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Herself used to complain that I swear too much.
Then she started objecting to the use of “cunt” in particular.
Things have eased back somewhat and she is far more likely to scream at someone on the television and call them a cunt than I am. In fact I am proud to say that her swearing abilities are far more eloquent and plentiful than mine.
Anyhows, this got me thinking yesterday. I thought it might be a nice little project to count occurrences of various words in my posts over time.
In the early days, when I was far too restrained, I used to use f*ck, until I realised how hypocritical that was. Everyone who sees “f*ck” knows exactly what it means yet somehow the use of an asterisk is supposed to make the word more acceptable? So I decided to be honest and drop the asterisk.
I hoped the project would be a little bit more complicated so I could challenge the old brain somewhat. To my disgust it only took a few minutes. So I modified it to produce a graph instead of just numbers.
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Now the tiny orange bit on the left is f*ck, and you can see how quickly I dropped it.
Yellow is the derided cunt. Not quite overwhelming, is it?
And the blue is fuck and all it’s associated words such as fucking, fucks, fucker and the rest.
By my reckoning, I am taming down somewhat? Maybe it’s old age or maybe a resignation that the world is so totally insane that there is no point in getting worked up over it.
My final tally:
f*ck: 105
cunt: 245
fuck: 4510
Nothing to be ashamed of there?
Fuck me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW2B_GT3b1E
Now if she had only just pulled the plug? !! 😈
Have a look at her other videos from Bonn. How she presents without swearing her head off is beyond me.
A century ago, the use of a mild swearword like “damn” was frowned upon. However, I thought the world had now accepted that people do, from time to time, use swearwords? Yes, overuse can become irritating. But, judiciously employed, such words can add a quite potent emphasis.
What does annoy the hell out of me, in the 21st century, is the many American sources who invent silly, coy, euphemisms for genitalia. Or feel obliged to mask the perfectly common, and inoffensive, “bullshit’ with a rash of *****.
The asterisk in the middle of a word is an abomination and I regret I ever used it. In fact I have a good mind to go back over all my previous 105 instances and remove it. Another project for the programmer…..
You’re in illustrious company GD. Nothing to be ashamed of. General George Patton was famous for his swearing.
“When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty. It may not sound nice to some bunch of little old ladies at an afternoon tea party, but it helps my soldiers to remember. You can’t run an army without profanity; and it has to be eloquent profanity. An army without profanity couldn’t fight its way out of a piss-soaked paper bag. … As for the types of comments I make, sometimes I just, By God, get carried away with my own eloquence.”
I seem to be in illustrious company then?
“As for the types of comments I make, sometimes I just, By God, get carried away with my own eloquence.”
That sums me up nicely?