When you want to cuss (or swear or curse...) but can't, what do you say?

[DISUNC]

This reminds me! I took this picture for you at Shea this summer. LizzY and I thought of you when we saw this DU.

I admit, I usually just curse!

 

[Scornelius]

"Crap in a can!!"

It doesn't make sense, but it just always seems to slip out.

 

[katerkat]

I still say the words. Funnily enough, my toddler-parrot has repeated EVERYTHING I've said but the curse words. And I've never told him they're bad words and he shouldn't say them. I don't know how he knows. Granted, I usually say "frick" or "frack" instead of the alternative, but "frack" is a curse word in another universe... My mother once said the s-word in front of him and he got all offended and said, "Gramma, say 'holy crap!'"

 

[Katy Belle]

Well, Mom used to say "Son of a bow-legged anteater!" and now I say it

Another from Mom, "For Pete's Sake!" When my youngest was about 2 I yelled that line in the car, sort of at him and he said, "I HATE Pete's Snake." So now we say THAT all the time!

Crumb
Bloody

 

[I'm a Divaaaaa]

Hah, I just kind of grunt and make noise and stutter until the overbearing need to say something obscene passes.

 

[actionvaughn]

mother trucker
shut the front door
fiddlesticks
son of a fruit salad
frack

The topic was what I say when I don't cant curse, but I usually don't unless I'm CAPSLOCK ANGRY, and that's usually after work.

 

[Mickey Fliers]

I am partial to "Good Gravy". Those are my words of choice with a few "Crap on a cracker" and "Fudgescicles" thrown in for good measure.

 

[kaw1218]

This reminds me! I took this picture for you at Shea this summer. LizzY and I thought of you when we saw this DU.



I admit, I usually just curse!

 

[kaw1218]

Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Not an approved substitution, but is always followed with "pray for ______" ...at least in theory. If it isn't there, it is implied. When very upset, "all the saints" follows, too.

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once in awhile i'll say Jesus Mary and Ralph. I have no idea where that came from...but my kids think it's hysterical.

 

[MUFFYCAT]

I admit, I usually just curse!

It gets the message across better.
I need one word curse words, the phrases are too long and lose it's meaning with me.

 

[Todd&Copper]

Sometimes I'll say Shazbatt (from Mork& Mindy)
DH will say Mother Pussbucket.

 

[Southern4sure]

Oh dear mostly, but I have been known to say freakin and dang and a few other choice words if I'm provoked.....

 

[ChrizJen]

I usually say Freak (or Freakin') (and sometimes Frick 'n Frack)

And sometimes (just before I let the REAL word slip out), I say "Sheets and Blankets" (I usually draw the Shhhhh out...I guess to give myself time to think about what I'm saying and change it before it comes out...)

 

[Cee]

God...................HELP ME! Although I usually just say it. What the hell......

 

[PADISFAM]

'Blast' for all you Star Wars fans & Sugar, Honey, Ice Tea are two of my favs

 

[Mellie2162]

Lol...the other day my DS was doing something and got frustrated and shouted Sweet frozen niblets!

 

[nicolemomof4cuties]

holy mother of pete!
crappymunga!
frick
frickin'
ding-dong (as in" every time we go into the ding-dong Guitar Center you just have to have another frickin' guitar! GOSH!)
GOSH
ding-dongit
blasted

theres more just not hittin' my brain at this point. I've got depleted Mommy brain you know. Lost too many brain cells from so many pregnancies....raising them and now homeschooing. LOL!

 

[nicolemomof4cuties]

My mother once said the s-word in front of him and he got all offended and said, "Gramma, say 'holy crap!'"

 

[Ciao Mickey]

freakin

 

[nicolemomof4cuties]

Oh. My mom wouldn't say any swear words when I was little. She will say butt now but that is about it. She wouldn't let us say heck or darn because they were "by words". I never really understood what "by words" meant but that is what she would say was the reason we shouldn't say them.

She also used to say that people who use swear words don't have large enough vocabularies to express themselves. Now that I am older I think "nah - sometimes they are the perfect word for what you are trying to express" - be it an owie, frustration, anger or whatever.

technically they are euphemisms or use of an expression in place of another expression that is disagreeable or offensive. Yeah, we weren't allowed to even say euphemisms but ol' Mom cussed like a sailor. It makes no sense to this day...... Oh, and she said euphemism too when telling us not to say dang or what not.