Hey, watch the language...

[Servo]

It's called living a society. In such a society people should see a child in and not using foul language in front of them.

Screw that noise.

While I don't swear when talking directly to a kid, or even when they're in the same room as me, I'm not going to walk around worrying what some kid in the street might hear me say. If I've got a reason to say the word "fuck", or one of its many variations, in a sentence, then anyone who hears it will just have to deal with it. Kid or otherwise.

I'm not censoring myself just to protect your fuckin rugrat's delicate little ears from a minor dose of the world of grown-ups.

They're words. Get over it.

Exactly. Nobody should be standing in line at Toys R Us talking about pimpslapping bitches and fuckin' sheep.

Is that the kind of thing you hear often whilst in a line at Toys R Us?

 

[MetalPants]

I actually told a coworker today to quit swearing around me.

Daily, I hear about how he fucking hates his job, how he has too much fucking work, how he gets no fucking help, how his fucking employees don't follow his fucking directions, how he is the only fucker who does any fucking work, and so forth.

Quite frankly, I'm tired hearing seemingly every other word out of his mouth being a swear word.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ Kind of like Steve Martin at the rental car counter in Plains, Trains and Automobiles.

 

[od0_ital]

The guy I was workin' with today, towards the end of shift, kept sayin' "goddamn" every few minutes.

So, I started doin' it, too, just to see if he noticed.

He actually asked me, "Why do you keep saying 'goddamn', god dammit?!?"

 

[scotpens]

. . . Quite frankly, I'm tired hearing seemingly every other word out of his mouth being a swear word.

That doesn't bother me nearly as much as when every other word out of someone's mouth is the SAME swear word. I mean, a little variety would be nice. If that's the only curse word they know, I'd be happy to teach them some new ones.

 

[captcalhoun]

i use drokk, effin and f'in when i'm at work. or bloody.

my bloody idiot boss didn't bleeding well lke it cuz i said bloody hell when my till was playing up.

i said if anyone these days objects to me saying that they need to bleeding live in the real world.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

I find that people who use the same old swear words a lot of the time have a very difficult time expressing themselves creatively and eloquently.

I'd like to quote Stephen Fry at this point...

"The sort of twee person who thinks swearing is in any way a sign of a lack of education or of a lack of verbal interest is just fucking lunatic," he says. "Or they say, 'It's not necessary.' As if that should stop one doing it. Things not being necessary is what makes life interesting."

I don't buy that the use of swearing limits the effect of the word. I think it very much depends on context the word is used in rather than what is said. I swear a lot, people around me swear a lot, yet when someone calls someone a cunt in anger it's still shocking. Using Torchwood as an example, swearing was over used in the first series, but it didn't stop me being startled at Ryhs saying "I fucking hate you sometimes" to Gwen in the second series...

 

[Yeoman Randi]

... Or that they're as full of shit as a Christmas goose.

Not that I really understand why a goose would necessarily be more full of shit at Christmas than at any other time of year.

Because the goose would have been fed more to get it fatter in time for Christmas dinner, thus, it would have to shit more prior to decapitation.

Jesus, learn some fuckin' history!

Fucking ICK!

 

[Rincewiend]

Well, fuck...

Perhaps one of the most interesting and colorful words in the English language today is the word "fuck." It is the one magical word which, just by its sound, can describe pain, pleasure, love and hate. In language, "fuck" falls into many grammatical categories.

It can be used as a verb, both transitive (John fucked Mary) and intransitive (Mary was fucked by John). It can be an action verb (John really gives a fuck), a passive verb (Mary really doesn't give a fuck), an adverb (Mary is fucking interested in John), or as a noun (Mary is a terrific fuck). It can also be used as an adjective (Mary is fucking beautiful) or an interjection (Fuck! I'm late for my date with Mary). It can even be used as a conjunction (Mary is easy, fuck she's also stupid).

