I think I'm going to stop

[Square Wheels]

swearing.  I almost never do.  It makes me feel inferior.  I am not inferior.

[Wilbur]

1 minute ago, Square Wheels said:

swearing.  I almost never do.  It makes me feel inferior.  I am not inferior.

Swearing is a true indicator of an inferior education. 

[Ralphie]

*)(&^%%$$!

[Square Wheels]

2 minutes ago, Wilbur said:

Swearing is a true indicator of an inferior education. 

Well, that I have, I think I'll stop anyhow.

[AirwickWithCheese]

MomCheese curses like a WWI sailor. 

[Further]

We had a class today on how to communicate, taught by the HR manager, who has been at the mill for about 3 years.

He told us that when he came to the mill he was shocked and frightened by the number of F-bombs he heard. 

Eventually he realized that nobody was pissed, they were just emphasizing.

He told us that a steel mill has different culture than a hospital.

Not much gets by that guy... 

[Ralphie]

Just now, Further said:

We had a class today on how to communicate, taught by the HR manager, who has been at the mill for about 3 years.

He told us that when he came to the mill he was shocked and frightened by the number of F-bombs he heard. 

Eventually he realized that nobody was pissed, they were just emphasizing.

He told us that a steel mill has different culture than a hospital.

Not much gets by that guy... 

______ the _____ing _____er!

[Page Turner]

20 minutes ago, Square Wheels said:

swearing.  I almost never do.  It makes me feel inferior.  I am not inferior.

...a better life strategy would be to retain this valuable emotional outlet, but up your game in terms of vocabulary. 

momCheese  could help, or you could experiment with the use of words like "obsequious" and "sniveling" as adjectival modifiers.

[Dottleshead]

2 hours ago, Square Wheels said:

swearing.  I almost never do.  It makes me feel inferior.  I am not inferior.

Or you could fucking swear like a sailor and not take life so seriously, for fuck sakes. It seems to work nicely for my wife.  ??

 Psssst. I am just kidding. You knew somebody was going to do it.

[Dottleshead]

I bet you probably had bets it was going to be me. Hmmm... do you gamble too?? Wife wants to know.

[maddmaxx]

7 hours ago, AirwickWithCheese said:

MomCheese curses like a WWI sailor. 

WTF does WWI have to do with it?

[donkpow]

Swearing is a communication tool. If you are not comfortable swearing, you should leave it to the pros.

[Ralphie]

9 hours ago, Page Turner said:

...a better life strategy would be to retain this valuable emotional outlet, but up your game in terms of vocabulary. 

momCheese  could help, or you could experiment with the use of words like "obsequious" and "sniveling" as adjectival modifiers.

Ahhh, the Dr. Smith strategy!  :D

 

[Parr8hed]

1 hour ago, donkpow said:

Swearing is a communication tool. If you are not comfortable swearing, you should leave it to the pros.

You fucking called? 

[Parr8hed]

[JerrySTL]

People at work drop F-bombs in normal conversation. I seldom swear, but when I drop an F-bomb, people listen.

[jsharr]

11 hours ago, Wilbur said:

Swearing is a true indicator of an inferior education. 

I don't know about that.  It has it's place, even at places of higher learning.  Case in point.

This Texan is visiting Harvard and is looking for the library.  After a while, he stops a Harvard professor and asks for directions.
"Excuse me sir, but could you tell me where the library is at?"

The professor looks down his nose at the Texan and tells him "Sir, we do not end a sentence in a preposition at Harvard!"

The Texan replies "Sorry, could you tell me the library is at, asshole?"
 

[Randomguy]

An inferior person would fail to use the appropriate tool for each situation.  Swear/don’t swear, it is silly to just stop if effective in the right context. 

[jsharr]

3 hours ago, donkpow said:

Swearing is a communication tool. If you are not comfortable swearing, you should leave it to the pros.

I got my boss a case of these mugs.  

He gave them out as gifts and kept a few for himself

[maddmaxx]

Nobody does obscenity quite as well as a sailor.

[jsharr]

6 minutes ago, maddmaxx said:

Nobody does obscenity quite as well as a sailor.

