Swearing when hurt

[Fryk]

Ah, Bloodsoul. Johnny Dangerously DOES provide you with many alternatives, doesn't it?

[telecom_goddess]

It depends on severity and location. At home yeah I swear like you wouldn't believe. However the one time I got really hurt at work I was in too much shock to say anything besides help

[lupo pazzesco]

Generally I yelp. Like a puppy. >.>

If it's bad, though, I'll snarl something incoherent.

If it's REALLY bad, THEN I swear, usually at the person who inflicted/caused the injury. Like today. Got purposefully rammed at full speed with a loaded up shopping cart almost head on, and if it'd been a few inches lower, it would have been a crotch shot. As it is, I've bruises forming. the woman driving the cart got cursed, using a word I generally loathe and detest.

[crazylegs]

It depends soley on the injury and the circumstances.

Walloped in the crown jewels? I'll be on the floor and words will be beyond my current level of comprehension

Fractured bone - sure, I'll be swearing like a trooper

Soft tissue injury, perhaps a milder vulgarity

Stubbed toe will result in a gutteral noise.

There are some words that I'll almost never say though, and if you hear me say them you know to take cover!

[telecom_goddess]

Generally I yelp. Like a puppy. >.>

If it's bad, though, I'll snarl something incoherent.

If it's REALLY bad, THEN I swear, usually at the person who inflicted/caused the injury. Like today. Got purposefully rammed at full speed with a loaded up shopping cart almost head on, and if it'd been a few inches lower, it would have been a crotch shot. As it is, I've bruises forming. the woman driving the cart got cursed, using a word I generally loathe and detest.

Ok that would have caused me to swear at them and kick the living shit out of their shopping cart right back in their direction. I HATE being rammed with those things....especially in the ankles.

[DrFaroohk]

Sometimes I'll toss in a sheisse if I'm in mixed company. I suppose any language could work.

[Pagan]

Fargin' icehole!

Ah, Bloodsoul. Johnny Dangerously DOES provide you with many alternatives, doesn't it?

My particular favorite is "sunkinaditch".

Now I'm wondering about the history of cussing. I mean who decided that certain words are considered cusswords. Who decided that fuck was a cussword but frak wasn't? Why not the other way around?

I was listening to an episode of "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" and Paula Poundstone was on. She had tried to check out a book about the history of cussing and wasn't able to....because, the librarian said, "they'd never get it back". Then she went on a hilarious rant about cussing being a gateway activity.

Actually, a Google search of "history of curse words" brings up all kinds of interesting information.

Sometimes I'll toss in a sheisse if I'm in mixed company. I suppose any language could work.

Oh, I like that one. If I'm at work, I usually am safe using that or anything in French. Too many people here speak English and Spanish for me to get away with those. Which kills me because "chingada" is one of my favs.

[Nyoibo]

I also have a tendancy to break what ever has just hurt me.

[lupo pazzesco]

I also have a tendancy to break what ever has just hurt me.

That could get awkward if it was another person who hurt you...

Though, tempting. and entertaining.

[Nyoibo]

If they hurt me deliberately, like these people I keep hearing about ramming shopping carts into people, then not awkward at all, just fun for me.

[lupo pazzesco]

If they hurt me deliberately, like these people I keep hearing about ramming shopping carts into people, then not awkward at all, just fun for me.

Don't remind me. The stripey bruises HURT. I'm about to go apply another hot poultice and some arnica oil, in the hopes of reducing the bruising.

I'm actually kind of regretting not kicking the shit out of the woman the other day now. All because a checker opened a lane next to me, looked at me and said she could help the next in line. stupid woman couldn't bear the thought of having to wait an extra 90 seconds to be rung up.

Yep. Still hate people.

[guywithashovel]

If I'm alone and I hurt myself or something irritating happens, I'll usually cuss. Other than that, I'm not much of a swearer (or whatever the appropriate word is). I rarely ever cuss in conversation, either. My philosophy is that if you don't cuss very often, people will listen to you when you do cuss. I seem to be right in thinking that, too. For example, there is this girl at work who has started doing silly things around me. The other day, I was walking in the door from lunch as she was leaving, and she blew a raspberry at me. Without thinking about it, I said, "Up yours!" She laughed and said that was the meanest thing she'd ever heard me say. I wonder how she'd react if I dropped an F-bomb?

[Fryk]

Doc, scheisse is too easy anymore. I prefer haufenmist, which is a generic term for a pile of scheisse, usually fertilizer.

[protege]

Some of you, those on my LJ friends list, know that I have an *extremely* colorful vocabulary at times, usually when I'm pissed off about something or someone. I'm sure I've called someone a "twinkle-toed fuck pixie" over on CS once or twice...

But, at home, I have to keep that under control. Too many little kids in the neighborhood, and with the homes at such close quarters, I really don't want them repeating what I say. Nor do I want my ass kicked for a child going to his parents and saying "Protege called someone a twinkle-toed fuck pixie. What is that, mommy?" That said, there's a time and place for it.

At times though, mild 'curse' words simply don't convey the sense of pain if I accidentally burn myself with a soldering iron , bash my head against something under the MG , or gouge myself with an x-acto knife Sometimes, I have no choice but to come over to the Dark Side (and have my cookie too ) and let the four-letter words fly.

[Pagan]

I'm sure I scorched my new neighbors ears last weekend. I have a window in my kitchen and it's now warm enough for me to have it open.

So I'm standing at the stove making some sopapillas. Well, I'm flipping one over, it gets away from me and I slop hot oil over my hand. With the stream of profanity that spilled forth, I'm pretty sure the air turned blue. But the burns are healing nicely now.

I'm sure I've called someone a "twinkle-toed fuck pixie" over on CS once or twice...

I love that one!