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Swearing/Cursing

  • 04-03-2015 11:32pm
    #1
    TheOtherMan
    Registered Users Posts: 32 ✭


    Ok so apparently people who swear are the ones who speak the truth.. (Ones you can trust) if you like. Im not too sure about this.. how do you feel about people that use swear words??? Ive no problem with it, If they know their limits.. I.e children, the elderly ect.. And is it considered more acceptable nowdays?


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  • #2
    Baby Jane
    Closed Accounts Posts: 227 ✭✭Baby Jane


    Swearing can be great. Sometimes necessary I think.
    Some people can over-do it and it can sound needless and even a bit aggressive at times, but a moderate amount of it, particularly for deserving situations - fu*k yeah! Great for adding expression.


  • #3
    libelula
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,212 ✭✭✭libelula


    https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1062533710460485


  • #4
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    They do say the Devil never uses bad language.....


  • #5
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    I swear like a fúcking cúnt of a trooper!


  • #6
    wretcheddomain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭wretcheddomain


    Swearing is necessary from a legal standpoint - such as oaths. If swearing is good enough for the President or Supreme Court judge, it's good enough for me.


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  • #7
    Arsemageddon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,129 ✭✭✭Arsemageddon


    I find it hard to trust someone who doesn't curse



    To prove my trustworthiness - feckin' p1ssflaps!


  • #8
    McChubbin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,080 ✭✭✭McChubbin


    I'm a respectable, intelligent and classy lady who likes to say "F'UCK" a lot.


  • #9
    TheOtherMan
    Registered Users Posts: 32 ✭TheOtherMan


    wretcheddomain wrote: »
    Swearing is necessary from a legal standpoint - such as oaths. If swearing is good enough for the President or Supreme Court judge, it's good enough for me.

    Your opinion on Cursing then please and thank you


  • #10
    Señor Fancy Pants
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,628 ✭✭✭Señor Fancy Pants


    Speak the truth?

    Sure I'm a fcuking lying bastard!


  • #11
    the groutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    Ya fupping backstard!


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  • #12
    FluffyAngel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 518 ✭✭✭FluffyAngel


    Does that mean that rap music has turned into a truthful/religion?


  • #13
    Kevin McCloud
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,797 ✭✭✭Kevin McCloud


    I like using big words.


  • #14
    William F
    Closed Accounts Posts: 473 ✭✭William F


    Apparently


  • #15
    Desolation Of Smug
    Closed Accounts Posts: 760 ✭✭✭Desolation Of Smug


    I cuss like a trooper and feckin hate liars, so maybe they have a point?


  • #16
    PizzamanIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    Swearing is fucking disgusting!


  • #17
    dodderangler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    the groutch wrote: »
    Ya fupping backstard!

    Pedrofile! Grasshole!


  • #18
    TheOtherMan
    Registered Users Posts: 32 ✭TheOtherMan


    dodderangler wrote: »
    Pedrofile! Grasshole!

    C*ntbox


  • #19
    circadian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,145 ✭✭✭circadian


    It's punctuation.


  • #20
    Kevin McCloud
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,797 ✭✭✭Kevin McCloud


    Desolation Of Smug wrote: »
    I cuss like a trooper

    I curse at my trooper, 3 litre pos.


  • #21
    TheOtherMan
    Registered Users Posts: 32 ✭TheOtherMan


    Half of these answers dont make any sense


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  • #22
    RayM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    It's a true sign of a lack of cunting vocabulary.


  • #23
    TheOtherMan
    Registered Users Posts: 32 ✭TheOtherMan


    RayM wrote: »
    It's a true sign of a lack of cunting vocabulary.

    Ohhh


  • #24
    wil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭wil


    I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle


  • #25
    Adamantium
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭Adamantium


    FUPP OFF YOU FUPPING GRASSHOLE, YA PEDROPHILE


  • #26
    Littlekittylou
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,357 ✭✭✭Littlekittylou


    TheOtherMan wrote: »
    Ok so apparently people who swear are the ones who speak the truth.. (Ones you can trust) if you like. Im not too sure about this.. how do you feel about people that use swear words??? Ive no problem with it, If they know their limits.. I.e children, the elderly ect.. And is it considered more acceptable nowdays?
    May the devil **** you.:)


  • #27
    wil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭wil


    TheOtherMan wrote: »
    Half of these answers dont make any sense
    Shazbot! That's a frakking gross underestimate. D’Arvit, mother flipping ninnymuggins


  • #28
    robman60
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,226 ✭✭✭robman60


    Fine as long as it's not every sentence. I find I swear more if I'm speaking to someone I don't know well/find it awkward to talk to them. Like an anxious reaction or something.


  • #29
    Conor Bourke
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 17,424 ✭✭✭✭Conor Bourke


    Read a book recently, it was described as "gritty" but frankly I was appalled at the language in it.

    "You big bastard". Oh, dreadful language! "You big hairy arse", "You big fecker". Fierce stuff! And of course, the f-word, the bad f-word, worse than "feck" - you know the one I mean.
    "Eff you". "Eff your 'effin' wife". Oh, I don't know why they have to use language like that. "I'll stick this 'effin' pitchfork up your hole", oh, that was another one, oh, yes!
    "Bastard" this and "bastard" that, you can't move for the bastards in her novels! It's wall-to-wall bastards!
    You bastard!" You fecker!" "You bollocks!" "Get your bollocks out of my face!"

