Language on Course

Comes down to manners at the end of the day. Playing with friends who you know well and more importantly who know you well then they wouldn't be your friends if they had a problem with your language. What I have a problem with is people who show no consideration for others be that on or off the course and just feel it's OK to behave anyway they like at all times.
 
I agree Flydd, when around people I know and who are comfortable with bad language when it's appropriate then fine, at least I know who they are. But this chap who shall remain nameless was using what I can only describe as horrific insults towards certain groups of people, not just your bog standard swearing and it was relentless.

Poor show.

Shame really as I really enjoyed the course but that just really soiled the day
 
There's a time and a place for it. Playing with people you don't know is not one of them!

Friendly knock ups with mates is acceptable between friends, but a respectable volume must be maintained when other players are within earshot.

At the end of the day it's a matter of respect for the game, the course and your partners which should prevail.
 
I mutter to myself but I would never shout at the top of my lungs. I'm not a club thrower any more, but I do on occasion push my club back into it's hole with a little more force than is strictly necssary.
 
I generally give myself a good talking to if I play a bad shot. The odd bollox crops up but don't like to swear too much.
I did use a few expletives in front of strangers on captains day when i chipped out sideways from the trees straight into a bunker. I was embarrassed by it and did appologise for the language and club abuse. That is the first time I have abused my clubs in over twenty years but I did have a really bad day :o
 
I can agree with really bad language to a certain group of people being awful... It's just something not done..

I agree with the odd swear word here and there as long as it doesn't become to bad, although one really shouldn't...

I also hate it when some people enforce their opinion on one's language... I will tell them to go very far away...

I'd say that in the end it depends upon how bad things are...
 
I play with a few blokes who swear all the time on the course but that is just the way they talk. You could meet them anywhere and the language would be the same so it does not bother me at all. I am more offended by the big outbursts of swearing on a bad shot followed by club throwing or bag hitting, that puts me off my game.
 
I swear all the time but with my accent it’s like poetry, especially when im shouting at my ball to “sit down you slag” or “get up you f***ing tart” etc etc etc.

End of the day Golf is a sport, a time to relax, have a laugh with mates and drink some booze after. Bad language comes with that in my book. And unless im playing with my little brother in law or a lady member of whatever club im at ill continue to do so.
 
OK. I accept the fact that I am a "geriatric, coffin dodging, old git" but I really don't understand why people seem to think it OK/big/funny to use foul language. The English language is rich enough that to use the usual swear words is pure lazyness and shows a lack of respect for the people within earshot. If you feel you have to adjust your language to suit the company you keep, why do you need to use bad language in the first place? :D

Most modern "comedians" seem to use foul language in an attempt to be funny - which often they aren't (with very few exceptions e.g. Billy Connolly). Most of the great comedians never needed to swear.

Pious rant over :D :D
 
Half of my usual fourball was on hols this weeknd past so were joined by two guys, once of whom Id played with several times before. He can get a little highly strung when playing badly but is harmless, not a chucker.
After losing a shanked second shot on the first (bearing in mind it was a stroke competition off the back sticks) he just played on knowing his card was buggered and didnt want to hold up play.
Got to the third hole, teebox is perched well above the fairway, we all hit and he tees off, high and almost straight right. Quietly cursing to himself, pre occupied by the first hole still, he meant to say F*** to himself but realised it was heading towards the paralled fairway of the next hole and panic stricken, screamed F***********k instead of FORE, luckily noone was within earshot and a headwind saved his blushes but we were practically in tears.
 
OK. I accept the fact that I am a "geriatric, coffin dodging, old git"
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At last! We've been telling you for quite some time now! :D :D
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As such, I hope that you won't expect me to carry you for 36 around Worthing then
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You'd better! The only carrying I'm doing is the trophy that YOU win on OUR behalf! :D
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I had a feeling that that was how it was going to be. :p
 
It depends on company. If I have been playing with mates the language will be more colourful than with strangers.

If I do curse it is usually self-deprication than anything else.
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Same as this......I can have quite a colourful vocabulary at times....Especially with mates.....BUT........If im around strangers or indeed different company then i am very concious of what i say or speak...I become more aware of what perception they may get of me....I wouldnt like people to judge me by my cover.......... :(
 
It depends on company. If I have been playing with mates the language will be more colourful than with strangers.

If I do curse it is usually self-deprication than anything else.
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Same as this......I can have quite a colourful vocabulary at times....Especially with mates.....BUT........If im around strangers or indeed different company then i am very concious of what i say or speak...I become more aware of what perception they may get of me....I wouldnt like people to judge me by my cover.......... :(
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So what you are saying is that..

You know that the use of "colourful" language is not really generally acceptable and, when you feel that the people you are with may not appreciate it, you are quite happy to moderate and talk "normally".

It's only with "mates" that you feel you must use unbecoming language. Does it make you feel good, feel big, one of the lads, or what?

You don't want people to judge you by your cover? Too late, your already judged :eek: :eek:
 
So what you are saying is that..

You know that the use of "colourful" language is not really generally acceptable and, when you feel that the people you are with may not appreciate it, you are quite happy to moderate and talk "normally".

It's only with "mates" that you feel you must use unbecoming language. Does it make you feel good, feel big, one of the lads, or what?

You don't want people to judge you by your cover? Too late, your already judged :eek: :eek:
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What's up with you lately you miserable old sod?
Are you off the medication?
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So what you are saying is that..

You know that the use of "colourful" language is not really generally acceptable and, when you feel that the people you are with may not appreciate it, you are quite happy to moderate and talk "normally".

It's only with "mates" that you feel you must use unbecoming language. Does it make you feel good, feel big, one of the lads, or what?

You don't want people to judge you by your cover? Too late, your already judged :eek: :eek:
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What's up with you lately you miserable old sod?
Are you off the medication?
:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: ;)
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He's just old Smiffy. They get like that, old people. It's pension day today, isn't it? He's probably had to stand for twelve and a half seconds in the post office queue and it's annoyed him for the rest of the day.

That and the school kids on the bus......... ;)
 
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