It mirrors reality for a lot of people in the US.
Meh, authenticity is overrated in TV. Iām not watching for reality.
I think people use it as cheap way to mimic reality because it hides the sins of poor storylines and dialogue.
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Well, a lot of things mirror reality. That something is part of reality doesnāt make it admirable or worthy of dramatization.
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Sure, but itās also important to realize that it is normal and non-offensive to a large portion of the target audience. In some ways, it speaks their language.
I get that. For me, when movie/TV characters use it every other sentence, as a verb, noun, adjective and general expletive, it gets old. Thatād be true of any word.
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I am usually impressed if someone can use it as an object of the verb or a preposition.
lol - that reminds me of when I worked at the airport with a bunch of Neanderthals who extensively used the āNaval dialectā of English.
One guy came into the lunch room on a typical tirade about stress, arrogant pilots and problems fueling jets, and another guy interrupted him and said "One thing we know for certain: it was āF-ingā!"
I miss those guys. Blue collar warriors, zero chance of accomplishing anything academically, they helped me learn a lot and generate motivation to get my arse back into school at the U.
(It was like a 1980s version of working on a ranch. I collected all kinds of amusing / scary stories about the goof balls who work at the airport. I would reassure my sometimes startled audiences āonce the plane is safely away from the gate and taxiing, most of the risk of the flight is goneā)
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Sounds a little bit like how this ends with the bike:
