Cursing on CB

Most of the time when I hear cursing on the CB, it is usually channel 19. Though I have a time or two heard cursing on 38 lower when someone was being agitated by someone else playing their noise toys over the air.

dledinger said:

As animated as the folks on 6,11,28 can be, the language is clean.

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Yeah, but their grammar is terrible.

dledinger said:

Was reading in another thread about this...and I always hear this come up when anyone wants to get a dig in on CBers.

Granted, I don’t live on an interstate or spend much time parked on channel 19 these days, but I very rarely hear any cursing. Years ago when I spent time on the AM channels, the only time it would happen was when some annoying teenager/young adult would get on 19 trying to make problems, and he would be quickly drowned out by the locals until he gave up. As animated as the folks on 6,11,28 can be, the language is clean.

Every once in a while these days I’ll hear a foul mouthed individual on 38lsb, but not very often. Maybe if I listened to random truckers all day it’d be different. As it is, on the freqs I operate on its clean language. And despite what some people like to say, I’ve heard plenty of cursing in the HF ham bands as well.

Am I missing something?

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Friday, I heard a couple guys (one on 38lsb and another 32am) that were pretty foul, but back when my kids were young (25 years or so ago) I had to shutdown the audio pretty darn fast while driving around town. So not much has changed in my area. Later that day I heard as-bad-or-worse on 75 meters. It's everywhere.

I do not find the f word thrown into cb conversation offensive or unusual as it is the way most people talk when there working, it is part of our modern vocabulary. I have however heard a few on lsb 38, from Newyork city , who were nothing short of nasty, abusive and frankly unbalanced individuals that I would hope the fcc hunts down and takes away their equipment. This happens quite often and it is only a few and same operators. There whole stick seems to be a verbal attack on almost anyone who keys their mic. It is not just swearing , more of a verbal pornal barrage of nastiness. No respect for themselves, others or radio. One would presume they have pretty miserable lives. One can only feel sorry for them, and hope they grow bored. The solution I believe is to no talk to them ever. If they get zero attention they will move on to get there attention fix in another medium or in jail perhaps. My one rule of radio is never to converse with people I find distasteful., that could be language, views, quality of sound, Amount of power there running, attitude.

i back spaced a lot on this one, so i will just say the tampa bay area in the evenings have a rough crowd,, it cant be avoided,,, truckers actually turn their radios off when getting near,,,,,

Agreed. Cussing generally is one thing (truck driver land), vituperative cursing quite another.

Sorta like taking seriously anyone with tattoos or wearing underwear out in public (tee shirts). Men in shorts not at the beach. There’s always a TV at home as well.

Lack of self-pride & willful ignorance are a helluva combination.

But

Bad appearance
Vituperative language
Willful ignorance

are insurmountable.

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midnight special said:

i back spaced a lot on this one, so i will just say the tampa bay area in the evenings have a rough crowd,, it cant be avoided,,, truckers actually turn their radios off when getting near,,,,,

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Brother, it’s New Jersey drivers that are the ones hated. While some places are full of The Stoopid, (and can be found all over) there’s just nothing redeeming about NJ or Philly truckers

Trading insults with wit can crack up the crowd anywhere, but in NJ they just bear down.

Ive been known to cue up a hymn and play it over the air. 2-3/minutes. Tops. That’s an eye-opener for drivers never been through there . . . as you should hear the responses.



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Let me provide some contrast.

Spain has elections coming up on November 10. Ancestry compels me to follow what politically goes on over there. In listening to speeches and interviews of some of the leading political figures, you'd be amazed at how many times they drop the Spanish equivalent of the "f-bomb" during a regular interview or campaign speech. I even heard one distinguished politician drop it during a speech he gave during a session of their congress a few months back. You just wouldn't do that openly in the U.S. or Canada.

Here in North America it may be that we're simply trying to hang on to some sense of manners and etiquette. You know: like what our parents taught us. Nothing wrong with that. Maybe it is outdated, but I think it is a good thing that those of us who operate two-way radio stations set the bar high. If I want to hear drunken sailor profanity, I'll go hang out with drunken sailors.

Well said, sir.

Now as to moving Franco’s grave, would that propriety still apply?

Don’t forget truck drivers are going through their work day. They’d prefer it ended without killing themselves or someone else. I’m not sure I’ve ever had a day when I didn’t have to avoid you or your relatives, is a way of saying it.

Have you EVER entered a highway ahead of a big truck with less than 500’ of clearance?

I thought not.

Make allowances for the crowd, and for the conditions. Truck drivers include child molesters, murderers, rapists and kidnappers. Of whom it is quite likely one or more of whom has had to take evasive action because of you.

(Yes, in the eternity of the moment, those you despise have been the ones to have acted with the morality you were without).

There’s no office break room or whatever to vent some. No neighborhood pub on the way home.

As I doubt that stumbling over a computer cord is the same as having a PAIR of wheels come off a loaded trailer at 68-mph, let’s just say that tension remains high on any given day. When the unexpected happens, it has drama that needs no embellishment.

The words you dislike are shorthand for the non-verbal expressions that radio can’t quite convey.

In other words, Ch 19 is doing just fine.

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Hearing others curse doesn’t bother me unless it’s being used in a hateful manner. Neither of my parents ever cursed. As a kid I remember being scolded for saying the word “fart.” I teased them once in later years about that incident and they still didn’t see any humor in bringing that up. While in the Army, cursing was the norm. So much so that some of it started to creep into my own vocabulary. Like smoking, once you start, cursing can become habitual. Coming back home on leave was a real challenge as I feared a curse word or two would slip pass my addicted brain. Thanks to my parents convictions, that concentrated effort taught me a lesson. It was difficult at first to break the habit, but I stopped cursing years ago.
I lied…. The last time my weed eater lashed out at my ankle, I smashed it against the wall while repeating loudly everything my drill sergeant taught me. Felt good too…

Slowmover said:

Well said, sir.

Now as to moving Franco’s grave, would that propriety still apply?

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That's a political stunt aimed at baiting opposition parties ahead of the upcoming November 10 elections. Early indications are that it is backfiring.

No license required for CB over there any more, but what we consider foul language over here is used pretty regularly over there.

I love my freedom of speech. Start growing some thick boys it’s only words you can always change the channel.