Same here on "shut up". It was dismissive and degrading because it indicated that you didn't feel the person was worthy of an opinion.
I'll drop f-bombs in front of my Mom now, but I probably wouldn't tell my sister to shut up.
Now, this would be the perfect time for a swear word.
Kaylee ,'Jaynestown'
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Trudy Booth - Aug 18, 2008 9:04:28 am PDT #2166 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Aims - Aug 18, 2008 9:06:08 am PDT #2167 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Shut Up is the other one she gets grief for saying, which has beenhard on Joe and I since it is the main way we communicate with Ollie.
Emeline is very quick to notice when we use "Shut Up" or "Stupid" and will put us in time out.
Polter-Cow - Aug 18, 2008 9:13:58 am PDT #2168 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Heeee, MM. Oh, children. And, yes, "Shut up" and "stupid" were not things to be said, back in the day.
My stupid car failed the smog check. Shut up, fuel evaporative controls.
Miracleman - Aug 18, 2008 9:14:10 am PDT #2169 of 10001
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
SailAweigh - Aug 18, 2008 9:20:40 am PDT #2170 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
"Stupid" was also a mortal insult in my mother's household
Same here. I don't remember if we had a moratorium on "shut up," too, but I don't remember hearing it, so I'm guessing we did.
Vortex - Aug 18, 2008 9:24:17 am PDT #2171 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
My dad once got really mad at me for saying "I hate you" to my brother.
Barb - Aug 18, 2008 9:37:45 am PDT #2172 of 10001
“Not dead yet!”
Heh-- the Hub was just chastising me the other day for my language (after writer's conferences, I come back with language that would make sailors blush,although I don't do it in front of the kids) however, no sooner had he scolded me, he was venting at whatever DS game he was playing (a habit that Nate has picked up as well).
I pointed it out to him-- he has ceased scolding me. *g*
Shut up and stupid are big ones around here. They both make me crazy so they're big no-nos.
In news, someone seems to have sideswiped my car at some point in the last few days and I tweaked the hell out of my back hauling 60 pounds of pet food into the house.
I'm hoping sushi will solve the Monday grumpies.
Travel ~ma to Kristin that she gets on a flight to LAX.
Aims - Aug 18, 2008 9:48:39 am PDT #2173 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Another funny Emeline moment:
Joe and I were discussing future daughter names in the car on a our way somewhere. At one point I suggested, "We could name her Lila. And give her a bucket. And then take it away when she's bad." Joe and I laugh and Em yells,
"Don't take Lila's bucket THAT IS MEAN!"
Laga - Aug 18, 2008 10:50:30 am PDT #2174 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
in our house there were only two things that would get your mouth washed out with soap, the "n" word and "shut up".
Glamcookie - Aug 18, 2008 11:27:47 am PDT #2175 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
My mom will still make a fuss if you say you "hate" someone. "Don't be ugly!"