Swearing

Ronni

Ronni

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I swear a lot. Cuss like a sailor is what my kids say šŸ˜‚ I always have.

When they were younger I finally told them look, I am not gonna be a hypocrite and tell you you canā€™t swear when I do all the time. So Iā€™ll just tell you instead to be mindful of when you do. Some people/places donā€™t care, some do. Youā€™ll figure out which far more quickly by experience than me lecturing you about it.

I follow that same advice myself. When Iā€™m working with a new client I am careful with my language. Over time it becomes obvious which clients swear themselves, and which donā€™t. If they do then I do. Every one of my current clients do! šŸ˜‚
 

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I don't swear like a sailor and my friends don't either. I prefer to be around people that can express themselves without swearing like a sailor. It tells me a lot about a person and their values and how much they value themselves. Of course thats just me. I confess to saying a word sometimes to myself but I would never curse someone out. To each his own. I was not raised that way and tried to raise my 2 girls the same way. Being from the South probably has a lot to do with it also. Just my opinion and looks like I am probably the only one that thinks like that. Thats okay as I have to live with myself and not impress anybody.
 
My ex- sister-in-law says "F this, F that' every time she breathes out. It's gross to hear a woman swear like she does. Bare in mind, I'm no angelic choirboy, either. But she swears to the point, it's meaningless. When you have 5/6 F's in one sentence, it looses something. I think there are a few times when swearing is a way to convey how frustrated you are. I don't think it should be a routine practice.

My Navy boot camp chief could swear. He could go on for a few minutes, and not repeat himself. It was a natural talent. After one of his swearing sessions, we would have applauded, but we were too afraid of him. He was good.
 
terry123 said:
I don't swear like a sailor and my friends don't either. I prefer to be around people that can express themselves without swearing like a sailor. It tells me a lot about a person and their values and how much they value themselves. Of course thats just me. I confess to saying a word sometimes to myself but I would never curse someone out. To each his own. I was not raised that way and tried to raise my 2 girls the same way. Being from the South probably has a lot to do with it also. Just my opinion and looks like I am probably the only one that thinks like that. Thats okay as I have to live with myself and not impress anybody.
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I donā€™t swear like a sailor, I swear like a Marine šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚
 
I try not to swear out loud against someone. Instead, I search my brain for a more civil way to verbalize. Swearing shows anger and the other person will probably show anger in kind. Internally, I'll vent a little but not too much. We are older now and should have learned better ways to cope.
 
I donā€™t swear like a sailor and donā€™t swear at others except occasionally at my husband but I do swear if I hurt myself or when Iā€™m by myself.
I also donā€™t judge myself for swearing. Iā€™m ok with it. If I was yelling f bombs at others then Iā€™d have to reconsider my behaviour.
 
When by myself I will curse from time to time but rarely aloud if anyone is nearby - - including family and I almost never hear any family members, kids, grandkids,etc. ever swear within my range of hearing. It's how I was brought up and that's how we brought up our family.

I have no idea which of them may swear like troopers when out and about on their own but when among family it's just not part of our vocabulary and we prefer it that way.

In fairness, I must add that, years back before retirement, when I worked as a supervising engineer on highway construction projects I could swear with the best of them and sometimes it was the only was to get a point across. Even then, I managed to leave the language at the job and not transfer it to home and family.
 
In the 3-generation small house I grew up in, swearing was a guarantee that you would get your mouth washed out with soap and, possibly, also a pussywillow switch to your backside if the Lord's name was used. Thus, I never acquired the habit. There are those times, though, where some swearing seems justified and becomes a tension relief valve (e.g., intense pain from kidney stones, seeing a family member back through the garage door in your nice shiny car, losing an engine at altitude in a SEL aircraft, etc.).
 
It always seemed odd to me that "gosh darn it" is not equated with "God damn it", since they are the same thing and everybody knows it. I have commented on this in previous threads on the subject regarding words such as flippin, floppin, friggin, shoot, etc. Who are we kidding (or trying to kid)?

Tony
 
I'm alone most of the time and I talk out loud to myself and I swear a lot......the F word is sometimes as frequent as a punctuation mark.
However in company I seem to automatically shift into a reliably proper language mode with no profane words whatever.
I suppose that indicates some kind of compartmentalization of my identity or self image or something......I wonder which mode is more authentic, the vulgar alone me or the polite, articulate social me?
 
I swear at my husband, in our house in private, I suppose I need to clarify that since everyone else feels the need say they would never swear in public. But when someone swears in front of me, in public, I do not think they are bad people. I just think they swear a lot.

However, when Bella bit me I swore at her. Seems she didnā€™t care since she bit me again a couple days later.

People are so judgmental-you are a bad person if you swear, you are a bad person if you have tattoos, you are a bad person if your skirt is too short, or your pants droop too low, actually how you look or how you express yourself using swears words has nothing to do with the type of person you are, IMO.

Serial killers, con men and woman, thieves, and the like are ā€œbadā€ people and seemingly very polite, and well dressed with no identifying marks or mods of dress which is how they are successful are getting victims.

Everyone might think on that a bit. šŸ˜‚
 
I'm pretty good in public, but at home? The air is blue sometimes.

When one is tempted to hurl an f-bomb at the idiot who just cut you off in public and your grandchildren are in the back seat, here is a chart of Shakespearean insults that both get the point across and educate the afore-mentioned young minds. Pick one from column A, one from column B, ā€¦ā€¦.

Shakespearean Insults: Fun with #Poetic Putdowns - Word Bank Writing & Editing
 
Growing up my family never swore so I never got in the habit. These days I've loosened up a bit, it usually comes out when I drop or spill something and especially when I burn myself on the stove, stub my toe or worse yet when I hit my funny bone.
Never the F word though, that's a little to filthy for me.
 

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