The St Kilda-Collingwood game has the potential to raise more than $19 million for the cash strapped Baillieu government. Under new laws being trialled, which will become permanent on July1, swearing in public will attract an on-the-spot fine of $238.90 for each offence. Now I reckon that the state could clean up on Saturday night. Let's face it, every Collingwood supporter swears, even when they are eating and drinking, so just nabbing the 60,000 of them who will turn up once will generate in excess of $14 million. Then there is the occasional Saints supporter who might let the odd word slip, especially when Sam Gilbert kicks the ball. I reckon that if he doesn't get it too often, we can keep the Saints fines tally down to about $5 million.
In the meantime, we can all practise alternative expletives to be used in moments of frustration. Here are a few:
When a player misses a sitter from 20 metres - Oh, darn!
When an Collingwood player whacks one of our boys - Bad show old chap!
If, perish the thought, we happen not to win the game - Poo!
That last one might be a little risque for some, but could just get past the expletive police. Finally, we are likely to see the boys and girls in blue take to the field in hot pursuit of players who let the odd word slip. It could liven up the game in dull patches.
How much swearing will there be?
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Being of one of the younger generations, I've grown up around swearing at school, etc and have nothing against it personally (when I'm with my friends, or nephews, etc, we can swear like drunken sailors), but I have a problem with the over the top, excessive swearing that you can hear a lot in public these days.
On the train on the way to the footy for example, just about every week we seem to end up sitting near someone talking loudly who just swears almost every few seconds and it gets old really quickly. They don't seem to have any regard for who's around them, and it's often older women, or children. etc.
I go to the footy with my father who is of the older generations and rarely swears and I feel really uncomfortable hearing F-this and words like c--t, every few seconds with him there and I imagine many others with older parents who find it offensive would feel the same way.
Then there are the times at the footy when you end up near someone who just swears non-stop, whether there are families and kids, or older people around them, or not. Like at the drawn Hawthorn game last year we had someone like that right behind us and it got old really quickly. The older guy next to me (who was with his "elderly" wife) asked him to cut it out and got an earful in return, including that he "shouldn't bring her to the footy if he has a problem with it". Classy. I had about a match-long battle with him over that and his constant abuse of our boys and this is the sort of thing I really hope this new law cuts out. It's just completely unnecessary and isn't hard to cut out when you get out in public.
Some just don't seem to have any idea how to act out in public, though, or are so selfish that they don't have any regard for those around them and I hope this law makes them realise that just because they may have grown up with swearing being the norm, not everyone else has, especially the older generations and that public isn't the place for it, especially every few seconds.
I very much doubt that they'll be dishing out fines for those who drop the occasional "F-bomb", but I have no problem with them dishing it out to those who drop them about three times in every sentence (very loudly).
On the train on the way to the footy for example, just about every week we seem to end up sitting near someone talking loudly who just swears almost every few seconds and it gets old really quickly. They don't seem to have any regard for who's around them, and it's often older women, or children. etc.
I go to the footy with my father who is of the older generations and rarely swears and I feel really uncomfortable hearing F-this and words like c--t, every few seconds with him there and I imagine many others with older parents who find it offensive would feel the same way.
Then there are the times at the footy when you end up near someone who just swears non-stop, whether there are families and kids, or older people around them, or not. Like at the drawn Hawthorn game last year we had someone like that right behind us and it got old really quickly. The older guy next to me (who was with his "elderly" wife) asked him to cut it out and got an earful in return, including that he "shouldn't bring her to the footy if he has a problem with it". Classy. I had about a match-long battle with him over that and his constant abuse of our boys and this is the sort of thing I really hope this new law cuts out. It's just completely unnecessary and isn't hard to cut out when you get out in public.
Some just don't seem to have any idea how to act out in public, though, or are so selfish that they don't have any regard for those around them and I hope this law makes them realise that just because they may have grown up with swearing being the norm, not everyone else has, especially the older generations and that public isn't the place for it, especially every few seconds.
I very much doubt that they'll be dishing out fines for those who drop the occasional "F-bomb", but I have no problem with them dishing it out to those who drop them about three times in every sentence (very loudly).
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It's disgusting. I wasn't there tonight but heard a lot of that at the Richmond & Carlton games. They're morons & all we can do is not buy into their tabloid trash in the knowledge that no St Kilda players have been convicted of rape.mcadam05 wrote:is rapist a swear word? thats the gold i was hearing when i had a go at them the women in front of me then threatened she would call security if i didnt keep it down
I'm not sure how you explain their behaviour to children you have with you. Fortunately I haven't had to deal with that.
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How can you hope to stop it when the choir is lead by their beloved coachHelio wrote:It's disgusting. I wasn't there tonight but heard a lot of that at the Richmond & Carlton games. They're morons & all we can do is not buy into their tabloid trash in the knowledge that no St Kilda players have been convicted of rape.mcadam05 wrote:is rapist a swear word? thats the gold i was hearing when i had a go at them the women in front of me then threatened she would call security if i didnt keep it down
I'm not sure how you explain their behaviour to children you have with you. Fortunately I haven't had to deal with that.
