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We just started a swear jar at work.
We are going to use all proceeds to BUY FOOD.

Have you had positive swear jar experiences?

ian, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 18:59 (eighteen years ago)

good for getting everybody you work with to start saying "EFFIN" all the time

El Tomboto, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:01 (eighteen years ago)

haha, can't wait.

ian, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:02 (eighteen years ago)

also can't wait for INEVITABLE PIZZA & WINGS PARTY

ian, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:02 (eighteen years ago)

what food will you buy

Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:03 (eighteen years ago)

nice!

Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:03 (eighteen years ago)

Can you still say "blood diamonds"? I think last time I was there Sniper might have blood diamondsed me.

Laurel, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:04 (eighteen years ago)

BLOOD DIAMONDS IS NOT A SWEAR.

ian, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:04 (eighteen years ago)

seriously though once the worst offenders in the office have to cough up $1.50 or so that well dries up effin quick

El Tomboto, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:04 (eighteen years ago)

Blood/y is a swear in some places! Just checkin'.

Laurel, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:05 (eighteen years ago)

most common work swear targets:
microsoft outlook
that buggy old database
drawer that falls out of my desk
unused keyboard tray under desk that i hit my knee on all the time

bell_labs, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:06 (eighteen years ago)

i curse at people

Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:06 (eighteen years ago)

how much per swear word? does the cost depend on the vulgarity of the word? $1 for cunt, $0.50 for cooter, perhaps?

Lingbert, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:07 (eighteen years ago)

it's like those experiments with animals and electrified floors, powerful and timely negative feedback applied consistently encourages rapid behavior modification

El Tomboto, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:07 (eighteen years ago)

i don't curse at people because i have MANNERS

bell_labs, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:07 (eighteen years ago)

only up to a quarter per violation with the exact denomination being determined by witnesses at the time of violation.

ian, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:08 (eighteen years ago)

we curse at everything o_o

ian, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:08 (eighteen years ago)

Tombot, you are expecting an awful lot from record store employees.

Laurel, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:08 (eighteen years ago)

common swear targets at work: having to do fuckin' work, 24-hour news channels we have to keep on all fuckin' day, fuckin' system outages, fuckin' morons

El Tomboto, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:09 (eighteen years ago)

fuck all this shit

El Tomboto, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:09 (eighteen years ago)

i wish i had tv at work

Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:09 (eighteen years ago)

fuck you

El Tomboto, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:09 (eighteen years ago)

you got fuckin iTunes and an iMac

El Tomboto, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:10 (eighteen years ago)

what about the fucking cold air???

Mr. Que, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:10 (eighteen years ago)

don't you have to wear fucking fingerless fucking gloves??

Mr. Que, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:11 (eighteen years ago)

I forgot up above about the fucking vent over my head that blasts freezing air every five to ten minutes forcing us all to wear like three fucking layers in this fucking hole

haha xxpost Que on point

El Tomboto, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:11 (eighteen years ago)

sometimes my boss is like blahdy blah do some work and i'm like "FUCK YOU PAY ME"

bell_labs, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:11 (eighteen years ago)

blood diamonds is so not a swear! blood claat/clot, maybe.

lauren, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:12 (eighteen years ago)

COLLEGE STUDENTS STEALING PARMALAT

Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:12 (eighteen years ago)

blood diamonds could never be used in a pejorative fashion, i don't think

Mr. Que, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:12 (eighteen years ago)

blood diamonds is haemorrhoids, innit?

StanM, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:13 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNLWAYU7tAs

i hope you all start talking like this ^^^

elmo argonaut, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:13 (eighteen years ago)

blood diamonds is haemorrhoids, innit?

-- StanM, Wednesday, November 28, 2007 7:13 PM (24 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

BAN^

Mr. Que, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:13 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.orvis.com/orvis_assets/prodimg/373QBWblack.jpg

Fuckin' A right

El Tomboto, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:13 (eighteen years ago)

How much to say "BOXCAR!"?

j.lu, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:14 (eighteen years ago)

xxxp you shut your goddamn mouth if you're gonna talk that way about blood diamonds it is a righteous term used by righteous people for righteous purposes

pretzel walrus, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:14 (eighteen years ago)

no no elmo like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3mw49mk_x0

El Tomboto, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:14 (eighteen years ago)

maybe if you say blood diamonds without appending "bro" you should have to put money in

El Tomboto, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:15 (eighteen years ago)

my boss says fuck occasionally but i know if i start swearing at work that it'll escalate into uncomfortableness or whatever. tho i feel like if any dept gets to swear it should be marketing. cause yknow swearing is hip right.
i will stick with EFF THIS SHEEZ etc

rrrobyn, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:15 (eighteen years ago)

every attempt to institute a swear jar at my office has failed miserably

elmo argonaut, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:16 (eighteen years ago)

Ian: HEY FUCK YOU IN THE ASS AND GO TO TELL YOU SMART-MOUTHED LITTLE CUNT
GOTT TOEELL :_:
he;; ;_:
HELLLLLL

^ian i am going through gchat records and you owe me about a millions dollars

bell_labs, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:16 (eighteen years ago)

:D

bell_labs, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:17 (eighteen years ago)

Oooh that's going to come in handy.

