Today at the store I heard a group of kids no older than 10 talking, and just about every word was Fu**, of Sh**...which got me thinking. How many of us out there swear on a regular baisis. So I made a poll. Do yourself a favor and vote, it'll be the highlight of your day. :thumb: :rolling:

Actually it won't...unless you're have one crappy day...but vote anyway! --Kitrax

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Poll Results: Do you swear/curse/cus? (53 votes.)

Do you swear? (Choose 1)
* Yes, I swear a lot. - 38% (20)
* Yes on occasion...or just when it just has to be said. - 58% (31)
* No, I don't swear, but I use phrases like, "Son of a bench!" - 0% (0)
* No, I never swear...at least not out loud. - 4% (2)
* I uphold the 5th! (No comment) - 0% (0)

When/where do you swear? (Choose up to 2) (Choose 2)
* Whenever, Wherever...it doesn't matter, if someone gets offended, I say, "Fu** You!" - 8% (4)
* Just around friends, or other people who swear. - 49% (26)
* When I'm not around anyone who would get offended. - 51% (27)
* Only when I do something really stupid, like smashing a thumb with a hammer. - 30% (16)
* I don't swear...I don't lie either... - 0% (0)
* I uphold the 5th! (No comment) - 2% (1)

When I'm mad or agitated? I swear like a sailor. My dad was in the marines for ten years, so I blame him. Otherwise, I'm a very innocent non-potty mouthed person (well, I look that way, at least.) And I DON'T swear around my kids.

I don't swear a lot when there's other people around, except when my favourite team is losing. I also seem to lose it sometimes when i'm playing a game on the PC and it doesn't go the way i want it to. At least that's what my neighbour tells me... she can hear it. :D

I'm a conscript in the army, in which the common lingo is a swear word in between every other normal word.

Alas, a foul mouth I have. :o ;)

i swear while playing games and studying. The more i study, the more i swear.

Me and my high school friends came to agree that English curses are quite polite and civilized while comparing with Chinese curses. In English, it is just a simple "f you", but in chinese it is something like "f your old mother smelly p***y". chinese don't feel satisfy unless they have cursed you 18 generations ancestors.

Man i swear all the g*d d**n time!! It can't be helped, almost everyone in swden swears like a f*****g southpark character :D
So almost nobody notices when i swear, but i try to keep it at bay by only swearing around friends and other people who swear...

I swear all the bloody time.

Well I guess by now most of you know how I stand on the word sh*t, so yes I swear a lot.

Especially on the soccer field or the tennis court when things go ugly, then it's cursing and hurling rackets against the walls.

I don't swear too much...in English. Every time in Spanish class, I just lob a few Chinese curses at her, comparing her, her mother, and her ancestors to a cat's a**. But thats around it, and the only time I swear is when I'm really pissed.

You should see the other young people here in Greece. In a small phrase you could hear at least 2 times the word "malakas" which means "a**hole". This word is going to be a formal word if we continue like this. :p

I do not swear a lot. Only when I'm pissed off or, sometimes, when I'm with my friends(those who don't get offended).

Swearing doesn't worry me, though if overused it can be annoying.
Anyhow, insulting peoples intelligence is more fun than just swearing at them.

I'm Dutch, what do you expect?

I use f... and s... often, with an occasional 'god dammit'. S... was probably one of the first things I said (thanks dad). Whenever I am with elderly people I try not to swear, but sometimes, it is a pain in the ass, not to ****ing swear.

Yep, I swear a lot. Besides, French curses are delightful (just listen to Merovingien in Reloaded).

Ah, the beauty of Polish language :rolleyes: :D

Most of Polish swearing revolves around reproductive organs and activities. Thus we probably have twice as great a selection of fallic references as the English have. Then go adjectives and, most favourite but requiring a few brain cells, participles. I assure you there are many ways of describing various penile damage or deficiency. We have been a rather patriarchal society, so the supremacy of swearing related to male organs is not questionned, but since we have a great respect for women some of our infinite creativity has also been sacrificed to female organs (it's generally a greater offence for a male to be referred to as a female organ than a male one). As far as processes go, Polish swearing distinguishes various configurations from which not all are human and human, male and female, one with one etc if you catch my drift. Depending on the level of intelligence, creativity and memorising capacity of the particular swearing person relevant adjectives and participles apply. Also, quite a popular subject is the oldest profession in the world, not limited to females.

