does it make you feel more powerful?
does it relieve stress??

just wondering.

10/31/2007 9:59:49 PM

i use them for emphasis.

10/31/2007 10:00:12 PM

"fuck" is a stress reliever for me

^and that.

[Edited on October 31, 2007 at 10:00 PM. Reason : ]

10/31/2007 10:00:27 PM

i use them instead of words such as 'the', 'and' and 'but'

10/31/2007 10:00:59 PM

b/c they're simply words. and I tend to use words.

Why do you use adjectives?

10/31/2007 10:01:18 PM

I don't understand what makes one word "worse" than another. They are just sounds.

10/31/2007 10:03:00 PM

i cursed in front of some kids today

10/31/2007 10:03:06 PM

Fuck is the most usefull word in the English language

10/31/2007 10:04:41 PM

i never curse in front of my parents. i know a lot of people who do it "accidentally", but i've never had that problem at all.

although i did once yell 'fuck' when i thought i was going to catch the yellow light and didn't w/ my little brother in the car. i was pretty sure i was going to get mailed a ticket, but i did not. which was nice.

10/31/2007 10:04:59 PM

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"I don't understand what makes one word "worse" than another. They are just sounds."

yea i'm not one to get all when i here a curse word or anything.

but i mean those sounds mean something. like "nigger" for instance.... that means something, even tho it is just a sound.

10/31/2007 10:05:08 PM

Anthropological research has shown that it is a deeply seated activity that predates any other language.

So basically, my monkey brain makes me.

10/31/2007 10:05:20 PM

because i like to sound ignorant

10/31/2007 10:09:19 PM

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"when i here"

10/31/2007 10:09:29 PM

Maybe I have Tourette's Syndrome or something. It's just a bad habit, I suppose. There's nothing quite so sharply exclamatory as yelling "FUCK!" when you hit your finger with a hammer. "FIDDLESTICKS" just doesn't cut it.

10/31/2007 10:16:42 PM

because they make everything funnier

10/31/2007 10:23:22 PM

^Hit nail on head.

10/31/2007 10:24:16 PM

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"because they make everything funnier"

10/31/2007 10:26:12 PM

force of habit

10/31/2007 10:32:39 PM

a better question is "why does it bother you when we say them?"

10/31/2007 10:35:47 PM

^^ same. but im trying to stop... its strange how hard it can be

10/31/2007 10:43:52 PM

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"saying curse words... why do you say them?"

it gets your mom in the mood

10/31/2007 10:47:26 PM

cause the other kids were doing it

10/31/2007 10:48:21 PM

if i knew why, i'd cut back.

10/31/2007 10:48:58 PM

honestly i kinda like cussing i just hate how you have to act super responsible around kids

10/31/2007 10:49:14 PM

words are arbitrary and only have the meaning we place on them. so they're not really "bad" words.

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10/31/2007 10:51:40 PM

I don't that much anymore.

Unless I injure myself.

Or am watching NC State play some sport.

10/31/2007 10:52:08 PM

my teacher in the 10th grade said the only people that curse are dumb people or something

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10/31/2007 10:53:17 PM

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"words are arbitrary and only have the meaning we place on them. so they're not really "bad" words."

money is just useless slips of paper, it only has the value we place in it...so it's not really valuable

10/31/2007 11:33:31 PM

money isn't even paper anymore, just a number.

10/31/2007 11:37:55 PM

ya i only think they are bad when you say "fuck you" " "damn you" to a person in a serious way. but using them as interjections or on objects is great

like i gotta take this fucking test

what the fuck was that noise

fuck i just fell

that rain the other day was a bitch

10/31/2007 11:38:11 PM

fuck is the worst word that you can say, just use the word mkay

10/31/2007 11:41:14 PM

when something really bad happens, I usually run out of cuss words and have to use "fuck" and "shit" several times

"Goddamned motherfucking shit cocksucking piece of shit asshole motherfucker"

10/31/2007 11:43:48 PM

because i'm black?

11/1/2007 12:01:32 AM

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"Fuck you you fucking fuck"

best line ever.

11/1/2007 12:05:44 AM

My friends and I use them so often they're pretty much the equivalent of saying words like "super" and "maddening."

11/1/2007 1:14:27 AM

People who take offense to words need to /self. Seriously. Its completely insane to say some words are bad.

11/1/2007 1:23:31 AM

god damn is one of those ones i use to always be like "dont say gd" but now i dont give a fuck

11/1/2007 1:24:38 AM

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"b/c they're simply words. and I tend to use words. Why do you use adjectives?"

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"I don't understand what makes one word "worse" than another. They are just sounds."

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"a better question is 'why does it bother you when we say them?'"

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"words are arbitrary and only have the meaning we place on them. so they're not really "bad" words."

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"People who take offense to words need to /self. Seriously. Its completely insane to say some words are bad"

fuck yes




what I think is funny (and quite sad, really,) is that the very people who hold these words to be bad

are the very same people who give them their "bad power" by objecting to them in the first place

then these people, by avoiding cursing, feel they are "better" than those who don't avoid cursing

it is christian-style circular logic at it's best

iow, stupid

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"i never curse in front of my parents."

cookie?

I mean shit, when I was like 16, I decided that my parents needed to get over their opposition to my cursing

they wildly objected at first, but eventually, when they realized that I wasn't gonna stop

they actually considered my appeals to their logic and now they don't even flinch when I curse

fortunately, my parents are very bright and are capable of critical thought

so explaining the whole "curse words aren't bad" wasn't really hard at all

I explained that if they wanted me to not use certain words in their company

then I could demand that they not use other certain words (of my choice) in my company

I gave them a list of common words (not curse words) and began to object every time they used them.

pretty soon, my parents "got it" and agreed that we all could use whatever words we wanted around each other

11/1/2007 7:24:34 AM

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11/1/2007 7:32:43 AM

emphasis

11/1/2007 7:34:15 AM

words...

Yeah, they have meanings. That's the only reason that they're important and valuable.

It's pretty ignorant to say that they're just sounds. They carry meaning (both from the person saying that word, and from the person hearing that word).

Shit, Oxygen is just an element. By 'some people's' logic, since it's just an element, we would be just fine breathing Hydrogen....right?

point being, if you break anything down into it's most simplistic form, of course it means nothing to us really. But the truth of the matter is that we assign meanings and properties to things that are understood.

11/1/2007 7:34:49 AM

CURSING MAKES ME FEEL POWERFUL.

11/1/2007 7:38:24 AM

PWRFLL!!1

11/1/2007 7:39:06 AM

11/1/2007 7:40:42 AM

11/1/2007 7:40:52 AM

Not sure why I say them, all I know is that I won't stop for as long as it isn't hurting anybody.

11/1/2007 7:50:36 AM

11/1/2007 7:52:57 AM

Its just a fucking habit. which is depressing. I use fuck like most people use "um" when I'm at work.


I need to fix that

On a similar note:

11/1/2007 8:01:07 AM

AH FUCK!! BOB SAGET!!!

11/1/2007 8:04:41 AM