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Cussing
Nov 28, 2013 13:56:26 GMT -5
Post by 1dave on Nov 28, 2013 13:56:26 GMT -5
Attitude is Everything!Preferred swear words tell a lot about individuals and societies, what they respect and what they don't. Is sex sacred or profane? "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain." So many do. Way back when dirt was new, I strove to be "one of the guys" and copied their mode of speech. One of those intemperate words slipped out in Sunday School class with a girl I thought highly of -my first true love. I vowed to never swear again. Bad things happen and demand vocal exclamations! I found some new ones: gizmo, and trinket (the latter reserves for only the worst situations) As explained by Pavlov, "Any meaning can be attached to any stimulus." Good things happen and I (as previously mentioned to Scott - @shotgunner -) I came up with gznaznic. I was set! - until one evening a gentleman pulled into the service station I was working at. "Check the oil" he requested. He was a quart over. "I thought that was strange adding it at the last station. Would you please take it out?" Fool that I was, I had him pull over the grease pit, climbed down with an empty quart can, loosened the drain plug and watched, seemingly for hours, as a fine hair of oil seep[ed into the can. I loosened the plug a little more, then more . . . suddenly the plug fell into the main drain pan and oil shot across the bay. How hot does engine oil get? Somehow I got the plug back into place. Red armed, I climbed out of the pit and heard the gentleman say: "Young man, I have never heard such language in my life! You should be ashamed of yourself!" I was. I do use swear words, but only when they are EXACTLY what I mean. Otherwise I avoid them like the plague. I worked with a guy who used the "F" word as every third word. Finally, one day I told him that he had picked an unusual form for his "DUH" word. That is how I see it. Agree? Disagree?
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Post by mohs on Nov 28, 2013 14:09:07 GMT -5
I miss my Dad he would let loose in Italian unfortunately my parents deemed it unworthy to raise us kids with a second language that was mistake but that how it was back in the day anyway Dad would let loose in Italian so I had no idea what it meant but I knew he was agitated when he did it usually when the t.v. antenna fouled up I tried one of those words on my dear Noni (she lived with us at tender age I miss her too) I got slapped so I must of got the dialect correct mostly
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Cussing
Nov 28, 2013 14:14:14 GMT -5
Post by mohs on Nov 28, 2013 14:14:14 GMT -5
but Dad was quite a linguist he had really good trick when cussing in English in front of us kids When he said sh*t ~~usually when the t.v. antenna went on the blink ~~~ he would always add sh^t plus 2 makes 8 I miss my Dad
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Nov 28, 2013 14:57:34 GMT -5
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Post by droseraguy on Nov 28, 2013 14:57:34 GMT -5
I rarely do use those words but yesterday I had to lay into some folks that new better at work. One well placed f bomb got the point across in spades. They all know I'm generally laid back but it was time to shape up and I didn't want to have the same conversation with MY manager. How freaking old are people these days that think they can get by. Grrr need some turkey to calm my nerves.
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Cussing
Nov 28, 2013 15:37:26 GMT -5
Post by 1dave on Nov 28, 2013 15:37:26 GMT -5
I rarely do use those words but yesterday I had to lay into some folks that new better at work. One well placed f bomb got the point across in spades. They all know I'm generally laid back but it was time to shape up and I didn't want to have the same conversation with MY manager. How freaking old are people these days that think they can get by. Grrr need some turkey to calm my nerves. I was on the operating deck of a powerhouse one day when one of the bosses walked out of the control room into a milling bunch of "workers," slammed his hard hat down on the deck and colored the atmosphere with some amazing language, then stormed back into the control room. I picked up his hard hat and returned it to him. He calmly said "Thanks. Sometimes you just have to get their attention." There never really was a storm.
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Cussing
Nov 28, 2013 23:08:49 GMT -5
Post by mohs on Nov 28, 2013 23:08:49 GMT -5
I get the feeling no one gets my humor But that never stopped me from cracking myself up So a little more in the 11/22/63 post I made reference to my 2nd grade teacher Mrs. Johnson (who’s husband- the doctor- delivered me) Well one day in class Mrs. Johnson asked me: “Eddie, do you what 6 + 3 equals?" I said: “No. But shit and 2 equals 8!” That the second time a Johnson slapped me
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2013 14:09:55 GMT -5
You and I are different on this. My instinct is to give you an in depth analysis of one of my top three curse words in explanation.
But I don't want risk alienating a new friend.
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Cussing
Nov 29, 2013 14:40:37 GMT -5
Post by 1dave on Nov 29, 2013 14:40:37 GMT -5
You and I are different on this. My instinct is to give you an in depth analysis of one of my top three curse words in explanation. But I don't want risk alienating a new friend. I'm sure I'll survive. I've been around experts!
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Post by Pat on Nov 29, 2013 16:47:57 GMT -5
My two cents worth: folks cuss/swear/curse etc to emphasize whatever, usually their displeasure over something. Sometimes it is even called for, but frequently it is not.
If every other word is a so-called dirty word, the message loses its power. Soon, I lose interest in the actual message. One more thing: today's "bad" words were not always considered bad.
If somebody curses all the time, folks begin to take them less seriously. That's the problem.
