How often do you use swear words?

It doesn't help curb the swears to work at a place where you are free to swear and everyone asserts this privilege constantly.

Is there a lower category than G? That's where I would be.

I am in all sincerity not proud of the fact that the answer is way, way too much.

i've been swearing a lot less since moving into an apartment across a courtyard from a guy who can't utter one sentence without the words "motherfucker," "bitch," "puta madre," etc.

i received a talking to the other day about by foul language around the office.

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Bahaha get bent there are these kids that sing "chinga tu madre!" in the park across the street to the tune of the Woody Woodpecker song, and I have some self-diagnosed mild echolalia so I repeat that a lot, to myself, when I hear them.

R or NC-17 previous to school. ppl here are much more, uh, polite. lol minnesota

Are you at the Mayonnaise clinic gbx?

I'm really trying to cut back, especially on the f-bomb. Just too coarse.

nah, Univ o'MN

Me too, Susan...I have taken back to Mormon high school swears such s flip, frig, freaking, and fudge.

Bahaha get bent there are these kids that sing "chinga tu madre!" in the park across the street to the tune of the Woody Woodpecker song, and I have some self-diagnosed mild echolalia so I repeat that a lot, to myself, when I hear them.

Now I've worked out what this would sound like, I'm going to have trouble not saying it out loud. Don't know how well it's going to go over in England.

I think I'm PG, except when I'm on ilx. Fuck.

Do a lot of Englanders know 'chinga' and other Mexican swears?

same here re chinga tu madre. (xpost)

You can do it in English, too: "Go fuck your mothER, go fuck your mothER!"

Now I have that song in my head!!!

englanders are a bunch of pendejos!

and maricons!

Haven't cursed yet today!

Do a lot of Englanders know 'chinga' and other Mexican swears?

Any reason why they should?

Well I didn't know. I had to look it up. And now I've actually looked up what "chinga tu madre" means, I'm doubly sure I'm going to keep on repeating it.

"culero" is my personal favorite

http://filebox.vt.edu/users/mhanratt/fuck_you.gif

I have taken back to Mormon high school swears such s flip, frig, freaking, and fudge.

I remember getting a talking-to for using "freaking", actually. We were allowed rats, drat, darn, and gosh. Oh, and spit. And, strangely enough, "bloody", because even though it's blasphemous, no one knows that in the US.

yeah, i've started saying "effin'" and "oh eff!"

It's situational! I try not to swear because it's lazy.

But there are some circumstances when only swearing will do and then it all comes out in a verbal cascade.

I think maybe pg13, I swear at the dog a lot. I don't type swear words out very often though.

A woman at work was saying 'bloody', and claiming it's not a swear word, but I told her it probably refers to the blood of Christ.

I've found myself using "ish" often for "shit". Picked up from brother and sister-in-law who have kids.

hmm....I honestly have no fuckin' clue.

If "Jesus Christ" or "Jeez" or "God" or "Gawd" count, I'm Henrietta Swearycat.

i dont know what rating id have but you'd probably see this a lot:

http://www.doobybrain.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/spaghetti-cat.jpg

there's no "al swearingen" option?

I'd say R with occasional dips into NC-17. hopefully it's not the other way around.

I drive a school bus. I only swear at other drivers when I am alone.

Fun Fact: The MPAA is more tolerant of the word "FUCK" when it's used in a non-sexual context. The difference between "You broke my fucking nose!" and "Are you fucking my wife?" is the difference between a "PG-13" and an "R" rating.

Do you swear a lot?

maximal sweariness, though I've had phases of avoiding it altogether. I think swearing is generally funny and, liking to be funny, I encourage and participate in it. But when it's not funny, e.g. when it's angry without irony, then it's best avoided.

Fun Fact: The MPAA is more tolerant of the word "FUCK" when it's used in a non-sexual context. The difference between "You broke my fucking nose!" and "Are you fucking my wife?" is the difference between a "PG-13" and an "R" rating.

totally saw this in action on Comedy Central the other night, some movie was on late night and the whole conversation was beeped ("you beeped her? you BEEPED her?? how could you be so stupid? beeping her was the stupidest thing you could do!") until the guy put his head in his hands and said "We are so FUCKED." was like, whoa, they missed one! until I remembered that rule. (assuming it holds for tv, too)

(xpost) Oh, I don't ever swear when I'm actually angry.

the swear words that come out of me when i am angry are so ridiculous that i often laugh at what i said, which pulls me out of it. it's like the inverse of a Pentecostal being possessed by the Holy Spirit and speaking in tongues.

thankfully they are muttered under my breath so nobody has to hear.

i swear all the time but i also say eff and freakin and holy cow
i've noticed that i throw 'fuck' around more often in casual conversation since i've returned to journalism

I love a swear.

