Cursing

[Bigtanker]

I use those words sparingly. When people who know me hear them come out of my mouth, it is serious. Gets the pinot across.
The Mrs is a different story.

 

[Cemetery-man]

Rarely ever except when I'm very angry then I'll keep up with the best of 'em.

 

[tryingtosurvive03]

When the F word starts to fly Im about ready to dot an eye. Other than that not much bad english.

 

[woodwalker]

Depends on who is around and what kind of day I'm having

 

[bmbutch]

I wish I could say never, but I do try. If I get stung by a wasp or similar, it just brings out all kinds of filth. It's not really the pain as much as it just ticks me off. Left lane drivers have a similar impact, so do liberals, uh oh, maybe I voted wrong.

 

[Expat]

I avoid it around women and children. I avoid it around men that I don't know well enough to know how they talk.

 

[NHT3]

I was always told people tend to use more colorful language when they have a limited vocabulary but I think it's disrespectful in general. Just MHO

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[BigBoxaJunk]

Never did a complete plumbing job without a healthy amount of expletives.

 

[RobbyMaQ]

I realized I cursed too much when my son (at age 3) began calling them 'Bad Daddy Words'

 

[JetGirl]

I know a guy that uses "f***in" instead of "um" when he can't figure out what he's trying to say. Good guy, intelligent guy, but it makes him sound like an idiot.

Yeah, overusing swear words as a "filler" or placeholder while you're trying to come up with the next word you want to use in a conversation does make you look like your vocabulary is limited and really does make you look like a moron. I totally agree with that.

I was always told people tend to use more colorful language when they have a limited vocabulary

Like RnR stated... I think the people who habitually stumble over their own words and fill in with curses (as well as long stretches of "uh"/"um") aren't the same thing as those who know when/where to put a lid on it (or conversely break it out with flair).
I'm fairly certain my vocabulary is comfortably padded. In addition, I lurve to makeupify my own wordification...and sometimes I see others using my creations. That's always fun for me.

 

[Birds Away]

Around kids/professional settings/general public/anytime I'm supposed to be more..."proper"...etc., I pretty much keep a firm clamp on the potty mouth.
But when I'm with my bestie or in my own home, I have a love affair with the "F" word in its nine glorious parts of speech.
Curiously, I don't use it as a staple of angry vocabulary... I'm much more inventive than that.
And now people who've met me in real life are all confused and scratching their heads...

They were confused and scratching their heads before you said any of that.

 

[JetGirl]

They were confused and scratching their heads before you said any of that.

Good.

 

[GlockRock]

**** is part of my regular vocab. Not unintelligent, just a word I use that some don't.

 

[Rookie]

I don't drink, I don't smoke, and I don't curse. ****, I do drink and smoke.

 

[Crbn79]

My language used to be pretty rough after spending years in the Military. Since having kids, my language has cleaned up quite a bit.

 

[findingZzero]

I almost never curse in anger. If I do, never in public. It's part of my lexicon, usually used for humor, emphasis or shock value, depending on the company.
I grew up in a big inner city where cursing was common. When I turned 11 we moved to the suburbs where I was labelled a 'curser' in middle school by the admin. F**k them!

 

[The Drifter]

Not around my MOTHER IN LAW ,she would beat my like a drum . Not in front of my grand children , and for the most part not when I work in other peoples homes. Other then that , let it fly . It lowers my blood presser . G0%, *^$ , $@^ @f @ %!?(~ .

 

[terrehautian]

Can't say I haven't, but it takes to get extremely angry to say anything about someone. I can blow it off for most things now.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Like of others have said, I try not to when in public, around company I don't know well, etc. I really hate to hear people doing it around or to kids. Again, like others said, I work in a factory and it's referred to as 'shop-talk' there. If you didn't use various forms of profanity to describe a problem a machine is having, most wouldn't know what you're talking about.

 

[Snapdragon]

I personally think that there should not be "bad words"-- only bad thoughts and bad actions. I think it's absolutely ridiculous that a word that means 'poop' cannot be said on television, but TV programs can show hundreds of murders a day in gory detail.