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Ryan Bridge: Is swearing really that bad? · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Swearing unless you're a bishop, or maybe they do it
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  Speaker 1: in private as well. Most of us do this, don't we,
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  Speaker 1: especially in New Zealand. We all know what a GC
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  Speaker 1: is and it's nothing to do with the white sandy
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  Speaker 1: beaches of Queensland. You don't do it in front of mum.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone knows that that's just one oh one of swearing
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  Speaker 1: and you shouldn't use the words and anger at people
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  Speaker 1: unless they really really deserve it, and then it's fine.
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  Speaker 1: But have you noticed lately the media's obsession with calling
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  Speaker 1: out people for swearing. Exhibit A is a furious, apparently
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  Speaker 1: furious Benji Marshall, West's Tigers coach at the expletive laden presser.
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  Speaker 1: Is how they described this. The fact that people can
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  Speaker 1: make up rumors that we're having a relationship breakdown or
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  Speaker 1: a rift between our friendship. There's absolutely so. The media
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  Speaker 1: had been saying he was in a spat or a
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  Speaker 1: row with a now former player and they were at war,
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  Speaker 1: et cetera, et cetera. You know what the media does,
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  Speaker 1: none of which, according to Benji, was actually true. So
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  Speaker 1: he responds and they say he's ranting and swearing and
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  Speaker 1: quote going nuclear isn't what they used to call gaslighting,
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  Speaker 1: remember that. Then there was Winston Peters and you will
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  Speaker 1: remember this one. I haven't been around this long to
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  Speaker 1: come on this program to talk about that sort of
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  Speaker 1: whack up them in question.
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  Speaker 2: Now the media called that a foul language outburst. How
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  Speaker 2: can a word that so many people use describing an
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  Speaker 2: act that clearly so many people do, be.
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  Speaker 1: So offensive and worthy of mention? Christine Fletcher Auckland Council
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  Speaker 1: complains about swearing and the council chambers at the moment
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  Speaker 1: the Dunedin Council boss, did you see this yesterday? Was
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  Speaker 1: done for swearing about counselors and calling them bad words
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  Speaker 1: behind their backs. Who hasn't done that? The truth is
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  Speaker 1: that most of us don't mind occasionally too much and
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  Speaker 1: you sound like trash too little, and you sound a
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  Speaker 1: bit too cautious directed in anger. Never a good idea
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  Speaker 1: should not happen at work either. The obsession with people
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  Speaker 1: using it from time to time, though, especially in the
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  Speaker 1: age of the Internet where people do and say whatever
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  Speaker 1: they want, well that's a waste of beeping time for more.
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  Speaker 2: From early edition with Ryan Bridge.
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