Seven words you can't say on TV (or TBN)

[RobJ]

My parents didn't drink, smoke, cuss or be a general scourge on society either and look how I turned out.

You are in the "other" catagory.

 

[Bird]

I never forgot once hearing my Dad say "Heck" when I was about 17. That was the closest I ever heard him come to a cuss word, in spite of having been a truck driver and having worked in the oil fields where foul language was common.

And we never worried about getting our mouth washed out with soap because instead, he would have beaten the you know what out of us if he'd ever heard one of us use a cuss word.

However, I agree with what Mark Twain supposedly said and that was that in certain trying circumstances he believed that profanity provided a relief denied even to prayer.

I also never forgot another incident. When I was a detective sergeant in a burglary and theft unit, the captain hired a new secretary. She was already a city employee and was known to be a very religious young lady, so he asked her if she was sure she wanted the job because there were a lot officers working in that division and a lot of prisoners were brought in and the language could get pretty rough at times. She said she could handle it. But then one day after she'd been there about a month, she was just sitting at her desk crying. The captain called her in the office to ask what was wrong, and she told him she just couldn't stand all the bad language. He said, "Well, I told you that would happen." And she said, "I understood some of the prisoners would use foul language, but I've never heard a prisoner using any bad language; just the officers."

Not a very good example.

 

[N80]

My Dad cussed a good bit. Never the 'F' word, usually just dam, maybe the 'S' word on occasion. I grew up cussing from about elementary school on. Never in front of parents, etc. but a lot worse than Dad ever did. Then I went to military school and learned a whole new vocabulary.

As I've gotten older, I pretty much don't cuss anymore if anyone is around. My wife, who has been with me since college gets to hear some choice words every now and again. She glares at me with disapproval just like she did when we were in college. My kids almost never here me cuss.

I will often let it fly when I'm alone.

I think language in general has gotten much too crude and I really don't like to hear cussing, even around friends. But, I don't say anything to anyone about it.

I'm also a big fan of keeping TBN clean and family friendly and have said so. Of course once I referred to futile act as a urinating contest....except using the 'p' word for urinate....you know, like two male dogs marking the same spot over and voer again. Well, immediately after that Bird PM'd me that some sensitive soul was reading posts with his young daughter and was embarrassed by my words. So despite being a big fan of courtly language....I'm apparently a big offender too.

 

[rtdiggr]

You'll have to be more specific... there are more than one.

No comment, maybe i should just go kill something that might make me feel better.

Shane

 

[Bird]

No comment, maybe i should just go kill something that might make me feel better.

Shane

But are we still friends?

 

[hazmat]

...So despite being a big fan of courtly language....I'm apparently a big offender too.

And you've been reported to homeland security - big brother is watching...

I work in a professional office environment. I never really noticed until I had children that my language was far from professional. I know it is chauvinistic, but I'm always a little shocked & disappointed when I hear the ladies at work dropping the F bomb . Especially when it is just casual conversation, ie no "crisis" of any kind.

I seem to remember an article that concluded cursing was a primal form of communication and that is why it is usually related to strong emotion - ie fear, anger etc.

 

[Bird]

I know it is chauvinistic, but I'm always a little shocked & disappointed when I hear the ladies at work dropping the F bomb

I agree. I grew up in a world where men were not supposed to cuss in the presence of women and children. But another of those surprises in my life came when I was in the 7th grade in school. We were going on a "field trip" on the school bus and some of us boys got in the back of the bus to exchange some dirty jokes. Well, a couple of the girls came back to see what we were laughing about, and it wasn't long before I learhed that the girls knew more jokes, and nastier jokes than the boys did.

 

[dfkrug]

.....maybe i should just go kill something that might make me feel better.

Shane

Thanks for the great laugh, Shane!

 

[N80]

I agree. I grew up in a world where men were not supposed to cuss in the presence of women and children.

That's what folks used to refer to as 'mixed company'. In other words, you wouldn't cuss in 'mixed company' which meant that there were women or children around. Of course, around here men used to stand if a woman came into the room. They would also remove their hat. They would also hold a door for her. I still try. Trying to teach my kids too but more and more those things are seen as old fashioned nonsense.

 

[Tim D]

If I did not have cuss words, I could not put a whole sentence together. My wife tells me that the only thing she can brag to her friends about is how her husband can make a whole sentence out of nothing but cuss words and it actually makes sense. Normally I cuss at farm equipment and things like that that aggrevate me. I'm getting better the older I get about cussing but really should be sent to reform school for dirty mouth boys.