Swearing is good

[Ja Rhule]

http://screen.yahoo.com/buzzfeed/7-f-king-reasons-swear-230143606.html

 

So get your fuging facts right.

[toldozer]

I love cussing, however certain phrases do offended me and im not cool with people cussing in front of my niece and nephew or any young children for that matter.

[KendrickPanther]

Some of the stuff we teach our kids in the south is a bit silly to me. We teach them to respect their teachers and coaches, if a teacher or coach talked to me now, the way they did when I was a kid...there would be some punches thrown.

 

We teach them not to wear hats indoors. That had no application to my adult life.

 

We teach them not to curse. Then we all grow up and most of us curse regularly. My sister had a foul mouth for many years but now that she has kids she scolds me for using even the tamest curse words. It's all a bit silly to me but I go along with it.

[CarolinaNCSU]

I try not to openly cuss in some situations (around kids, elderly, strangers, etc.), but I see nothing wrong with sprinkling in some to spice up my language. It's been taboo in our culture for really no reason at all IMO

[88 Bronco]

fug it

[Herbert The Love Bug]

I haven't cussed in 13 years

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[Porn Shop Clerk]

language should be celebrated, not reviled

[Crixtala]

language should be celebrated, not reviled

 

a-fuging-men

[PhillyB]

nothing wrong with flavoring particles

[frash.exe]

Some of the stuff we teach our kids in the south is a bit silly to me. We teach them to respect their teachers and coaches, if a teacher or coach talked to me now, the way they did when I was a kid...there would be some punches thrown.

We teach them not to wear hats indoors. That had no application to my adult life.

We teach them not to curse. Then we all grow up and most of us curse regularly. My sister had a foul mouth for many years but now that she has kids she scolds me for using even the tamest curse words. It's all a bit silly to me but I go along with it.

Every time you wear your hat during the national anthem, Jesus sends George Washington to hell for a week.

[Captroop]

Occasional swearing I think is fine, and usage in the expletive is pretty much involuntary, and as mentioned in the video, is proven pain management. If I drop a weight on my toe, the last thing on my mind is going to be using family friendly language.

 

However I whole-heartedly disagree with the article's contention that is somehow shows that you are an active and accepted member of a group. Overuse of swear words to me just seems boorish and lazy. You're replacing language with something much simpler when you just blurt out streams of curse words. And I'll admit I get embarrassed when someone in my party is just laying down Wu Tang Clan worthy speech in public. It's juvenile.

 

I used to do live TV and radio, so I had to totally break myself of cursing, because if you use it with any regularity, you will without fail blurt out something you regret while broadcasting. And I found it like breaking an addiction to soda. I don't miss it at all. So now, cursing to me is kind of like drinking. I use it socially, but I can totally live without cursing (save for dropping a weight on a toe, as mentioned before). So while I'm by no means a censor, I don't think it's as defensible, and should be normalized as much as that video would suggest. Keeping it taboo and fun means not using it all the time!

 

And as for the pain management, I think that has less to do with the actual cursing, and more to do with a total release of inhibition. It's really just like screaming. Both cursing and screaming are things that get kind of suppressed in us by polite society, and really letting go of those restrictions is what helps with the pain or stress or anxiety. Just let out a big scream some time, you'll feel worlds better.  

[Cat]

I teach my kid that i care about his attitude behind the words he uses not as much about the actual words. IMO calling someone an idiot is as bad as calling someone a fuger. I tell him he can't say curse words because he will get in trouble with teachers and many adults in authority and other kids parents wont let him hang with their kids so he isn't allowed to use them until he is old enough to control his rhetoric at will. I rarely curse in front of him so it doesn't become influence his rhetoric.