BS: Cursing

Subject: RE: BS: Cursing
From: s6k
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 07:05 PM

i fucking love it

everyday swearing is fucking marvellous

Subject: RE: BS: Cursing
From: Blissfully Ignorant
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 09:18 PM

Well fuck me backwards and call me a bastard...this thread has descended into gratuitous cursing! I am shocked and offended, i really am!

Subject: RE: BS: Cursing
From: Joe_F
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 09:59 PM

In certain desperate circumstances, profanity affords a degree of relief denied even to prayer. -- Mark Twain

Subject: RE: BS: Cursing
From: jacqui.c
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 10:50 PM

Profanity is the effort of a feeble mind to express itself.

Subject: RE: BS: Cursing
From: jacqui.c
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 10:51 PM

That was me, not Jacqui. (Kendall)

Subject: RE: BS: Cursing
From: Blissfully Ignorant
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 11:17 PM

Profanity is the effort of a profane mind to express itself...

Subject: RE: BS: Cursing
From: Blissfully Ignorant
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 11:49 PM

Although, i have to say that because if i didn't i'd be admitting to having a feeble mind. And that's a secret....OOOPSIES!

Subject: RE: BS: Cursing
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 13 Nov 04 - 12:57 AM

Fibula- I was a bit wooried wehn i spotted the headmaster stood next to me,
i thought "oooh shit, i might get expelled for this!"
but, he saw the whole thing, the kid that called me a thick bastard was astonished, that i did not get into trubble for hitting him, he stood there looking at headmaster with his mouth open, but no words coming out!
very funny, [one of them times, were you haf to be there to see how funny it was],

headmaster went up many times in my estimation after that, [top bloke!].

i made some smart arse comment to the name calling kid, like "just fucking watch it"
he answered something like =
"yes, ok i will do, thanks"!


john


ps=nobody calls me a thick bastard and gets away whith it! :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Cursing
From: Cluin
Date: 13 Nov 04 - 01:10 AM

So have we come to any kind of fucking consensus regarding cursing yet?

Subject: RE: BS: Cursing
From: s6k
Date: 13 Nov 04 - 07:24 AM

have we fuck

Subject: RE: BS: Cursing
From: GUEST,bob kaye
Date: 19 Jan 05 - 07:36 PM

someone asked where "fuckashitpiss" came from. I read that term in the 60's novel called "Candy", words spoken by a retard-hunchback who was in love with Candy...
and Ringo Starr screwed her on a pool table in the movie Candy...

Subject: RE: BS: Cursing
From: hilda fish
Date: 20 Jan 05 - 06:57 PM

I teach in prisons and also live in a disaffected community and some language is so common as to be part of the culture inside and outside. For example, "cunnava thing" (cunt of a thing) is a familiar way of saying somethings difficult in the same way that "shitava thing" or "fuckava thing". If anything's rotting or off it's referred to as a "lepers dick" and that can also be the descriptiong of someone who is a bit off i.e. doesn't wash too frequently or eats things off the ground. "Jesus fucka dick" has always been an expression of amazement as has "shittabrick" while "goddincunt" was always a description of terrific, one way or another. I was raised with swearing, cursing etc. as part of the common language and without realising it I was regarded in other circles as a foul-mouthed person. That pissed me off when I became aware of it. Neither my mob, myself, or the people I teach or my community are stupid, insensitive or consider themselves foul-mouthed. Language and culture are interesting in that they have always been the one of the ways that inferiority/inferiority, godlessness/godfulness etc. can be judged and yet language changes, and changes again. These days I would humbly offer that what was considered either sacrilege, obscene or offensive would be accepted in most younger circles as perfectly normal although there is an awareness that some would take offense. Me, I continue to me known as a foul-mouthed person, but not as bad as I was. I am that bit more aware but I am capable of letting it rip if I think that superiority of language is part of the scenery. It's nice to deliberately offend sometimes. Is there a conclusion to any of this?

Subject: RE: BS: Cursing
From: JennieG
Date: 20 Jan 05 - 08:10 PM

The worst my mother ever came out with was "bumbuggerbitch". Sometimes, for variety, she would say "sugarmagundy" instead of saying "shit".

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: Cursing
From: LadyJean
Date: 21 Jan 05 - 12:25 AM

I went to a small excessively Christian college for two years. One night at a basketball game, I was sitting in front of a young man who was studying for the ministry. The referee made a call he didn't like at a crucial moment, and he stood up and shouted, "Oh fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuGGGGGGGGGG!"

I don't have all the words to Anne Feeney's "F Word" song, but I reccomend it highly.

Subject: RE: BS: Cursing
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 21 Jan 05 - 04:01 AM

I'm rather fond of mixing 'Edina' from 'Absolutely Fabulous' (Brit TV comedy) and Sarah Kennedy from Radio 2... Edina would make comments like 'buggerybuggeringassholes' and Sarah uses a word 'bummocks', which I suspect she cribbed from one of her compilation books on 'what children say'. It's not quite bollocks a nautical term and not quite bums.... one of those portmanteau words that cover many situations.

