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If you haven't seen this series, I highly suggest you get the DVDs of season 1 and 2 and watch them. It's kind of like Mythbusters but they tackle things like PETA and Secondhand Smoking.
Yesterday, we watched the episode from Season 2 on Swearing. It was great because they had linguists and lexicographers who, basically, confirmed my thoughts that they're just words and the people who want government to regulate them need to stop because we'll just come up with other words to make curse words; like Humbug. Yup, back in the early 1900's, Humbug was a curse word. Heck, you used to say "white meat" and "dark meat" for chicken meat instead of breast and thigh meat because that was "taboo."
Anyway, the best line was from the lady in Texas who started a campaign to stop people from cursing in public places. She said, and I misquote, "When I get frustrated, instead of saying 'Oh my God' I say "Oh my Buddha" because, I mean, if you're going to blasphem a diety, it may as well not be your own."
I just lost it at that point and had to pause the DVD until I stopped laughing (and I'm a Buddhist).
Yesterday, we watched the episode from Season 2 on Swearing. It was great because they had linguists and lexicographers who, basically, confirmed my thoughts that they're just words and the people who want government to regulate them need to stop because we'll just come up with other words to make curse words; like Humbug. Yup, back in the early 1900's, Humbug was a curse word. Heck, you used to say "white meat" and "dark meat" for chicken meat instead of breast and thigh meat because that was "taboo."
Anyway, the best line was from the lady in Texas who started a campaign to stop people from cursing in public places. She said, and I misquote, "When I get frustrated, instead of saying 'Oh my God' I say "Oh my Buddha" because, I mean, if you're going to blasphem a diety, it may as well not be your own."
I just lost it at that point and had to pause the DVD until I stopped laughing (and I'm a Buddhist).
