Comments on: Frickity Frak, Don’t Talk Back!

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By: DutchBitch

DutchBitch — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 13:19:50 +0000

Holy Shit woman! It “that particular mouth element” that I love about you most! Fuck those who don’t, assholes and assholerettes!!! They can stick their disapproval up their asses, you know that particular body element where the sun doesn’t shine… Well, unless you have a reaaaaallly big asshole, then some beams might creep in at times…

I am sure if they disapprove of your language, they sure ass hell would feel the same about mine… Fuck ‘m Fuck ‘m Fuck ‘m!!!

Thanks for the great post, Hill!!!

By: kim

kim — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 18:43:33 +0000

Hilly, I love your fucking mouth. There is nothing quite like a well placed curse word, but you my dear, take it to a whole new level. I bow down to your ability to create new profanity.
My personal pet peeve: “My bad.” Someone once said it to me after saying something truly insulting, at work, about my job performance, in a meeting, in front of everyone. And when I called him on it, he said “my bad.” Killed it for me. People say it to me and I want to scream. Profanities.

By: blondeblogger

blondeblogger — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 21:24:43 +0000

LOL!! You are my kind of woman! I just got the same shit over my potty mouth not long ago. According to the assholes, I’m less of a person and a mother because I say “fuck.” Fuck that!

By: kimberly

kimberly — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 07:01:03 +0000

Every once in a while I read someone and say “Man, I really hope someone, somewhere, is paying this chick for this cuz she’s DANG funny/good/thought-provoking.” And you know what? A lot of times that happens when I’m reading YOU!

By: sue

sue — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 18:32:53 +0000

I work with men. The first few weeks I was around them they would cuss in the other room then immediately turn and say, “Sorry Sue!”… I would try and tell them it wasn’t something they had to apologize for but they didn’t believe me until the day I got pissed and yelled “FUCK IT”… wow…did I ever get the looks! Needless to say, they never apologized again!

By: Karl

Karl — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 17:30:47 +0000

Whew! Thank you. You reminded me that my guest post stint is coming up. August 6, in fact.

And if people can’t take the cursing, fuck ‘em.

By: Kriss

Kriss — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 13:32:53 +0000

I remember being completely shocked the first time I saw “Pulp Fiction” in ’95. All the swearing made me so uncomfortable, because it was the first time I’d seen it in a mainstream movie.

Flash forward to today, and I no longer blink an eye when the movie comes on. I think, for the most part, we’ve just come to accept it.

I try not to swear in public, and NEVER around small children. But in the privacy of my own home (or sometimes on my own blog), there’s not a day that goes by where I don’t say some version of “fuck” at least 10 times.

As far as the lost readers, Hilly, fuck ‘em.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 23:38:56 +0000

What I most disturbing about this debate is the lack of new and exciting curse words. It’s one thing to use profanity, but it’s quite another to invent new ones or create trends. Avi is someone I consider at the forefront of today’s slang-creation bubble, and if I could buy stock in the ability for someone to generate new slang wealth, I’d be a huge owner of Avistock.

A friend of mine gave me a fantastic gift: The Dictionary of Playground Slang. There’s an online version of it as well.

THAT book is an unending resource of new and useful pieces of slang.

And Dave, we still agree. I don’t take the use of profanity in a discussion as sole proof of lack of intelligence. It’s just an indicator, just as perhaps incorrect grammar might be, or total disregard of buzzwords’ meaning, or misspelling, or phrases and idioms like nowhutahmsayin or ‘you know?’ or ‘like’ being injected every three words. In the end, it’s the substance that counts and I can always meander through the indicators and not be distracted as much.

But I’m still prejudiced. If I encounter a lot of profanity, I’ll assume that there’s a high chance of less-than-average intelligence, and move on. And I’m ok with that.

Thank goodness for the exceptions :)

By: Dave2

Dave2 — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 20:37:17 +0000

Ah… the old “cursing in conversation shows a lack of intelligence and vocabulary” debate!

This always makes me smile, because I work with real-live geniuses from time to time in my job. And I’m not talking about people who are “just smart”… the people I’m talking about are far beyond smart, and are doing stuff that 99% of the population couldn’t even begin to comprehend. And let me tell you, it never fails… despite having a vocabulary that puts a dictionary to shame, they still resort to using profanity in every-day conversation.

And it’s not because they don’t know what words to use… or can’t think of the proper words to express themselves… it’s just that profanity has worked its way into the English vernacular and is so entrenched in our culture of movies, music, and television, that it has evolved into yet another common method of expression in the times we live in.

I use profanity on my blog when I feel the mood and situation calls for it. If somebody wants to think that I lack intelligence or vocabulary because of the way I choose to express myself at those times, then they can go fuck themselves. :-D