Your swear alternatives (no real profanity, please)

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  • bookworm_847
    bookworm_847 Posts: 1,903 Member
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    cheese n fries....and after seeing "tourettes guy" "Bob Saget!"

    I'll have to remember "Bob Saget!" That's a good one.

    Mine go-to words/phrases are:
    For crying out loud
    Good grief (an oldie but it still works)
    Cheez whiz
    Foo fighters... not sure how that one started


    Edited because I'm not sure if my last one would fall under the umbrella of "real profanity." It's a nonesense word that's a hybrid of several bad words. So, just in case... I'll keep it to myself :wink:
  • missmike16
    missmike16 Posts: 59
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    shut the fluff up
    what the french toast
    good gravy
    sweet baby jesus
  • emsicle_o
    emsicle_o Posts: 162 Member
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    Shizzle
  • BerryH
    BerryH Posts: 4,698 Member
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    I like calling annoying idiots a twonk.
  • Fozzi43
    Fozzi43 Posts: 2,984 Member
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    I just swear..but under my breath if kids are around..or my mother.
  • Terasome
    Terasome Posts: 3,808 Member
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    fruit cake
    willy wonka
    dip stick
    car swipe
  • chunkermunker
    chunkermunker Posts: 35
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    I never use substitutes.
    I adore spouting profanity. It's crazy that some words are considered 'bad words' when after all, they are just words and such delightfully expressive words at that.
    I still find it it quite frustrating that forums and messageboards censor us as they see fit. :(

    That said, I hate to hear swear words used in an aggressive manner. Particularly towards kids. It sounds more like a slap in the face than a slap in the face does.
  • MeeshyBW
    MeeshyBW Posts: 382 Member
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    I never use substitutes.
    I adore spouting profanity. It's crazy that some words are considered 'bad words' when after all, they are just words and such delightfully expressive words at that.
    I still find it it quite frustrating that forums and messageboards censor us as they see fit. :(

    That said, I hate to hear swear words used in an aggressive manner. Particularly towards kids. It sounds more like a slap in the face than a slap in the face does.

    ^^^ Same!

    I swear like a sailor and I don't give two S***s about it. If you are offended because of swear words you need to get a life.
  • pixtotts
    pixtotts Posts: 552 Member
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    I very very rarely swear... If i swear at you you you have really really upset me or made me really really angry and its my way of not crying (i cry when im angry too...)... lol.

    Even bloody hell is considered swearing in our house (which it cant be its in harry potter...lol) but I do say ruddy a lot..

    Now im going to be rather controversial and say I'm rather a fan of the view that people who need swear words to express themselves lack the intelligence to find other words that noone finds offensive to use...
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  • MeeshyBW
    MeeshyBW Posts: 382 Member
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    Now im going to be rather controversial and say I'm rather a fan of the view that people who need swear words to express themselves lack the intelligence to find other words that noone finds offensive to use...
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    ^^^ This annoys me so much! this is pretty much the standard roll out excuse as to why people swear. It is old hat, we've heard it a thousand times and it simply is not the case.

    I'm an intelligent person with a wide vocabulary. I chose to swear because I am an adult and they are just other words in my vocabulary. I don't have kids, I socialise with free spirited adults and sometimes we like to drop the F-bomb. So what?! Don't think too much into it. It has absolutely no bearing on intelligence whatsoever.
  • chunkermunker
    chunkermunker Posts: 35
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    Now im going to be rather controversial and say I'm rather a fan of the view that people who need swear words to express themselves lack the intelligence to find other words that noone finds offensive to use...
    x

    ^^^ This annoys me so much! this is pretty much the standard roll out excuse as to why people swear. It is old hat, we've heard it a thousand times and it simply is not the case.

    I'm an intelligent person with a wide vocabulary. I chose to swear because I am an adult and they are just other words in my vocabulary. I don't have kids, I socialise with free spirited adults and sometimes we like to drop the F-bomb. So what?! Don't think too much into it. It has absolutely no bearing on intelligence whatsoever.

    I wholeheartedly agree with Meeshy on this one. I love to write, I have numerous poetic and short fiction works published in hard copies and online. As a fan of creative and expressive writing I certainly don't lack vocabularic skill. My mind is like a frickin' thesaurus but nothing is as emotive as the word fukk and variants thereof.

    If you're permitted to use it with it's correct spelling...even better! :)
  • BerryH
    BerryH Posts: 4,698 Member
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    I work with journalists who write about energy technology, and it's an endless source of amusement to say, "Another fracking story!" :laugh:
  • mistyg07
    mistyg07 Posts: 29
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    Flip, Fartknocker, fudge (used this one alot while having my daughter) shishenbockers, i come up with some crazy words that are not even words LOL
  • usernameMAMA
    usernameMAMA Posts: 681 Member
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    I don't really use alternatives. Ups.
    :tongue:

    this
  • smtillman2
    smtillman2 Posts: 756 Member
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    What the hay!
    Frick Frackin...

    I used to work with someone that said fluffy bunnies all the time. It always made us giggle because she would be so frustrated and angry and then just blurt it out.
  • MrsBobaFett
    MrsBobaFett Posts: 802 Member
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    I use (not meaning to offend anyone religious) Christ on a stick, which is probably just as bad and I have a terrible potty mouth sometimes, my excuse is that I'm Irish.. I do try to stop now I have a child, he's almost 2 and is at that stage where he copies what you say ..

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