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Within a level of reason. Nothing little billy everychild isn't going to hear somewhere on standard cable during daylight hours. Which is close to the exact policy that the local GW runs. They' re a bit more strict. Me being a foul mouthed rifle slung son of a sailor... I've managed to adjust to ranting long lines of swear words in alternative languages, such as chinese.

As a Sailor, I feel it is my obligation to swear like one. All the time.

I'm OK with people cursing, just not when they're winning.

I encourage it.

I swear like a sailor when I do almost anything but I do try not to swear around younger kids but if you use the local FLGs or GW as a baby sitting servirce dont be surprised when your kids come home with some new language skillz

Kids get plenty of of language skills on the playground. They dont need us to learn anything new. It's their parents you have to worry about offending, not the kids themselves, they already have caca mouth by 2nd grade. Parents just like an excuse to bitch and leave the store because they want to go to Carsons or BedBathandBeyond next door or something and don't want to wait around on a stupid game. Swearing around them is a no-no because it gives them that excuse. The kids don't care.

I and my friends feel free to use them whenever were playing privately. If we are at a gameshop and there are no kids around we'll still use them too.

Case and point, I was talking with someone about modeling a dread skull****ing a wraithlord last time. It was funny but we wouldn't say that in front of kids.

I drop FETH! more than our other four letter friend. I curse under my breath, but not around adults (I am 15, bet you didn't guess THAT Dakkadakka). I try to give everyone the same amount of respect. But if I am with friends, I usually swear a bit more. "S*n of a b*tch" is about the worse I will go. Other than that, Damn and its many variations are what I commonly use. And I don't swear around the young ones or the old ones.

I'm an engineer, so curse like a trooper anyway. I try to tame my language around kids, but it doesn't always work.
Hell, my Mum has always cursed around me and it's not hampered my development, any, so I don't see why people make a big deal about it.

Im scottish. I have no problems with it.

i mainly say KAK witch is dutch for gak but much more excepted. but as me and my GF work with little childeren we dont swear a lot. but after a few drinks and whe are watching a fight (doesnt mather what sports hell even WWE) there is a lot of swearing. but almost never around little kids

I have never dropped any 4 letter word worse than "crap", and I only use that on under my breath, about once a year.

As long as you don't swear around the kids, I am fine with you swearing, just do it tastefully.

_Tim?

I swear occasionally when something really unlucky happens to me, like when my opponent passed 6 5+ invuls on his termies. But seriously, most 12 yr old + kids say much worse things more often. I heard a 13 yr old in my store say 'It's not ap2, I get my av save you fething dumbshit'

If they are below 14, then I dont curse, very inpolite and my LFGS has a VERY strict policy. Me and friends mutter crap and damn at our respective houses though but ive heard some... odities here and there, it honestly depends how much you just lost, and how much that big muscly guy in the back bet on you winning.....

It's us teenagers who curse more often.

yesterday i lost 2 matches in a bloodbowl tournament trough back dies rolls. i even had too give up so my Ogres didnt die at that time i had 2 standing and the other 11 players on my team where ko'd or seriously injured. at one time i had only one ogre standing and a snotling down. i never sweared becuase a childerens news crew was standing only 15 feet away. on the ride back i currsed a lot come on 15 one's in a row thats freaking imposible!!!!

I love when my opponent does it. It normally means i just ruined all their plans.

Watch it around the kids, but in my group we will curse like sailors when things don't go our way. We have all known each other for 15-25 years, so we are all used to giving each other crap.

I've picked up some pretty foul-mouthed tendencies at university and @$&% like a @$&%er quite casually. While this is quite normal in my circle of friends and indeed most people I know, you have to be careful playing with unfamiliar people who are a) young or b) sheltered to the extent that they are so not used to bad language that they mistake your jovial blue banter for anger directed at them.

Casual/humorous swearing, fine. Angry or vehement swearers are intimidating and unpleasant. But people who get angry playing games aren't fun to play against, swearing or not.

my store manager doesn't give a gak if theres no kids in the store, like after i demolished him 3 games in a row (traitor guard v guard) i could have sworn he was swearing continously for 5 minutes

Profanity is a sign of poor sportsmanship and low breeding.

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:Profanity is a sign of poor sportsmanship and low breeding.

I assume that last bit was a joke, because swearing is not a sign of 'low breeding' at all, just because someone doesn't swear doesn't mean they're automatically better than you. It's pretty close-minded to think like that and you'd find yourself on the end of more than a few swear words if you said it to someone's face.

