Swearing

[hyphenate]

Back a week and a half ago my fundie friend, before I told her off, told me I shouldn't swear so much. Well, I've always sworn pretty much like a longshoreman, and I have a few real ones in the background to prove it!

How much do YOU swear? A lot? A little? Just enough to get your point across, or is your average conversation peppered with lots of little and big swears?

Do you swear out of habit, or are you fully aware when you do it? Did you grow up with it in the house, or did you pick it up from your surroundings and friends?

Some areas breed more swearers than others, it seems. Being born and raised in a big city almost insures you're going to swear more than someone born and raised in the suburbs or rural area.

So fess up!

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

1. I don't think I swear a lot, but my mom thinks I do.

I definitely swear less than my grandmother. She's worse than the drill sargeant in Full Metal Jacket and meaner, too.

[trof]

2. Mostly when I see ** on the teevee.

And Miz t. now uses words I didn't know she knew.

[Dying Eagle]

3. All the Fucking (opps) time

I mean I can hardly get thought a fuckin(opps) sentence without dropping a hell, shit or the fundie favorite "God Dammit".

For real thought, I am a construction worker, at work i can make Andrew Dice Clay look like a Pastor on Sunday!

[Midlodemocrat]

4. Funny story for you about that subject.

Last summer, our sunroom air conditioner died and we had to have them haul it out of the wall and we put a tarp over the space to keep the heat out. It was only about 100 every day.

Well, I came downstairs and the tarp had blown down and apparently, I was air conditioning the street so I let loose a string of expletives (disclaimer: No kids in the house at the time)

My now deceased FIL came around the corner and said "You better stop all that swearing, you're going to have a hard enough time getting into heaven as it is"

This from a man who peppered his speech quite liberally with GD and Jesus H. Christ.

[Bucky]

16. funny!

You cussed so hard you blew a whole in the wall!

[cracksquirrel]

5. Depends on company

Amongst friends, yeah. And every time I end a sentence pertaining to Bush, the Republicans, Hamas, or the ISO, it's usually followed by "... fuckers."

[prole_for_peace]

6. i swear so much a sailor once asked me to dial it down...

actually i swear when i am mad, as emphasis and when i hurt myself. but the level of the swear words change depending on the people around me.

[JackBeck]

7. I 've lived in Brooklyn for 12 fucking years.

The only time we don't swear is when we visit my husband's family in Ohio. And boy is it hard!

[graywarrior]

8. Jesus H. Christ, I wear all the fucking time even when I'm ALONE.

I couldn't string a sentence together if I had to elimante swearing. I'd lose my rhythm, for crissakes.

[devilgrrl]

9. I swear way too much...

Swearing has it's place but you don't need it all the time I suppose.

[Ariana Celeste]

10. All the time.

I tone it down for Gramma, my uber-Christian aunt, and the in-laws. Oh, and if I'm ever around little ones. Though I've been known to accidently drop an F-bomb at the grocery store, I try to keep it down when I'm around elderly ladies and little kids.


"Well fuck, dude!"

"Are you shittin' me?"

"Damn, dude."

"Fuuuuuck..."

"oh man, God damn it."

(Some of the more common phrases in my home)


:dunce:

[Oeditpus Rex]

11. There are people who maintain swearing is a result

of not knowing "more appropriate" words.

To them, I say go fuck your fucking assfuck selves.

[hyphenate]

12. My personal favorite

when something kind of goes wrong, like something gets mucked up, is "you cock-sucking bastard." It's my equivalent of "bloody hell" which used to be my favorite.

My fundie friend had me limiting my usage of "goddamned it" but now I have been liberated, and will use it quite frequently from now on. :) I know, I'm mean. heh, heh.

[Bucky]

14. Quality cuss words:

pig fucker, smegma-for-brains, pussy-nose

[Bucky]

13. Most lawyers I know are cussaholics. Yet they can "turn it off" in court.

So it's mostly just a posing thing, acting faux tough, I guess, to compensate for having a paper pusher job. Most people I know who swerar a lot seem to have something to prove to themselves. And that's a fucking goddamned ass-shame, mother fucker. I shit you not.

[idgiehkt]

15. I swear alot

and it's too late to change.

My favorite chastening remark about it is "Do you eat with that mouth?"

[NewWaveChick1981]

17. Quite a lot!

I don't do it ever in professional situations or around people I don't know well. However, the F bomb is a staple. :P I know every curseword and a few others....

