Do you cuss?

[smitch425]

I feel the same way. I swear around my family but refrain from doing so when I'm around people who are offended by it or those I don't know well. I do find it hypocritical, though, when those same people who are so offended by swearing think nothing of saying unkind things about others or spreading malicious gossip.

I would much rather hear someone swear than talk negative about someone. My friends do not swear around me, out of respect. I've never told them not to. They just know I don't do it, so they don't. I had one friend that talked about everyone behind their back, and I had to cut her out of my life. I don't tolerate that type of behavior.

 

[donalduck]

SO THAT'S WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU. You should be parent of the year.

I do swear in front of small children, but only if they are my own or those belonging to friends who also swear in front of their children. For the record, my kids have heard plenty of "bad" words come from my mouth and none of them have ever used one in front of me or been in trouble for using one in school. We have taught them that they shouldn't use these words because some people will be upset by it and some people will make stupid assumptions about their intelligence based on using these words.

I do swear in professional business settings, but only if it's a setting where it's acceptable. I've been in a technical field surrounded by highly intelligent people for a long time. While I'm sure the swearing doesn't compare to what you hear in some other professions, it certainly does happen fairly regularly.

In both of the above cases, the reason I don't swear around certain people or in certain settings is the same. I respect other people's beliefs and I choose to not intentionally offend them, regardless of whether I think their reason for being offended is silly.

 

[mrodgers]

I work a working class job in a manufacturing plant 99.999% full of other working class males. Ah, yeah, I routinely throw out the language pretty much constantly.

All 99.999% of us have respect for the 0.001% women who we work with and watch what we are saying around them. But.... If you women chose to work in a working class job that is 99.999% men, expect that there will be slip-ups and do not scream at me as if I just strangled your kitten when I do slip up. The respect goes out the door at that point and I don't give a ..... about if you are offended or not.

Around children, aside from maybe it slipping out, no. Not your children or mine. The slip-ups in these circumstances would be similar to I just smacked my thumb with a hammer while siding the house or laying flooring or busted a knuckle breaking loose a bolt on the car's transmission.

Around family, no censor when I am with my brother or one of my brother-in-laws. With Aunts, Uncles, mom, the rest of my in-laws, grandparents, etc, I don't cuss or swear.

It's all about matching the environment you are in. In the manufacturing plant, it's spouted off everywhere and anyone would start talking that way. In the environment of children or family, or strangers, then that is not the way to talk.

Someone mentioned movies. I agree it is riddled through movies constantly any more and I think just to have that word in there. I watch the romantic comedies with my wife. I don't know anyone who would talk to a woman in the way they do in these movies, nor would any woman I know talk the way they do in the movies during normal conversation. Now, a well placed particular word used for emphasis is entirely appropriate. Calling up the bride to be and saying, "We ... up, we lost Doug!" after all that happened in that movie, entirely appropriate. Melissa McCarthy talking the way she did in Heat with Sandra Bullock, that is the way a character like that would talk, entirely appropriate. Two cops throughout a movie chasing bad guys, yeah, you expect to hear it. In a romantic comedy with a guy and a girl just having a normal conversation and every other word out of their mouths is this word, not appropriate or realistic one bit.

 

[lakelandgal70]

Mostly when I am driving as I get super annoyed with the high amount of traffic around here during the winter months. I do sometimes curse at home if I get mad but have really been trying to curb it. Not something nice for others to hear really. JMO

 

[BlueStarryHat]

I grew up on 2nd Street in South Philly. We all cursed and still do. The funny thing is, I never cursed in front of my mother. It's funny because she used the F-bomb like Rembrandt used a paintbrush, frequently and well. A true South Philly Millie. My grandmother was the same and so was my great-grandmother, who I was lucky enough to know as a child as she played cards and cursed when the hand didn't go her way-blowing smoke from her Lucky Strikes as she did so. I miss them all so much. What indomitable women they all were.

 

[Ciao Mickey]

I'm in a mood. A few bad days at work and with the personal life not the best right now, the only things going through my head are a series of expletives. Out loud I try to work very hard not to do it around my son, but when it's just adults, and I'm in this kind of mood, the words just flow out like a regular part of my vocabulary.

Growing up I was around several adults that cussed, but my dad did very rarely. He said it was best to save those kind of words so that way when you did say the person you said it to would take notice of the seriousness of the situation. It's true also... whenever my dad said a swear word (I can only remember a few times) I shut my mouth and listened.

Fess up... do you have a potty mouth?

Yes I do (and in more than one language ).

 

[goofyintoronto]

Yes I do (and in more than one language ).

So do i! Thats the beauty of knowing multiple languages.

 

[glaserjm]

Yes I do...quite frequently. I have a job that consists pretty much of speaking and writing long-winded spiels that contain repetitive, boring and stupidly complicated words. When I'm not doing that I like to keep my words short and to the point...there are few things that do the job better than a gold ol' swear word.

 

[JVL1018]

I do.
I know two people who don't curse. I do generally not curse in front of them because obviously they don't like it.

