Man explains when gentlemen can swearfrom @professorpanache

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Can a gentleman use swear words? Absolutely. A gentleman may swear. He simply needs to know when, where, why, and how spectacularly well. Consider that good manners are not the absence of profanity. They're quite simply the presence of judgment. There is a world of difference between a man who peppers every sentence with expletives because his vocabulary has apparently suffered some tragic financial collapse and one who deploys a well timed swear worse with the precision of a surgeon and the devastating effect of a some erayan or retort. Indeed, there are occasions when an Oh Better or Oh Bhai Saab simply don't do justice to the occasion. Some situations deserve a more robust linguistic response, let's say. And some people, frankly, practically demand one. So remember, some situations call for Shakespeare. Others, regrettably, call for a very emphatic off. But here's the distinction, gentlemen. A gentleman never swears to intimidate, impress, or compensate for a shortage of intelligence. He swears mostly for emphasis, on occasion for amusement, or worst crucially, sometimes the occasional preservation of his own sanity. He can be impeccably dressed, well read, worldly, courteous to the waiter, generous to the less fortunate, and still tell an imbecile who's lacking any trace of manners with exquisite composure, though. Precisely what he thinks of that moron's forefathers. The trick is not to have a foul mouth better to have superlative delivery delivered with impeccable timing. Class, you see, isn't about never saying duckety tier. It's about knowing when not to and making it count magnificently when you do.