profanity.

[TOXIC]

If it was banned, Samuel L. Jackson wouldn’t have an acting career. ??

[A-Jay]

World Problems ~

Actions speak louder than words.

Always have, always will.

I express myself in a manner in which I prefer.

Deal with it or not.

A-Jay

 

 

[TnRiver46]

39 minutes ago, TOXIC said:

If it was banned, Samuel L. Jackson wouldn’t have an acting career. ??

[NavyToad]

I’m a potty mouthed neanderthal and I don’t lose sleep over it.

[MN Fisher]

I let off some profanity here and there - but it's not part of my usual speech. Mainly when I do a knuckle-head move and hurt myself from it...

 

Far as hearing it from others...I just ignore it best I can.

[gim]

There’s a big difference swearing at someone or just swearing. I was generally taught to shut up and be quiet unless I had something worth while to say. Profanity does not fall into the latter category.

 

That being said, I do swear at myself from time to time. I stubbed my big toe the other day and let one fly. I try not to swear in front of children, including my own. I don’t need to be teaching a 5 year old certain words.

 

I used to be an ice hockey and football official. The players swore a lot. That’s their business and their coach’s business, not mine. But the second one of them swore at me, they were hit with an infraction penalty. The second time I ejected them. I did not get paid enough to get swore at by a bunch of college aged amateurs.

[Woody B]

I cuss too much but try not to.  I'm a mechanic and most mechanics use bad language.  I don't take the lords name in vane, and don't like it when someone else does.   I also have no use, and don't like to hear any racial slurs.   

 

 

[Kirtley Howe]

1 hour ago, Woody B said:

I cuss too much but try not to.  I'm a mechanic and most mechanics use bad language.  I don't take the lords name in vane, and don't like it when someone else does.   I also have no use, and don't like to hear any racial slurs.   

 

 

Quickest way to end a friendship with me is to use a racial slur in my presence or in a post. We are all Gods' children, and I really wish people would act like it. I am fine with someone disliking someone else, but not if it is based on their skin color or nationality. 

[Bird]

Never used profanity until I got married and had kids.

[12poundbass]

I’m Irish so it’s a part of my DNA. ?

[volzfan59]

I'm going to be totally honest. I use profanity, it's a habit that I wish that I had never started. I do not use the Lords name in vain and rarely drop the f-bomb. In certain places, in certain company I don't use it at all. Started while playing football in high school. The Army and my law enforcement career didn't help at all. It's no excuse, I hate it. 

[GreenPig]

9 hours ago, GaryH said:

“Profanity is a weak minds way of expressing itself”

Little home town restaurant I used to visit had a big sign with that printed on it. 

That's funny. I'll tell my wife that as she must've been a sailor in a past life. But in this one she has two Masters and a Doctorate. 

[Bird]

I'll be honest, when I'm working on a vehicle with those tight spaces and Chinese bolts and bust my knuckles......no children are allowed in my garage.

But never the Lords name in vane.

[herder]

70 years up in North Jersey I just assumed that profanity was part of our vernacular

[LrgmouthShad]

Yeah I swear too much. One day it all just kinda started coming out of me

[Kirtley Howe]

I seldom use profanity. However I was working on our Jeep Commander last week, replacing the clockspring. I got everything apart, put the new clockspring onto the steering column, and turned around to get the steering wheel. When I turned back around, the clockspring had fallen apart, and the cable and internal "keeper" fell out. Let's just say the air got a bit blue inside the car. I tried to put the unit back together, but that did not work. Working with ebay now to get a refund or replacement.

[throttleplate]

Ex military, retired mechanic, profanity is in play.

[Dye99]

I use profanity way too much. I was born into it I guess. My parents cussed. In the military we cussed, as a security contractor we cussed, in law enforcement we cussed constantly.

Now Im in the trades and as you guessed thats the norm as well.

With my three sons coming of age and hunting, shooting and fishing with me Ive learned to watch what I say, them little men are sponges.

It hasn't been easy as sometimes I do it and not even notice but Im trying.

[clayton86]

I used to swear quite a bit being military then working in the trades and trucking. I’ve cut back I don’t swear nearly as much as to. 
 

my fiancé on the other hand “duck” is every other word out of her mouth even around our daughter. I’ve made comments about it and she says she tries not to around her but then the next breath is f this f that F off lol. 

then theirs my nephews and step son 14 and 15 year olds they curse so much it’s insane. Playing video games and just talking they would make a sailor or trucker blush with the words that come out of their mouths. Fiancé used to make a big deal of them cursing but then they pointed out that every other word out of her mouth is a curse word and I had to agree with them and she doesn’t care anymore. 

[Spankey]

10 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

Speaking of stereotypes, Boston and Philly fans chime in to defend profanity 

I can spew a very colorful tapestry of profanity at the drop of a dime. It’s a Philly thing. Bad things happen in Philly. ?

[Jar11591]

I use a lot of profanity. Don’t really think about it usually. But I know when to clean up my vocab. Like I try not to cuss in front of my mother. 

[813basstard]

Teach and coach at a title 1 school my whole adult life…I’m worse than the kids. They come fast, furious and with intent. 

“coach you only cuss at the ones you really care about…”

Well, had to agree to that s***

[Columbia Craw]

I dislike the use of profanity. That’s why I watch Deadliest Catch.

[CountryboyinDC]

18 hours ago, GaryH said:

“Profanity is a weak minds way of expressing itself”

I'd say that's usually true.  The smartest person I've met, in terms of capacity to comprehend information and synthesize new ideas, cussed like no sailor could when he was around the scientists and clinicians he worked with.  I'd see him in the clinic with a patient and family, and his bedside manner was as compassionate and assuring as any I've ever witnessed in a field where that's unfathomably hard to pull off with the typical patient trajectory (oncology/radiation oncology).  Definitely no swearing then.  But get around the staff he knew, and he'd spew a stream of cuss words that would make George Carlin blush.  Maybe an outlet, he had others for sure, but I've encountered no one that I consider a genius that completely fits into our notions of "normal behavior" in the areas outside of their genius. 

I know that many do, and I definitively have, use profanity for emphasis or to lighten a situation.  I do find that the less I swear, the less I am likely to in a stressful situation.   I'm glad: I want to set that example for my son.  And this is after service in a Ranger battalion, where the 'F word' vocabulary seemed to be standard issue along with a can of Copenhagen.  I hope to revert to using neither for the remainder of my life.

[Tackleholic]

I don't use it much out loud and never in front of women.  However, yesterday I was alone on the lake and dropped a bomb when a big 'un came off, and another when my braid backlashed.