However, as far as my own preference goes, I don't include someone's family and don't swear around kids other than my potty-mouthed siblings or around ladies that don't swear themselves, maybe except some mild ones for comic effect ;) . What's more, I never swear in the presence of someone who I know could feel offended by swearing unless he himself is the target of the swearing and he bloody deserves it.

I also prefer largely vulgar swearing without resorting to vulgar vocabulary or swearwords - "You are a male reproductive organ with disturbed continuity of tissue" for example, or Monty Python style, or deeply sexual (or even not) reference to rare and funny animals, goblins, bugbears or pieces of inventory ;) That's the real fun. For example during one of my exams in May I excused myself for fairly informal clothing (it was a normal exam, but a surprise one in my case) and the doctor said he didn't care and I could even come naked since he wouldn't be interested anyway. I said I was truly relieved to hear so and produced a truly relieved sigh :D

Well, but I can still lare at someone for a few minutes with only 10% words not being vulgar and without much repetition, all within the boundaries of proper grammar and syntax of literary language :shake: But to hear me spit really ugly obscenities always takes a major event like traffic jam or a long queue :D

Which of course doesn't mean I've never spoken a real one in a formal situation, but that's a different story :rolleyes:

Chevalier, Greek and Polish are the same, concerning swearing. :D Though, we don't have a wide variety of such words but we make many many combinations with the ones we have. :D

Same with Chinese, I just learned in Cantonese another way to say b*****d, now I know 5!

I swear a lot. But that's nothing unusual here. Many people rely on Italian, when "harder" curses are needed, in my region.

Like Dragon's Jewel, I try to never swear around my son, and that's helping me swear less overall. I feel so uncreative when the best epithet I can come up with is "F**k you, a$$hole!"

But when I'm angry, creativity goes out the window. :(

Dear chevy, it seems that italian and polish swearing have a lot in common... :D
With my deepest friends around I swear REALLY HARD about just everything (and they do the same), with no restrictions (not even our families, various gods and other human races) and with a continual creation of new original swearings, possibly with some taste for demential humor (of course, we do not have any prejudice about the subjects of swearing).
With other people I contain a bit my need for swearing, expecially with kids (wich, with a great amonut of hypocrisy, I always teach not to swear).
That's all swearing freaks!

I cuss like a sailor.

Me too. I cuss like a fishwife - just like my dear old ma. She was raised on a farm and tends to say things like, "Here we go in a cloud of chicken**** and feathers!" when we drive anywhere, and she swears in several languages - Polish, Ukrainian, English, French and Italian. I just swear in French and English, although I do sometimes hear myself using my mother's Polish cusses the meanings of which are lost to me. Plus during my three years in the army I started using "F*ck" as a sort of comma in my everyday speech, a habit I still sometimes lapse into when I'm relaxed. I know my in-laws are shocked by my mouth but I do manage to keep it under control, most of the time, when I'm not with close friends or grown-up family.

It takes a large amount of will power for me not to swear in front of/at my cousins and sister, and her stupid friends.

Man i swear all the g*d d**n time!! It can't be helped, almost everyone in swden swears like a f*****g southpark character
So almost nobody notices when i swear, but i try to keep it at bay by only swearing around friends and other people who swear...
Yup that's just about sums it up, Sweden rocks the fuc*ing world, just look at the music scene ;)

A new band named STABB rocks hard as hell check em out at kazaa or whatever...

yes i swear, I swear all the fu**** time

When I am in other than official situations like school and work I tend to swear more or less in every sentence. Swedish curses are however very mild and havent changed much in the last millenia. You mustly refer to Satan and hell alot, with the occasional **** and ******* tossed in for good measure.

