Nothing brightens up a sentence like a well-placed swear word. I tone down my language an incredible amount when I'm on the board.

I'm afraid three seasons of Deadwood have caused my brain to default to the word "cocksucker" far too often. I can usually short circuit things so it doesn't make it from brain to my mouth. Usually.

My children will swear like stevedores raised by pirates at a truck stop.

You know, I cannot hear the word "stevedore" without thinking about Joyce and Giles....

My children will swear like stevedores raised by pirates at a truck stop.

What's a stevedore?

Whoa. X-post-o-rama! That's fucking awesome

Swearing brings out all the best X-posts...

The x-posts today are making me laugh and laugh and laugh.

The Vagina Monologues have made a small dent in the extreme taboo against cunt, but for the most part... yeah, in the States it's a word you use not just to be insulting, but either in lieu of or as an open invitation to a physical fight. (And, um, I have a tiny subset of friends, mostly Faire people, who use it as a term of affection, but we only do it with each other because we're well aware of how hostile and toxic it is to just about everyone else.)

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 guess I'm a low-class person, then.

Fuck. And here I thought I was fuckin' middle-class.

Well, shit.

We use cunt reeeeeeeeeally differently to you guys too...

And we use 'fanny' much differently than you guys do.

Didn't have a clue to this fact until I said that I needed a fanny pack, in front of a group of fresh faced university students in Cambridge.

Ooops.

I guess I'm a low-class person, then.

Fuck. And here I thought I was fuckin' middle-class.

Well, shit.

Yep. Time for MM to take up bowling... and maybe get a pickup truck... and a Camaro on blocks on the front lawn....

yeah, in the States it's a word you use not just to be insulting, but either in lieu of or as an open invitation to a physical fight.

Yeah, I use it as everything from an insult to a verb to a term of affection. Sometimes all three in one sentence!

Didn't have a clue to this fact until I said that I needed a fanny pack, in front of a group of fresh faced university students in Cambridge.

Ahahahahahahahahahha!

I was at a friend's house for dinner once when I was about eight, and her American family were visiting. The mom told the daughter of the family that she was going 'to smack her fanny'. My friend and I burst into hysterics and got sent away from the table.