As you can see, there are very few words with the overall versatility of the word "fuck". Aside from its sexual connotations, this incredible word can be used to describe many situations:

1. Greetings "How the fuck are ya?"
2. Fraud "I got fucked by the car dealer."
3. Resignation "Oh, fuck it!"
4. Trouble "I guess I'm fucked now."
5. Aggression "FUCK YOU!"
6. Disgust "Fuck me."
7. Confusion "What the fuck.......?"
8. Difficulty "I don't understand this fucking business!"
9. Despair "Fucked again..."
10. Pleasure "I fucking couldn't be happier."
11. Displeasure "What the fuck is going on here?"
12. Lost "Where the fuck are we."
13. Disbelief "UNFUCKINGBELIEVABLE!"
14. Retaliation "Up your fucking ass!"
15. Denial "I didn't fucking do it."
16. Perplexity "I know fuck all about it."
17. Apathy "Who really gives a fuck, anyhow?"
18. Greetings "How the fuck are ya?"
19. Suspicion "Who the fuck are you?"
20. Panic "Let's get the fuck out of here."
21. Directions "Fuck off."
22. Disbelief "How the fuck did you do that?"

It can be used in an anatomical description- "He's a fucking asshole."
It can be used to tell time- "It's five fucking thirty."
It can be used in business- "How did I wind up with this fucking job?"
It can be maternal- "Motherfucker."
It can be political- "Fuck D an Quayle!"


It has also been used by many notable people throughout history: "What the fuck was that?" Mayor of Hiroshima
" Where did all these fucking Indians come from?" General Custer
"Where the fuck is all this water coming from?" Captain of the Titanic
"Thats not a real fucking gun." John Lennon
"Who's gonna fucking find out?" Richard Nixon
"Heads are going to fucking roll." Anne Boleyn
"Let the fucking woman drive." Commander of Space Shuttle "Challenger"
"What fucking map?" Mark Thatcher
"Any fucking idiot could understand that." Albert Einstein
"It does so fucking look like her!" Picasso
"How the fuck did you work that out?" Pythagoras
"You want what on the fucking ceiling?" Michaelangelo
"Fuck a duck." Walt Disney
"Why?- Because its fucking there!" Edmund Hilary
"I don't suppose its gonna fucking rain?" Joan of Arc
"Scattered fucking showers my ass." Noah

And shit...

Jack Shit is the only son of O. Shit and Awe Shit. O. Shit, the fertilizer plant manager, married Awe Shit, who later ran the Kneedeep Inn-Shit. Jack Shit eventually married Noe Shit, and they had six children.

Holy Shit, their first son, died after childbirth. Then the twins, Deep Shit and Dip Shit. After the twins came 2 daughters, Fulla Shit and Giva Shit. Their last childwas a boy, Bull Shit.

Deep Shit married Dumb Shit, a high school drop-out. Dip Shit married Lotta Shit and had a son that they named Chicken Shit. Fulla Shit and Giva Shit married the Happens' boys. The Shit-Happens children are; Dog Shit-Happens, Bird Shit-Happens, and Horse Shit-Happens. Bull Shit married Pieca Shit and are still awaiting Baby Shit.

So, the next time someone tells you that you don't know Jack Shit, not only can you tell them you do know Jack Shit, but you also know the whole family!

 

[John Picard]

Try having a co-worker, in the next cube, who is an uptight religious twit. There's nothing like listening to a woman in her mid-40's, who speaks with the vernacular of a teen (I'm like, I go, so like, etc) and utters, "Thank Gosh".

Thank Gosh?

 

[Goliath]

Try having a co-worker, in the next cube, who is an uptight religious twit. There's nothing like listening to a woman in her mid-40's, who speaks with the vernacular of a teen (I'm like, I go, so like, etc) and utters, "Thank Gosh".

Thank Gosh?

That reminds me. One of my own favourite curses is "Jesus Christ."

It's a very versatile curse. It can be spoken quickly, to express impatience: e.g. "oh, jesuschrist, get on with it!"

Or it can be drawn out, to express exasperation: e.g. "Jee-zuss CHRIST--why won't this fucking thing WORK?!?"

There are many other variations as well.

But I was told recently that it's an "old-man swear word."

What do you do when your favourite swear words become dated?

 

[RandyS]

I actually told a coworker today to quit swearing around me.

Daily, I hear about how he fucking hates his job, how he has too much fucking work, how he gets no fucking help, how his fucking employees don't follow his fucking directions, how he is the only fucker who does any fucking work, and so forth.

Quite frankly, I'm tired hearing seemingly every other word out of his mouth being a swear word.

It could be worse. He could be saying "Frak" every other word.

I'd like to kill Ron Moore for that distortion......

 

[Marie1]

^ I know!!

