Swearing

[Smithy]

Do you or anyone around you swear?

Using language of a kind regarded as coarse, blasphemous, or otherwise unacceptable in polite or formal speech in order to express anger or other strong emotion.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

It seems like using vulgar language is the way a lot of people talk, anymore. Bobby and I were just discussing that, and how bad the movies are with several f-bombs per sentence for the whole movie.
It used to be, we could watch a movie, enjoy all of the action and adventure, and didn’t need to hear people cursing the whole time. Now, it seems like that is the only words in some people’s vocabulary.

 

[Joe Riley]

For most of the world sin is the default setting, and cursing and swearing is their default language. After a time, non-stop swearing loses it's shock value and becomes uncreative repetition. It reduces the users to cookie cutter members of the herd.

 

[Axel Slingerland]

It depends who you ask and what decades they are basing their opinions on. Based on the norms of the 1960s when I was growing up, you would say I swear. But based on today's norms, I'm a choir boy. Remember back in those days when in movies and TV if a man and a woman were on a bed, one of them had to keep one foot on the floor? And now they show people gettin' busy on broadcast TV. Times change, but sometimes people's values do not.

 

[Nancy Hart]

... After a time, non-stop swearing loses it's shock value and becomes uncreative repetition. It reduces the users to cookie cutter members of the herd.

 

[Wednesday]

There are people around me who do so but I try not to. I aim to be well mannered and civilazied person. I don't do it so that I can say: "I am better than you". I mearly feel deep in my heart that is the right way.

 

[Mary Stetler]

When I was a kid, if we said 'shut up!' we had to put a nickle in the jar. We didn't know the f word.

 

[Axel Slingerland]

My Dear Momma always said "Swearing is a small mind expressing itself." While I have a tendency to say something is a "Pain in the Petunias", and that is not really swearing... The meaning behind it remains the same.

 

[Bobby Cole]

Sitting here on our front porch, there is rarely an hour that passes when someone(s) doesn’t go by spewing a whole string of “adjectives” and expletives that have no reference points in which one can decide what the conversation is about.
Whether from one person to another or speaking very loudly on their cell, [which is the most prevalent case], there is no way I, an educated person of yesteryear can transpose the language into something remotely intelligent much less understandable.

As for myself, sure. On the occasions when I hurt myself or make a major blunder, the severity of the deed is the deciding factor as to whether I say dern or d**m, etc

Now, have I cursed when I’m EXTREMELY angry? Yup. Got to admit to that one.
Notably, I spent my stint in the military during a time when as a 17 year old, the drill sergeants taught us how to wreck things, kill people and the fine art of cursing which at the time, seemed like a good mixture since one rarely goes without the other.

That said, even during those days, we still knew that those words were never to be used in front of the fairer sex and rarely even in a conversation with fellow males.
“It’s better to be thought of as a fool than to open one’s mouth and prove it”.

 

[Twisty the Clown]

Shit I swear a lot (oops xD)