Ok, I agree that if you've got little kids and you're husband is dropping f-bombs more often than he farts, a swearing jar might be a good way to teach him to STFU and the kids that even daddy can be disciplined.
But in the workplace or at a club, it's just not going to work and here's a little story to explain why it's not going to work.
I am the senior staff member where I work. We had hired a wonderful, soft spoken, kind-hearted soul who I will call Cathy (because that's her name) and Cathy was offended by all the cursing and swearing that was going on in the office. After several years of working with all of us foul-mouthed assholes Cathy decided to instigate a swearing jar. Here's what happened when I arrived for work that day and everyone was gathered around Cathy's desk.
Me: Hi, what's going on?
Bob: Cathy's got something to show you.
Me: Oh yeah? What is it?
Cathy: (very nervously) it's a swearing jar.
Me: What the fuck?
Bob: ka-ching
Me: What the fuck are we going to do with a fucking swearing jar? What the fuck is it for?
Bob: ka-ching, ka-ching, ka-ching
Me: Shut the fuck up Bob, fuck off.
Cathy: Well, I just thought that we could put 25 cents in every time we swear and then we could buy ourselves something nice with the money and learn to stop swearing so much at the same time.
Me: Something nice? That is the stupidist fucking idea I've ever heard of. I'd be fucking broke by the end of the fucking day. It's not going to fucking work and I'm not putting a quarter into that fucking jar all fucking day long. If you want to put your own quarter in every fucking time I swear, then knock yourself out.
Bob: ka-ching times a billion.
Me: Seriously Bob, fuck off.
Cathy: how about a dime?
Me: how about we drop the whole stupid idea?
Cathy: a nickel?
Me: not fucking likely
After this I proceed to my desk and google British swear words. Then I ask Cathy for a list of the offending words to which a person would have to contribute to the jar. She reluctantly starts listing the words:
Fuck - in all it's various forms
Shit
Asshole
Cunt (rarely used but effective in some situations)
etc...
So I decide I'm not putting a fucking red cent in that fucking jar...I'm going to swear in British from now on. Another co-worker starts a conversation about someone who is for all intents and purposes a total fucking asshole. So I say: oh that wanker, he's such a pillock, I can't stand that twat.
Needless to say the swearing jar went the way of the do-do bird. Poor Cathy, she tried. That was about 10 years ago and since then she's come over to the dark side. Just the other day I heard her drop an f-bomb. Way to go Cathy! I'm fucking proud of you!
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