What's your favourite way to cuss without cussing.
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"Sheep swallop. Sheep swallop and bloody buttered onions."
Though in general, I just say the fucking word. Be it frak, feck, fook, or fuck... the meaning is the same, and it should be treated the same. As in not a big deal. Cover your child's ears all you want, they're going to hear the word, and the more you tell them not to say it, the more they'll say it when you're not around. Taboos don't work.
There is a time and a place, though... when I know I'm around the easily offended, I'll either offend them and not give a flying fuck, or I'll do what I did as a soldier, which is say absolutely nothing that isn't absolutely professionally necessary... in the coldest, most inhuman tone I can manage. Waaaaaay worse than cursing. I've disturbed many people with that one.
Though in general, I just say the fucking word. Be it frak, feck, fook, or fuck... the meaning is the same, and it should be treated the same. As in not a big deal. Cover your child's ears all you want, they're going to hear the word, and the more you tell them not to say it, the more they'll say it when you're not around. Taboos don't work.
There is a time and a place, though... when I know I'm around the easily offended, I'll either offend them and not give a flying fuck, or I'll do what I did as a soldier, which is say absolutely nothing that isn't absolutely professionally necessary... in the coldest, most inhuman tone I can manage. Waaaaaay worse than cursing. I've disturbed many people with that one.
Er... no. I HIGHLY doubt it's a shorthand for "by my lady". That sounds an awful lot like "folk etymology".ClockworkPenguin said:
bloody (adj.) Old Engish blodig, adjective from blod (see blood). Common Germanic, cf. Old Frisian blodich, Old Saxon blôdag, Dutch bloedig, Old High German bluotag, German blutig.
It has been a British intensive swear word since at least 1676. Weekley relates it to the purely intensive use of the cognate Dutch bloed, German Blut. But perhaps it ultimately is connected with bloods in the slang sense of "rowdy young aristocrats" (see blood (n.)) via expressions such as bloody drunk "as drunk as a blood."
Partridge reports that it was "respectable" before c.1750, and it was used by Fielding and Swift, but heavily tabooed c.1750-c.1920, perhaps from imagined association with menstruation; Johnson calls it "very vulgar," and OED writes of it, "now constantly in the mouths of the lowest classes, but by respectable people considered 'a horrid word', on par with obscene or profane language."
The onset of the taboo against bloody coincides with the increase in linguistic prudery that presaged the Victorian Era but it is hard to say what the precise cause was in the case of this specific word. Attempts have been made to explain the term's extraordinary shock power by invoking etymology. Theories that derive it from such oaths as "By our Lady" or "God's blood" seem farfetched, however. More likely, the taboo stemmed from the fear that many people have of blood and, in the minds of some, from an association with menstrual bleeding. Whatever, the term was debarred from polite society during the whole of the nineteenth century. [Rawson]
Shaw shocked theater goers when he put it in the mouth of Eliza Doolittle in "Pygmalion" (1914), and for a time the word was known euphemistically as "the Shavian adjective." It was avoided in print as late as 1936. Bloody Sunday, Jan. 30, 1972, when 13 civilians were killed by British troops at protest in Londonderry, Northern Ireland
It has been a British intensive swear word since at least 1676. Weekley relates it to the purely intensive use of the cognate Dutch bloed, German Blut. But perhaps it ultimately is connected with bloods in the slang sense of "rowdy young aristocrats" (see blood (n.)) via expressions such as bloody drunk "as drunk as a blood."
Partridge reports that it was "respectable" before c.1750, and it was used by Fielding and Swift, but heavily tabooed c.1750-c.1920, perhaps from imagined association with menstruation; Johnson calls it "very vulgar," and OED writes of it, "now constantly in the mouths of the lowest classes, but by respectable people considered 'a horrid word', on par with obscene or profane language."
The onset of the taboo against bloody coincides with the increase in linguistic prudery that presaged the Victorian Era but it is hard to say what the precise cause was in the case of this specific word. Attempts have been made to explain the term's extraordinary shock power by invoking etymology. Theories that derive it from such oaths as "By our Lady" or "God's blood" seem farfetched, however. More likely, the taboo stemmed from the fear that many people have of blood and, in the minds of some, from an association with menstrual bleeding. Whatever, the term was debarred from polite society during the whole of the nineteenth century. [Rawson]
Shaw shocked theater goers when he put it in the mouth of Eliza Doolittle in "Pygmalion" (1914), and for a time the word was known euphemistically as "the Shavian adjective." It was avoided in print as late as 1936. Bloody Sunday, Jan. 30, 1972, when 13 civilians were killed by British troops at protest in Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Further searching on the Oxford English Dictionary (hurrah being able to freely access it due to being a university student, wooo!) doesn't say anything about it, either, which furthers the belief that it's merely folk etymology with no actual substance.