In a small phrase you could hear at least 2 times the word "malakas" which means "a**hole". This word is going to be a formal word if we continue like this It doesn't mean *******, even if this is the translation that they use in the movies. Officialy, it means wanker but its meaning changes depending to whom it is addresed and to how do you say it. If it is addresed to a friend then it has the meaning "mate" and when it is said with anger it means "idiot", "wanker" etc.

The worst swearings here are the ones which are related to mothers. Phrases like "**** your mother", "son of whore" etc, will immediately start a fight.

As for me, I swear a lot when I'm not in my job.Also I don't swear when I'm talking to someone I don't know.

We Dutchies have a habbit to add the most terrible diseases to our curses. Something I didn't notice in other countries.
The word Sh** isn't considered a real curse. I mean, here it's not that bad as 'you foreign people' would think.

I don't curse a lot, I rather use other words in stead, like 'bloody, bloody...'
I always TRY to keep my tongue under control.

I only swear when there's no one around to hear it.

I agree with Aikanaro that it gets really annoying when over used, like every third word in the person's sentence. The swear word no longer becomes a way to ventiliate anger. It's just part of that person's choice of adjectives, which he sticks in front of every noun.

Not very often. Only when I or someone else has done something rather stupid/stupid.

I swear like a sailor with a f*ck*ng splinter...

I swear a lot when I'm not in my job.Funny, almost nothing makes me swear more than does my job. :lol: Maybe traffic...

I agree with Aikanaro that it gets really annoying when over used, like every third word in the person's sentence. The swear word no longer becomes a way to ventiliate anger. It's just part of that person's choice of adjectives, which he sticks in front of every noun. When that happens, the only thing that comes across clearly to me is the speaker's ignorance. :(

My father says swearing is a weak mind trying to sound powerful...but he's a f*uck*ng *ssh*le.

I usually swear when I am very irritated or angry (but then again, who doesn't?), or when I am under peer pressure (except for my "real" peers, if you will ;) ).

Ah, LNT, it's a master of irony you are...

Didn't know you were polish Chev. My mother's polish and i agree about the polish swearing ;)
Nor used to seeing poles who actually can speak/write english :p

I f***ing swear like a f***ing sailor, and what the f*** kind of question is this s***??

Seriously I do every now and then, when angrey ETC.

@Nick: no, you don't swear like a sailor, but only aspire to. Sailors are more creative and the f-word isn't all that common ;)

The worst swearings here are the ones which are related to mothers. Phrases like "**** your mother", "son of whore" etc, will immediately start a fight.Not working on me. If I were to start a challenge-based single fight over something like that, I would insult my mother more than the freak did. If the person is from some part of the world where 'tis the swearing that makes the man and I'm in a particularly *****y though yet cheerful mood, I could tell him a tale about what my cat did to him the last night as an act of special favour since I'm not his bloody ****ing swearing partner. As far as going physical goes, I would occasionally practice the good old mediaeval manus domini on some crude boor that doesn't know his place.

And generally swearing has no effect on me so long as the grammar and syntax are correct with the above mentioned exception of someone who just doesn't know his place, but it's my being pissed off and not offended - although it's a hard work for such a person to overcome my compassion :rolleyes:

"no, you don't swear like a sailor, but only aspire to. Sailors are more creative and the f-word isn't all that common"

Oh shut up! :rolleyes:

@Rallymama I prefer "wordsmith"...but master of irony will suffice. Now excuse me...I have to squeeze my ego through the doorframe.

I try not to swear and usually I'm queit succesful. I do swear sometimes when I stuff up while playing hockey or something but other than that I don't swear much. I just don't see the point of swearing. And it really annoys me (as a few people have already said) when people swear heaps. My younger brother got in a habbit of swearing atleast twice in every sentence, that really pissed me off!
The only time I'm every offended by swear words is when people I don't expect to use them (like very close friends etc) use them in my direction, so it also annoys me when people get annoyed by the occasional (sp?) swear word.

Yes, I swear (like a sailor).

However, as I am feeling very lazy, I will provide this link which spells out my thoughts and feelings on swearing quite well.

