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Thread #143204   Message #3303997
Posted By: Anne Lister
07-Feb-12 - 06:17 PM
Thread Name: BS: Weird involuntary swearing
Subject: RE: BS: Weird involuntary swearing
I'm not sure it's involuntary or weird, but I come from a household where no one swore, all through my childhood and adolescence. And then in my first week at university I met someone who is still one of my best friends, from a VERY well spoken, very typical English village background (father an author, lived in thatched cottage in a village in Sussex), and I was amazed (and, I have to say, influenced) by the way she would walk in a small circle in her room when annoyed and mutter "Piss, shit, knickers, fuck" repeatedly until she'd got it out of her system.
More recently my husband and I have adopted Malcolm Tucker from "The Thick of It" on television and his "Come the fuck in or fuck the fuck off" approach to life.