Today, I was driving my daughter, son and sons friend(8th grade and 6th grade) home from school.
The streets here are horrific. Tons of snow from storm after storm, they plowed terribly, so there's like a lane and a half and 3-4 foot ice/snow banks on either side.
Crowded with middle schoolers walking and getting picked up, some idiot decided to park and wait for their kid so no one could get past him.

I had some choice words about him, and idiot was the nicest one.

So I say to my sons friend, shhh don't tell your mom I cursed.

Silence in the car and they we all burst out laughing because his mom is the worst offender with cursing.

At this age, I curse in front of my kids, not constant, but if I forget to do something and say Oh, shoot(but not shoot) I forgot to go to the store. No big deal.

I'm just as likely to say oh shoot, though.

The sh word around here us in normal conversation all the time.
I have so much ----to do today.
You will not believe the ----I had to deal with at work today.
Oh ----, I forgot my phone..

 

[paintnolish]

Yep, I do, but dh does not. I mean not ever, ever, ever. If reading something aloud or singing along, he will skip the word.

 

[Fjobe]

I rarely ever swear - probably less than once a year (in traffic of course). There are also some additional words that I choose not to typically use because they are strong words that I don't like.

I honestly don't find it offensive if someone else swears. I just don't like doing it myself.

 

[DeaverTex]

I swear, more than I should, typically in the car or at my own house. Though lately we have taken up swearing in Mandarin and Cantonese. We have a 15 year old Chinese exchange student, that has introduced us to some very colorful words, words that mean a whole horrible slew of things rolled together in one, that would make Deb from Dexter blush . My DH is in construction, my dad a sailor and step dad was a truck driver, so we are well exposed in this family. I use to not be as bad but my best friend has an extremely foul mouth and since I was young my language ( even my accent) imitates those around me subconsciously. When I am around family or others with strong southern accents, mine reverts to what it was, where as normally, you can hear the southern accent but it is not down right deep southern drawl.

Do you think he could make an instructional video and put it up on Youtube? I know a couple of German swear words, and one insult in Gurkhali (I think that's right), and of course a couple of Spanish words that will start a fight. But mostly, they're either obscure or just don't have the impact of English swear words. For example, the German word for excrement is very similar to the English word, but when a German wants to express disgust he will usually use the English word. Mostly because the German word really isn't considered all that bad (Big Bird used it when he stubbed his toe), and I think it's because it doesn't have the explosive sound that English does.

 

[WorldWacky]

I don't swear. My dad NEVER swore in front of us. He was a city firefighter, so I'm sure his vocabulary was different at the firehouse. Mom would a little here and there. The "S" word. I'm Catholic and as a kid was pretty sure that I would be doomed in the afterlife if I started swearing.
I don't love it when my girlfriends casually toss the "F" word into the conversation. I admit it makes me cringe. But then again, I'm "the prissy" one of the group. I work in a school and have young children, so not swearing is what is natural for me. When I get REALLY heated a very forceful "gosh darn it!" will escape me.

 

[Soldier's*Sweeties]

There are probably still mistakes there, but my corrections HAD to be better than the original.

 

[U2_rocks!]

My parents never cursed, and the friends I hung around with most didn't either, so I was never comfortable with it, at least not hard-core cursing (I use all sorts of mild words though). I don't mind hearing/reading F bombs here and there, especially where they enhance the conversation, but I have never seen the need for them to be tossed around like common adjectives or extra words that don't seem to belong in the sentence. A well placed curse word really can give well-deserved emphasis to a situation - I just can't manage to choke out one of the more crude ones myself (F word, C word, M-F etc.).

But if I hear someone punctuating their sentences with them practically every other word, I wonder if they are trying too hard to sound cool or if they grew up in a household where their parents didn't know any other way to speak. I guess I just don't understand that way of speaking.

 

[Sultana]

When the situation calls for it, which is several times a day. I'm not bothered by it, they're just words, they don't actually harm anyone.

You must be my long-lost twin!
Same goes for me.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

Yep.

 

[saranynsandiego]

LOL i have a swear jar at work. thankfully there is only 3 quarters in there. at home/truck its a different story

 

[Planogirl]

LOL i have a swear jar at work. thankfully there is only 3 quarters in there. at home/truck its a different story

Swear jar....

Does it really matter if people swear or not? If it's constant it can get annoying but I see it as usually harmless. You can easily insult people without any swear words when it comes right down to it but throwing a few in might just make a little more impact.

 

[TLSnell1981]

It's situational. Usually when I'm or in pain or watching sports Although, sometimes I swear, just for the #% of it.

No, I don't.

But I've noticed that women who don't cuss are viewed as stuck-up or snobbish.

It seems that women who have a potty mouth tend to be liked more

I must be very well liked when I'm angry.

I don't think that people who don't curse are snobby; I think that people who do curse as part of their regular language have no self-control, no class, and makes the person sound less intelligent. YMMV.

I can curse in three languages. Does that make me "more stupider"?

….OP, I NEVER cuss! EVER!


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