Kevin's Watch

Loremaster wrote:Germanic and Dutch origins

right, German and Dutch farmers!

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 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...

I like. Nice one.

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 cuss in spanish, german, french and chinese. it's fun to mix them up.

You're such a Futher-Mucker

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..........

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.

Man, there are times I wish I was multi-lingual. Even just bi-lingual...

I can teach you a few phrases, Menolly.

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?

Well, the one I used above translates to

Spoiler

p***y of a wh**e

, so.... yeah, pretty much like the English ones.

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)

When I was learning Hebrew, one of my instructors was an ex-Israeli paratrooper. Blame him.

Syl wrote:

Spoiler

mamzer = bastard

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...

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!!

Yeah, bastard is a loose, though common, translation.

Wikipedia has an entry on it.

danlo wrote:

Loremaster wrote:Germanic and Dutch origins

right, German and Dutch farmers!

Nope, don’t substitute a thing. I like all-natural, whole-wheat profanity.

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..........

That actually happened to one of my friends. 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".

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...)

Oops, my mistake. I shouldn't be here.

I thought from the title this thread was about "Sesame Street".