lol, now that you're older do you balk at the notion that swearing is bad, but hitting your kid in the face is appropriate? No offense to your upbringing, but that's ridiculous.
I exaggerated the ear ringing. A cuff from Dad never hit the face and was never undeserved. Although I never struck my children in the same way they still absorbed the barn talk lesson somehow - until the last 5 years or so. Now it’s F this and F that in all manner of mixed company. It makes me cringe even when it’s my wife and daughter doing the cussing, maybe even more so when it’s them.
In Cantonese, the worst thing you can call a woman is not bitch. That word in that language is more a description of a woman who is crass (ie: Bitchy in English).
The worst you can call a woman is literally as "Pork Chop". This presumably because it has an association with over weight, low class and dirty animal connotations all at once.
That's not true. Pork chop is pretty pg canto name calling.
You can call a woman the c-word. Cantonese is pretty colourful with their swear words. They have a pretty colourful one about doing something to one's mother's um, privates.
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That's not true. Pork chop is pretty pg canto name calling.
You can call a woman the c-word. Cantonese is pretty colourful with their swear words. They have a pretty colourful one about doing something to one's mother's um, privates.
Sorry. Perhaps it is better to say one of the worst commonly used is pork chop.
You probably know more than I. All I know is when I visited HK years ago, my cousins told me that of all the things you can call a woman, don't call them pork chop. They said it was worse than bitch. Maybe they were messing with me.
I spent my engineering internship with a company providing products to the Canadian military including a few weeks completing a training exercise at CFB Petawawa. Holy #### was I every swearing a blue streak for months after the job ended. The military is the pinnacle of swearing which makes sense because those guys are ####ing hardcore.
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I spent my engineering internship with a company providing products to the Canadian military including a few weeks completing a training exercise at CFB Petawawa. Holy #### was I every swearing a blue streak for months after the job ended. The military is the pinnacle of swearing which makes sense because those guys are ####ing hardcore.
Yep, Try working in the Military, in a field unit, while drinking err.. living in Germany, with full British background, when you have grown up in tiny little coal mine town, working in the local pub. I thought i had heard it all then till then.
Swearing was every second word.
I then retired from the Forces and went full time bar industry (while going to University).
It's like it wouldn't stop.
Then I get married and have kids. I think I have it under control... lots of "Earmuffs", "Gosh's" and "Frikkins"
Then I proceed to binge all the Narcos season's, Ozarks while watching Billions and Suits.
All that prep shot to hell....
So, slowly but surely, more swear words and explanations of them for the kids with the emphasis of "don't do/say this in public".
I stopped swearing for a few years and then went back to swearing. I stopped again now for several years. My reasons:
1. My job requires me to speak in court pretty frequently. I'm worried about accidently swearing during my court submissions which could get me in big trouble. By not swearing at all, I've been able to eliminate that risk.
2. Life's still pretty enjoyable without swearing.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the years, everybody thinks their line of work a) drinks more than other industries and b) swears more than other industries.
I’ve yet to ever notice a difference. The reality is that everybody drinks and everybody swears.
Sorry if it's been mentioned in the pages I skipped... but has anybody had great success with swearing around their kids? I don't talk to them (11 & 8) like they're my friends or anything, but I don't go out of my way to filter myself either. They seem to not do it and admittedly I'm a bit surprised. We've never made a big deal about it, perhaps that takes out some of the excitement for it?
Sorry if it's been mentioned in the pages I skipped... but has anybody had great success with swearing around their kids? I don't talk to them (11 & 8) like they're my friends or anything, but I don't go out of my way to filter myself either. They seem to not do it and admittedly I'm a bit surprised. We've never made a big deal about it, perhaps that takes out some of the excitement for it?
They just don't let you hear it.
Trust me they do it, they are just better at hiding it.
My two are 15 & 17, they will swear but is is generally to emphasis a point. I fully believe my boy (15) swears more with his buddies. The 17 yr old girl, I reckon she swears more but not a tonne.
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I stopped swearing for a few years and then went back to swearing. I stopped again now for several years. My reasons:
1. My job requires me to speak in court pretty frequently. I'm worried about accidently swearing during my court submissions which could get me in big trouble. By not swearing at all, I've been able to eliminate that risk.
2. Life's still pretty enjoyable without swearing.
Ok, just move along........
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Sorry if it's been mentioned in the pages I skipped... but has anybody had great success with swearing around their kids? I don't talk to them (11 & 8) like they're my friends or anything, but I don't go out of my way to filter myself either. They seem to not do it and admittedly I'm a bit surprised. We've never made a big deal about it, perhaps that takes out some of the excitement for it?
I used to be pretty liberal with cursing in front of my kid, until she started copying me.
"God F-ing Dammit" was the one she picked up on. I've learned since to cut back.
Trust me they do it, they are just better at hiding it.
My two are 15 & 17, they will swear but is is generally to emphasis a point. I fully believe my boy (15) swears more with his buddies. The 17 yr old girl, I reckon she swears more but not a tonne.
I'd actually be fine if they were doing it... I'm more interested in who they're doing it around. Hanging out with your friends? It's insane to imagine it won't. On a playground with kids around or on transit? That's the line we talk more about. They seem to take it pretty seriously. They're still at that age where they're just awful at swearing or being sneaky.
Trust me they do it, they are just better at hiding it.
My two are 15 & 17, they will swear but is is generally to emphasis a point. I fully believe my boy (15) swears more with his buddies. The 17 yr old girl, I reckon she swears more but not a tonne.
UCB, I know she plays hockey. My daughter does too (beer league now) but I coached her in minor hockey and when she made the switch from community hockey to girls hockey in bantam I was floored by how much the girls swore on the ice. I'm not sure why I would have expected any different but it still caught me by surprise. And a different type of swearing and trash talking than I was used to from the boys.
To offer a somewhat opposite view of OP... I've always thought that curse words should be used when you're very angry about something, to indicate that you're truly pissed and mean business. It would seem that the normalization of swearing in regular conversation in our society has somewhat diminished/watered down the effect that swearing once had. So for me personally I try to avoid swearing except for when I'm... you know... super pissed.