Funny story: My mom invents cursewords. But she'll never use the F word. : She's done that ever since I can remember. More than once, I've heard her say things like "Shitbitcritfit..." instead of the F bomb. :rofl: Oh, and when I was a kid, one day she walked into our playroom (which she had just cleaned up and we had instantly messed up) and yelled, "This place looks like Crap Shit Incorported!" :rofl:

[billyskank]

25. Crap Shit Incorporated?

I think I used to work for them. :D

[NewWaveChick1981]

29. ROFL!

:rofl: I hear they went out of business. Lucky for you, though. :rofl:

My mother's got a curseword vocabulary that would make even a Hell's Angel blush. I guess that's where I got it. But she won't use the F word, and I use it all the time. :P

:loveya:

[Kat45]

18. I swear a shitload.

When I'm mad, of course, but swears also show up regularly in any old sentence. My mother NEVER swears and my father never swore around me until my adulthood. I swore all the time starting in junior high (when I learned the words), and I swore in front of my parents too. My mother recently told me that my father wanted to kick me out of the house back then because of my swearing. I couldn't believe it, because I was pretty much a good kid. It's an effort for me to hold back, but I manage to do so in church or on a job interview. One time a friend, who basically has a poker up her ass, got so pissed off at me for my swearing and such that she didn't speak to me for several years. (She refused to see some great movies just because of the swearing in them, which I told her was abaurd.) LOL I joked that I'd hear from her when her mother died--and sure enough, I did.

I am of the firm belief that "swears" are just words that someone, somewhere, at some time decreed to be "bad," so why get all bent out of shape about them. They're just words, and they can only hurt you if you let them. The same is not true of a bullet. And there are plenty of terrible things in this world to get worked up about; why care about words!

[Jamastiene]

19. I swear and I don't care.

I'm a poet and I know it.
Yo!

Wow, I didn't know I could rap. Hmm...imagine the possibilities.

In all seriousness, I swear like a sailor. I really don't pay attention to it. I have worked hard, however, to stop saying GD. I find it makes me think of flames.

[Broken_Hero]

20. A lot

in real life, not so much on the internet(s)...:)

[NMMNG]

21. It varies

At home I swear pretty frequently. In other places it's much more limited or absent. It's always absent if children are present.

[billyskank]

26. And what about if fundies are present?

:rofl:

[NMMNG]

32. I can't say anything

If I open my mouth I :puke:.

[last_texas_dem]

22. I don't swear very much

I tend to base the amount I do swear on the people I'm around, in that I'll throw out the occasional swear if I know the group I'm with is a group of swearers. If I'm among people that I'm not sure about, I generally hold it back. To me, it's a politeness thing, but it's not like I'm personally offended by people that do swear; most of the people I associate with do swear. I guess my mama just drilled that particular aspect of "good manners" into me pretty well.

The cool thing about if you don't cuss very much is that it makes it more powerful when you do. My friends know they have done something to really make me mad if I start swearing. (Or they just know I've gotten going talking about politics; I tend to do most of my cussing when I get going on the jerks who have hi-jacked this country!) So it makes a much bigger impression than if I were a very casual swearer who did it all the time.

[CJCRANE]

23. I swear mostly

under my breath at other drivers when driving

or very loudly when an inanimate object has caused me pain (e.g. stubbing my toe or banging my head on a cupboard door) or when I've just done something really stupid.

[Fox Mulder]

24. I fucking swear all the fucking time.

I don't give a flying fuck if people around me like it or not.

Fuck them. :)

[liontamer]

27. i didn't start swearing till i started driving

And I didn't start swearing constantly till I moved to NYC. Now I have really work to not swear (especially when there are small children around). I'm leaving new york in a couple of years and having every other word I say be the f word won't be appreciated in most places.

[hyphenate]

30. You remind me of a funny story

in my life. When I was still in California, and my great nephew was about 5, one day I was driving with him in the passenger's seat, and my common word for bad drivers was "moron." So this one day, my great nephew who is REALLY bright, asked me about the word "moron" so I told him I used it when other drivers did something stupid. I told him that "moron" was not exactly a bad word, but it meant someone who was totally stupid. I explained I only used it to describe other drivers, and not under other circumstances. Well, when we got home, he proudly told his mom about the new word he learned, and to this day, he describes other drivers as morons. I was "so" pround to contribute to his vocabulary!

[liontamer]

31. how cute

I wish I'd picked up that habit instead.

[querelle]

28. Depends On The Situation & Place

At work, never. I work in the Canadian diplomatic corps and it is a very conservative environment. Professionalism is stressed to the max and excessive swearing could be a real career killer.

At home and with friends, yeah I swear but not really that much. I'm a pretty easy going and laid back person so theres not much that gets me really angry or frustrated. Swearing just for the sake of swearing is not my style either. But you know, it doesn't bother me to hear it in movies or stand up routines. It's just part of our culture now.

