Conversational cursing...
Why just now on another board I posted, 'I wish I had more friends that cursed at me'. Vex stepped right up and come thru with 'god damnit mae, what the fuck'. She spelled it out and everything. That's a friend. /sob
Seriously, Prego will tell you our father is a conversational curser. At the age of 7 I stood aghast at my father when he asked where I learned the dirty word I just blurted out. :jaw Everything with our dad is, 'Lin', what the fuck is for dinner?' 'Lin (mom) what the fuck is that smell?' (she's filipina and the food just smells, god). It was normal growing up. When I had Catherine and she got old enough to repeat things, I had to clamp down on the ole padre and give him the 'look' when he'd curse.
'Oh what the fuck?!'
Me screaming down the hall, 'DAD!'
Dad mumbling, 'shit, sorry.'
Me sighing.
Like tonight on the way home some guy blazed past me on a merge, I mumbled, 'Oh dont be a cock!' and in the back seat I heard a soft murmuring...
'Dont be a cock, mommy?'
:oops:
Do you conversationally curse? I dont curse around people I do not know. I think that's rude and insulting. But if I know you, oh its on. If I'm really angry I can't help it, if i'm flaming pissed that I just can't think straight, I will literally stop breathing and then blurt out 'god durn boogery poop head!'. I dont know, its odd.
I hear people in public cursing and I'm like, 'dang that's rude'. You see it a lot from the teens and 20ish crowd. Dont give a damn that my daughter is listening intently and watching, they'll just curse like no one's there. I hate that.
What say you?
sometimes, i do it out of sheer and total madness ( shit fuck god damnit = i hurt myself, or broke something )
i got into a sailor-mode for awhile there, cussing left and right even when it wasn't needed, though lately i've been watching myself since its apparently "unladylike" and "unbecoming" of someone like me ( ooo stfu , im not trying to be a lady so suck my ass ;p )
im not.. offended by it, unless its directed at me and intended that i be offended... i dont really notice cursing that much, but then, im not trying to protect a kid's ears.
there are just times where "my goodness" and "shoot" just dont get the point across.. so you say "holy fuck!" or "shit!"
(Oh, and sometimes I think I'm British.)
Around my kiddos, I curb it, but I still let shit slip out. Thankfully, they don't repeat it...at least they don't here, hopefully they don't say it elsewhere either. I usually make up words when they're around if I slip up. It ends up being, "Fudgingicesheetsgoobledededarn" or something along those lines.
At work, I can't cuss, since I work with customers and vendors all day.
I used to put the guys to shame in the military. But, I mean, really...what's so bad about a chick saying pussy or fuck or whatever? They're only words. =)
Also, if Shakespeare can curse in his literature, then I can do it when speaking. He may not have used the same words commonly used today, but it was still cursing according to the standards of the time. And I'm pretty sure if he cursed in his writing, he did it while speaking too.
However I wouldn't encourage it in front of children...anymore then I would encourage sex in front of children. Some things they just have to figure out on their own when they're old enough to do so.
I frown on cursing and very rarely in any situation curse. I find it to be a lack of verbal imagination on the speakers part.
He is so full of shit, he curses at me all the time. :sad:
I am really bad about calling people names and cussing while driving.
Though I usually only use them for lack of anything else to say. My non-cussing swears are much more imaginative. My favorite being "well heck fired sugar."
Got it from my mother. She pulls off the Victorian attitude really well, but that's just for show. Whenever she drops something, she screams out SHIT! Immediatly followed by "Did you call me?" from pops.
There's this one episode I'll never forget. Went with mom to Crown Books. She lingered around me till she let one go, then quickly rushed off, making others think it was me. Kinda sucks when Yanks associate Brits with sophistication.
Wait that came out wrong...no it didn't. Ok yeah I'm gunna be quiet now.
I've never thought the British were sophistocated
No they aren't. My mother is proof positive. Sat me in front of horror movies before I could speak. One time, I invited a friend over (kindergarten years), and we watched Trolls. He never came back :(
Yeah, I curse a whole damn lot around people I know. Conversational cursing. I like that. Yup, that's me.
Now and then I'll let a 'fuck' or two slip in front strangers, but for the most part I try to keep it clean if I don't know you.
Someone said something about cursing in Teamspeak the other day. One of my guildmates said "Well, just ask Pipa."
"Huh?"
"Cursing, Pip."
"Oh .... SHIT DAMN PISS."
"Yeah, that's the Pip I know."
I'm in the same boat, Roz. Coulda been your sister. Except for the filipina thing.
:grin:
I frown on cursing and very rarely in any situation curse. I find it to be a lack of verbal imagination on the speakers part.
I like that in a person.
edit: I think I was a sailor in a previous life. I do try to cap it at work and certain social situations but sometimes it just slips out. :o
My hubby is just as bad. When we do have a kid the only uncertainty is whether his first word will be fuck or ficken. :roll: