Is F**k Even a Swear Word anymore?

[Dave The Man]

As I hear it all the Time when I am out and No many people Seems Offended about it anymore

[Skids]

I don't say it around kids and women. With the boys it's used pretty loosely.

[stui magpie]

If you hear it regularly on AM radio or FTA TV before 8:30pm then it's no longer a swear word.

It's more in common usage than previously, less people are bothered by it, but we haven't yet reached the stage where grade 4 teachers are asking the kids to use it in a sentence.

[K]

Danny Lim's 'CVN'T' sign not offensive, court rules

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/dan ... 52mgt.html

'Mr Lim, aged in his mid-70s, challenged a $500 fine for offensive behaviour after he was arrested in January in Barangaroo while wearing a sign saying "SMILE CVN'T! WHY CVN'T?"

The court heard the arrest was sparked after someone called police to say she was offended "as a woman".'


https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/i-c ... 52emr.html

'... footage of the diminutive, elderly man's arrest showed him yelling for help while police took his one of his signature billboards and handcuffed him in a CBD shopping area.
...

In the body-worn camera footage another officer at the scene that morning, Constable Ashleigh Hodge, can be heard telling Mr Lim "I honestly don’t give a shit" about the sign before later telling the court under cross-examination she did find it offensive.
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Senior Constable Hand's body-worn camera records him telling Mr Lim he's "full of shit" after he yelps in pain upon being picked up by the officers.

Asked by Mr Wrench whether he was being offensive towards Mr Lim, Senior Constable Hands replied, "No. I doubt shit could be classed as an offensive word."

He also denied it was offensive to say of the bystanders objecting to the treatment of Mr Lim, "Oh these f---ing people are so f---ing pathetic. Yes, I'm saying it on camera."

People can be seen and heard in the footage arguing Mr Lim's sign isn't offensive.'

[Bucks5]

As an adult that sign doesn't offend me, but I do feel sorry for parents with young kids who see that sign. You know they are going to ask what that word means.

[K]

The same thing could be said about the fashion label "FC*K", which his lawyer raised (and which Nick's BB autocensors! ) .

I'm a bit shocked the cops were so relaxed about swearing on video, given what they were arresting him for.

[stui magpie]

They'd love the NT unoffical range of merchandise, slogan CU in the NT.

https://ntunofficial.com/

[David]

As an adult that sign doesn't offend me, but I do feel sorry for parents with young kids who see that sign. You know they are going to ask what that word means.

Perhaps I’m a bad parent, but this doesn’t really horrify me. If they’re old enough to read, it’s only a matter of time before they hear it in the playground. Why do we give words such power?