My gran used to say there was nothing clever about swearing. She was wrong.

@ossobucotemp,

Hah, I found the 'story' I thought I lost. It was hiding ...

I remember my adult female cousin in full frown when I said **** once in their home. (We both went to the same catlick school, but she was 8 months older.) 'Course, her husband, a pretty good guy, swore, if not all day long, fairly loosely when the word fit the scenario. I no longer recall my reaction, let's just assume annoyance.

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@ossobucotemp,

Actually I sort of remember - her point of view had to do with taste. Taste in proper speech.

They had children, not there at the time, but I do remember her, years earlier, being horrified and making a joke out of it when her then three year old said **** in a bank line.

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I was raised to keep the swearing to a very bare minimum. But my hitch in the Navy rectified all of that. That and reading books by Henry Miller and Terry Southern. I am a certified member of the cussing, sloppy person's club and I stay up relatively late.

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@edgarblythe,

Sloppy cussing group, I'm in.

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@ossobucotemp,

I take that back. I'm only for cussing when it is on point.

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@ossobucotemp,

Sometimes I throw in cussing for comic effect.

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@edgarblythe,

The truth is, it happens when I'm aggravated and not feeling disassociated.

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I can't drive without swearing, but that's only because there's so many f***ing s****ing c***s out there.

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What a start to a day - just found out I have a low IQ.
I hardly ever use swear words
I am not a real night owl and
I am not a messy.
Does it increase my IQ, that I know swearwords in four languages even if I never use them?

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@saab,

Do you practice the ones you know?

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@roger,

Now and then, but I prefer to slamm doors.
Once upon a time a woman criticised my mother in a way noone should have done.
We were doing the dishes. I throw the dishtowel in the water - walked out of the kitchen - slammed the door. IT WAS A REVOLVING DOOR. It hit my back.
There and then I used all the swearwords I knew.

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@saab,

Well, slamming doors won't do a thing to maintain fluency. Except when the door hits back.

Lordy, are we the only people awake tonight?

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@roger,

Here it is 10:38 a.m.
I am up and have had breakfast and am ready for my eleven o´clock coffee and it must be long over your bedtime.

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@saab,

My bedtime is usually around 3:00 a.m., which is fast approaching.

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@izzythepush,

I did try to teach my kids the right way to swear. Too little salt - bland. Too much salt - yuck..

My atheist GF once asked me why a theist like me would use swearing phrases like "God damn it!". This typically happens when working on some poorly designed POS car or something. I told her I was not swearing, it was a command : )

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@Leadfoot,

I don't class that as swearing, not proper swearing anyway.

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@izzythepush,

Me neither. I was serious. The smiley face understandably confused

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@izzythepush,

"A study by the University of Minnesota suggests that the messy desk of geniuses is actually linked to their intelligence."

I bet messy hair is too.

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@Doubtful,

Hah! When I was working for an oil & gas well servicing company, I shared my opinion that a rig hand with a neat hair style would never make a hand. He never conceded the point, but I was right.

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@Doubtful,

Serial killers are supposed to be very neat and tidy.

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My gran used to say there was nothing clever about swearing. She was wrong.

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