for fuck's sake, whats all the fucking fuss about? just because some fucking smartarse reckons we fucking slip up the fucking 'F' fucking word every fucking now and then. all i gotta say is, its got me fucked! and they should just go and get rooted~

That's $10 in the Swear Jar for you, you foul-mouthed fvcker!

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