All I see is a ten gallon hat....

 

[TrentonMakes]

One of my family's favorite stories is when I was a toddler, playing in the room next to where my parents were.  I was hammering on my little Fisher Price work bench, with the little mallet and the little cylindrical pegs that fit into it.  They heard "[bang bang bang bang bang]..... aw, shit!"

I have very rarely heard my dad use the F word but he was really never shy about using any of the rest of them.

Nonetheless, as an adult I very rarely swear and I feel like I have a near perfect record of avoiding profanity around the kids.  

However, if I'm by myself and I'm either driving or working on some manner of home improvement project, all bets are off.  It's almost like I sub in a completely different brian in those settings.

[Dottleshead]

3 hours ago, jsharr said:

All I see is a ten gallon hat....

 

So that's your code speak for dick. I knew it. It's all about the 10 gallon hat. All the time. You guys are sick. Poor Texas. They need civility like the Oklahomans.

[jsharr]

1 minute ago, Dottles said:

So that's your code speak for dick. I knew it. It's all about the 10 gallon hat. All the time. You guys are sick. Poor Texas. They need civility like the Oklahomoans

yep

[Dottleshead]

You asshats trying to be on a higher moral ground need to start reading some effing psychology articles.  I've been swearing for years and I'm going to live a long dam time.  All of youz guyz are bastards.

 

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-athletes-way/201705/swearing-can-boost-strength-and-reduce-the-sensation-pain

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hide-and-seek/201205/hell-yes-the-7-best-reasons-swearing

https://psychcentral.com/blog/the-surprising-health-benefits-of-swearing/

[Dottleshead]

6 minutes ago, Dottles said:

So that's your code speak for dick. I knew it. It's all about the 10 gallon hat. All the time. You guys are sick. Poor Texas. They need civility like the Oklahomans.

 

5 minutes ago, jsharr said:

yep

jsharr, please disagree with me.  if you continue to agree, there will be nothing for us to talk about. 

 

Oh, I love Earl Thomas.  But I don't mind helping your CowToys out if it means getting solid draft choices.

[jsharr]

1 minute ago, Dottles said:

 

jsharr, please disagree with me.  if you continue to agree, there will be nothing for us to talk about. 

 

Oh, I love Earl Thomas.  But I don't mind helping your CowToys out if it means getting solid draft choices.

I did not agree with you.  Sorry you thought I did.

[Dottleshead]

1 minute ago, jsharr said:

I did not agree with you.  Sorry you thought I did.

Phew.  For a second I really thought you might be Oklahoman.

[jsharr]

Just now, Dottles said:

Phew.  For a second I really thought you might be Oklahomoan

nope, definitely not one of those.

[donkpow]

5 minutes ago, Dottles said:

Oh, I love Earl Thomas.  But I don't mind helping your CowToys out if it means getting solid draft choices.

I like Earl Grey but as for the rest of it, I don't know what the hell you are talking about.

[Dottleshead]

@Page Turner: This one goes out to you:  https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-swearing-a-sign-of-a-limited-vocabulary/.  Poor vocabulary my ass.   Or is it?

Oh it's all so confusing.  This morality.  These judgments.  This behavior.  These researchers.  Their conclusions.

Can't we all just get along??

[Dottleshead]

4 minutes ago, jsharr said:

nope, definitely not one of those.

Oh, I know.  Oklahomans are classy people.

[jsharr]

1 minute ago, Dottles said:

Oh, I know.  Oklahomoans are classy people.

yep

[Dottleshead]

2 minutes ago, jsharr said:

yep

I think you're ok though.  Classless people are way more entertaining and probably more tolerable.

[Ralphie]

I always rate every household repair job by how many expletives it will evoke.

i have another story similar to brain's.  My very young daughter #1 fidgeting with something and saying quietly: "Effing damn thing. "

Edited June 27, 2018 by RalphWaldoMooseworth

[Page Turner]

49 minutes ago, Dottles said:

@Page Turner: This one goes out to you:  https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-swearing-a-sign-of-a-limited-vocabulary/.  Poor vocabulary my ass.   Or is it?

