No mincing words - swearing is a big deal

Arizona Daily Star ^ | 01/01/04 | Jay Ambrose

[Newbomb Turk]

I will tell you what works for me. I tell my kids that everytime they catch me swearing or not wearing my seatbelt in the car I will give them a dollor.

This helped clean up my act real fast.

Although it's sometimes hard not to revert when on military duty.

[reagan_fanatic]

Did you know John F-ing Kerry is a Vietnam vet?

[shiva]

Are you series?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Not that which goeth into the mouth defiles a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defiles a man.
Matthew 15:11

Peter said unto him, Declare unto us this parable.
Jesus said..
Do ye not understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?
But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile a man.
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adultries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
These are the things that defile a man:
Matthew 15:15-20

[Lazamataz]

Not that which goeth into the mouth defiles a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defiles a man. Matthew 15:11

Homosexuality disproves the predicate premise of this sentence.

[Caipirabob]

Did you know John F-ing Kerry is a Vietnam vet?

Oh yeah? So on who's side?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

My only dread in posting that post was someone would take it out of context as you did.

[Lazamataz]

I live to keep you in dread.

[Elliott Jackalope]

Laz is a pro at that kind of stuff. His brain is wired into a configuration that results in his being a perpetual smarta$$. It's not his fault, he can't help it. He means well.

[TaxMe]

Is it my imagination or are mostly women cussing these days. Along with tatoos, women seem to be the biggest offenders.

[shiva]

Huh?

[gcruse]

It happened some time in the early seventies. When I moved from the US, guys didn't curse around women, and kids didn't curse at all.

When I moved back to the US in 1977, it was a shock. Forget the guys cursing. Women were outswearing men right out loud and worse than I had ever heard guys talk in mixed company.

To this day, I don't swear around women. But nothing coming out of their mouths surprises me any more.

Civilization didn't collapse and the crime rate didn't shoot up. It's not that big a deal. It's just a little more coarsening of society. Conservatives lament this more than liberals.

However, conservatives cannot see that by criminalizing victimless offenses, they are rendering huge swathes of the population into petty criminals, coarsening society themselves.

[LibKill]

If one uses profanity constantly, it loses its shock value. When the time comes that you need it, you have already 'shot your bolt'.

Or so said the NCO manual.

I was guilty of excessive profanity when younger, but nowadays I watch what a say a durn sight more closely.

[dwilli]

How simple are the folks who take the time to type out profanity on internet forums? Do they think it adds emphasis or value to their statement?

[LibKill]

How simple are the folks who take the time to type out profanity on internet forums? Do they think it adds emphasis or value to their statement?

Nah, they just have small minds and smaller vocabularies.

[Ruth A.]

Its your imagination. Though I will admit that proportionately, many more women sware nowadays than they used to. I let teenagers know that I do not expect to hear that in public.

[speekinout]

Cursing is just one of the gifts of feminism. It's another way where women can be "one of the guys". And children take cues from their mothers.

[gcruse]

. I let teenagers know that I do not expect to hear that in public.

I came into the break room at work once, and one of the young women employees was waxing obscene to a table full of cohorts.  I walked around a bit until she finished.  Then I said, "It's hard to believe such a pretty mouth can put out such filth."  She looked at me with slack-jawed astonishment and I strolled back out of the break room.  Doubt if it did a bit of good, but it sure felt nice.

[gcruse]

My momma never taught me how to curse. The neighborhood kids took care of that, themselves.