He has good timing. When he cusses, it's necessary for him to do that. Everyone listens to him.
**He has good timing. When he cusses, it’s necessary for him to do that. Everyone listens to him.**
The scriptures show us that Jesus Christ chewed out some people without cussing. It’s not hard. My parents didn’t cuss, and I gave them plenty of situations where I got a verbal spanking.
From my late teens to early 20s I would let a foul word slip when around my closest friends, but never did around females. It just never reached the point of being automatic. I had to want to say the cuss word. I easily quit it entirely by 25 because it was not embedded in my common vocabulary.
General Patton was a strong believer in “elegant profanity.”
Cussing well and properly is an art. In the past, it was the realm of men and was used judiciously and effectively in our communications. Being able to cuss at just the right time and in the right way was an element of masculinity. It generally has no place in public or formal discourse, and its overuse today is vulgar and embarrassing.
Was yesterday walking into the gym when out came a young (late 30’s) woman with a kid and a guy (husband?) who looked like he’d had his soul removed. She was on a rant about some other woman, and the f-bombs were plentiful. I want nothing to do with such people, and feel very sorry for both the child and the guy she was with.