I sound like Henrietta Pussycat but instead of "meow meows" it's swears

can I just say how funny this is?

I don't know how to vote here. I totally never consciously think about swearing vs. not-swearing. I have been known to say things that were wildly socially inappropriate, but not because they included the C-bomb or anything. I'm sure I use language every day that isn't safe for children, but then again, I don't use it around children.

I have noticed, though: I use any language I like around my mom, but I don't around my dad. Probably because when I'm around my mom, she cusses like a grand landmark fountain of filth, and hey we're all adults here. But my dad is still kinda Dad. Hmmmm.

i've noticed that i throw 'fuck' around more often in casual conversation since i've returned to journalism

haha yeah I almost added a "but hey I do work at a newspaper" caveat on mine

xpost to myself: My mom wasn't always like that, though. Certainly not when I was a wee one.

In fact, I vividly remember my first f-bomb: I was maybe 6 or 7, and loved to read things aloud to anyone who would listen. One day I picked Steve Martin's Cruel Shoes off the shelf, and was happily practicing my out-loud reading when that awful f word came up. I had no idea what it meant, but I pronounced it well enough. My mother looked at me, blank with horror. "Don't. Ever. Say. That. Word. Again."

I spent a big part of the day driving by myself, and I narrate... so I'm easily an NC-17.

Last thing I ever said (age 8) to my maternal grandfather before he died, describing where we had lunch: Fuck-rudders (Fuddruckers). I think that's the closest I've ever come to swearing in front of my parents or grandparents.

spend a big part

newspaper life has also caused me to lose 10 lbs due to crazy. i'm turning into a skinny swearin hard-drinkin reporter lady. i shld start wearing rumpled suits and a fedora. tho ahahalol i am an arts editor. i enjoy seeing dance and writing about video art.

i agree that this is super lols: I sound like Henrietta Pussycat but instead of "meow meows" it's swears
and have been doing it in my head

I sound like Henrietta Pussycat but instead of "meow meows" it's swears

For me it's "bitch please" instead of "meow meow." Perhaps I'll look up the Latin version and make it my motto.

ewspaper life has also caused me to lose 10 lbs due to crazy. i'm turning into a skinny swearin hard-drinkin reporter lady

I love I love I love I love it. Bring that newfound shit to NYC, child.

I'm turning into a skinny swearin hard-drinkin reporter lady

If that means you're like Jennifer Jason Leigh in 'The Hudsucker Proxy', this can only be a good thing.

I swear all of the time, unfortunately. Out loud and even when I type. blablabla, for fuck's sake. Shit, I blablabla. I'm beginning to be more aware of it, and I'm trying to reduce my swearing. "Shit" and "fuck" can be used for a million different purposes, which is nice, but it also means you come to rely on those words instead of the million other words you could be using to express yourself. If the future of the human race was like me, in 150 years people would just be pointing at things and saying "fuck, man", whether it was a dead bird, a passing funeral procession or a baby taking her first step.

This all really depends on the kind of people I'm talking to or the situation I'm in. Like, I'm a foul-mouthed joke-telling insulting R-rated funnyman when I'm with my friends (or, to a lesser extent, when I'm on ILX). And I'm a polite soft-spoken perfect gentleman when I'm at work.

there's very much a swearing 'culture' at the job i'm leaving (tomorrow ^_^).

in general I swear a lot too. It often embarrasses my girlfriend if we're in a public place. I srsly don't realise I swear so much tho, often she'll say 'you've sworn about 30 times in the last 10 minutes.' \:

i couldnt imagine myself saying "what is wrong with him" or "what the fuck is wrong with him?" or "this sucks" instead of "this fucking sucks"

although to be fair she busted out some amazing swearing a year or so ago. She told this guy who was racially villifying her and a couple of her cousins that he was the ugliest cunt she'd ever seen.
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I don't believe I swear that often. I mean, I believe in using the right word for the job, and usually, but obviously not always, a cuss word isn't the right word. My boss swears a blue streak whenever something doesn't go his way, e.g., the other day he busted out a basket of "fuckin'"s 'cause he couldn't set up a printer on his PC because the printer isn't listed in the directory. It was kinda embarrassing to watch: I'm sure that incidents like that, where people let things get the best of them, have influenced me to swear less over the years. Why advertise that you have a short fuse that's lit when you can't deal with simple problems? It's hard to catch the unemotional swearing though, and I do surprise myself once in awhile peppering otherwise everyday speech with a bit of the ol' salty talkin'.

