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Swearing/Cursing?

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    #32
    SubrbanOblivion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 80 ✭✭SubrbanOblivion


    I'm pretty bad about it, but been trying to curb it as of late.


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    #33
    Darlughda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,886 ✭✭✭Darlughda


    I've gotten this notion into my head that somehow it is part of my cultural identity as an Irish person to use what is considered bad language.

    I rarely curse though, when I do, I mean it.


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    #34
    Mike 1972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,021 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    we'llallhavetea wrote: »
    who decided the word prick was more offensive than penis? they mean the same feckin thing, ridiculous!

    "You can prick your finger but you musnt finger your prick" (From "seven words you can never say on television")


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    #35
    ScumLord
    Registered Users Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    I curse all the time, I try not to but it just seems to flow out of me. Sure you can't discribe anything in the west of Ireland without cursing. One lad from the Donegal got a great laugh out of our use of the word cuntish, which I thought was universally used throughout Ireland.


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    #36
    daithijjj
    Registered Users Posts: 7,588 ✭✭✭daithijjj


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLqPJZUNrqI


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    #37
    Bonito
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,399 ✭✭✭Bonito


    Hmmm myself. When I was in early teens I had a swearin' phase. The time when I did swear in front of or at my parents I got a good aul shlap :D

    Nowadays if I swear it's without realising it and I get a reaction of disappointment that I've sworn. It's as their face drops in shock and they're like "ah john, don't be swearing :("

    I then say sorry. Then again ya can't beat a good aul rant and rave about something with a few F's and blinds in it :pac:


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    #38
    toffeearmy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10 ✭toffeearmy


    I only really curse when im drunk unless someone really does my head in .


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    #39
    lol5605
    Registered Users Posts: 178 ✭✭lol5605


    I hate people who don't curse around their parents, acting a bit fake around them like, I curse all of the time so why not in front of my parents, thats me and they just know that.


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    #40
    SomeFool
    Registered Users Posts: 2,452 ✭✭✭SomeFool


    lol5605 wrote: »
    I hate people who don't curse around their parents, acting a bit fake around them like, I curse all of the time so why not in front of my parents, thats me and they just know that.

    Fcuk it it's a small price to pay for a quiet life!


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    #41
    Red_Marauder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,175 ✭✭✭Red_Marauder


    lol5605 wrote: »
    I hate people who don't curse around their parents, acting a bit fake around them like, I curse all of the time so why not in front of my parents, thats me and they just know that.

    I think it's just basic respect for how the effort they've put into raising us.

    I might go out on weekends and pee in the street and drink far more than I'd admit and take drugs in a niteclub bathroom and talk rudely to depressed Turkish take-away staff and score someone I'm never going to call again - that's me - but it doesn't mean I'd want my parents to see it (for their sake more than anything else)


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    #42
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,215 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    lol5605 wrote: »
    I hate people who don't curse around their parents, acting a bit fake around them like, I curse all of the time so why not in front of my parents, thats me and they just know that.
    Well some people's parents have a huge problem with it so they'd rather not stir sh1t than be true to themselves. My dad just tuts at the occasional utterance of e.g. "bullsh1t" from me, but if I swore a blue streak, he'd get cranky - there's no point riling him, he's not getting any younger.


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    #43
    I Was VB
    Registered Users Posts: 1,912 ✭✭✭I Was VB


    I do swear quite alot, there isnt a person who i dont swear in front of.


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    #44
    SomeFool
    Registered Users Posts: 2,452 ✭✭✭SomeFool


    I Was VB wrote: »
    I do swear quite alot, there isnt a person who i dont swear in front of.

    What about nuns?


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    #45
    Red_Marauder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,175 ✭✭✭Red_Marauder


    SomeFool wrote: »
    Originally Posted by I Was VB viewpost.gif
    I do swear quite alot, there isnt a person who i dont swear in front of.
    What about nuns?
    What about nuns nursing sick orphan puppies


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    #46
    I Was VB
    Registered Users Posts: 1,912 ✭✭✭I Was VB


    Red_Marauder wrote: »
    What about nuns nursing sick orphan puppies

    Shower O cants.


