Accountants top the swearing league table
A new survey from commercial property agents SavoyStewart.co.uk found that accountants use the most profanity during meetings.
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Well I was dragged up in deepest Essex where swearing is just really punctuation and emphasis.
Everytime Rishi stands up in front of a camera I do have a Pavlovian response constructed mainly of words you would not say in front of the queen.
Remember, dont say fuckorbugger in front of the clients
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I do enjoy bringing this story up :)
I had the pleasure of speaking to the accountant in question once and Googled him afterwards as I couldn't believe he was a real person. Suffice to say his reputation was well deserved!
As I often say you can take the accountant out of Sheffield but you can't take Sheffield out the accountant
Please!! Having worked in the construction and recruitment industries for many years I can tell you anything accountants come out with are tame in the extreme. When you're told where to go with anatomical precession as well as a spattering of brand new words then you know you've been sworn at!!
I've often found that the use of bad or foul language is down to the speaker's inability to make proper use of the Queen's English . Particularly rife nowadays amongst comedians on TV panel shows whereby the inclusion of a four letter word now and again makes them think the otherwise unfunny gag will attract higher canned laughter.
I recall a Board meeting back in the 20th century in which a certain lady used al least ten expletives in putting her point across. This was her usual style. Come my turn , I used at least twelve - some with a far higher disgusting content ; and hitherto unheard of from me. The parenthetical point was made but not minuted .
Have you ever listened to youg kids playing the xbox or play station with their mates online?
Have you ever listened to youg kids playing the xbox or play station with their mates online?
I'm going back 20 years but I always ensured that my 11/12 year old son was not subjected to hearing me or my wife swear.
Imagine my horror arriving home one day and hearing the following words come from his bedroom, where he was playing Fifa on his Playstation.
"You f****g b****d Rooney, what the f**k do you think you're doing you useless f****r. A loud hoy from myself and I got the reply "ooops sorry dad"
Up to that day I never knew he swore.
Some while ago we had an American team working with us. They loved everything British particularly language - cockney rhyming, our many accents, our array slang words (try explaining 'bloke' - they think it must be a slight in some subtle, unfathomable way) but most of all they loved our swear words but believed they did more swearing than the Brits. To be fair to them we had been holding back a bit (they were a client team) and it was only something like Wednesday so no guards had yet been dropped.
So we challenged them - you say one, we say one, first one to run out loses. We started when the drinks started, maybe 7pm with words being exchanged at the rate of semi-automatic gunfire. They did quite well but their words were pretty tame really and they quickly tailed off after around an hour. By that time we were starting to warming up and no-one had even gone to the really bad word section. It was a spirited attack by them but, of course, completely doomed from the start. At midnight we broke out big guns that would have made squaddies blink.
They may have better teeth but we Brits have history writ large in our language.
For those of you looking to expand your breadth and depth of swearing, may I highly recommend some CPD reading.
http://viz.co.uk/2018/09/07/40th-anniversary-edition-profanisaurus/
Before studying this in some detail, I never knew there were so many words for, the male or female form, acts of an adult nature, or routine bodily functions.
Haha there is even a board game of it! I wonder if they'll do an, ahem, "Accountants Edition"?
I assume this survey was done after the introduction of furlough and the monthly changes to the system (or in November's case, three changes...)
accounting, banking and finance
So they lumped in banking and finance and shortened it to 'accounting' for the purposes of the survey....
Everyone knows accountants never swear, it's those %*%&^% bankers and )*&^%&%^ finance people who use all the expletives!
Yes agree ...........Accountants who swear to clients or in other meetings with professionals should be barred from the profession.
Must admit when I found out we were going to be in tier 3 with no pubs open for December, I used about 50% of my swear allowance in 3 or 4 sentences. [***].
Accountants with Tourettes would make a great Channel 5 program, they could put it on after On Benefits and Proud.
As an aside, do you think Naked Attraction has had an accountant on yet?
Perhaps accountants have the most reason to swear. For many years I have been reading the "Any answers" requests for advice on how to deal with PITA clients.
You have my sympathy. I am a chartered engineer and I spent almost all of my career in the scientific civil service where those I worked with were invariably polite, even when expressing extreme annoyance (not with me).