Cursing

[Kwitchit]

Start to use "bloody". It's fine outside the UK.

 

[Darthjaye]

It's easier than you think. You've got a built in excuse to start catching yourself besides the potential of a new job, anyways. Since you have a baby in the house just start working on it with that in mind too. Remember, you may think a couple of months is too young for them to pick it up, but just wait til they repeat your first "dumb@#$@" and then watch the sparks fly. You have to retrain your brain with easier replacements. I go to Shadowrun (as you may have noticed at the gaming table) with terms like "Fraggin". Here at home, when the boy is in the room or within earshot, it's a little labor, but I catch those things right before they slip out and replace them with something similiar. Heck for hell, Frag for the "eff" word, Dagnabbit for any "d" word (my son loved that one, and I got it from cartoons), or just plain ole sucking back the word and just making incoherent grumbling is my usual. Your never gonna control em all, but you can catch the worst offenders in time.

Traffic is my Kryptonite though

I have to turn up his music so he doesn't hear my almost coherent grumblings about the "joyous" morons on the road who grace me with their very presence.

 

[babomb]

In polite company, I replace my curse words with "Belgium", "joojooflop", "turlingdrome", "narf" or even "son of a preacher man". I'm a fan of "balls o' fire" too.

 

[Harmon]

It's easier than you think. You've got a built in excuse to start catching yourself besides the potential of a new job, anyways. Since you have a baby in the house just start working on it with that in mind too. Remember, you may think a couple of months is too young for them to pick it up, but just wait til they repeat your first "dumb@#$@" and then watch the sparks fly.

Her learning to cuss doesn't bother me to much, she is going to learn eventually, might as well learn it from Dad.

I think I have been getting better about my cussing. I have been counting my curses (down to about fifteen a day- not bad, about half of what I did the first day), and trying to use some of the suggested words here as well as some of my own. It's harder then one would think to cut out words that I have used for decades (almost three).

Thanks for the words, its helping.

 

[Lord Zardoz]

Swearwords are just so efficient though...

Regardless of ones opinions of what one thinks of such words, they do serve the purpose of being powerfully efficient at expressing frustration or anger. Its effect on speech is that of a magic item that grants +10 to everything and has no limits on use, but also gives the user the appearance of a flame wreathed demon. Its effective, but the cosmetic effects are usually detrimental.

My own philosophy is that swearing is perfectly ok as long as you use discretion, and are mindful of who your talking to. Among friends and in private, no harm done. Among strangers and those who would be offended, watch what you say. Among enemies, well, just be sure that you wont have your teeth fed to you.

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[Fenris]

Her learning to cuss doesn't bother me to much, she is going to learn eventually, might as well learn it from Dad.

I think I have been getting better about my cussing. I have been counting my curses (down to about fifteen a day- not bad, about half of what I did the first day), and trying to use some of the suggested words here as well as some of my own. It's harder then one would think to cut out words that I have used for decades (almost three).

Thanks for the words, its helping.

"Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables"

You are breaking old cables and building new cobwebs. Your progress is great. Focus on catching one curse a day, stopping or substituting. Slowly increase this. As you get out of the habit, it will be easier and easier.

This is nearly as bad as giving up smoking, though you have less chemical dependacy, you have these neurons well established and have a "verbal" dependancy. Keep at it Harmon. Focus on your progress to stay postive about what you have accomplished.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

There's a classic one here in the South that has been enjoying some play in the ads of a local real estate company.

Whenever you feel the need to curse someone out, just say "Bless your heart..." and go about your business. Down here, that's a classic, simple put down. Depending on your intonation, that can range from a "You idiot!" to a genteel way of saying "F*** you!"

 

[ssampier]

A good subsitution is "Bob Saget"

Ah Saget!

That does work!

 

[Harmon]

Okay, now I know I missed something- what does Bob Saget have to do with cussing? Oh, wait mayhaps I am not the one confused- Bob Saget has been cursed with bad shows, maybe that is what you guys are talking about?

(Seriously- whats the Saget thing?)

 

[Darthjaye]

Okay, now I know I missed something- what does Bob Saget have to do with cussing? Oh, wait mayhaps I am not the one confused- Bob Saget has been cursed with bad shows, maybe that is what you guys are talking about?

(Seriously- whats the Saget thing?)

So many have been fooled by his father-like veneer from Full House (his ABC show). Take a gander at any of his stand-up's sometime and you will understand what they are talking about. The man's got a crass mouth on him that would embarass even a carpenter.