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POOOOOOOOP!
I swear an awful lot, but there's little so satisfying as screaming "POOOOOOOOP!" when something goes really wrong.
I also like "Mother puss-bucket!".
I swear an awful lot, but there's little so satisfying as screaming "POOOOOOOOP!" when something goes really wrong.
I also like "Mother puss-bucket!".
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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I have a sad story to tell you
It may hurt your feelings a bit
Last night as I walked into my bathroom
I stepped in a big pile of ...
Shaving cream, be nice and clean
Shave every day and you'll always look keen
I think I'll break off with my girlfriend
Her antics are queer, I'll admit
Each time I say, "Darling, I love you"
She tells me that I'm full of ...
Shaving cream, be nice and clean
Shave every day and you'll always look keen
Our baby fell out of the window
You'd think that her head would be split
But good luck was with her that morning
She fell in a barrel of ...
Shaving cream, be nice and clean
Shave every day and you'll always look keen
My old lady died in a bathtub
She died from a terrible fit
In order to fulfill her wishes
She was buried in six feet of ...
Shaving cream, be nice and clean
Shave every day and you'll always look keen
When I was in France with the army
One day I looked inside my kit
I thought i would find me a sandwich
But the darn thing was loaded with ...
Shaving cream, be nice and clean
Shave every day and you'll always look keen
And now folks my story is ended
I think it is time I should quit
And if anyone of you feel offended
Push your head in a bucket of ...
Shaving cream, be nice and clean
Shave every day and you'll always look keen
Yeah, yeah, I know, I know. This isn't Vespers.
But I just had to post that...
It may hurt your feelings a bit
Last night as I walked into my bathroom
I stepped in a big pile of ...
Shaving cream, be nice and clean
Shave every day and you'll always look keen
I think I'll break off with my girlfriend
Her antics are queer, I'll admit
Each time I say, "Darling, I love you"
She tells me that I'm full of ...
Shaving cream, be nice and clean
Shave every day and you'll always look keen
Our baby fell out of the window
You'd think that her head would be split
But good luck was with her that morning
She fell in a barrel of ...
Shaving cream, be nice and clean
Shave every day and you'll always look keen
My old lady died in a bathtub
She died from a terrible fit
In order to fulfill her wishes
She was buried in six feet of ...
Shaving cream, be nice and clean
Shave every day and you'll always look keen
When I was in France with the army
One day I looked inside my kit
I thought i would find me a sandwich
But the darn thing was loaded with ...
Shaving cream, be nice and clean
Shave every day and you'll always look keen
And now folks my story is ended
I think it is time I should quit
And if anyone of you feel offended
Push your head in a bucket of ...
Shaving cream, be nice and clean
Shave every day and you'll always look keen
Yeah, yeah, I know, I know. This isn't Vespers.
But I just had to post that...
I like. Nice one.
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
_____________
"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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Roman Moroni: Why you miserable cork-sucker! This isa fargin war! You fargin sneaky bastage. I'ma gonna take your dwork. I'ma gonna nail it to the walla. I'ma gonna crusha your boils in a meat grinder. I'ma gonna cut off your arms. I'ma gonna shove 'em up your icehole. Dirty son-a-ma-bastages. My own club!
I swear a lot unless I'm at home around my son cos my gf bites my head off if i swear near him. I suppose it's understandable because he's getting near the age where he might start saying proper words instead of just sounds. I would hate his first word to be..........
It'd take you a long time to blow up or shoot all the sheep in this country, but one diseased banana...could kill 'em all.
I didn't even know sheep ate bananas.
I didn't even know sheep ate bananas.
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I swear like a... well, like a sailor. When I'm in public, though, and really have to swear, I'll switch to Hebrew (or Arabic, since most of the good slang is Arabic). One of these days I'll let loose with a "Koos Sharmuta" and be in a lot of trouble. As it is, I just get funny looks.
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I can teach you a few phrases, Menolly. 
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I'm off and on.
When I'm actually at work with other drivers we swear enough to make a sailor blush (except Syl maybe
)
Obviously when I'm delivering to customers; it's fairly non-existant--depending on how well I know the people.
At home, around the kids and wife..I almost never swear. The kids know when I'm seriously mad at them when I start dropping bombs here and there, but It's certainly not in regular conversation.
English Swearing tends to revolve around sex or religion-but the real bad words are sexual, like the F word or the C word
French swearing is more or less the oppsite, they tend to use more religous terms when swearing like tabarnac, câlisse or sacrament.