Laurel, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:17 (eighteen years ago)

gchat paypal swear jar

Mr. Que, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:17 (eighteen years ago)

trying to really implement a swear jar at any of my last three or four jobs would be so laughable. I mean these people are like 80% veterans, most of us talk like that "blacker than black and I'm black y'all" bit in CB4 except replace "black" with "fuck" and "I'm" with "shit"

El Tomboto, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:17 (eighteen years ago)

fucker than fuck and shit fuck y'all

Mr. Que, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:18 (eighteen years ago)

that was obviously like one of my better moments. o_o

ian, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:18 (eighteen years ago)

fuckin' morons

90% of complaints at any job

jhøshea, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:19 (eighteen years ago)

fuck fuck a-fuck a fuck a fuck fuckity fuck and shit fuck, cause shit fucker than fuck

El Tomboto, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:20 (eighteen years ago)

fucker than fuck and shit fuck y'all

lool

jhøshea, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:20 (eighteen years ago)

no one swears at my work :(

Jordan, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:21 (eighteen years ago)

fuck that!

El Tomboto, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:21 (eighteen years ago)

that was obviously like one of my better moments. o_o

-- ian, Wednesday, November 28, 2007 7:18 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

to be fair i had just called you a "zionist whore"

bell_labs, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:22 (eighteen years ago)

lol searching "fuck" in gmail

bell_labs, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:23 (eighteen years ago)

newsroom people swear a fuckin lot and I'm no exception (tho there are people in my office who are way worse)

earlier this year they moved the news desk up onto the same floor with all the marketing / ad / HR people, sometimes I sort of wonder how appalled they are ... or maybe they don't care ...

dmr, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:24 (eighteen years ago)

fuck 'em.

ian, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:25 (eighteen years ago)

it does tend to follow that parts of an organization on the point of the spear are much more predisposed to cursing all the time than support staff types

El Tomboto, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:26 (eighteen years ago)

tru xpost

tombot also tru

dmr, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:26 (eighteen years ago)

"shut your slimehole, you fucked-up greasy cunt"

^^^ what would be the swear jar value of this utterance?

i am evaluating market conditions.

elmo argonaut, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:27 (eighteen years ago)

2 bucks

Mr. Que, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:28 (eighteen years ago)

that's what we call "fuck you" money

El Tomboto, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:28 (eighteen years ago)

I always have to turn off my swears when talking to my family, and I end up saying very...uh...LJ-ish things? Phrases that aren't often spoken

"What a bunch of shit" ---> "that's horribly rotten."
"Fuck that" ---> "I really don't appreciate that." "That is totally foolish," etc

Abbott, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:47 (eighteen years ago)

lol "that's horribly rotten"
do you say it with a tone of voice like you know it sounds kind of silly, or do you say it with the same tone you'd say "what a bunch of shit" or whatever?

Lingbert, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:50 (eighteen years ago)

abbott, time to employ phillippe's kid cusses

"awww, peanutbeans!"

elmo argonaut, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 19:51 (eighteen years ago)

i wish i had tv at work

-- Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, November 28, 2007 1:09 PM (Wednesday, November 28, 2007 1:09 PM) Bookmark Link

at my last gvt. job they installed tv tuner cards in all our workstations. due to lack of national emergencies they were mostly used to watch the cubs.

chicago kevin, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 20:00 (eighteen years ago)

hahaha I <4 (more than <3) Phillipe's kid cusses & Fig You Friday

I say it w/the normal rage of a swear, like instead of "WHAT THE FUCK" it would be, "THIS IS SO LOUSY!"

Abbott, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 20:02 (eighteen years ago)

You guys should use the swear jar for funds to give people 25 cents every time they do the DOUBLE DEUCE, bcz the DOUBLE DEUCE is immortally rad.

Abbott, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

Like people talk at all at this job.

jaymc, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 20:04 (eighteen years ago)

so, yeah, this would make me broke for sure

John Justen, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 20:06 (eighteen years ago)

I refuse to give my bus fare to any linguistic hegemony! I know when to turn my swears off! This is not heresy, and I will not give a fuck!

Abbott, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

What do you look like giving the DOUBLE DEUCE?

Abbott, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 20:10 (eighteen years ago)

six years pass...

oh, cazzo

http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2014/mar/03/pope-francis-swears-vatican-blessing-video

images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 17:04 (eleven years ago)


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