Breakfast Bonus: Sweariest countries

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New Zealanders tend to use a fair bit of dirty language in their day-to-day talk... but how do we compare with the rest of the world? Find out what countries swear the most, and what we think about it!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Coast Breakfast Bonus Podcast with Tony Jason Sam.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hi, thanks for listening to a Breakfast Bonus podcast. Today,
we're talking about the most swearing nations in the world.
I feel a clap through loudly New Zealand, but we
have made the top four.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Yeah, so embarrassing, and it did make us think how
often are people swearing around you? I have to say
I actually hate swearing, and sometimes if I catch myself
like it annoys me that I swore.

Speaker 4 (00:27):
I get this point of myself.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
No, don't, don't. Don't use a swear word. It's very
low rent.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Apparently, though the more you swear, the more intelligent you are.
I've done studies on this.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
I just don't believe that.

Speaker 4 (00:37):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
But also it's a good pain relief to not that
I'm defending swearing because I'm like you, I feel disappointed
in myself if I swear. But apparently, if you get
hurt and you say the e F word, it actually
has been proven in your brain to be a bit
of a pain relief.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
Look, if you get hurt and you do it, I
don't think that's the same as when people just throw
it in. Willy Lilly right, swearing has a place in
your life. Yeah, but you know what I mean, I
want to put it in. For no apparent I.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Was at a function, I think we were all the
same function, and there's a woman getting up standing there,
she's talking. It was a radio industry thing and she
was there, she was talking, and she started dropping the
bond for no reason at all, and I think she
tried to think.

Speaker 4 (01:09):
It was like a cool thing to do.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
I remember that day.

Speaker 4 (01:12):
You remember her, right, the older woman, and we're like,
what do you do?

Speaker 3 (01:14):
It actually made me think less of her. It actually
really distracted from what she was saying.

Speaker 4 (01:18):
Yeah exactly. I just felt like.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
Why are you throwing that in? There's only a couple
of reasons. One, it's become kind of just everyday language,
and you're talking if that's the case rated in Secondly,
you're trying to be cool, and I think that's maybe
what it was that day, and it kind of had
the opposite effect.

Speaker 4 (01:36):
I thought, I think so.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Too, Yeah, so yeah. So the sarious nations in the
world have been announced. Number five Canada, number four, New Zealand,
number three, Australians, number two British people.

Speaker 4 (01:48):
Or they swear a lot.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
Yeah, that's kind of pub chat today. Yeah, yeah, I'm
gone at a foot yeah exactly.

Speaker 4 (01:56):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
And then number one usay, Americans swim more than any
other nation on Earth. How they did this, They went
through and this is what's even more disturbing, They went
through people's social media and found Alvin, people are swearing
through such region that's public.

Speaker 4 (02:07):
You don't do it there.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
But see, that's really funny you bring up social media
because that's that responsibility side of things. Again, I would
never swear on my social media. Do you know why?
Because I'm like one of the kids watching this. I
don't want to give them that bad message. People do
all the time all the time.

Speaker 4 (02:24):
I think the worst I've done is I've used to
pup emoji to talk about there.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
Such a rebel jazz, you know me. But if you
were going to swear, not intentionally, just maybe out of
frustration or know what, what what is the swear word
for you? It mine's probably either the S or the
F word, you know and I and it slips out sometimes.

Speaker 4 (02:45):
Yeah, young, I'm the same, I think, yeah, out of anger.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
But have you noticed that even with advertising standards, the
swear words are popping up a lot more on ants.

Speaker 4 (02:53):
But the word is an anser. I'm like, what, yes,
it is? Remember years ago never used to be.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
No years ago when brought up the buggered and there
are heaps of complains because that was quite shocking at
the time, was in the nineties.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
I remember that coming out and thinking I wasn't that
perturbed by bugger. I feel like that's okay.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
Oh, I see now it's okay. But I think we're
more and more useful nowcause buggers everywhere. But at the
time there were a lot of complaints. And I remember
there's used to be a there's a motorcycle shop in
Wellington and there was a Harley Davidson outlet and they
wanted to put like a really horrific saying on their
window celebrating Dad's the word oh yep, yeah, get theF
something he really wants further and they wanted to put

(03:29):
that on the window in Wellington, the motorcycle eye.

Speaker 4 (03:33):
Obviously they got stopped, but why would you do that?

Speaker 3 (03:35):
While we're on this topic, do you know the other
thing that I feel like has got out of hand?
And it shocks me as a mum because I see
parents on social media doing this and allowing their kids
to do it, or posting photos of their kids doing it,
and that's pulling the fingers. So yeah, these heaps of
young kids pulling the fingers on social media and it'll

(03:56):
be on the apparents page. I'm like, why did you
post that? It's you're basically square with your finger and
it just looks really I don't know. Maybe I'm old fashioned,
but I hate it.

Speaker 4 (04:06):
I'm really here.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
I don't do that sort of stuff, especially around our kids,
and I don't make a real point of that.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
Do you think if Sam was here, he'd be telling
us right now we're prudes.

Speaker 4 (04:13):
Yeah. Probably, and then other people listening to this thinging
the same thing. Probably. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
I just think it's a slippery slope.

Speaker 4 (04:18):
But our eight year old started doing it.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
But what he I don't know where he got it from,
but he got it wrong, so it was the wrong
finger and he was going sideways.

Speaker 3 (04:26):
He was doing west side. That's a whole another message.

Speaker 4 (04:29):
He said, I'll tell you where to go, pointing where
you should go. Anyway, Maybe we brudes. I don't over,
but I think it's we just were too much. Now
it's bullshit.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
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