Cultural Taboos (http://www.sorcerers.net/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=20;t=000295)

Swearing makes talking fun!! :thumb:

I do curse fairly regularly I suppose, but I don't consider what I say to be vulgar, per se. But as discussed in Falstaff's "Cultural Taboos" post, it does depend on context. Me saying "awe, sh!t!" when I miss a phone call or telling my dogs to "shut the f*ck up" when they bark at my neighbor's dog is no big deal, but telling someone to "eat sh!t" is vulgar and infantile to me. "Normal" cursing, as I call it, can also get vulgar if it's used every other word (see example by Nick the Friendly Goth above :) ). Teenagers I've noticed are particulalry guilty of this. And New Yorkers. :D

Basically, cursing in normal course is no big deal, but gets very offensive when people go out of their way to be sexually explicit or just plain nasty. Then it becomes very offensive, and I consider myself pretty difficult to offend as it is.

Finaly someone used my example I was worried no one would use it! all that work for nothing Hmf! :rolleyes:

I swear farar too much.

Sure, i try to cencor myself when in company, especially with kiddies or other sensitive people around, but if I blow a whistle I am just about as foul-mouthed as possible. Heck, I have told my mother to **** off.... repeatedly. (And the same goes for just about every memeber of my family.... :rolleyes: )

I am somewhat unusual in cussing, at least here in FInland, because I rarely do the "refering to the devil" thing that works so well here as well as in Sweden. Of all the related words, "Hell" is the one I use all the time. Others? Naah.
I refer to female reproductive organs all the *ahem* time... I know it's crude, but what can I say? No one would understand "bloody" so I have to use "****ing"... :rolleyes:

On the other hand, I can be very creative if I want to... I know curses in Finnish, English and some even in Russian. :p

Although I tend to be repetitive. :(

I don't swear very often, unless I'm drunk or very angry.

Oh and I swear alot when ever I am playing hockey.

I'm quite foul mouthed actually ... ah well, most of my songwriting isn't plagued by such vulgarities ... much ;)

I swear quite a bit -- it's my one weakness. I am trying to get it under control. It is a horrible habit, and a sign of a weak mind, just like Late Night Thinker's dad says. Wish me luck!

sign of a weak mind Tell that to Hunter S. Thompson, Walt Whitman, Ernest Hemingway and Jack Kerouac...all considered literary geniuses, all of them cursed like no tomorrow. :D

IMO cursing is only a sign of a weak mind if you have nothing better to say, or if it's the only way you can get people to pay attention to the things you say.

I swear more than a drunken sailor with a peg leg, two glass eye, and two hooks for hands, pretty much.

My mouth is a vile pit of effluent sewage the likes of witch can peel varnished paint. Seriously though, I swear a great deal.

I almost never swear in company. I've been married three and a half years and my wife has never heard a profanity (besides sh** or bast***)leave my lips. Most of the time I swear only when driving or in between crappy calls while i'm working.

I'm trying to cut it out completely.

...How different this place would be without the no swearing rule...

Strangely enough, I almost never swear. I always feel there's no need to get that angry over something. But there is, fortunately, one advantage. Then when you do swear, it really means something and people will take you seriously. Or they'll just think you can't hold your anger any longer, which is probably more likely.

Either way now you've got their attention.

I swear when I'm with my friends though I know I do use foul language quite a bit more than I should. I certainly curse a lot and stuff. And have been known to yell out rude words without realiseing I was indeed doing so.

My father and Uncle Tony use the f-word as every other word, but with Scottish accents I thought they wrer saying fock - I was only about five and it became pretty well used until my mother heard me saying it.

Now I will only swear when I am really angry/upset and being silly with my friends.

Normally just "C'mere you f*cker!" (scottish heritage I guess), BTW, how did the middle finger become swearing?

I wouldn't recommend clicking on this file if little children are around.

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Or perhaps this. Type on your keyboard to make it work. I like x, or z. Even the space bar works.
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I really hope I don't become the idiot of the week for this.

[Come now. What made you think posting those links would be OK if swearing on the boards is not allowed? - BTA]

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