The guy I was workin' with today, towards the end of shift, kept sayin' "goddamn" every few minutes.

So, I started doin' it, too, just to see if he noticed.

He actually asked me, "Why do you keep saying 'goddamn', god dammit?!?"

 

[Rincewiend]

Try having a co-worker, in the next cube, who is an uptight religious twit. There's nothing like listening to a woman in her mid-40's, who speaks with the vernacular of a teen (I'm like, I go, so like, etc) and utters, "Thank Gosh".

Thank Gosh?

That reminds me. One of my own favourite curses is "Jesus Christ."

It's a very versatile curse. It can be spoken quickly, to express impatience: e.g. "oh, jesuschrist, get on with it!"

Or it can be drawn out, to express exasperation: e.g. "Jee-zuss CHRIST--why won't this fucking thing WORK?!?"

There are many other variations as well.

But I was told recently that it's an "old-man swear word."

What do you do when your favourite swear words become dated?

Well, add words to it, to keep it fresh...
My favourite variation is Jezus titty-fucking Christ on a pogo-stick...
I think i heard/read it first in TNZ couple f years ago...
Though Jezus tap-dancing Christ on a cracker is a good one too...

 

[captcalhoun]

any word can be a swear word. it's all about how you say it, there was a kid i was in high school with who'd curse by saying 'chisel'.

i've said all sorts of random things to avoid offending customers in work, including obvious stuff like fiddlesticks, sugar, rats and more odd stuff, although i can't remember any as they tend to be spur-of-the-moment randomness.

 

[marillion]

I worked in a news room for several years.. You want to hear people curse like sailors (no offense to any sailors we have here), hang out there for an afternoon.. And the women can be the worst...

What really bothers me is when people do it around their kids.. It really bothers me, in fact that they have no regard for what their children hear. Yes, I know, I know.. In society today, it's the norm rather than the exception to have vulgarity peppered in with normal speech, and that being the case, why sheild children from it.. But it bothers the frak out of me. What's worse is when MY kids are there and within earshot..

One could very easily tell me to suck it up and take my kids elsewhere and they'd be right, but the fact is that it's common courtesy, and that's what we lack sometimes..

People don't think or just don't have any regard for the people around them, and that's really a sad statement on our world.

That said.. Get these Monday-Friday snakes off this Monday-Friday plane!!!

On edit... In reading some of the religeous themed posts above mine, I'm reminded of a co-worker who is rather religeous.. Nice guy.. If I were caught in a fire, he would be who I'd want saving my ass.. He puts up with the normal swear words, but if you say Goddamnit (or other variations) of the swear, he politetly asks you to refrain from using that in his company. I would imagine out in the thick of things at a fire he lets it go, but in the office setting, it bothers him.. That doesn't make him a twit or a wackjob.. So we, being normal, nice people who understand common courtesy, do our best to abide by his wishes.

It doesn't cause us any trouble to watch what we say and if it means a more friendly work environment, it's for the best.

 

[Nerdius Maximus]

I share your sentiments to an extent, but we do have to share this world with others who have different beliefs. I try to respect peoples boundaries and watch what I say around people who are likely to be offended. I don't shout out the "F word" in an Applebees or someplace like that. If I'm at a concert, I'll scream "Fuck yeah," at the top of my lungs. It's all about the appropriate time and place, IMO.

 

[RandyS]

This thread has reminded me of something. Did I ever tell you the story of my first exposure to the F word? It was 1975 and I was five years old. I was staying with my grandparents for the weekend, and they got into an argument about something, I don't remember what, Anyway, they were yelling up and down the stairs while my grandma and I were upstairs packing me up to go home, and my grandma shouts "OH FUCK OFF!", Then grandpa yells something back, and grandma shouts "FUCK YOU!!". Then mutters under her breath, "Fucking old man".

I was confused by all this, since I had never heard that word before. After grandma took me home, my mom asked me about my weekend, and I told her about the incident, and asked her what "fuck" meant. She looked at me, and without saying a word, promptly got on the phone and called my grandparents, whereupon, I heard "fuck" several more times.

Years later, I reminded the three of them about this, and they just laughed it off as being "one of their moments".

 

[Warped9]

Well, fuck...

Perhaps one of the most interesting and colorful words in the English language today is the word "fuck." It is the one magical word which, just by its sound, can describe pain, pleasure, love and hate. In language, "fuck" falls into many grammatical categories.

