‘What the f*** drives our love of profanity

The Irish Independent published

this opinion piece by John Daly on Monday.

Our use of bad language seems to have moved into a new stratosphere. In conversation with a stranger on the street these days one will hear all sorts of swear and vulgar words being used.

Yesterday a bus driver was over heard criticising rudeness, in doing so his words were peppered with the F-word.

It now seems completely acceptable for people on television and on radio to use the F-word ad lib.

Mrs Brown and her boys seem incapable of putting a sentence together without using the F-word. It certainly isn’t funny.

‘The wicked practice of profane cursing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.”

- George Washington.

Clearly the next occupant of the White House disagrees with a previous occupant of the building.