I appreciate that the BBC left the swearing in. If you can't swear about the Troubles, what the fuck can you swear about?

Besides, telling someone from here not to swear when they talk is like telling them not to blink. You'll only make them uncomfortable and they'll end up doing it anyway.

It's always a bit jarring to me when I see folk complain about bad language online, using phrases like "nobody has to use those words" and "it's always vulgar" and "it sounds uneducated".

Please understand: that is cultural bias.

it's also classist as fuck, imo, but I am told I need to stop turning everything into a class issue

(everything IS a class issue, you can fight me AND the chip on my shoulder)

@astronomerritt
It's also extremely rude. If I say fuck when I'm talking about something, and I'm not talking directly to anyone in particular, and certainly not directing robust language AT anyone, that's just word choice.

If someone makes it into a direct conversation with me for the purpose of criticising my word choice, that's interpersonal rudeness that is directed at someone, discourteous in multiple ways that merely saying fuck is not.