POLL: Do you swear/curse/cus?

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Yes, I swear (like a sailor).

However, as I am feeling very lazy, I will provide this link which spells out my thoughts and feelings on swearing quite well.

Cultural Taboos

 

Swearing makes talking fun!!

I do curse fairly regularly I suppose, but I don't consider what I say to be vulgar, per se. But as discussed in Falstaff's "Cultural Taboos" post, it does depend on context. Me saying "awe, sh!t!" when I miss a phone call or telling my dogs to "shut the f*ck up" when they bark at my neighbor's dog is no big deal, but telling someone to "eat sh!t" is vulgar and infantile to me. "Normal" cursing, as I call it, can also get vulgar if it's used every other word (see example by Nick the Friendly Goth above ). Teenagers I've noticed are particulalry guilty of this. And New Yorkers.

Basically, cursing in normal course is no big deal, but gets very offensive when people go out of their way to be sexually explicit or just plain nasty. Then it becomes very offensive, and I consider myself pretty difficult to offend as it is.

 

Finaly someone used my example I was worried no one would use it! all that work for nothing Hmf!

 

I swear farar too much.

Sure, i try to cencor myself when in company, especially with kiddies or other sensitive people around, but if I blow a whistle I am just about as foul-mouthed as possible. Heck, I have told my mother to **** off.... repeatedly. (And the same goes for just about every memeber of my family.... )

I am somewhat unusual in cussing, at least here in FInland, because I rarely do the "refering to the devil" thing that works so well here as well as in Sweden. Of all the related words, "Hell" is the one I use all the time. Others? Naah.
I refer to female reproductive organs all the *ahem* time... I know it's crude, but what can I say? No one would understand "bloody" so I have to use "****ing"...

On the other hand, I can be very creative if I want to... I know curses in Finnish, English and some even in Russian.

Although I tend to be repetitive.

 

I don't swear very often, unless I'm drunk or very angry.

Oh and I swear alot when ever I am playing hockey.

 

I'm quite foul mouthed actually ... ah well, most of my songwriting isn't plagued by such vulgarities ... much

 

I swear quite a bit -- it's my one weakness. I am trying to get it under control. It is a horrible habit, and a sign of a weak mind, just like Late Night Thinker's dad says. Wish me luck!

 

Tell that to Hunter S. Thompson, Walt Whitman, Ernest Hemingway and Jack Kerouac...all considered literary geniuses, all of them cursed like no tomorrow.

IMO cursing is only a sign of a weak mind if you have nothing better to say, or if it's the only way you can get people to pay attention to the things you say.

 

I swear more than a drunken sailor with a peg leg, two glass eye, and two hooks for hands, pretty much.

 

My mouth is a vile pit of effluent sewage the likes of witch can peel varnished paint. Seriously though, I swear a great deal.

 

I almost never swear in company. I've been married three and a half years and my wife has never heard a profanity (besides sh** or bast***)leave my lips. Most of the time I swear only when driving or in between crappy calls while i'm working.

I'm trying to cut it out completely.

 

...How different this place would be without the no swearing rule...

Strangely enough, I almost never swear. I always feel there's no need to get that angry over something. But there is, fortunately, one advantage. Then when you do swear, it really means something and people will take you seriously. Or they'll just think you can't hold your anger any longer, which is probably more likely.

 

Either way now you've got their attention.

 

I swear when I'm with my friends though I know I do use foul language quite a bit more than I should. I certainly curse a lot and stuff. And have been known to yell out rude words without realiseing I was indeed doing so.

My father and Uncle Tony use the f-word as every other word, but with Scottish accents I thought they wrer saying fock - I was only about five and it became pretty well used until my mother heard me saying it.

Now I will only swear when I am really angry/upset and being silly with my friends.

 

Normally just "C'mere you f*cker!" (scottish heritage I guess), BTW, how did the middle finger become swearing?

 

I wouldn't recommend clicking on this file if little children are around.

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Or perhaps this. Type on your keyboard to make it work. I like x, or z. Even the space bar works.
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I really hope I don't become the idiot of the week for this.

[Come now. What made you think posting those links would be OK if swearing on the boards is not allowed? - BTA]

[ June 19, 2003, 21:54: Message edited by: Blackthorne TA ]