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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Doctor Bomb" data-source="post: 2820607" data-attributes="member: 8300">I SWEAR LIKE A SAILOR (but only at work)<img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious    :]" data-shortname=":]" /> LOL  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/nervous.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":heh:" title="Nervous Laugh    :heh:" data-shortname=":heh:" /> As a sailor, and native of a town in the great American "Bible Belt" I understand the frustration. It's surprisingly not that hard to retrain, or to switch back and forth depending on the crowd. All of the above methods will work if you actually use them - we used the "curse jar" on my last ship toward the end of the deployment since most of us wanted to go home without offending our families. It was not uncommon for somebody ticked off to drop a dollar (or two) in the jar BEFORE speaking. If I remember correctly, we had something like 73 dollars at the end of the second month, and got ourselves a boatload of candy and soda to stash in the shop for days when we needed to work late or through lunch. Anyone that kept cursing after about the third week was doing it on purpose. Coincidentally, that "hippopottamus" trick also (usually) works on people that tend to say "uh", "like", "and then" or other brief gap-filling words a lot. It makes them stop long enough to make a sentence in thier head before they start saying the words.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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