It can be used as a verb, both transitive (John fucked Mary) and intransitive (Mary was fucked by John). It can be an action verb (John really gives a fuck), a passive verb (Mary really doesn't give a fuck), an adverb (Mary is fucking interested in John), or as a noun (Mary is a terrific fuck). It can also be used as an adjective (Mary is fucking beautiful) or an interjection (Fuck! I'm late for my date with Mary). It can even be used as a conjunction (Mary is easy, fuck she's also stupid).

As you can see, there are very few words with the overall versatility of the word "fuck". Aside from its sexual connotations, this incredible word can be used to describe many situations:

1. Greetings "How the fuck are ya?"
2. Fraud "I got fucked by the car dealer."
3. Resignation "Oh, fuck it!"
4. Trouble "I guess I'm fucked now."
5. Aggression "FUCK YOU!"
6. Disgust "Fuck me."
7. Confusion "What the fuck.......?"
8. Difficulty "I don't understand this fucking business!"
9. Despair "Fucked again..."
10. Pleasure "I fucking couldn't be happier."
11. Displeasure "What the fuck is going on here?"
12. Lost "Where the fuck are we."
13. Disbelief "UNFUCKINGBELIEVABLE!"
14. Retaliation "Up your fucking ass!"
15. Denial "I didn't fucking do it."
16. Perplexity "I know fuck all about it."
17. Apathy "Who really gives a fuck, anyhow?"
18. Greetings "How the fuck are ya?"
19. Suspicion "Who the fuck are you?"
20. Panic "Let's get the fuck out of here."
21. Directions "Fuck off."
22. Disbelief "How the fuck did you do that?"

It can be used in an anatomical description- "He's a fucking asshole."
It can be used to tell time- "It's five fucking thirty."
It can be used in business- "How did I wind up with this fucking job?"
It can be maternal- "Motherfucker."
It can be political- "Fuck D an Quayle!"


It has also been used by many notable people throughout history: "What the fuck was that?" Mayor of Hiroshima
" Where did all these fucking Indians come from?" General Custer
"Where the fuck is all this water coming from?" Captain of the Titanic
"Thats not a real fucking gun." John Lennon
"Who's gonna fucking find out?" Richard Nixon
"Heads are going to fucking roll." Anne Boleyn
"Let the fucking woman drive." Commander of Space Shuttle "Challenger"
"What fucking map?" Mark Thatcher
"Any fucking idiot could understand that." Albert Einstein
"It does so fucking look like her!" Picasso
"How the fuck did you work that out?" Pythagoras
"You want what on the fucking ceiling?" Michaelangelo
"Fuck a duck." Walt Disney
"Why?- Because its fucking there!" Edmund Hilary
"I don't suppose its gonna fucking rain?" Joan of Arc
"Scattered fucking showers my ass." Noah

And shit...

Jack Shit is the only son of O. Shit and Awe Shit. O. Shit, the fertilizer plant manager, married Awe Shit, who later ran the Kneedeep Inn-Shit. Jack Shit eventually married Noe Shit, and they had six children.

Holy Shit, their first son, died after childbirth. Then the twins, Deep Shit and Dip Shit. After the twins came 2 daughters, Fulla Shit and Giva Shit. Their last childwas a boy, Bull Shit.

Deep Shit married Dumb Shit, a high school drop-out. Dip Shit married Lotta Shit and had a son that they named Chicken Shit. Fulla Shit and Giva Shit married the Happens' boys. The Shit-Happens children are; Dog Shit-Happens, Bird Shit-Happens, and Horse Shit-Happens. Bull Shit married Pieca Shit and are still awaiting Baby Shit.

So, the next time someone tells you that you don't know Jack Shit, not only can you tell them you do know Jack Shit, but you also know the whole family!

This is giving me an idea for another thread.

 

[Angela 0077]

Well we all swear at some time in our lifes useaully if someone makes us angry or for some other reason.

But l have to admit that l dont like people swearing contantly when they are talking to someone in a conversation.

There is a time and a place for that.

On a forum it is alright to a certain exstent it depends on who you are aiming at

Some people do get affended when it is basically at that person .

I ignore members posts if l see that type of thing because l do not like it because it is down right low but that is my opinion