[BB] What did you do with your weekend?

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by lineskier

What I was trying to say was that slang and swearing not directed at things can have an interesting effect on the tone of the conversation.

What you actually wrote was that it can have an inviting effect. If that was merely a misspelling of "interesting", I retract my disagreement.

As for Matt's hypothetical coffee-spilling newbie getting cursed at with a smile...were I on the receiving end of the curse, I'm pretty sure I'd be doing my best to avoid that particular chuckling employee for the rest of my time there. First impressions are hard to change, and if the first thing I hear out of someone's mouth is a swear word aimed at me, my impression of them is going to start out very low. It's going to be especially low if they seem to be treating it as a joke.