Q

[reyd reid reed]

33. I don't swear much at all

Unless I drop a frozen rump roast on my foot or step on a Lego or a matchbox car at 3 a.m....then I might mumble something a bit colorful under my breath but swear?

Nah.

[Mutley]

34. I like to swear quite a bit.

I try to control myself in certain company, though. Or in public.

[Skittles]

35. I cuss like a f***ing sailor

and I don't give a f*** who is offended by it

[njdemocrat106]

36. I cuss more on the Internets than in real life

You probably don't want to be in the car with me if I end up behind a Bush/Cheney or W'04 stickered car, though.

[AutumnMist]

37. Depends On How Tired I Am

The dirty mouth syndrome seems to be measured in degrees of lack of sleep. On good days? Not so much. On really tired days? I would be in confession for a month if I was catholic. :)

[XemaSab]

38. My speech is a MINEFIELD of big and little bombs

:shrug:

[XemaSab]

39. Or using "the lingo"

There is a great deal of UXO present in my speech.

[halobeam]

40. OMG.. my husband read this thread and had a few laughs.....

I know he could relate. I have a TERRIBLE mouth. Every other word is "not good" lol... I don't know what it is, I am sure habit has a lot to do with it. Once I heard my young one take on colorful language, I was mortified. It was really all my fault. How could I not feel like a hypocrite telling him not to swear? I tried the old saying, I'm an adult, and although it's still ugly words to say, I'm allowed to say it, and you aren't. But that was so bogus, I knew it, and so did my kid. LOL.

I have tried lately not to curse for a whole day, and an hour later, I've forgotten the whole thing, until later that night. That's happened a couple of times this past week. The heat maybe? Yeah right. I don't think so.

I'm originally from Queens, with that OBVIOUS accent, I'm dramatic and creative and it just flows out. Yep...just another excuse. I'm running out of them.

Okay... just a nasty habit then I guess. Isn't very lady like either. But sometimes, the words, just FIT Sooooooo PERFECTLY, I can't resist. A little rebellious of what I'm "supposed" to do/be like? maybe. I've never been fond of "conforming".

I'm still going to try to cut it down a bit, at least save it for those "perfect" moments. Then I may actually be able to address my child's foul mouth, and have a leg to stand on.

Oh the responsibilities.

[pscot]

41. I never swear, but my parrot

has a vocabulary like a longshoreman. I think he must be picking it up from the dogs.

[Robb]

42. I have personally returned "cocksucker" to the household lexicon

There's just nothing better to yell when you hit yourself with a hammer and such. ;)

[NewWaveChick1981]

45. You must watch "Deadwood" a lot.

:P "Cocksucker" has made a return to our household as well. :rofl:

[wildhorses]

43. wtf....

:wtf::shrug::blush::shrug::wtf:

[tjwmason]

44. I don't swear much at all.

I used to horrifically when I was at school, but it's pretty much vanished since then.

[China_cat]

46. Between attending a Catholic girls'

boarding school and running away with a carnival...what do you think my language sounds like?

[auntAgonist]

47. I seldom swear at all .. but ..

yikes you should hear my husband. :rofl: actually, you're not likely to hear him swear in public he saves it for home and at the shop :)


:hi: Hyphenate :hug:

aA

PS: glad to have you aboard! ! :grouphug:

[martymar64]

48. I swear ALOT!!! (spawn of a sailor)

I swear pretty much all the time, mostly for emphasis.
I can turn it off at will, I deal with alot of executive and political big shots in my job so my ass kissing is very well honed too.
I've been watching and listening to British comedians lately (Eddie Izzard, Billy Connolly)so I've been picking up some great swears from across the pond. My personal favorites are bollocks, fuck-all, and big fuck-off (insert noun). I like to use "hot shit" alot too.
I even curse in front of the ladies. In fact, a well placed F-bomb has led me to get lucky on more than one occasion. I think its because I'm not afraid to be offensive that it works.

[1gobluedem]

49. I don't swear

Never have.

[skygazer]

50. It depends on where I am and who I'm with

My parents hardly swore at all when I was growing up (worst I ever heard were "hell" and "damn" - I never heard the dreaded f-word until I was in about fifth grade and I was shocked and figured the kid who'd uttered it was going to hell).

But I've worked some rough jobs outdoors and picked up casual swearing there. So in the presence of those I'm comfortable with, I have a bit of a potty mouth. Unless I know it makes my companion(s) uncomfortable, then I keep it down to a dull roar.

But don't piss me off!