Your swear alternatives (no real profanity, please)

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  • chunkermunker
    chunkermunker Posts: 35
    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.

    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
    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
    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
    I don't really use alternatives. Ups.
    :tongue:

    this
  • smtillman2
    smtillman2 Posts: 756 Member
    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
    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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