The finger and the f...

Nov 25, Kolkata match, it was not expected of the crowd to breath a relief when Dravid got out. Typical example of regionalism which is probably the biggest reason why India, with this much of population so as to be theoritically capable of sending in 10 teams 5 times stronger than the strongest team, is unable to hold number 2 spot in world cricket. Well the assumption that population is directly propotional to number of teams times strength might be somewhat vague, but you got my point. ;)

I aint a cricket fan to care to comment on the how Indian team stands today. This is also not about the middle (injured?) finger that Mr Greg showed in reply to crowd's behaviour.
Its that after finding out about the incident, I later realised how these obscene remarks and gestures are losing their profanity as they continue to get more into our common do how. Is it not merely a style to include an F word in every clause of every setence that we speak? Or is it meant to add an impact to how strongly we feel about things! And if that is the case, I guess something has made us too sensitive to feel too strongly about about too many things.
Whatever it is, wikipedia says ".... is a strong and generally provocative swearword in Modern English and is one of the best-known vulgarism in the English-speaking world". 'Vulgarism', and that too BEST KNOWN!. Well this does mean something.
Now it is better, not to try to go deeper into the literal meaning of the word or the symbolic meaning of the gesture coz I dont want to flirt with the decency line. But arent we "learned" members of the society supposed to give a small thought about what we speak. Of course, one can always say that they never mean anything personal or general. But then doesnt this mean that we ourselves dont give value to what we say.!?