I almost never swear, no one around me swore as I grew up so it's just not in my natural vocabulary, and I'm way too lazy to make an effort to swear on purpose.
I also don't use stupid non-swear replacements, to me those are stupid. If everyone knows you're using it to replace a swear, and what the swear is, what's the point of not using the actual word?!?! They're not magic. Or if you're trying not to offend God then you're not fooling God by swapping out the word (this kind of word swapping happened a lot as I was growing up since my family was very religious, though my parents never did it).
I was always told to think swearing is for when you don't have anything more intelligent to say, but I know lots of smart people that swear.
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I was thinking about this last night. When I joined the Military I wasn't a big swearer as a teenager, I was always taught that swearing a lot was a sign of a lazy mind.
I learned in the military especially when I took my JLC to swear so naturally and effectively that I didn't even realize that I was swearing. Whenever I went home and would have conversations people's jaws would drop. Dropping an F bomb around grandma, not cool.
When I left the military I pretty much had to deprogram, it was equivalent to quiting smoking. Now the only time I really swear is when I'm angry, or drunk. However the only place that I use substitute words or censor words is on this board.
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I was thinking about this last night. When I joined the Military I wasn't a big swearer as a teenager, I was always taught that swearing a lot was a sign of a lazy mind.
I learned in the military especially when I took my JLC to swear so naturally and effectively that I didn't even realize that I was swearing. Whenever I went home and would have conversations people's jaws would drop. Dropping an F bomb around grandma, not cool.
When I left the military I pretty much had to deprogram, it was equivalent to quiting smoking. Now the only time I really swear is when I'm angry, or drunk. However the only place that I use substitute words or censor words is on this board.
I always think it is cute when civies talk about how bad their swearing is.
I refuse to believe there is a community that swears more than the military. My cousin's husband was in and whenever we get together and have too many beers we both slip back into it. The first time my kids just started at me.....
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My wife is impressed how I have my regular language and can flip a switch to my work language when taking rig calls. Much more colorful conversations.
I've got no issues with most people who don't swear. I've worked with plenty of them and my best friend growing up didn't swear - for religious reasons. Those people for the most part did not replace swearing with other corny words, they just didn't structure sentences to include them and you wouldn't even notice.
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Well I guess I am super annoying. I rarely swear, but I also don't use cheezy lines like H-E double hockey sticks either.
I don't call people out for swearing, but I do find it off putting when the F word is used in every second sentence.
H-E-Double hockey sticks pisses me off to no end. It's 8 syllables for a single syllable word that requires 4 syllables to spell. I'd rather someone use a replacement word like heck and 15 likes/####s/umms etc. than use the sound "double hockey sticks" to spell a word.
One thing I don't like is swearing at the coffee shop.
If I am sitting there having coffee and a nice low conversation, you get some knuckledragggers swearing up a storm at the next table, it's annoying and off putting.
I swear quite a bit, but time and place.
Of course this hasn't happened in 12 months, but when it does I look forward to being annoyed again.
When I was in high school I had a bunch of friends that liked insult jokes and for 3 years non-stop insults were traded and the ante kept rising: things kept getting more dark, twisted and personal. I realized after school that I had to be really careful about cussing in public because I could say something really hurtful or disgusting and not even realize it. Even grizzled tradesmen in all-male environments still have a pretty limited window of vulgar terms and subject matter they find acceptable. Unless I'm only hanging out with friends, I keep it limited to the occasional "what the f***" or "oh s***".
I was taught there is “house talk” and “barn talk” . Using barn talk in the house, or anywhere other than the barn, would earn you a backhand that made your ears ring.
One summer I worked for a cattle buyer who never swore. A week of rain had the corrals knee deep in mud and a long legged Holstein bull had jumped the fence into a pen holding short legged Hereford heifers. Boss was struggling through the mud in a vain attempt to separate the bull from his reluctant lovers and getting madder by the minute. He finally raised his fists to the sky and shouted “Jeepers Creepers!” I laughed so hard I almost fell off the fence.
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H-E-Double hockey sticks pisses me off to no end. It's 8 syllables for a single syllable word that requires 4 syllables to spell. I'd rather someone use a replacement word like heck and 15 likes/####s/umms etc. than use the sound "double hockey sticks" to spell a word.
I was taught there is “house talk” and “barn talk” . Using barn talk in the house, or anywhere other than the barn, would earn you a backhand that made your ears ring.
I cringe when I hear my kids talk online with their friends...
Put some rig pigs to shame I tell ya...
My youngest (17) tried the same talk at the dinner table...didn't go well for him.
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I was taught there is “house talk” and “barn talk” . Using barn talk in the house, or anywhere other than the barn, would earn you a backhand that made your ears ring.
One summer I worked for a cattle buyer who never swore. A week of rain had the corrals knee deep in mud and a long legged Holstein bull had jumped the fence into a pen holding short legged Hereford heifers. Boss was struggling through the mud in a vain attempt to separate the bull from his reluctant lovers and getting madder by the minute. He finally raised his fists to the sky and shouted “Jeepers Creepers!” I laughed so hard I almost fell off the fence.
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.
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