I can't believe I actually signed up for this place just because I stumbled upon this thread and had nothing better to do, but! Since I have already admitted that I'm nerd enough to follow the mad reviews of mr. zero punctuation and already know that I'm the intarwebz so there is a fair chance that this thread is a big steaming joke and I'm too much of an idiot to see it. Now, lets get to it shall we.
Cursing, swearing, utilizing profane-, vulgar or otherwise inappropiate language, whichever is your way of naming the concept, is in my opinion a load of horse shit, not so much in a literal sense or because it's something I don't approve of...No rather it's more in the sense that it has absolutely no bearing you or anyone else as a person.
The idea, or rather the notion thereof, that using language that is in this time and age, labeled as "vulgar" or "inappropiate" will somehow change you from an upstanding tie-wearing dipshit with an inclination to always tip your hat politely at people, to a gunwielding gangster retard with the IQ of a wooden pidgeon, is simply wrong - Sorry to those of you who believe otherwise, but there it is. No disrespect intended..but seriously..knock it off.
In the pioneering days of columbus and such other whackjobs, it was considered inappropiate speech to even say the word "breast". Hence why references were made called "dark meat" and "white meat", so as to avoid saying the word "breast", like you know..chickenbreast..a very common thing to say in this day and age.
I know at this point, some may also remember the idea of the word "fuck" which was supposedly an acronym for "Forced Unlaw Carnal Knowledge" (F.U.C.K), as an alternative to saying "Rape", but this is largely an urban legend, however it still holds a good lesson, and it is this: profane language is a socially engineered superstition, something that makes us waste time on things absolutely insignificant and pathetic when we could be doing something much more important..like jerking off or something. You see what I did there?
Swearing, has about as much impact on childrens intelligence as a pencil..it's what the kid does with either that determines how stupid or smart he/she is. If the kid spends their entire childhood (including gradeschool), trying to eat the pen, as opposed to drawing stickfigures and doing their homework, chances are you got a retarded kid, period. If you're so much in denial at that point to accept that, theres nothing *I* nor anyone else can do or say that'll change that.
Now where was I?..Oh yeah, swearing. I do personally swear, but to be honest I don't really keep track of it in terms of frequency, I just do it whenever my natural speech pattern gets around to firing off a few swear words. Does it bother me? Obviously not, because like I said, I don't keep track of it..it's a bunch of fucking words and we ought to be more concerned about other things in life besides the WORDS we use. It's not the word that's the problem, it's the content..the message..I guarentee you right here and now that with the right message/content, I could make a number of people offended by me calling them "an upstanding gentlemen" at which point I've proven all that I've just said. I have actually done something exactly like that once, I just don't remember what I called the person, but it wasn't even remotely anything that most of you here considers inappropiate in any shape or form.
As a last thing to my post here before this becomes too longwinded (too fucking late!) I would like for you all to consider the following words:
cockpit
cock, also known as rooster
cockroach
dick, as in the name
pussy, also known as cat
No one has problems saying any of those, even you in the back shaking your head, just admit it. Maybe that's what we need to do - Next time someone is being a prick, we call the person a COCK-roach, with a slight pause inbetween and emphasis on the cock part..how now brown cow?
I'm not conclusively saying that you should swear, just because you can..do it as you personally find fitting. If your inclination is to not swear at all, fine, cool with me. However don't make swearing a fucking crime or a basis for judging people's character and/or level of intelligence, it's just not how reality works.