As an intensifier: absolute, downright, utter. Formerly sometimes in a negative sense: awful, terrible. More recently also as a mere filler, with little or no intensifying force (although generally implying some element of dislike, frustration, etc., on the part of the speaker).
I don't usually censor myself, unless I'm working or around small ones...
In those scenarios, it's usually a lot of forced smiling and mental armageddon. When they do manage to fly out? Lots of "For f-ARGHLEBLARGLE" and "What the holiest of f- WHY!?" and, for some odd reason, "SHIITAKE MUSHROOMS!"
And occasionally.
"Bandar Seri Begawan!"
In those scenarios, it's usually a lot of forced smiling and mental armageddon. When they do manage to fly out? Lots of "For f-ARGHLEBLARGLE" and "What the holiest of f- WHY!?" and, for some odd reason, "SHIITAKE MUSHROOMS!"
And occasionally.
"Bandar Seri Begawan!"
I swear normally, I find people who cover up with "frak" are intolerable. Either swear or don't. This is why I don't censor like the thread.
I rarely ever censor my words. If I am in a position where I must I usually bite my tongue, the inside of my cheek or one or both of my snakebites. However "gorram" is one of my favourite words instead of saying god damn.
Frak is another fun one for me.
As is actually biting my thumb at people instead of flipping them off. Though that is used more when I'm driving because compared to everyone else, I have no anger management problems whatsoever and I don't want anything to happen to my car. And no one seems to remember Shakespearean insults even though I KNOW we all read Romeo and Juliet......
Frak is another fun one for me.
As is actually biting my thumb at people instead of flipping them off. Though that is used more when I'm driving because compared to everyone else, I have no anger management problems whatsoever and I don't want anything to happen to my car. And no one seems to remember Shakespearean insults even though I KNOW we all read Romeo and Juliet......
Damage!
instead of dammit... pretty much the only thing i say when trying to to swear.. no matter where i am i di it this way.
instead of dammit... pretty much the only thing i say when trying to to swear.. no matter where i am i di it this way.
I like to go with phrases that make no sense to anyone that doesn't know where their from, recently my favorites are
Gosh golly gee willickers zippity gippidy do
Jesus Johnny
Switch on sunshine
Gosh golly gee willickers zippity gippidy do
Jesus Johnny
Switch on sunshine
"Modsbannit" is my favourite made up swear word of all time. 
It's practically one of my signatures at this point. Even after I started to say "goddammit" with alarming frequency (mostly because one particular friend I worked alongside all summer), I still find myself using Modsbannit most of the time.
It's practically one of my signatures at this point. Even after I started to say "goddammit" with alarming frequency (mostly because one particular friend I worked alongside all summer), I still find myself using Modsbannit most of the time.
"Gosh Dang Dangle" or any other variant. Courtesy of the grumps.
I also love using "Golly-gee" because of how old and out-of-date it is.
Or sometimes I just make up some rambling sentence with made up words. "Raggeda taggeda maga snaga waba dooo." That's an actual quote. Now just add an aggravated tone and you have me in a nutshell.
I also love using "Golly-gee" because of how old and out-of-date it is.
Or sometimes I just make up some rambling sentence with made up words. "Raggeda taggeda maga snaga waba dooo." That's an actual quote. Now just add an aggravated tone and you have me in a nutshell.
Usually I go for whatever random, obscure word pops into my head first. Usually something that makes people think I've got a thesaurus in my pocket.
"Oh prestidigitation!"
"Go fornicate yourself!"
"Ow! My flagellated knee!"
Stuff like that. However, one of my favorite go-tos is, without a doubt: Shenanigans.
Try it. Just yell it out loud. It's oddly cathartic.
"Oh prestidigitation!"
"Go fornicate yourself!"
"Ow! My flagellated knee!"
Stuff like that. However, one of my favorite go-tos is, without a doubt: Shenanigans.
Try it. Just yell it out loud. It's oddly cathartic.
You damned (when you pronounce the "d" it's not as vulgar ) fools!
Fool! (rather than *****, etc.)
...It kind of makes me sound like a classic cliche villain, which is fitting.
) fools! Fool! (rather than *****, etc.)
...It kind of makes me sound like a classic cliche villain, which is fitting.