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I'm blogging at work again. Yeah yeah, shame on me.
My thanks to those who replied to my last blog post (I found it amusing that half of you decided to remain anonymous) seeing if I should keep blogging along. I've decided to continue, so here we go. (See bottom of this post for a personal request)

I just finished reading an article on the Deseret News website about a kid in Utah who started a club called the "No Cussing Club" and the ongoing debate on swearing vs. clean speech.(http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700125591/Swearing-off-swearing.html)
The article mentioned that Utahns swear less than anywhere in the country. Surprised? I'm not. Although I bet if we replaced all of our fake swear words with the real ones we'd rank up there pretty high. (flip, fetch, crap, dang, etc)
For me, I give kudos to the kid who started this club at his high school. For one, it probably took a lot of guts to do that and stand up for what he feels. Also, I'm totally with him for being against swearing and profanities.
It's been an obvious trend that the standards once held years ago in media and the public have been continuing to drop significantly. The things we see now in movies and on television wouldn't be acceptable at all 30 years ago. I think the same goes for swearing. It seems to get more prevalent as time goes on, and people seem to become more accepting of it, or turn a blind eye to it if they don't swear themselves. There are a lot of movies I've gone to see that put in tons of profanity that is unnecessary. They could all be better movies without them in my opinion.
I think we've all become desensitized to it all, and we barely give recognition to it when someone does. I heard the F-word so many times while I was in England that I'm almost the same way with it. It's sad that it doesn't affect me anymore. The only time I cringe now days is when someone takes the Lords name in vain. :S

In my blunt opinion on it; I feel swearing is the attempt of an uneducated mind to express itself clearly. It's not neccessary. I think it's really lame when people use swear words as adverbs. It's always "that's f-ing cool" or "that's an f-ing awesome guitar" etc etc. How does that even describe what you are talking about? What sort of descriptive word is that? I don't get it. Why not "that's a good looking guitar you have there..." instead? Yes, I think swearing shows a lack of intelligence/education.

I also might add that when I hear a girl swear, it's very unattractive to me.

Anyway, in conclusion, although I support the right to free speech in this country we don't seem to have "free hearing" when it comes to swearing.

What do you think?

P.S. I'm trying to get my blog out there to more readers and looking for more feedback to what I write. If any of you feel so inclined, I'd love for you to link this blog post, any other posts I've done, or just my blog in general to your facebook wall/page. That would be great! Thanks!