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The Banality of the F-Bomb: Once taboo, the word has become an unfortunate national habit
National Review ^ | 05/09/2019 | By HEATHER WILHELM

Posted on 05/09/2019 11:19:59 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 05/09/2019 11:19:59 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Forking “f” bomb.


2 posted on 05/09/2019 11:23:11 AM PDT by onedoug
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As Bob Knight said, the most expressive word in the English language. https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=bob+knight+f+word&docid=608002497004635322&mid=6E55F2FC1344B955BF576E55F2FC1344B955BF57&view=detail&FORM=VIRE


3 posted on 05/09/2019 11:24:30 AM PDT by cdga5for4
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4 posted on 05/09/2019 11:26:00 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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The Irish defanged the ‘f’’ word by removing the ‘’u’’ and replacing it with ‘’e’’. “Feck’’.


5 posted on 05/09/2019 11:30:25 AM PDT by jmacusa ("The more numerous the laws the more corrupt the government''.)
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It was everyday language in the Army when around other soldiers, not acceptable among the officer corps in more formal settings. Having said that, I still consider a woman just short of a street walker when I hear her use the word. Men who use it are considered very low on the social ladder, in my mind. In other words, not acceptable in polite company.


6 posted on 05/09/2019 11:31:07 AM PDT by Midwesterner53
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The F-word is of the left.

The more you use it, the bigger the hold the left has on you.

7 posted on 05/09/2019 11:31:27 AM PDT by donna (Oh Boy! What will President Trump say today?)
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We just have substituted a different set of unacceptable words. A TV personality can get away with saying the “F word” on air, but his career is over if he says the “N word”.


8 posted on 05/09/2019 11:32:11 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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One reason (out of many) American women are so trashy.


9 posted on 05/09/2019 11:32:12 AM PDT by kaehurowing
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Millenials use the F word as much as Hillary says uh, or you know.


10 posted on 05/09/2019 11:32:35 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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Was recently out to dinner with 4-5 guys at a business function last night, they were out of control had been drinking since noon. If there was a sentence without the Fword I did not hear it all evening.


11 posted on 05/09/2019 11:33:04 AM PDT by Jolla
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One reason (out of many) American women are so trashy.

I like my women just a little on the trashy side.

12 posted on 05/09/2019 11:34:00 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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No, the unfortunate thing is that its applicable to more and more people living in this country today.


13 posted on 05/09/2019 11:34:47 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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It’s the only word that’s a noun, pro-noun, verb, adverb, adjective and exclamation! Rather sad Ralphie gets his mouth washed out and we use it as an exclamation point in everything


14 posted on 05/09/2019 11:35:22 AM PDT by Bommer (Help 2ndDivisionVet - https://www.gofundme.com/mvc.php?route=category&term=married-recent-amputeca)
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Maybe Alec Baldwin can help them.

Glen and Gary and Glen and Ross (Language)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QipAqdomO3I


15 posted on 05/09/2019 11:35:37 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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The most versatile word in the English language.


16 posted on 05/09/2019 11:35:42 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (Sharia law, which in itself is antithetical to the United States Constitution - Judge Jeanie Pirro)
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A half-century ago, when I was on a crew surveying soon-to-be Highway 16 out in the middle of the wilderness, a stubborn gas-powered generator could not be started.

Our laconic mechanic, after half an hour of silent greasy fumbling and cord-pulling stood back and announced,”The ****ing ****er’s ****ed!”

‘Nuff said!


17 posted on 05/09/2019 11:35:43 AM PDT by headsonpikes (Mass murder and cannibalism are the twin sacraments of socialism - "Who-whom?"-Lenin)
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18 posted on 05/09/2019 11:38:00 AM PDT by sauropod (Yield to sin, and experience chastening and sorrow; yield to God, and experience joy and blessing.)
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Patrick: Oh, hey! I think I know what that means. That’s one of those ‘sentence enhancers’.

SpongeBob: Sentence enhancers?

Patrick: You use them when you want to talk fancy. You just sprinkle it over anything you say, and Wham-O! You’ve got yourself a spicy sentence sandwich!


19 posted on 05/09/2019 11:38:00 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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If you drop F Bombs casually, what will you say when you are really, really riled up? More F Bombs? Or will you start getting physically aggressive? There need to be some words that are saved for last, as it were. For the sake of civil order and safety.


20 posted on 05/09/2019 11:39:44 AM PDT by married21 ( As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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