I think I probably got into journalism because I swear so much. Seriously, it's just verbal punctuation for me now, a lot of the time. Obviously, living in a city where: "Awright, ya cunt?" is a cheery greeting between friends, this doesn't really give much cause for alarm.

That said: I'm perfectly able to switch if off when I need to; I can't think of a time when I've ever let fly with a choice expletive in inappropriate circumstances. The last time I remember getting pulled up about my swearing was when I was 11 ... oh, and there was the time a few years back where a colleague came out with: "Fucking hell, Mum" while on the phone to his ageing ma in Dublin. He blamed me for that; said I was a bad influence on him.

One thing I'm vaguely aware of: in situations where I genuinely need to swear (eg something truly awful happening), as opposed to situations where it's just passing the time (eg at work), I tend to lapse into Catholicism: there'll be "Mother of Gods" and "Jee-suses" and so on, as opposed to the run-of-the-mill "fuckflaps" and "cocksucking cuntfelchers" and so on that ring around the newsroom.

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i drop f-bombs like otms

I swear way too much. I do it so much that I don't even really realize I'm doing it. I say fuck or fucking all the time and have to watch myself at work or when I'm around "adults" such as my parents or in-laws. Motherfucker is one of my favorite words of all time.

Seriously I say "FUDGE!" like 35 times a day now, and half of those are because it's so fun!

Also I like "motherjumper," which I got from "Mad About You" of all things.

I almost never direct my swears at sentients except good naturedly (vis a vis This Fuckin Guy). I try to minimize the negativity I project outwards, but I still manage to drop swears regularly I think because I say them casually and basically without malice. They're just sounds I make to add emphasis to my words.

Obviously I avoid them around customers, Head Honchos & family members.

Yes, I'm the same.

should stop using "cunting" as an adjective

i think the stuff i say on the internet is much more offensive.
internet me - R
irl - pg13

great thread

that is brilliant.
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RS uses cunting sometimes and every once in a while I find myself doing the same.

'cunting' kind of killed any verisimilitude the crucifix-autofucking scene in 'The Exorcist' may have had. I had never heard it before and damn it sounds stupid. Just an incredible stretch at devising a more shocking swear.

debbie downer ^^^

i never use it irl speech but i sometimes think of people i hate as "cunty"

i have been known to refer to public figures as "cunts" when i'm alone at home, but i have this odd (and i imagine not exactly ingratiating) habit of pronouncing it "coont" as in "whatta coont"

i also never really say cunt out loud!

I swear it sounds really natural when I say it.

I swear a lot but it's hard to translate to this scale since it's mostly röven, jävlar and blörg. And fuck, I say fuck a lot.

i think because in america you would either sound like a misogynist or like you were pretending to be british, but i kind of like that word!

whenever anything goes wrong, i do the 'old dad' routine of blurting out a string of swears, which usually go: "SHIT-ASS-PISS-CHRIST"

that said, i swear quite a bit.

sometiems i remember that awesome offspring chorus "YOU STUPID DUMBSHIT GODDAMN MOTHERFUCKER!!!" when i am really riled up.

I generally don't swear unless I've been drinking.

I think cunting would only work for the british. Cunt is way more everyday over there

I use this ^^^^ approx one gazillion times when playing video games

As a child my cousin once said, "I know I shouldn't say fuck, but it feels so good in my mouth."

Just an incredible stretch at devising a more shocking swear.

friend: "There's no swearword worse than 'motherfucker'."
snoball: "Er... 'grandmotherfucker'?"

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what????

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bumbaclot

some say you a Rasta
Some say you a Ras Clot (ass wipe)
But I say you a BumbaClot.
(highest level of insult)

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I didn't mean to post that.
I understand but somehow I feel more confused.
Never look at Yahoo answers is the moral here.

should stop using "cunting" as an adjective

― I know, right?, Monday, November 17

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ahead of the curve, this fella

I'm glad she indicated the races of all the children involved, cause that's real important.

It was a tea party....and all these really rich mothers adopted these children since they were babies.....These kids have never seen or been inside of a public place or have been left alone without a highly paid nanny...because I am one of them....

Only one parent laughed when the little girl called the boy a Bumbaclot!!!

I hope you understand why I said what I said....I would never slap the mother infront of the child...."I would loose my job for that"...LOL!!!

All the time except at work, and I do tone it down in public.