Martin

Senior Member
Dec 31, 2000
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You don't use foul language at all in your social life, not even with your friends?
Tbh I use it most internally as a response to some situation, but it's rarely spoken. I tend not to use it very much around people, because it sets the mood in a particular way that's pretty depressing.

I'm kinda ambivalent about the subject, because I know people don't really wanna hear it the same way I don't enjoy the company of someone who's cursing just for show, that is pretty sad behavior. On the other hand, I don't have a problem with it if I know the other person is cool with it.

There is another aspect to this. Basically, cursing is all about recalling certain images or emotions that the other person can't avoid being reminded of, that's how curses work. That's why they are uncomfortable. But a lot of common curses have lost their attachment to their original meaning and are just sort of general words of exclamation. Those I have no problem with. What I don't like is people who take some kind of perverse satisfaction in composing new curses just so they make the other person visualize what they just thought of. That is just gross.
 

Fred

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Oct 2, 2003
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So now, in my graduating semester. I have to take a course called Total Quality Management that i've been avoiding for years now. The reason i've been avoiding it is because my dad is the instructor. Now i have to take it, but my dad does not want me to because he says its a conflict of interest.

I'm just scared i have to stay an extra semester because of this debacle. I just hope they let me take a substitute course and get done with it. I'd hate to have to stay for an extra semester.
 

Fred

Senior Member
Oct 2, 2003
41,112
Tbh I use it most internally as a response to some situation, but it's rarely spoken. I tend not to use it very much around people, because it sets the mood in a particular way that's pretty depressing.

I'm kinda ambivalent about the subject, because I know people don't really wanna hear it the same way I don't enjoy the company of someone who's cursing just for show, that is pretty sad behavior. On the other hand, I don't have a problem with it if I know the other person is cool with it.

There is another aspect to this. Basically, cursing is all about recalling certain images or emotions that the other person can't avoid being reminded of, that's how curses work. That's why they are uncomfortable. But a lot of common curses have lost their attachment to their original meaning and are just sort of general words of exclamation. Those I have no problem with. What I don't like is people who take some kind of perverse satisfaction in composing new curses just so they make the other person visualize what they just thought of. That is just gross.
Exactly. A word like "fuck" is a prime example of this.
 

Martin

Senior Member
Dec 31, 2000
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Exactly. A word like "fuck" is a prime example of this.
It's still strong to use for no reason. But I say stuff like sob without expecting anyone to get upset. Like saying "f bs" is a lighter version of "fucking bs". Even though it's the same word. Funny how that works.
 

Bjerknes

"Top Economist"
Mar 16, 2004
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So now, in my graduating semester. I have to take a course called Total Quality Management that i've been avoiding for years now. The reason i've been avoiding it is because my dad is the instructor. Now i have to take it, but my dad does not want me to because he says its a conflict of interest.

I'm just scared i have to stay an extra semester because of this debacle. I just hope they let me take a substitute course and get done with it. I'd hate to have to stay for an extra semester.
Tell your dad if he doesn't allow you to smoke weed in class, you'll punch him in the face.

Just got back from my Bio lab and it turns out that there are some cuties in their. Who knew, biddies in Bio, what a concept?!
Are they a bit young?
 

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