What usually comes out is something like 'buggerybummocks and arsehole!'

Limpit comes out with 'Oh fudge', which is pretty good, seeing as how her first curse came at age 18months, she fell of a chair and said 'oh bowwucks'.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Cursing
From: DMcG
Date: 21 Jan 05 - 04:16 AM

From Sheridan's "The Rivals":


Abs. Spoke like a man! But pray, Bob, I observe you have got an odd kind of a new method of swearing—
Acres. Ha! ha! you've taken notice of it—'tis genteel, isn't it!—I didn't invent it myself though; but a commander in our militia, a great scholar, I assure you, says that there is no meaning in the common oaths, and that nothing but their antiquity makes them respectable; because, he says, the ancients would never stick to an oath or two, but would say, by Jove! or by Bacchus! or by Mars! or by Venus! or by Pallas, according to the sentiment: so that to swear with propriety, says my little major, the oath should be an echo to the sense; and this we call the oath referential, or sentimental swearing—ha! ha! 'tis genteel, isn't it.
Abs. Very genteel, and very new, indeed!—and I dare say will supplant all other figures of imprecation.
Acres. Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete.—Damns have had their day.

Subject: RE: BS: Cursing
From: DMcG
Date: 21 Jan 05 - 04:27 AM

I'd better give a few of his examples, for the flavour of 'oath referential':

Odds whips and wheels! I've travelled like a comet

Odds blushes and blooms! she has been as healthy as the German Spa

Merry, odds crickets! she has been the belle and spirit of the company wherever she has been

Subject: RE: BS: Cursing
From: Crystal
Date: 21 Jan 05 - 05:45 AM

I find my swearing changes depending who I'm with. When I'm around older people (ie people 1 or 2 generations above me) or kids (up to about 10) I'll censor myself, usually halfway through a word; for example ssssssssssssshugar. However when I'm with friends my language deterioates and in particularly bad cases I'll mutter (or scream) motherfuckingfuckingfuck to the heavens.

Subject: RE: BS: Cursing
From: GUEST,Mrr
Date: 21 Jan 05 - 11:15 AM

After 9-11 when I "came out" as an atheist, I tried to stop saying just 4 words (or versions thereof): God, damn, heaven, and hell. YOU try saying ANYTHING emphatic in English without those! I am left with expressions like "very" for emphasis. It bites.

Subject: RE: BS: Cursing
From: goodbar
Date: 21 Jan 05 - 05:50 PM

i started swearing a lot in second grade. me and my asian buddy matt wang would go around the playground and be like 'oh shit! fuck this fucking recess teacher! fuckin' bitch!'

Subject: RE: BS: Cursing
From: Once Famous
Date: 21 Jan 05 - 06:01 PM

Amos is no where to be found here on this thread because he is squeemish.

Guest, Bob Kaye. You are right!   "GIVE ME YOUR HUMP!"

Subject: RE: BS: Cursing
From: GUEST,jacqui.c
Date: 21 Jan 05 - 07:45 PM

Kendall has quite a reputation for using a couple of phrases in particular when he gets hot under the collar (and those that know him know that this is quite a common occurrence - the stories are legion!) Quite often these phrases are accompanied by a certain amount of assault and battery against the inanimate object - I have yet to ask his daughter about the incident with the toaster.

A few days ago we bought a new computer desk that needed to be assembled. I told his brother about this and he just laughed and said 'that should be interesting'. I thought about going out for the afternoon or just retiring to another room until it was all over but decided that I ought to stay around to see who won - him or the desk. To make things interesting I had a bet with Seamus that Kendall could build the desk without using either 'Goddammit' or 'Sumbitch', which are usually both used with both force and feeling. If he swore Seamus was on for three dog biscuits and a bacon strip.

Well, it took about two hours to build and all that pased his lips were a couple of 'miserable pricks', said very quietly and with little force or feeling. Even when we realised that the desk would have to be redesigned to fit the space available he didn't break out with a cussword.

However, use of certain phrases is a good release sometimes and he wouldn't be Kendall if he didn't use them. But it was fun waiting to see if he could manage without them, particularly when dealing with flat pack furniture. Has anyone ever had instructions for this stuff that are actually clear and concise?

Subject: RE: BS: Cursing
From: annamill
Date: 21 Jan 05 - 08:16 PM

GUEST,bob kaye, I remember Candy! Great book! I didn't think the movie was up to the book though. I loved some of her Aunt's expressions. Very funny! Filthy, but funny.

JennyG, I think the term "bumbuggerbitch" is much worse than most of the words expressed here. Just think of the meaning. My goodness! ;-) Giggle!

Love, Annamill

Subject: RE: BS: Cursing
From: kendall
Date: 22 Jan 05 - 12:29 PM

I never cuss without a goddamn good reason

Subject: RE: BS: Cursing
From: *Laura*
Date: 22 Jan 05 - 03:57 PM

i agree. absofuckinlutely.
lol

(obviously said in deep husky american accent by Big from sex and the city)