my life would be so much less stressful if I cursed..

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My father used to line all of the children up in the dining room every Sunday after church and "wash our mouths out" with a bar of Ivory soap, saying cursing is bad and this is the punishment for it, even though none of us at that age had ever started using that language. I think the oldest of six of us at the time was maybe 9 years old. This could possibly account for my dislike of Religion. My father, however, did curse like a drunken sailor when he was upset. Go figure.

Sadly, swearing is one of the only ways that I feel that I can express myself. Plus, a lot of my friends and some of my family members swear a lot

Your father sounds like he was a typical hypocritical evangelist to me. Why are they so common?

Your father sounds like he was a typical hypocritical evangelist to me. Why are they so common?



"c**t" is one of the few swear words I feel still has some "impact", and as such I very rarely use it. If someone went up to me and called me one, I would probably still get mad at them, whereas if they merely called me an "a**hole" I'd be like "yeah, whatever, I know I can be one sometimes".



f*****g THIS. I believe that there are some things that simply cannot be expressed without swearing, and unlike many people, I believe in being honest and not sugar-coating things to make things seem "nice" for other people, and if that involves dropping f-bombs left and right, so be it.

c**t is one of my favourite words, frequently traded as a greeting between good friends.

The way it's pronounced so differently in various dialects is hilarious. To me, hearing an American say it is very very funny.

I would think the therapeutic value of cursing is limited for those of us who were raised by the profane and blasphemous.

I always think people who do excessive swearing have problems with anger. I also don't think they're cool when they cuss. Saying one cuss word when they are mad or make a mistake is one thing.

I did have a father who always cursed when mad and mom told us those were grown up words when my brothers asked why does he get to say bad words and we can't. I also remember my brother pointing out profanity in a rated R movie and my mom said it's a grown up movie so they have bad words in them. We would all get our mouths slapped if we said them. We got verbal warnings first before she did it so we never said them so she didn't have to slap our mouths much. I did get my mouth washed out with soap once when I was about nine for saying a bad word.

This reminds me of Kristy Thomas's step sister. I wonder if her saying boo and bullfrogs was her way of cursing. It's like how Ralphie said fudge in the movie when in reality he said f**k but they did that for the audience because they didn't want bad words in it since it was a family movie. The baby sitters and little sisters was a children book series so of course it wouldn't have profanity in it so Ann M Martin perhaps made up her own terms for Karen for when she curses. It's like how people will say darn for damn or shoot for s**t and people do say fudge for f**k. But some people will still make a fuss out of those non profanity words Maybe they compare it to n***a for when people say that word to mean the n word. I knew a girl in seventh grade who was always saying bull instead of BS. Some people say crud instead of crap or any other swear word.