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    #47
    Mike 1972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,021 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    SomeFool wrote: »
    What about nuns?

    Especially nuns ?


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    #48
    Minstrel27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,818 ✭✭✭Minstrel27


    I would make a sailor blush


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    #49
    homerun_homer
    Registered Users Posts: 7,024 ✭✭✭homerun_homer


    I'm a chronic swearer the majority of the time, in front of my parents included.


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    #50
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    I swear far too much.

    Even let slip sometimes in front of older relatives and in-laws (including believe it or not, a nun).

    I'm trying to get a handle on it, but it's tough.


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    #51
    NothingMan
    Registered Users Posts: 11,178 ✭✭✭✭NothingMan


    I curse in pretty much every sentence I can. It probably is at the point where I don't think about it. I do it all the time around my family, they may not be as bad as me but we all get along great and would be as relaxed around each other as we would our friends.

    Sometimes your Mother needs to be told to fúck off as much as the next guy.


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    #52
    the_syco
    Registered Users Posts: 37,295 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    DazMarz wrote: »
    I swear a lot. But I can turn it on and off. If I'm around people (girlfriends' parents, certain relatives, etc.) I never swear.

    In most normal situations, it's like a machine-gun. Non-stop swearing.
    Aye. Don't swear in front of certain people (parents, grandad, etc), but otherwise, I swear a f**k load.


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    #53
    hooradiation
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,922 ✭✭✭hooradiation


    McChubbin wrote: »
    I don't give two tugs of a dead dog's cock about swearing.

    I liked transmetropolitan too.


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    #54
    Caveat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 294 ✭✭Caveat


    I swear a lot when I feel like it - I like swearing sometimes. It can be good for emphasis, comedic affect, expressiveness - sometimes no other word/words will do. But like another poster says I can turn it on/off.

    But yes I swear in front of my parents and in laws.


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    #55
    Buford T Justice
    Registered Users Posts: 6,250 ✭✭✭Buford T Justice


    Fuckin hell. I Fuckin curse all the fuckin time. It spews out of me like shite flowin down a bastard river. Can't stop, even if I fuckin want to. I blame Kevin Bloody Wilson The Cunt!


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    #56
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    i have a mouth like a sailors parrot


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    #57
    TPD
    Registered Users Posts: 7,814 ✭✭✭TPD


    I swear a fair bit. I'm not going to change or monitor my language in case it might offend somebody. In fact, if somebody is really offended by bad language, I reckon they deserve a good verbal bollocking. They're just words ffs.


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    #58
    brummytom
    Registered Users Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    lol5605 wrote: »
    I hate people who don't curse around their parents, acting a bit fake around them like, I curse all of the time so why not in front of my parents, thats me and they just know that.

    It's not fake at all. I swear around mates because they're fine with it, I'm a bit more relaxed around mates' parents who are more liberal.
    My parents, however, hate swearing (even though they swear :confused:) so I'm just respecting their wishes... and they'd kill me if I did.


    It's all about respect. I've a mate who's dad won't even let people say "Jesus Christ" etc. in the house; but this lad swears constantly outside of home.


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    #59
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Rarely (see sig :)), on the topic of swearing, i love American TV censorship. Office Space was on recently, god damn customers became gall darn customers and pound me in the ass prison became pound me into ash prison. :D


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    #60
    Rockn
    Registered Users Posts: 363 ✭✭Rockn


    I very rarely swear. Except shít. I don't count shít as a swear word.


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    #61
    m5ex9oqjawdg2i
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,221 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    Ruu wrote: »
    Rarely (see sig :)), on the topic of swearing, i love American TV censorship. Office Space was on recently, god damn customers became gall darn customers and pound me in the ass prison became pound me into ash prison. :D

    The worst thing to happen to TV...


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