Oh it's all so confusing.  This morality.  These judgments.  This behavior.  These researchers.  Their conclusions.

Can't we all just get along??

Quote

Then, in what has to be one of the most awkward and hilarious experimental situations in the history of cognitive science, participants had to say, out loud to the experimenter, as many swear words as they could think of in one minute. This was the measure of taboo word fluency.

...I was invited to participate as an experimental subject, but it was quickly understood when I pegged the meter on the one minute test that including me in the final statistical results would skew the numbers so badly that it might invalidate the entire study.  So in the interests of science, I withdrew from the subject pool.  I'm all about fucking science, man.

[Page Turner]

...and Norman Mailer was a pathetic, sniveling  man with a short person complex.

A man of little consequence and even less verbal perspicacity.

 

Calling Norman Mailer a tiny, insecure douche bag is an insult to every hard working, useful douche bag around the world.

[donkpow]

18 minutes ago, Page Turner said:

...I was invited to participate as an experimental subject, but it was quickly understood when I pegged the meter on the one minute test that including me in the final statistical results would skew the numbers so badly that it might invalidate the entire study.  So in the interests of science, I withdrew from the subject pool.  I'm all about fucking science, man.

Bull shit!

[Page Turner]

4 minutes ago, donkpow said:

Bull shit!

...that, my good man, is the basest of slanders. My credentials in the area are both beyond reproach and well documented in the real world.

I demand that you retract it immediately, or I shall be forced to unleash the power of Italian vulgarities upon your rather unimpressive person.  You are warned.

[PissedOffLaxDude]

17 hours ago, Square Wheels said:

swearing.  I almost never do.  It makes me feel inferior.  I am not inferior.

Fucking quitter. ?

[Road Runner]

I worked with an ex-Navy guy from Cleveland who liked to use the word "fucking" between an adjective and a noun or between names of things.  So, a road bike would be a "road fucking bike" or a person named John Doe would be "John Fucking Doe".  Eventually, he started using acronyms to make it more fun for people to guess what he meant, i.e., he would say, "JFD is coming down to the ship today".  Square Wheels would be "SFW".  RG would be "RFG".    

[Ralphie]

17 hours ago, AirwickWithCheese said:

MomCheese curses like a WWI sailor. 

Mostly at you?

[AirwickWithCheese]

4 minutes ago, RalphWaldoMooseworth said:

Mostly at you?

MomCheese does not curse.    

[jsharr]

11 minutes ago, AirwickWithCheese said:

MomCheese does not curse.    

 

[MickinMD]

I don't swear often, either.  But that does let people know I'm real angry when I do.

[Dottleshead]

Well, truth be told, I think there may be something to the vocab theory.  I've excelled in some areas but my vocab is a bit on the weaker side.  At least I know that.  Often I look for words and I can hear it my head but either can't recall the annunciation or the spelling.  Sometimes it 'sounds like' jumps in there.  And if I'm feeling especially intellectual I like to make words up like 'majestical'.  But darn tootin', I swear youz guyz, I don't cuss because my vocab is not my equal in analytics -- I just like it.  Cuss words when used appropriately can be sooooooooo expressive and you have to be on your toes because they have double and/or triple entendres.  Or more.   I guess I watched too much television when I was a kid.   It probably was too much Brady Bunch and Leave it to Beaver that impacted me in an unexpected way.  Rebellion was bound to happen.

[Dottleshead]

Who needs swearing?  <snicker>

 

 

[TrentonMakes]

A string of cuss words is a string of cuss words.  You can make something really funny if you bleep them out and make the brain work a little. 

 

 

[Dottleshead]

 

[maddmaxx]

2 hours ago, Page Turner said:

...I was invited to participate as an experimental subject, but it was quickly understood when I pegged the meter on the one minute test that including me in the final statistical results would skew the numbers so badly that it might invalidate the entire study.  So in the interests of science, I withdrew from the subject pool.  I'm all about fucking science, man.

A sailor who then becomes a fireman must be a high ranking example for etymologists.  I would imagine that almost every story begins with "this ain't no shit"