I think that saying "effing" is exactly the same as saying "fooking"

[Duer 157099]

just sayin'

Same thing goes for when "religious" folks say "gosh darn" or "gee whiz" - if you guys get a pass from God for skirting those swearing prohibitions, then gosh darn it, Joe can say any fooking thing he wants.

So there.

[lamp_shade]

1. ofercrissake

[DawgHouse]

2. darn tootin'! n/t

[virgogal]

3. I sat beside 2 very old men in a park in Dublin once. They were having

a long conversation and must have said "fooking" about 50 times.

Very funny !

[frogmarch]

4. Fecking has a nice ring to it,

or maybe I just watched Father Ted too much.

[Ignis]

12. Father Jack Hackett has a way with words, doesn't he?

http://homepage.eircom.net/~cubs/feckcup.wav

[frogmarch]

13. LOL

Thanks, I needed that! :rofl:

[Ignis]

16. There used to be a Father Jack soundboard out there...

I can't seem to find it any longer, but it definitely helped keep me (relatively) sane during crunch time at work.

[frogmarch]

19. I'll bet it did!

I have quite a few Father Ted episodes on DVD, which I watch whenever I need a Father Jack fix.

What a great show it was!

[JuniperLea]

18. Girls... drink... fek!

I don't watch Father Ted enough! I may have watched Little Britain too much though, I mean no, I mean yer, I mean no, I mean yer...

[tridim]

5. Don't tell the FCC

[scheming daemons]

6. Frack you... you aren't going to Friggin' tell me how to effing talk

[hlthe2b]

7. So then the question of all time remains...

re: "Jesus H Christ"--what does the "H" stand for? ;)

[Duer 157099]

10. Hella, of course

:D

[Chemisse]

8. At my school they say freaking, fracking, fricking, etc

I'm just glad if it keeps them from dropping the actual f-bomb.

[Shell Beau]

9. What about shoot?

And heck?

[Duer 157099]

11. Exactly. The pious think they can fool God

And maybe they can, but they don't fool me.

[Shell Beau]

14. I never understood cussing. I can say shoot but not shit.

I can say crap. I can say darn. I can say freakin'. They all mean the same damn thing. They are just words. Letters put together. And shit and shoot sound a lot alike. Hell, my baby girl says Shrek and it sounds just like shit. People probably think I taught her the word shit when she is actually saying Shrek. I do watch my mouth, but I still don't get it.

And when I say they are just words, I mean they are words that don't mean anything different than the cleaner version we assign. I don't mean hurtful words like the "n" word or the "f" word (and I don't mean fuck).

[Duer 157099]

15. Exactly. I just don't get what supposedly makes them "cleaner"

And what I really, really don't get is why, psychologically speaking, these "curse" words are so potent as relief valves and more particularly, why they are so exclusively associated with either: sex (fuck, screw, blow), excrement (shit, crap, piss), and religious themes (damn, god, hell, jesus) and the anatomical correlates (dick, pussy, asshole).

What the hell is it about those specific themes that lend themselves so well to such a stress-associated/relieving activity (cursing)?

Surely some psychologist(s) have studied this?

[Disorientedx3]

32. studies

I read a study a while back... people who swear can tolerate more pain than those who don't. Might explain why I have a high pain tolerance... :)

[pipoman]

26. George?

[Shell Beau]

27. If only I was as clever!!

That is if you are talking about Carlin and not Bush! ;)

[pipoman]

30. I most certainly wouldn't call you GWB...

...especially not in a fun thread such as this...:blush:

[paranoid floyd]

17. I think George Carlin said

'shoot' is just 'shit' with two Os.

[Shell Beau]

23. No one describes cursing better than Carlin.

[pipi_k]

20. What always makes me shake my head in near disgust...

people who use one of the really stupid substitutes for a real swear word.


Either say (or write or type) the word or use some other non-swear word.


"H-E-double hockey sticks"???? What the fuck is that about? And from an adult, no less...

"Cr@p"???

"Gosh darn"???


If you're not brave enough to use the REAL swear word, then don't even bother.

[Duer 157099]

21. I agree. But you know where it probably really started?

In the Old Testament, where the scribes were too scared to write out the name of God, and so instead wrote some shit like "G-d" (Hebrew equivalent anyway) as if somehow they had found a loophole.

Stupid goes way back and has some pretty lofty origins.

[TexasObserver]

22. Y R U effing concerned?

[spanone]

24. what about fuckin' ?

[blondeatlast]

25. You must hate me.

I use it all the time, even while speaking.

[madinmaryland]

28. FUCK YEAH! NARWHALS!! FUCK FUCK FUCKITY FUCK!!

:wtf:

[PVnRT]

29. Frak that

[Echo In Light]

31. Words are dead symbols we give meaning to...so, if one says "effing" the meaning is implied anyway

... so it becomes more about the degree of prudish 'respect' for perceived or wished-for decorum/prudishness/conservatism/authoritarianism by those who live by those ideals. It's like when you're watching a censored movie on commercial television and an actor uses profanity, it's over-dubbed into some ridiculously bastardized version that actually draws more attention to the word's meaning/implication than it likely would have had it not been censored to 'protect' viewers.

Which is to say, I think it's fuckin' silly

[hobbit709]

33. When someone bitched about my cussing

and asked what the problem was I replied "It's my birthday and I'm so fornicating happy I could just defecate"