Do You Use Profanity?

[Tattila the Hun]

Only if I break a leg or some such.

[SpencerH]

One or two swear words have been known to slip passed my lips but, given that my mother is bog-poor Irish, I assume it's part of my cultural heritage.

[Murg]

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

I dont know how brilliant this is. He says that people he knows that swear have the best vocabularies and people he knows that don't swear have the worst vocabularies. And he says that people who dont swear are f***ing lunatics. Stephan Fry is funny (sometimes) but neither argument is particuarly convincing.

[Japher]

I have kids, so no.

Before kids, yes.

[Arrian]

Abso****inglutely.

-Arrian

[MikeH]

I dont know how brilliant this is. He says that people he knows that swear have the best vocabularies and people he knows that don't swear have the worst vocabularies. And he says that people who dont swear are f***ing lunatics. Stephan Fry is funny (sometimes) but neither argument is particuarly convincing.

It was the use of swearing in the clips I thought was brilliant (it's a while since I've watched this though...)

[Kitschum]

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

OUT of the box??

[Alinestra Covelia]

I say "bollocks" a lot, but that's because it's not widely recognized as a body part in the States. "Arse" for when I'm feeling annoyed.

Recently I have caught myself saying "boobs" every so often. I don't know why. Usually it's when something good happens, like if the guy in front of me at the drive through decides to leave and go elsewhere. Sometimes I'll just say "boobs" if I've finished one task and need to go onto the next. Sort of like "right, then".

...

I'm not sure this is normal and I'm uncertain how it started. It might be a roommate thing.

[Kitschum]

That sounds very pretentious, Alinestra

[Docfeelgood]

Do I use profanity?

Every fvcking day!

[Sprayber]

Interesting replies.

A few months ago I was was hanging out with the kids and they were doing something and I told them that they should stop or that would make mom very unhappy and we all know what happens when mom is unhappy (thinking they would say when mom is unhappy everyone will be unhappy) but the immediate reply of my son was Yeah she says the S word.

[duke o' york]

I stole ****socks from B3ta, and use it regularly, but entirely apart from that I swear a lot. I'm Biffa Bacon's long-lost taller, middle-class brother.

Obviously my middle-classiality dictates in front of whom I swear, so my gran is safe, but fortunately I work in a potty-mouthed office so it's all good. Well, not all - some swearwords are more acceptable than others. Curiously the milder words for the male pointy bit are more acceptable than those for the lady parts. But equality will come one day, as long as I keep saying it enough!

[Alinestra Covelia]

That sounds very pretentious, Alinestra

Yeah, that's what eleven years in England will do to a Yankee gal.

[C0ckney]

all the time. i often forget how offensive some people find some words. for example the boys and i say c*nt about and to each other in every other sentence, but with other people, you can see them wince when that word is used.

[Alinestra Covelia]

I've heard that in Australia and Scotland, that word is not nearly as offensive as elsewhere.

Still not a word you'd use in polite company, but calling somebody that isn't going to cause a fistfight, which is very likely in America (say).