Do you curse?

I can remember when I first came home from school and said, “Oh, crap!” to express disgust over something. What followed was almost a preview of Ralphie’s soap scene from the movie A Christmas Story. My mother began dragging me to the bathroom, talking about washing my mouth out with soap, and demanding to know where I had learned such language. She was not laughing or showing any indicators of jest, but rather serious intent…

She never actually put soap in my mouth, but I regarded her threat as credible, and she was crazy enough to have done just that… 🧼

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When I'm around people I rarely curse, but in my head I swear all the time. Or if I'm by myself I'll curse out loud.

I guess I try to present myself to the world as an intelligent and sophisticated man, when in realty I'm just a kid from the gutter faking it thru Life.
 

No profanity and I never take the Lord’s name in vain. I do say the lesser words and actually did let one slip while our Pastor was at our home for lunch. It was one of those “damn it” moments when I was trying to slice the pie my wife made for dessert and I dropped the knife after I had sliced the first piece and the stuff that was stuck on the knife had made a mess. I apologized and the Pastor only smiled.
 
I'm so not cool. I don't swear. Not ever.

But there was a day my very young son made an aggressive username on his computer. It was "IWBYA".

I asked him what that was all about. Honesty is one of his strong points so he said it stands for "I will bust your a** ".
I was shocked and insisted he change it. He wouldn't no matter what I said, so...

I desperately overreacted, "How would you like it if your mother made her username "BitchWhore"?!
He bent over laughing so hard, ran to tell his sisters, all broke out in laughter 😂 because it was so unlike me.
I ended up laughing too...at myself and my kids. Another life-lesson down the tubes.
 
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Sometimes when I'm very angry. I have dropped the occasional F bomb too. I have to be real angry to do that or either say it jokingly within context of a funny conversation with a friend. I rarely use the word though because I hate it. If something isn't going right, the occasional "Oh sh*t" will also come out of my mouth. Despite that, I hate these shows and movies where every other sentence has a curse word, particularly the F word. I don't finish watching even one episode of most of them.

I never heard my parents curse (except...rarely the word sh*t). I didn't hear my friends curse either. And we darned sure would never have dared curse in front of our parents the way I hear young people doing today. I remember when I started working at what became my work-home and the young men in the office would use the heavy language...I'd flinch every time I heard the F word.
 
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As a Christian, I am to not do this. But even so, it has been a problem for me when alone. But I have worked on this (and prayed about it) and managed to get things under control for the most part. I also got myself a hat with a cross and the word "Jesus" on it that I wear in public to remind me to not only not curse (under my breath), but act as a good representative at all times around others.
 
Yea.

A few days ago I was watching a video of Country Joe McDonald describe his experience at Woodstock.

He describes how they put the movie together and how they intended to put the "F" cheer in the movie. He says it was revolutionary and ever since cursing has been normalized.

This starts at his description


Before he started the cheer the massive crowd was pretty laid back...but if you dare, see what happens to all that frustration come flowing out.

 
Fyrefox said:
I can remember when I first came home from school and said, “Oh, crap!” to express disgust over something. What followed was almost a preview of Ralphie’s soap scene from the movie A Christmas Story. My mother began dragging me to the bathroom, talking about washing my mouth out with soap, and demanding to know where I had learned such language. She was not laughing or showing any indicators of jest, but rather serious intent…

She never actually put soap in my mouth, but I regarded her threat as credible, and she was crazy enough to have done just that… 🧼

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I'd have to say Ivory soap was my favorite. And I am a soap connoisseur.
 
Funny story, a bit of background first. Hubby (now ex) and I were watching a western can't remember the name of it, but the man in it throws his plate down on the table and says more bitch! Our youngest son a toddler just putting words together was playing on the floor. Next day hubby, son and I are shopping, decide to have lunch at the Golden Corral. When our little one was done eating he stands up in the booth and at the top of his lungs yells more bitch! I was horrified! Not funny then but funny now. :ROFLMAO:
 
I never heard my parents swear ever.. and if anyone had a right to swear it would be my mother, but only one night we heard my father who was one of life's evil beings ( I'm not joking), and was a physical fighter to men, women, kids, and never swore tho' .. .. actually use the F Bomb.. and we were all stunned, because we'd simply never believed our parents would use such language. I don't know what he was swearing about but it was a big shock to us kids.

My mother didn't stop at lecturing us about using swear words, we were not permitted to use the word Liar or pig ..to each other.. or about anyone.. so if one of us was to call another sibling either of those terms we'd be shut down PDQ as if we'd let rip with a string of F bombs...
 
We were raised by strict parents and an even stricter grandmother (maternal). We had to be total angels. f2bb3eb36c01b6e995daa883a12862f3[1].jpgThere is no way that my siblings and I would cuss; we never adapted that language.

@Murrmurr , I am laughing picturing bubbles coming out of your mouth.
 
I never knew why people had to cuss to express themselves. My dad was in the military as a career and he seldom swore, at least around the house he didn’t. My dad told me one time that if you want to be taken seriously, don’t include swearing when addressing your superiors. When he caught me smoking at 15, I learned he could swear.
 
hollydolly said:
ha!! I knew it.. sister from another mister... my mother used to say the same thing. ''If you can't express yourself without resorting to bad language then don't speak at all' is what she always said, and I hear her now, when I do swear... :ROFLMAO:
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It would be so much fun if we were 'sisters from another mister" ❣️
 
I started cussing in my early teens ; it was my way of flipping off a misogynistic society that placed so many of what I considered inane restrictions on women.. To my way of thinking, it expresses negative feelings so much better than "Oh darn!" The S and F words are among my favorites. There are some words I rarely or never use
 
I never swore in front of my mother or my kids. And my son (who is in his mid 50s) does not swear in front of me. Even when the wrench slips off the bolt and we hit ourselves in the forehead.

Around other folks I'm not so polite. The language we use is just habit.
 
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