How do other languages swear?
When I'm actually at work with other drivers we swear enough to make a sailor blush (except Syl maybe
)Obviously when I'm delivering to customers; it's fairly non-existant--depending on how well I know the people.
At home, around the kids and wife..I almost never swear. The kids know when I'm seriously mad at them when I start dropping bombs here and there, but It's certainly not in regular conversation.
English Swearing tends to revolve around sex or religion-but the real bad words are sexual, like the F word or the C word
French swearing is more or less the oppsite, they tend to use more religous terms when swearing like tabarnac, câlisse or sacrament.
How do other languages swear?
I thought you were a ripe grape
a cabernet sauvignon
a bottle in the cellar
the kind you keep for a really long time
a cabernet sauvignon
a bottle in the cellar
the kind you keep for a really long time
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[Syl]
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Well, the one I used above translates to
, so.... yeah, pretty much like the English ones.
When I was learning Hebrew, one of my instructors was an ex-Israeli paratrooper. Blame him.
Spoiler
p***y of a wh**e
Spoiler
lidfok = to f*** (literally, to knock), as in 'I want to..."
lek tizdayen = go f yourself (literally, go dick yourself, coming from zayin, a hebrew letter that looks like a penis... which can cause a chuckle or two when someone says 'Zionist'
chara = s*** (from Arabic, ch is a gutteral h)
zug = breasts (literally, a pair)
mamzer = bastard
mefagrer = fag (literally, I think, perverted one)
chantarish = bulls*** (gutteral ch)
shetin = pi**
baitsim = balls (literally, eggs... heh, one of the funniest thing I ever saw was an Israeli candid camera show where a pretty hot female airport security guard kept checking guys' packages with a song about eggs running as background music... but I digress)
lek tizdayen = go f yourself (literally, go dick yourself, coming from zayin, a hebrew letter that looks like a penis... which can cause a chuckle or two when someone says 'Zionist'
chara = s*** (from Arabic, ch is a gutteral h)
zug = breasts (literally, a pair)
mamzer = bastard
mefagrer = fag (literally, I think, perverted one)
chantarish = bulls*** (gutteral ch)
shetin = pi**
baitsim = balls (literally, eggs... heh, one of the funniest thing I ever saw was an Israeli candid camera show where a pretty hot female airport security guard kept checking guys' packages with a song about eggs running as background music... but I digress)
"It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.”
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Menolly
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Actually, I knew this one. But it's meaning is so different from the English, that I never considered using it as a swear word. Although you're up a creek for seven generations if you're considered one...Syl wrote:Spoiler
mamzer = bastard
When I first learned the word, and the seven generations part of it, I was horrified thinking Beorn would be considered one, since according to Halaha, I'm not married since Paul isn't Jewish. But that's not what it means, B'H!!
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"It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.”
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That actually happened to one of my friends.Marvin The Magnificent wrote:I swear a lot unless I'm at home around my son cos my gf bites my head off if i swear near him. I suppose it's understandable because he's getting near the age where he might start saying proper words instead of just sounds. I would hate his first word to be..........
One of the pharmacists I work with has the greatets potty mouth I have ever run into. Sure enough, his son's first words started with "f" and "sh" and g-d-it" and "s of a b". 
Love as thou wilt.
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From what I've heard, the Chinese tend to insult your mother alot in their swearing, and her mother, and her mother, and so on and so on.
The Spanish seem to like suggesting sexual impossibilities with sea creatures.
Us Irish blaspheme our Catholicism. Depending on the intricacy required...
Jesus!
Jesus Christ!
Jesus, Mary Mother of God!
Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Jesus, Mary and Joseph and the Wee Donkey!
Jesus, Mary and Joseph and Patrick and all the Saints!
But my fave, from of all places a Feist novel is "you misbegotten son of a motherless whoremonger" (Amos Trask if my memory serves...)
The Spanish seem to like suggesting sexual impossibilities with sea creatures.
Us Irish blaspheme our Catholicism. Depending on the intricacy required...
Jesus!
Jesus Christ!
Jesus, Mary Mother of God!
Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Jesus, Mary and Joseph and the Wee Donkey!
Jesus, Mary and Joseph and Patrick and all the Saints!
But my fave, from of all places a Feist novel is "you misbegotten son of a motherless whoremonger" (Amos Trask if my memory serves...)
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