Dizzying excess of vulgarity -- C or D?

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So, yeah, I think this place has unleashed my inner vulgarian. After the rush of posting nasty and disgusting things in the shweet anonymity of cyberspace, I've found myself saying appalling and conversation-stopping things at work and to my boyfriend. Part of me feels like I'm being liberated and empowered, that a part of my creative spirit has been freed and that great achievements are sure to follow. Another part of me feels like I'm paving the way to complete social ostracization, a path which ends with me having long, brittle, dirty gray hair, walking up and down the streets of Uptown New Orleans carrying shopping bags filled with yarn barking "FUCK! SHIT! PISS!" at little children until somebody comes along and locks me up.

How vulgar are y'all in your real lives?

― jewelly (jewelly), Sunday, 6 July 2003 18:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm ambivulgarous. I can't vary between being As Vulgar As U Wanna Be to being Ralph Reed, Jr. I much prefer the former.

― donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 6 July 2003 18:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

It's all that air conditioning, it's messin' with yer BRAIN

*runs, hides*

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Sunday, 6 July 2003 18:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

True, J0hn. Especially since i meant to type "can" instead of "can't".. grrr

― donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 6 July 2003 19:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm sort of mixed, because I don't think my "vulgarity" level varies much with context. I say "gosh" and "golly" a lot, but I'll also say "I don't think Locke's completely full of shit, but..." in class. I don't really notice. It doesn't occur to me to adjust my vocabulary, I guess.

― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 6 July 2003 19:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

I prob swear too much. I think it is some unconscious attempt to overcompensate for often seeming standoffish. Eh, whatever.

― daria g (daria g), Sunday, 6 July 2003 20:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

I can be vulgar at times - usually has something to do with hormone levels and alcohol levels. But I do know that I catch people off balance with my willingness to discuss all things sexual. I don't see that as being vulgar, though - more like I enjoy A) letting people know that thye're not going to shock me and so they can be open and B) shocking people myself - along with the additional titillation value.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Sunday, 6 July 2003 22:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

i've been told on multiple occassions that i have tourette's

the most obvious example being that i was at a party sitting around a table (when my old roommate tells this story, he swears it was with a bunch of girls i didn't know, but i think it was just with close friends) and one of my friends asked me where i was from. i said, "my mom's pussy". i am forever tainted with that story on my record

― JasonD (JasonD), Sunday, 6 July 2003 22:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

heh, she said titilation

― JasonD (JasonD), Sunday, 6 July 2003 22:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

heh, he said tainted

― oops (Oops), Sunday, 6 July 2003 22:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

Tainted?

I'd be proud of that story, man. Telling to my grandkids and stuff.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 7 July 2003 01:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

Cunt.

Heh, I said cunt.

― jewelly (jewelly), Monday, 7 July 2003 01:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

No, you *typed* cunt. There is a difference you know.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Monday, 7 July 2003 03:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

I speak everything aloud as I type. Which is why I'll never be a secretary.

― jewelly (jewelly), Monday, 7 July 2003 03:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

*laughing* Damn - I just went to the "Shout for the Moderator" thread and asked for that post to be removed - I forgot that I was on this thread and not the "Stop the Conversation" one. But so long as you're not fuming at me, then I'll go and retract my request for post removal. (Er, did any of that make sense? I am typing while gargling, which is more difficult than one might think. Trust me.)

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Monday, 7 July 2003 03:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

I swear *constantly* in real life, much more than I do on ILx, which is a lot to begin with.

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 7 July 2003 03:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

But do you use more, well, offensive words on ILX or verbally? I tend to swear more vulgarly than I type.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Monday, 7 July 2003 03:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

I dislike not swearing in front of my students.

― Josh (Josh), Monday, 7 July 2003 04:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

totally depends on context. like, if I'm annoyed or super-excited on ILx I'll use "fucking" in the middle of just about every sentence. I'm just as prone to do it IRL; the difference is that about half the time I see what I'm doing as I type and delete it before I hit "submit." also, when I'm stuck for words and frustrated by it there's usually a series of abrupt "Fuck"s and "Shits" and whatnot. so IRL beats ILx.

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 7 July 2003 04:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hmmm...how old are your students, Josh? I personally always like swearing in class, to add emphasis and get attention - selective swearing, though. And only with college students. And only with those I know and like. Wow. I guess that I've restricted me speech, too.

Matos - my favorite mantra is "fuck fuck fuck fuck"....chanted to various themes. One of my last cubicle-mates (we shared a wall) was a middled-aged, fairly repressed Catholic woman - I used to horrify her and I'd hear her praying for me when I'd start my under my breath chanting.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Monday, 7 July 2003 04:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

one night when I was working for I think the second time at an old nightclub job the show let out for the dance night and no one would tell me what to do. I walked around muttering "fuckfuckfuckfuckfuck" for an hour out of sheer frustration; later some coworkers told me they'd been impressed with my sheer pissed-offedness. (it was that kinda job.)

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 7 July 2003 04:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

*laughing* What an interesting compliment, Matos - I think it says excellent things about your character.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Monday, 7 July 2003 04:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

undergraduates, laura. somehow it seems difficult to work the swearing in when we're talking about kant. or logic.

― Josh (Josh), Monday, 7 July 2003 07:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

instead of QED yell "fuck-E-D" !!

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 7 July 2003 08:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"You utter Kant!"

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 7 July 2003 12:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

I swear a lot more when I speak than I do when I write, even on ilx. It always seems to come off as a lot more gratuitous in print.

― Nicole (Nicole), Monday, 7 July 2003 13:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

Anyone remember this gem? Taking Sides: Pasties vs Pasties

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 7 July 2003 13:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

Perv.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 7 July 2003 13:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

Did you even look at the post I linked, Mr Snap Judgement Poo-Poo Pants?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 7 July 2003 13:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

Why do you think I said what I did? Now hush. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 7 July 2003 14:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

The thing that really cracks me up is that I made that post mere hours before I turned 30. MATURITY NEVAH!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 7 July 2003 14:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ah so that's where I lifted the word "cuntymints" from. Thank god that mystery is solved.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 7 July 2003 15:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

I don't swear much I think, or at least if I do, I'm really aware of it.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 7 July 2003 17:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

I've just started swearing more often, kind of a reckless "oh why not" thing (I almost stopped for awhile to avoid offending a friend), and I keep almost slipping up in front of family. I don't think I swear so much online.

― Maria (Maria), Monday, 7 July 2003 18:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

i started calling everyone a COCKSUCKER! while i was driving. the lil' lady didn't appreciate it until she started using the word too.

when that happened, i knew it wasn't a shocker anymore, so i started calling everyone CUNTS!

― JasonD (JasonD), Monday, 7 July 2003 18:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

We have a divisional meeting at work tomorrow. On the agenda is 'behaviour at work', and we've been speculating what is going on. One theory is swearing, which is a weird thing to worry about given hardly anyone does it at all, and no one does it much, and there are never any children anywhere around. We'll see.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 7 July 2003 19:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

I swear all the time, just about anywhere. Never in front of old women, however.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 7 July 2003 19:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

I never swear at all for no particular reason, at least in English, you gaijin.

*shines up halo*

You don't know what I'm muttering under breath, huh you wan bah dangs?

― Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 06:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

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