Posted on 11/22/2025 6:39:28 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
When you’re discussin’ cussin’, many fancy it too much fussin’. I learned this years back when, after editorializing against it years ago, a reader responded that “we aren’t all Little Lord Fauntleroys.” (Why, that #$@&%*!) In truth, though, objections to vulgarity go beyond 19th-century fictional characters. Some observers warn that its acceptance is a sign of cultural decay. And none other than the Father of our Nation, George Washington, inveighed against it. It “is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation,” he wrote in 1776, “that every man of sense, and character, detests and despises it.”
If that doesn’t give you pause for thought, maybe who is on the “other side” pushing vulgarity will. Just consider the following prescription:
Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and press.
That was Goal No. 6 of the “45 Goals of Communism,” commentator Michael D. Giammarino pointed out recently. It’s drawn from a list assembled by ex-FBI agent W. Cleon Skousen in his famous 1958 book The Naked Communist.
Now Mainstreamed
And if 1950s communists wanted to legitimize vulgarity, well, they’ve been successful beyond their wildest dreams. Cursing is everywhere today: entertainment, media, and even politics. For example, an analysis informs that foul-language frequency in films/TV programs in 2022 was ninefold greater than in 1980. Just consider, too, how vulgarity in singer Taylor Swift’s albums has increased over time. To wit: She has gone from one mild swear in her debut work to 57 in her most recent album. This is a 5,600 percent rise — in one generation.
Politics and media are only somewhat more genteel. We now sometimes hear elected representatives and commentators...
(Excerpt) Read more at thenewamerican.com ...
Profanity is the effect of a feeble mind trying to express itself forcibly.
We all need to learn how to swear like a sailor - Captain Haddock from “The Adventures of Tintin.”
He had a colorful vocabulary, but was not offensive.
One of his insults was “anacoluthon,” which is a word you don’t hear very often.
35 might be common ground
Well you shouldn’t oughta do it. listen to someone talk to Sean Ryan for 5 minutes and its every other word out of his mouth. But he’s so great at it I just laugh. Sleaze ball comics not so much.
And too many had thier head in the sand.😡😡
It's No. 24 in the list I posted, but it's there.
Is it a sin to cuss / swear / curse?
https://www.gotquestions.org/cussing-swearing.html
Growing up, there were dudes that were cussers. What amazes (or saddens) me now is the number of women that cuss like sailors.
Wut? Som ov my cusins is hot.
You are correct.
RIP Jim.
Firm believer that you can get your thoughts across without without cursing a blue streak. Some cutting remarks and attitude get your thoughts across much faster.
Can you post that without the image?
Take your pick:
swearing is just a sign of a weak vocabulary
It’s mostly just room temperature IQ types mimicking what they see on TV.
I call some of them smurfs because they use the f-word like the smurfs used “smurf”. It takes a fair amount of context to have any idea what they are saying.
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Same thing with tattoos.
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