Cussing 😳

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Do you get offended by bad language?  Does it have an impact on what you’re reading? Does it give you an bad impression of someone?  Do you think it makes someone appear less intelligent and unable to express themselves without the need to swear?

Personally it doesn’t trouble me and doesn’t give me any negative impressions – I tend to act like a naughty child when I hear and say the F word 😃

I had a conversation with my in-laws the other night.  They do read my blog and fortunately are broad-minded enough not to be offended by my language.  As it happens I don’t swear generally, certainly not infront of the girls.  Jeff and their older brothers, who all work in a predominantly male environment, all quite regularly swear – but I don’t 😇

I guess this is my outlet and sometimes only the F word will do!

I hate bad language on children and I have never heard my girls utter any profanities – we’ll certainly not infront of us.  I sometimes imagine them going into school, seeing their teacher and saying “how the fuck you doing Miss?” “We’re not doing those bastard fractions again are we?” 😳

58 thoughts on “Cussing 😳”

  1. There are times when I hear people cussing and think “Is this the time or place?” I do my best to aviod the more harsh language but I have been known to let the occasional F bomb fly. Sometimes it is the most appropriate reaction. 🙂

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  3. This made me laugh so hard!!!!! As a school teacher, I was so used to censoring myself at work and letting it fly at home! After having my daughter it has changed everything lol. I have finally, after 4 months weeded the f word out of my speaking vocabulary but good god it has taken over my writing lol. I am working on balance! But omg! The part about “how the fuck are you today miss?” I am dying!!! 😂😂😂😂

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  9. I don’t think any word is automatically bad; it is the intent of the heart and how it is used that brings any negative connotation to the word. As a Christian, I get judged (by both Christians and non-Christians) for using so-called swear words in my creative writing; but it is done either for realism of characters, or even humor, without any ill-intent. So I don’t let their prudish and often unrealistic opinions have any sway in my writing style whatsoever. Screw them if they can’t take a joke: ha ha

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  10. I have to admit that in general I do not like swearing, nor do I want to read it. That being said, I’m not going to stop reading a blog just because it has the odd swear word in it. I would probably stop reading it if it was heavily riddled with it. And I will not pretend to be some innocent angel that has never uttered a bad word, of course I have, but I do try my best not to. I will say that the one that bothers me the most is the use of the b**** word as a term of “affection”. I feel that there is no innocent way to call anyone a b****, just as there is no innocent way to tell some to f*** off.

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    1. I can’t say I would ever use that word as a term of affection 😊 it’s interesting to have other people’s views on swearing – I never never say the “C” word and would never want it said in front of me – I do like the “F” word though 😁

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  11. Ever swear in front of the kids by accident? I have an almost 2 year old and I’ve caught myself (or my wife caught me) a couple of times. But so far no repeating of the language by the babe.

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    1. Ah when my eldest daughter was about 2 she got her hands on a pot of Sudocreme – nappy cream – and plastered herself from head to toe – I could hardly pick her up, she was so slippery – I remember just saying “oh shit, shit, shit, shit” as I tried cleaning her up – she then repeated it to me! I spent the rest of the day reading story after story to make her forget her new word – spent so long reading I had no dinner ready – heard Jeff pull up on the driveway and said “oh shit, daddy’s home” 😨😨

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  12. I’m kind of on the fence about cursing. I personally don’t swear very often, and when I do it’s usually in my head and not out loud. Sometimes I take offence to it when others swear, but it depends on the situation. If that’s all someone is going to say then I tend to not listen? The occasional swear is fine. When I used to be a supervisor in the food industry, I had to train my teenagers not to swear. After a few days of jokingly saying “whoa! Language guys!” They started censoring themselves – but that was a work environment, so i think it’s a little different than “real life”

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  14. Haha, this made me laugh. Sometimes only the F word will do! I do my best not to curse in front of my kids, and they know darn well not to let us catch them with a potty mouth, but on the rare occurrences I am not ‘momming’ I can have the foul mouth of a sailor. I don’t think it shows a lack of intelligence or even a lack of respect at least when adults know when to hold it back (say at church or the grandparents).

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  15. I am often known to enhance a sentence or two or three with some of these things called swear words. I find that as I get old I don’t get as offended as I did when I was a teenager. I stopped reading books because of it.

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  17. That’s interesting – yes swearing can be used to intimidate – I actually swear less when angry – in fact my tone of voice goes quieter and slower – my swearing is usually done in a jovial manner 😁

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  18. I have been known to swear like a ‘long-shoreman’ my ex husband used to say. But I tend to keep my blog clean. It’s just not something I have done there. But they say the real ‘bad’ words aren’t swear words, they are words that are used to hurt people, and those I will not repeat here…..but they usually involve labeling people in some way.

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  22. Ah the contradictory world of cussing. You nailed it. I cuss around my friends and sometimes drop the f bomb in my writing because it feels right at the time but if my children dare say anything slightly cussy I’m horrified. At least your honest. 🙂

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