Mostly because I find Americans in general don't appreciate swearing as much as people this side of the pond. Am I just being crazy?
Swear words in cute foreign accents are better appreciated than the local voices. It's hard to take "fuck" seriously when it sounds like it should be on PBS
should I be worried that the medical testing center is next to a pet cemetery? Also, very angry @ my doc for not filling out the test order form properly, and also not faxing a fixed copy TWO DAYS AGO when I brought it to their attention. Grrrrr.
:: sings "I don't want to be buried in a pet cemetery... ::
My father swore vehemently but I never did in front of him. In his mind, flashing the peace sign was tantamount to swearing and the one time I did that in front of him, he very nearly broke my fingers. So yeah. Reserved the swearing for much later in life...went a little overboard with the pendulum swing into sailor-mouth and am now comfortably conscious of my swearing. I was so glad when frak came into vogue.
Swear words in cute foreign accents are better appreciated than the local voices.
Totally. Plus "arse" is such a cute word. Even better when it's used as a verb....
Swear words in cute foreign accents are better appreciated than the local voices.
Woohoo! We use cunt reeeeeeeeeally differently to you guys too...
Jars, the only thing I found kind of whoa when hearing Brits talk was the number of times the word cunt was used in conversation. That's, at least in the circles in which I travel, a word that's used veeeeeeery rarely and always as a serious insult. I swear constantly in general, probably more than I should, and call my friends all sorts of horrible things in an affectionate way--jackass, jerk, bitch, ass, etc.--but would never in a million years bust out the c-word unless I meant to be as insulting as possible.
ETA: Whoa. X-post-o-rama! That's fucking awesome.
It's amazing how much swearing I get away with now that I've switched to "bugger" and "bloody". Then I run across people who have spent lots of time in England, and I have to apologize to them when they gasp in horror.
Everyone else thinks I'm being cute and Monty Pythonish. Heh.
There's a lawncare company next to the freeway that has the word SOD in ten foot letters. I always think of British tourists, and I laugh.
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Also, this morning I heard a traffic report that told me I definitely leave in the West:
"And we've got a herd of elk trying to cross I-80 in Parleys Canyon near the Mountain Dell exit. They're wandering from the eastbound to westbound lanes, so use caution."
Springtime in the Rockies
People swear here in the states, but mostly when real vehemence is called for. Swearing a lot in polite conversation would be considered a low-class thing to do, I think. It's something the people on "Cops" would do, but not a regular middle-class person.
I swear constantly in general, probably more than I should, and call my friends all sorts of horrible things in an affectionate way--jackass, jerk, bitch, ass, etc.--but would never in a million years bust out the c-word unless I meant to be as insulting as possible.
Same here except that my two best friends and I routinely part ways with "See you next Tuesday!" and its response "So long until then!"