C'mon, throw me a frickin' bone man!
I rarely use the "f" word, and when I do it is for emphasis as expressed in previous posts. To say "He's no f----- good feels more intense than "He's a bastard" or "He's atrocious". This does not, I believe get to the crux of the original question. This is an approximate quote that I heard many years ago when I first went into the Air Force. "So I meet this f---broad and we have a few f----drinks, and we get in the f---car, and go to a f--- flick." I have no idea where or why this way of speaking originated any more than I know how the expressions "right?" and ""ya know" started to be so commonly used in teenage conversation.
Er..Craven, et al, could it be that the smegging f word is used in smegging English speaking countries more than in non-English speaking countries because it is a smegging English smegging word? Smeg it.
Heehee smartypants
I use the f word far more than I smegging should.
It's a possibility I'm willing to consider.
BTW, It's used more often in the US than any country.
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Ya know, the US is home to the ultimate extremists!
Actually lil'k, I was joking again.
I DO think we sue the F word more than any nation, our films are so full of them that foreigners ask if we like the word.
But I have no supporting evidence to my assertion that the US uses the word the most. At least not if the asseryion is fair.
But it is a valid assertion as long we are talking totals.
I think it is, and I'm serious, we take things to the extreme and f--- is an extreme word.
I was apologizing for swearing on the thread - thought it was deleted, there it is on the first page....
Slappy and I had the exact same morning. Spooky. And farking annoying as all heck. Stooopid snow/ice/rain crap. It's spring fer crying out loud! But I digress....
I use that word. A lot. The boy scolds and says it's not very 'feminine' (pppbbbttthhh). Then he uses the c word while driving then I say "Don't use that farking word!" And so it goes.
Maybe a bad habit, maybe I mean it, maybe I just like it. I've never heard either of my parents say it so it's not a product of a bad home life. I'm not sure, but I sound like a truck driver. I can still live with myself.
Sugar, when I lived up Nawth, I used the f word every morning I stepped outside in the winter. Stooopid snow/ice/rain crap really bought that out of me.
Sugar, you awoke this morning in a sea of soggy oreo cookies on the floor with Def Leopard's "Love Bites" blaring on the stereo, too?
That is spooky.
Sugar, my ma used to drop f-bombs all over the place when I was growing up - never once have I ever thought I can from a 'bad home'.
In Guatemala, I once ordered Tsing Tao beer in a proper accent.I almost got beat up by the Guatemehelian barkeep.
Well, Craven - there IS no argument that you Americans do not sue a lot!
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Soggy Oreo cookies? Please tell all.
Milk makes cookies soggy.
Just so's you all know, I'm laughing at Tsing Tao/chingado.
The rest of this I don't even understand.
so, what's 'chingdao' sound like in spanish?
A drama professor I once took a course with, told the class that men in groups tend to use the F- word to express male bonding. I've heard women use the F- word, but they weren't in groups.
I agree with Bi-Polar's assessment. The use of the F- word tends to "sum it all up" for men. When women use it, maybe they're trying to be "one of the boys".
