Do You Use Profanity?

[Sava]

It's apples and oranges. Swearing is an emotional expression, not an intellectual expression. If you spend a lot of time around dumbass hicks who swear like sailors, your experience will bias you.

[MrFun]

When I was in the military, I amazed myself with how many times I could insert Fvck into a sentence. As profane as I could become, I never used it around my mother and rarely around my wife. When I suddenly found myself living in the same household with young children, I tried really hard to moderate my language. That proves difficult when we are driving someone

On the few occasions that I have used profanity in front of the kids I have noticed the impact it has.

Do you have a potty mouth?

**** this ****ing lame thread.

[Kitschum]

My girlfriend doesn't like it, especially sexual words. It feels so stupid to substitute swear words you're used to with lamer versions so I try to sneak em past her every now and then and when I'm on my own I go nuts with the ****s and the ****s and well mostly that.

[SlowwHand]

I can tell that you're a rebel.

[zakubandit]

Well ass **** a whore and **** in a bucket cause that **** is a ***** ass *****

I was hoping for more *s

[SlowwHand]

No, you can say bucket.

[Sava]

My girlfriend doesn't like it, especially sexual words. It feels so stupid to substitute swear words you're used to with lamer versions so I try to sneak em past her every now and then and when I'm on my own I go nuts with the ****s and the ****s and well mostly that.

Does she at least take your dick out of the box and let you play with it when she's gone?

[zakubandit]

Does she at least take your dick out of the box and let you play with it when she's gone?

nice burn.

[MikeH]

Stephen Fry brilliantly demolishing the concept that swearing shows someone to be uneducated or lacking in vocabulary.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_osQvkeNRM

[MikeH]

And yes, that is what House really sounds like.

[Zkribbler]

I used to a lot. I've worked hard to cut it out. But sometimes I slip if I'm tired or really frustrated.

Not swearing causes you to be more creative with your speech. "Those vermin" is a good one. "Nose-sucking piece of manure!" is another.

I referred once to managment as "bastards," and one of my co-workers asked me not to use that word anymore. He is illegitimate, and when he was little, his mother used to scream that word at him when she was angry. Why do we use "bastard" as a perjorative anyway? It's not the kid's fault.

[MikeH]

It used to be a big deal.

[Dinner]

Yes.

[Dis]

one word I'd like to stop using is sucks. I dislike that word for a couple reasons. One is it sounds unintelligent, like I have no better word to use in its place. And 2, sucking isn't exactly a bad thing. Guys like things that suck- preferribly female.

So help me find a new word to replace sucks. The thing with sucks, is it does fit many situations. Lately I've been trying to use horrible in its place. But sometimes it doesn't fit.

[Zkribbler]

If it just mildly sucks, it stinks.
If it sucks big time, then it's just awful, just plain awful.