Do You Cuss Like a Sailor?

When you use profanity all the time, it just shows that you do not have a large vocabulary. It shows a lack of self control. Everyone uses something sometimes even if it is just darn it or shucks. These are stand ins for the real thing but much less offensive. There is so much vulgar profanity today that it is really a waste of time because it has lost most of its shock value. When my girls were at home, I refrained from all profanity because kids repeat anything that is said emphatically. The first day of school my little one came home and said what does F___K mean? It was written all over the kindergarten bathroom walls. Several Mothers and I got together the next day and repainted the bathrooms. When I was in the Navy, I got so tired of every sentence ending or beginning with S.O.B. that I came up with an interesting substitute that had them all laughing and actually using it: Son of a Siberian Sheepherder. At least it was different. I taught it to my African Grey Parrot. It knocks people out!

I definently use profanity on a daily basis. It's a really bad habit and sometimes I slip in front of my mom. It usually happens when I'm mad or stressed or hit somethin on accident or something scares me. I think It isn't okay to cuss at all, that's why I'm trying to stop. I think for me it isn't lady like. I do seem to get creative with it too LOL. But I really am trying to stop.

I used to have a pretty foul mouth, but now my daughter can understand english, and i can't be having her learn those words! Sometimes i replace them with other similar sounding words. I say Fudge quite a bit, although id ont think that's much better then saying the real thing is it lol.. How about the C word? i have a friend who uses it pretty openly, and i have on occassion had it slip from my mouth, most people REALLY dont like that word, i dont understand why.

I am not very prone to using obscenities and I do find they hurt my ears when I hear others use them, most especially the profane obscenities. my poor husband though ever since he started working at a factory he has adopted much of the language of the fellow workers, it is quite course (vulgar) - it must be difficult to hear such language all the time,be surrounded by it and not adopt it into your own usage. profanity has to do with taking holy things and treating them in a worldly manner vulgarity is crudeness swearing is taking a solemn oath cursing is hexing or d@mning another cussing is, I think derived from the word cursing

I didn't realized I cussed until I had kids and they picked up a few words they said that "mommy said". I try to replace it with something like "pickles" or "darn". I don't like cussing in the workplace, I think it gives off a bad impression.

I know when and when not to use curse words. :)

I rarely cuss. I have to be REALLY angry for those words to come out. I won't go as far as saying it "coarsens the culture and has a harmful influence" but I just don't think it's necessary. S/o drops the F bomb the same way some people say 'like' before every other word. It's just aggravating and makes him look like an angry person that hates the world.

Ah. You should have said weather or not you do! Anyway, I have to admit, I cuss like a sailor. I'm wondering if you started this conversation because you read my poem on AC.....Twas the night before Christmas and all through the trailer.....

I personally don't use too much profanity, especially not the "f-bomb", but sometimes when I just feel really angry and stressed, I tend to say it maybe a few times. haha. Other cuss words I say more often, but not regularly. I think to a point, it is a little harmful, because society already has a bad impression of those words, so it really makes someone feel low when you cuss them out just because you're angry or something like that. I get a little annoyed/offended when someone just uses it between words of every (or almost) every sentence they say, as if it's a fun adjective or something. I also get a little annoyed when people who do this don't respect the people who are religiously offended by it, like most Mormons at my school don't like to hear curse words and mostly everyone respects that and tries not to use them around them. It bothers me when cuss words replace proper English. Haha