The poster who disliked blasphemy - my update for you!

[Lwrenagain]

I can't find the thread, im sure the first comment will be someone able to link it, however until that person arrives I wanted to give you an update on how I changed after reading the somewhat controversialish thread. After reading some of my go to phrases would upset anyone I tried to stop them.
I've pretty much cut out the "omg" type phrases for the following (usually, sometimes they're even more bizarre)

Jesus Chirst - Jesus and the Mary chain.
Good lord - good lucy in the sky.
Omg - oh my godzilla!

So I spoke about the thread to Mr lwren who decided we'd try swearing less, so we now use these as often as we can around the house.

The C word - what a countryfile/that countryside just cut me up!
F word - fungus/funions/fuchsia heck/sake/off/cheeky
S - oh ship! Why is there more ship everywhere after I've just tidied?!

Others include but aren't limited to...

Cockadoodledo
Dickensian headache
Wannabe
Twink
Pistol
Darkhole
Prickles

So to that poster, you've made my vocabulary far more interesting, thank you!

It might not be perfect, but I've definitely considered what ship flies out my mouth a bit more 😅 and made an effort to make little changes ♥️

I’m atheist, but do find OMFG and the spelled-out version a bit much. I asked MN if they would allow the same phrase applied to other deities to stand and they were…mealy mouthed.

> I quite like “gont” but obv I’d not use it around Welsh people !

What does this mean?

Oh my fucking Thor.

I often have to abort after the first syllable. 'Cuttlefish!' works quite well.

Also, a nice and normal For goodness sake! - although I said it with such venom today that I got a startled look from a stranger... 😬

I'm going to adopt Dickensian headache, I like that.

I say 'sugar puffs'

I work in a primary school...

my fucking god could be any fucking god though

I’m partial to “son of a whore!” myself.

I do also enjoy a good “Jesus tap-dancing Christ!” upon occasion, but then I’ve never been to any sort of religious service in my life so to me it’s just something expressive to say.

Not everyone finds it highly therapeutic.

Djibouti- for those who have read Ducks, Newburyport

On the other hand, it is my pleasure to get to say “See you next Tuesday” with a very straight face. My Boss knows it’s coming up but isn’t 100% sure how I mean it.

Who's done that?

They don't need to swear then. I don't find policing others language therapeutic.

I love swearing. I had a very repressed childhood in that respect and it helps! I try not to do it unless I am sure my company doesn’t mind though.

You know a 2 year old that managed to say "Dickensian headache" instead of dickhead? Because I'm impressed.

I'm Christian and hate Jesus' name being used as a swear word. It gives me serious nails-down-a-chakboard kind of feeling. I never expect people not to blaspheme in front of me. My family seem to be able to find every variation of Jesus' name with a new and more elaborate title each time, and drop it at the slightest provocation. The chips are a bit cold, we've run out of bread, Doreen's daughter broke up with her boyfriend, someone left their reading glasses on the table at home, etc etc, on and on it goes.

It's nice when people do consider how certain words they use impact others. I'm all for free speech and so would never try to control what someone says, but it's nice. I never expect it bit always appreciate it when it happens.

The original comment that I was replying to was:

I fucking hate all this coy faux swearing. Bad language is highly therapeutic. My sister says ‘sugar’ and ‘fudge’ and it drives me up the bloody wall.

I don't doubt other people find it therapeutic. This post implies that it has a benefit for everyone. It doesn't. This poster is commenting that their sister's lack of swearing drives her up the wall, which is quite close to policing how others speak.

I never told the poster not to swear. I just made the point that not everyone enjoys swearing.

That's OK too.

See, i was someone who didn't think about the impact of what I was saying because I'm an atheist, but I read the posters post and felt I could do better.
So I've tried.
I appreciate you don't want to police anyone, I only would ever pull someone up for racist/homophobic/sexist things.

But I'm the swearing is just really down to my echolalic DC, although not even 40 minutes ago I slipped on a slug outside and shouted, "bollocks and shite" so it's definitely not a fool proof method, I'm just trying 😂

Anyone who used to watch The Bill might remember the officers' fondness for the word 'rollicking': 'I got a right rollicking from Chief Supt. Brownlow!' Of course, rollicking is a perfectly legitimate way of phrasing it but I always thought if it had been on post-watershed, they'd have been getting the far more likely 'bollocking' from the Chief Super.

Ha, this thread reminds me of The Good Place.

What a forking great show.

If storm Babet comes back, it’s on you.

😂

I wish The Good Place had carried on forever.

@DisforDarkChocolate you're going to Helsinki

Ha me too! I like it.

I do like the idea of swearing by obsolete deities, though. What the Frigg is that all about, for Hades' sake?

I’ve adopted crab cakes since the post the other day. Always used to say sugar when I was a teenager, then I went to work in a mainly dominated by men industry and it got very out of hand.

My elderly mother (90s) doesn't swear but one of our family things is to say 'mucking fuddle'. Mum gets urine infections, which make her forgetful and last week she told the doctor that she kept getting in "in a fucking muddle".