Swearing when hurt

[protege]

I love that one!

I can't take credit for that one--I snagged it from one of the sports car boards I frequent. I like it, because on the few times I've used it, people just have to after I've said it. Usually, the looks on their faces are great

[PepperElf]

irony o irony

it was tested on mythbusters recently lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp5hNhHp3Ew

[Kimmik]

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.

Oh frack I have done that making taco shells... but in my case I had to be rushed to the er as some of the skin on the back of my hand slid off... One of the Techs was a guy I knew and he held my hand.. and i turned the er air so blue a smurf looked white... In french, German, Spanish, and a few others. The Tech busted out laughing when I hit German... the doc working on my hand wanted to know what was so funny... The tech told him he didn't want to know but I would have impressed our German teacher.

But I tend to get rather colorful with my um terms... of course I spent time with an uncle that was a biker, another on that was a lifer in the army... so my vocab can normally turn a marine pale.

[insertNameHere]

It really depends, I try and avoiding swearing at work. but sometimes it hard to avoid. I'm just thankful of understanding customers. Especially, when they say that I handled it better than them.

[Kelmon]

I find the notion of replacing any kind of swearing with some sort of placeholder...weird. Is this actually done to a large extent in the US outside of FCC-controlled media? Is this some sort of morality issue?

I do not believe any such word exists in german. When we swear - we swear. It's normal to us.

It took me quite a while to realize that words like "darn", "heck" and such are not actually swearwords when i heard them quite often in US media...which i guess goes to show that only the intent matters, not the actual words. You will realize someone is swearing even if he is using random sounds.

[evillebee]

About 5 years ago I was diagnosed with a condition that the medical community describes as the most painful. My vocabulary expanded to include words that should not be said in polite company. I think that yelling swear words when in such extreme pain does help. I'm glad my kids were old enough that hearing mom say these words didn't scare them; seeing mom in that kind of pain did tho.

Edit to add: fuckfuckfuckfuck

[Rageaholic]

I admit, I have a potty mouth. I try not to swear in public, but sometimes the words just fly out. I don't even have to get hurt either. Sometimes little annoyances like mechanical pencils breaking can set me off. If I do swear in public, it's more along the lines of "Damn it" or "What the hell", but even F bombs can slip if I actually do get hurt. When all of a sudden you find yourself flying off your bike and skidding across cement, you don't really have time to think before you talk.

[tabbyblack13]

There are times that I have done my bout of swearing. I have tried to cut back because of being an engineer and having a nephew. I really don't want my sister-in-law to get mad at me for swearing in front of the nephew. He's at the age where he is a parrot and if he doesn't understand the word he will as what it means. I will not piss her off.

[Pony Boy]

I generally try not to swear in public or at work. Everywhere else is fair game As a general rule. if you hear me curse in English that's fine, If you hear me curse in french ( my first language) that's bad, If you hear me start to link those curse words together into an unbroken chain, then either get help or run for your lives

[Salesmonkey]

I've always told my younger relatives that they should save their swear-words. That if they say &uck fourteen times every verse of their favourite rap song they won't have any recourse when they drop a cinder block on their testicles. They will have used up their naughty vocabulary.

The worst language I ever used? In college I was studying protein metabolism and had collected some tough samples. I spent 2 days doing ultra-centrifuge purification, 2 days doing an enzyme digestion, and then spent a day loading samples into a synthetic quartz assay tray. And then I dropped it. Cue "shatter" I used language, and as it turn out, the department head was conducting a tour and heard me cursing.

Of course, that wasn't anything compared to when I found out the synthetic quartz tray cost a thousand dollars! We were able to make do with disposable UV-transparent plastic trays, but they cost fifty bucks each. This is why I curse.

[Eisa]

I have a dirty mouth, too. [Clean it up with Orbit Peppermint? ] I used to swear all the time for no reason, but I have toned it down.

If I get hurt, though? FUCKING HELL THAT FUCKING HURTS.

For some reason, I also tend to say "cunt-muffin." I have no idea why lol.

Also, I love "twinkle-toed fuck pixie."

[Ipecac Drano]

If I get hurt, it's either "shit" or "fuck". If I'm taken by surprise, it's "Jesus!".

[LexiaFira]

depending on the severity of the pain and where I am in the house and if my daughter or others are sleeping.
And due to the fact she is starting to pick on word sounds I try and say silly words in place of curse words. Used to curse when really hurt such as hand in the door pain and screaming.

If i happen to stub my toe on the bed wheel persay and i just put lisa down to sleep then yeah i'd bite my tongue so to speak

[Ipecac Drano]

I try and say silly words in place of curse words.

Please tell me you don't use "Flapdoodle".

My favorite expletive is saying Bob Saget's name in vain...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR7GUiiKEz0
(Contains other expletives; NSFW)

[KabeRinnaul]

I try to tone mine down. Generally if I'm swearing it's either at a video game or because I've been drinking. I never drink to get drunk, and I have a pretty high tolerance, but it doesn't take much to degrade my language quite a bit.

As for video games, I've posted rather lengthy obscenity-laden rants on a gaming forum. I think the longest one was about Xianghua in Soul Calibur 3.