Anywho, I swear if there's no kids, and even if there aren't it's still in moderation. If every second word is a swear word then it gets quite annoying in extended games, but if something goes wrong or you forgot something in one of the phases then a swear word is usually what sums up how you feel about it, but it's nothing like a volley of them.

I find it quite fun if i've managed to do enough to make my opponent stare at his army on his next turn for about a minute before just muttering 's***...', smiling and facepalming at the situation.

Really, in the right adult company, a swear word becomes just another word that's thrown around a few times during the night and nobody cares unless you start off on needless profanity-filled diatribes. If it's the odd one during a particularly bad moment in the game then fine, if you're having a terrible game I even expect it, similarly with jokes.

gak off bloodaxe
low breeding?
Im a fething cambridge honours student and i swear all the time
they're just words to help people let off steam and i mean seriously, sometimes in a game when something goes horribly wrong or amazingly hilarious who cares if you sprout a few curses?
Its not poor sportsmanship either as long as people aren't genuinely angry
so once again, feth YOU close-minded stuck up piece of gak

Avatar 720 wrote:

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:Profanity is a sign of poor sportsmanship and low breeding.

I assume that last bit was a joke, because swearing is not a sign of 'low breeding' at all, just because someone doesn't swear doesn't mean they're automatically better than you. It's pretty close-minded to think like that and you'd find yourself on the end of more than a few swear words if you said it to someone's face.

Anywho, I swear if there's no kids, and even if there aren't it's still in moderation. If every second word is a swear word then it gets quite annoying in extended games, but if something goes wrong or you forgot something in one of the phases then a swear word is usually what sums up how you feel about it, but it's nothing like a volley of them.

I find it quite fun if i've managed to do enough to make my opponent stare at his army on his next turn for about a minute before just muttering 's***...', smiling and facepalming at the situation.

Really, in the right adult company, a swear word becomes just another word that's thrown around a few times during the night and nobody cares unless you start off on needless profanity-filled diatribes. If it's the odd one during a particularly bad moment in the game then fine, if you're having a terrible game I even expect it, similarly with jokes.

QFT

plus there is something called gilles de lattourette and about swearing it can be fun as ong as you do it like this:



YOUR MOTHER IS A *** ING *** LORAMIXUM *** AGMINUM VENIUM *** TRAGOULA *** HIPPOPATOMUS *** REPUBLICAN *** ING DANIEL RADCLIFFE *** WITH A BUCKET OF *** IN A CASTLE FAR AWAY WHERE NO ONE CAN HEAR YOU *** SOUP *** WITH A BUCKET OF *** MICKEY MOUSE *** AND A STICK OF DYNOMITE *** MAGICAL *** ALAKAZAAM!

and my personal favorite : Voldemorts nipple

Besides that lastest "(rather amusing video) contribution, it would seem as though, as usual, people have become offended and are throwing inflammatory remarks against a person who deliberately or accidentally insulted everyone. So, might we get back to the gist of the topic without going all haters gonna hate?

Thank you, and good ****ing day, sirs --Kaesar II

If its just like you and your mate have a friendly game then its perfectly fine its just that you should'nt do it with young kids around.
I know some kid whos about 7 and he swears ALOT because of other people swearing around him.

monkey see monkey do. right? i think we can conclude:
cursing is acceptable as long as its only a few words and not around kids. if your opponent is offended by it he should say something and you should quite.

Am i right here?

^ Yup. I'd agree with that.

Creative swearing can be fun in and of itself, but by default swearing should be at the minimum level acceptable in the group. And kids shouldn't be swearing, it's like sex - fantastic but they have to wait until they're older .

Although I suppose it can be difficult for the more puritanical person to announce that they don't like the swearing... *shrug* I'm not that person so I can't say that I'd know.

true but i hope no one is afriad too tell there opponnent that there swearing is irritating. i once had it at a tournament and i said too my opponent would you please stop swearing every 5 words?
he than went on that i wasnt the one holding the tournament (a GT) bla bla bla. all i did was stand up showed him my ourider shirt and told him too leave the tournament. i hate to be hard but i just couldnt let him play on calling me name and using terible illnisses as too state how his ermy was doeing

What's an ourider shirt?

Swearing & complaining: It's a bit like being noisy at stupid times in shared accommodation. Sure, doing it makes you a prick but often complaining about it makes people feel like jerks.

I think it would be better if people mentioned it but I think most people would feel awkward doing so.