    "Ride me sideways" was another one!


  • #30
    Desolation Of Smug
    Closed Accounts Posts: 760 ✭✭✭Desolation Of Smug


    Kevin McCloud wrote: »
    I curse at my trooper, 3 litre pos.

    :D Cheaper turbos though..


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  • #31
    ZiabR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,575 ✭✭✭ZiabR


    It definitely is more acceptable in today's society. I swear all of the time and sometimes I don't even know I am doing it.


  • #32
    TheOtherMan
    Registered Users Posts: 32 ✭TheOtherMan


    RayM wrote: »
    It's a true sign of a lack of cunting vocabulary.

    So sue me


  • #33
    Gbear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,775 ✭✭✭✭Gbear


    I'm always suspicious of people who don't swear and even more so if they avoid it because they think it's somehow "dirty" or uncouth.

    It's cathartic, colourful, often creative and as much a part of how we communicate as any of the other noises we squeeze out of our faces.

    Those who think it's beneath them always strike me as people who are incredibly boring, have very little capacity to think about anything other than trivia and take themselves far too seriously.


  • #34
    TheOtherMan
    Registered Users Posts: 32 ✭TheOtherMan


    Gbear wrote: »
    I'm always suspicious of people who don't swear and even more so if they avoid it because they think it's somehow "dirty" or uncouth.

    It's cathartic, colourful, often creative and as much a part of how we communicate as any of the other noises we squeeze out of our faces.

    Those who think it's beneath them always strike me as people who are incredibly boring, have very little capacity to think about anything other than trivia and take themselves far too seriously.

    I toatally agree. When someone says 'i dont swear' most of the time that is probably a lie right there. Then you get the impression that they are boring.. And they care too much about what peoples opinion of them would be. Life is too short, especially for something as trivial as saying a few swear words


  • #35
    Wacker The Attacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    McChubbin wrote: »
    I'm a respectable, intelligent and classy lady who likes to say "F'UCK" a lot.

    You only say it.

    Sure thats no use


  • #36
    Wacker The Attacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    Gbear wrote: »
    I'm always suspicious of people who don't swear and even more so if they avoid it because they think it's somehow "dirty" or uncouth.

    It's cathartic, colourful, often creative and as much a part of how we communicate as any of the other noises we squeeze out of our faces.

    Those who think it's beneath them always strike me as people who are incredibly boring, have very little capacity to think about anything other than trivia and take themselves far too seriously.

    I find that a well placed swear word should pass by almost unnoticed. The problem starts where every second word of an article or a conversation is a swear word. It just destroys the art of good swearing. It's something akin to using rhyming slang.


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  • #37
    TheOtherMan
    Registered Users Posts: 32 ✭TheOtherMan


    Littlekittylou wrote: »
    May the devil **** you.:)

    Seem like a lack of manners should be another subject


  • #38
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,689 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    I think I swear because I can't find the wordsquicklyenoughwhenI'm****ingsayinkjbkejbclcnlknclnclknrelfnvb


  • #39
    Saralee4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,077 ✭✭✭Saralee4


    I have no problem with it at all. I think you can use most words but it is how you say them and in what context.

    Ive heard that people who curse, for example if they hurt themselves, that they experience less pain. If that's the case, I am literally going to be like that kid from the exorcist when im in labour with my baby in a few months time :):):)


  • #40
    Boring username
    Closed Accounts Posts: 679 ✭✭✭Boring username


    Gbear wrote: »
    I'm always suspicious of people who don't swear and even more so if they avoid it because they think it's somehow "dirty" or uncouth.

    It's cathartic, colourful, often creative and as much a part of how we communicate as any of the other noises we squeeze out of our faces.

    Those who think it's beneath them always strike me as people who are incredibly boring, have very little capacity to think about anything other than trivia and take themselves far too seriously.



    Everyone swears. The trick is knowing where swearing is, and isn't, acceptable. There's nothing more embarrassing that being in a nice restaurant or somewhere that there are children and some gouger is effing and blinding at the top of their voice.


  • #41
    lertsnim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,825 ✭✭✭lertsnim


    TheOtherMan wrote: »
    I.e children, the elderly ect..

    The elderly? I'm curious who else.


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  • #42
    Rosie Rant
    Registered Users Posts: 1,071 ✭✭✭Rosie Rant


    Swearing is necessary, it is liberating. If something is irritating the f*ck out of me, I have a good ranty curse about it and the tension just floats away. I can be very passionate about some things and a lot of the time I express myself with a curse or two.

    I swear a lot, but I know when to not swear. I think I agree with the statement in the OP. I think that when someone is lying, they would speak more carefully and deliberately.

    I wouldn't say I don't trust someone who doesn't swear. I quite admire it actually. It shows self control. I'd probably shock them, though. C*nt is one of my favourite words and I use it quite a bit in selected company.


  • #43
    TheOtherMan
    Registered Users Posts: 32 ✭TheOtherMan


    lertsnim wrote: »
    The elderly? I'm curious who else.

    Children :)


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