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Cussing
Nov 29, 2013 17:22:46 GMT -5
Post by Fossilman on Nov 29, 2013 17:22:46 GMT -5
Use to cuss when in the oilfields,but not much anymore......My wife hates profanity words! Most of the time its not worth getting mad enough to blow words that don't sound good out of anybodies mouth!
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Post by jamesp on Nov 29, 2013 19:17:10 GMT -5
My two cents worth: folks cuss/swear/curse etc to emphasize whatever, usually their displeasure over something. Sometimes it is even called for, but frequently it is not. If every other word is a so-called dirty word, the message loses its power. Soon, I lose interest in the actual message. One more thing: today's "bad" words were not always considered bad. If somebody curses all the time, folks begin to take them less seriously. That's the problem. When Mom cussed me and my little brother were getting ready to die.
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Post by grayfingers on Nov 29, 2013 19:24:16 GMT -5
There was no cussing at all in our house. Never did hear dad cuss. Mom, only once. He had pushed her last button. . . she says ". . ., if you weren't so Damn persnickety!" He looks at her, his face all twisted up and says, " Well! You don't have to SWEAR at me! I almost burst into laughter, but I wanted to live to see the next morning. . .
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Nov 29, 2013 21:03:01 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2013 21:03:01 GMT -5
Bill;
How is "damn" a swear word? It's usually a verb and in your quote it is a adjective. It was used to get your attention. It seems to have worked.
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Nov 29, 2013 21:25:34 GMT -5
Post by grayfingers on Nov 29, 2013 21:25:34 GMT -5
Scott, in our house "gee" "golly" "gosh" "Darn" and so on were all considered swear words as they were seen to be substitutes for taking the Lord's name in vain. The Puritan notions came from dad's mother. Mom's side was a bunch of hillbillys from whom dad 'saved' her. I left home at 16, so I could swear. And other things. . .
I still do not use swear words that are directly invocative of deity, but I use the others on occasion. Warning, swearing
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Cussing
Nov 30, 2013 9:08:17 GMT -5
Post by 1dave on Nov 30, 2013 9:08:17 GMT -5
There was no cussing at all in our house. Never did hear dad cuss. Mom, only once. He had pushed her last button. . . she says ". . ., if you weren't so Damn persnickety!" He looks at her, his face all twisted up and says, " Well! You don't have to SWEAR at me! I almost burst into laughter, but I wanted to live to see the next morning. . . So different from today's world! It always goes in cycles from one extreme to the other. 300 years ago, Pope wrote: When it gets so bad we start killing each other, it swings back to . . . the point where no one would dare mention the Queen's leg in Victorian time.
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Cussing
Nov 30, 2013 16:19:25 GMT -5
Post by mohs on Nov 30, 2013 16:19:25 GMT -5
so I'm out working rock and I haven't cussed once whoops that's a lie ! I said damn when I knocked over my drink I cuss, I lie & I therefore I polish sto ne
mostly what else am I suppose to do?
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Post by mohs on Nov 30, 2013 19:03:20 GMT -5
Another thing that made me cuss I went to a rock shop in the Superstition Mountain I’ve gone quite often over the years Its an old place Probably been there 50 years Run by some old prospectors All right guys -- caters to tourist
The owner is heck of a rock hound He as some fairly unique stuff But not friendliest old cuss
So I found a slab of serpentine marble 3 dollah. I was looking into his glass case at the Indian jewelry and he says to me: “Get the rock off the glass. It’ll scratch it.”
Well I really didn’t have the slab on the glass and you couldn’t see in anyways Cause the glass was already scratched real bad. 50 years of rocks- place is full of grit
So I say: “Do you know who I am? I’m Mr. Mohs. I created the mohs scale! Now this is a slab is Connemarra marble Its hardness is at most 4.3 mohs This fifty-year old glass rate out minimum of 5.6 mohs So in theory your badly scratched glass may have scratched my slab if it was anywhere near your damn glass!” I really enjoy going there And probably will enjoy it more as I get to be an older cuss mostly
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Post by Sabre52 on Nov 30, 2013 23:03:51 GMT -5
Sadly I was raised in a rough neighborhood. My folks never cussed at all but all my friends cussed like sailors and of course in the army everyone swore a lot, and too much rubbed off. I try to refrain from it as much as possible cause I know better, but if I hit my hand with a rock hammer or Flint steps on my toe, sadly I'm capable of stringing together a remarkable number of swear words. I've been told I can get quite creative anatomically. I guess biologists have a good handle on what can be done to whom by what, and where repeatedly
Still remember when I was first married ( The wife's folks never cussed even though her pop was a marine which always amazed me and seemed somehow wrong) the wife made me get a cuss jar. So I said OK but you have to have one too. Quarter in the jar for every cuss word. After a few months, I had enough money in her jar for a candy bar and she had enough in mine for a major clothes buying trip. At my suggestion, we gave that up, cause I couldn't afford it. *L*. If I'd have had to have a cuss jar when I was renovating our old ranch house back in California. ( Lots of carpentry) the wife would be driving a Roll Royce. As it is now, one speech by that dang Obama on the Telly would cost me a fortune.....Mel
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Post by mohs on Dec 1, 2013 9:37:38 GMT -5
Yes. Affordable Health Care is (insert cuss word) expensive.
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Post by 1dave on Dec 1, 2013 9:39:54 GMT -5
Yep! Obama would do it to anyone with a brain.
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