Posted on 11/02/2022 11:32:35 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Me either. How else is there to express oneself appropriately in this country?
DU is jammed pack with healthy people!
Otherwise, there’s something wrong with people who never swear.
Almost as much wrong as people who swear all the time.
When I gave up smoking, I lived in a house on an acre surrounded by woods. Every time I wanted a cigarette, I went outside so I wouldn’t scare the pets and shouted every filthy swearword I knew. It worked.
Veto!
(Highly educated female)
Actually, I put my heart and soul into it! Hard work. I learned how growing up on the south side of Chicago. Excellent “instructors”. Also, hanging out with black guys further enriched the learning experience!😎
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The f#ck?
Check Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, any of the Victorian era authors. I’m a fan of Henry Miller’s works.😀
Jerry Seinfeld says if you have to curse in your act you haven’t fully developed the joke.
I try to avoid blaspheming. I void, I mean AVOID, those who blaspheme often, though I will let a certain amount of it go in a stressful situation.
Cussing is okay, if it’s not too predictable and/or tiresome. As always, however, it’s the owner of the establishment’s rules. And I’m seldom the owner of the establishment.
I am, like almost every normal person, completely against people swearing when they know that there are kids or old folks, or religious folks, around. I still have guilt attacks about the times when I TRIED to offend innocent people who were just out for a family-friendly good time. I am not being sarcastic - one time when I was very young and performing at Catholic “guitar mass” me and my friend did “Jesus Joy of Man’s Desiring” for Xmas and afterwards I said, “I don’t believe in Jesus” or some sh*t like that AT MASS. A couple of people expressed that they were upset by it - good for them!
If kids swear, you should gently correct them but then also tell them that if they’re imitating adults, no harm no foul, just don’t do it again.
Jesus: It’s good of you to mention guilt.
Me: Well, I do feel guilty. Not kidding.
JC: Will you say that again? I didn’t have the recorder turned on.
Black guys have great insults AND great compliments. Although I hate to say that. #IDinduNuffin
True. That’s why I explore and expand my capabilities in British, Australian and other non-English “colorful” language. 😎
Damn right
On the other hand, the likes of George Carlin, Andrew Dice Clay, etc are faves!
I don’t use them all the time....but there are times when a good string of vile curses is most definitely called for.
When you hit your thumb with a hammer “oh gee, darn” just ain’t gonna cut it.
From Dictionary.com:
It’s probably safe to assume that as long as humans have been speaking, we’ve been cussing and cursing. What can the connection between “curse,” “swear,” “cuss” and “profanity” tell us about all the words we aren’t supposed to say, yet say with great frequency?Cursing vs. cussing
Placing a curse obviously isn’t the same as uttering curse words, but both concepts start with the Christian Church. Originally, the sense of curse as “the expression of a wish that misfortune, evil, doom, etc., befall a person, group, etc.” wasn’t so different from using profanity, which in an early sense is speech directed against God. In earlier times, a word against a God could be seen as a wish of misfortune on others, and perhaps wishing harm on other people could be seen as belittling the faith in the divine.Cuss is simply an American alteration of curse, and its meaning “to say bad words” was first recorded in 1815.
Swearing
How does swear come to simultaneously mean “to bind oneself by oath,” and “to use profane oaths or language”? The earliest swear words were identical to curse words — taking the Christian God’s name in vain, or speaking of acts that were considered sinful.While there is a general consensus about what some adult words are — such as the f-bomb dropped by the U2 singer — others are up for debate. One of the judges in the FCC ruling addressed this point, writing that some expressions, such as “pissed off” or “kiss my a**,” were not universally agreed-upon profanities. A good rule of thumb: if you’re not sure if a word is an expletive, look it up in a dictionary (or on a dictionary Web site.)
Absolutely correct.
I subscribe to the belief that any drunken sailor can weave a tapestry of profanity, so thick with obscenity as to pollute the air, after a morning rain.
However, it takes an intellectual to express the thoughts, the expressions and the nature of reality, in a way such that an average person can easily understand and grasp the nature of not only the primary idea, but the nuances that surround each thought. Any Junior High School dropout can swear, and many High School graduates cannot complete a grammatically correct sentence. Lowering the bar, truly provides no service to mankind.
May I suggest that George Carlin, could have performed his routine without profanity; but instead chose to “opt in”? His routines would have been just as funny, without it.
Carlin, chose his routine to appeal to his audience; and this was part of his genius. But, he made a choice. I think a great deal of modern “comedians” have no choice - but to go for the “shock value” of unfunny material, presented in a vulgar manner. They simply are not funny.
I find myself using foul language more and more lately, usually when I see Biden and Co. on TV…
Lot of younger people and liberals throw around swear words trying to sound tough or disrespectful. Totally phony...doesn’t even begin to match the heartfelt and passionate sincerity if uttered by a drill sergeant, men in combat, plumbers, tradesmen, angry wives, football players, etc.
It’s certainly not what my Bible says.
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