# Does every sentence out of your mouth need to contain the word "fuck?" **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 30, 2018, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-every-sentence-out-of-your-mouth-need-to-contain-the-word-fuck/820544 "2018-08-30T22:12:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2018, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-every-sentence-out-of-your-mouth-need-to-contain-the-word-fuck/820544/41 "2018-08-31T14:12:53Z")
“Fuck” doesn’t bother me nearly as much as the liberal sprinkling of “like” and “dude” throughout a conversation. Don’t get me started on vocal fry and the end-of-sentence lift (where every sentence becomes a question). ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2018, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-every-sentence-out-of-your-mouth-need-to-contain-the-word-fuck/820544/42 "2018-08-31T15:48:57Z")
There have been days at work when … I didn’t. But I wanted to. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2018, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-every-sentence-out-of-your-mouth-need-to-contain-the-word-fuck/820544/43 "2018-08-31T16:40:35Z")
> [@China\_Guy](#): > > I’m a preachers kid. No one could out swear me at school, starting sometime in elementary… Very similar for me. I waited until 6th grade, however, before developing my language skills. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2018, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-every-sentence-out-of-your-mouth-need-to-contain-the-word-fuck/820544/44 "2018-08-31T16:42:03Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > “Fuck” doesn’t bother me nearly as much as the liberal sprinkling of “like” and “dude” throughout a conversation. Don’t get me started on vocal fry and the end-of-sentence lift (where every sentence becomes a question). Dude, like what the fuck is your problem? Like so fucking dumb? ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2018, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-every-sentence-out-of-your-mouth-need-to-contain-the-word-fuck/820544/45 "2018-08-31T17:04:12Z")
I don’t usually use the word, but about 5 years ago I went on a first date and was so nervous it kept slipping out like every other sentence. And I was aware of doing it, but for some reason couldn’t stop myself. At the end of the date I apologized and tried to explain that is not how I normally speak, but couldn’t even get through the explanation without dropping a couple more F bombs. There was no second date, but I wonder what that woman thought of me and I wonder why, for that one date, I couldn’t see to control my language. It never happened before or since. ---
**Author:** ![Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cabin_fever_1/32/2908_2.png) [@Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabin_Fever_1)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2018, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-every-sentence-out-of-your-mouth-need-to-contain-the-word-fuck/820544/46 "2018-08-31T17:28:32Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > There have been days at work when … > > I didn’t. But I wanted to. Your remark made me laugh. One day long ago when I was doing contract IT work for a corporation whose name rhymes with aspirin and was smitten by unreasonable requests somewhere left of reality, I excused myself, went out the front door into the parking lot to my vehicle and yelled “FUCK! fuckity fuck fuck!” to the sky above. I got a few smiles from people arriving, and I felt better. I don’t do that often, hardly ever even. But dang that felt good. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2018, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-every-sentence-out-of-your-mouth-need-to-contain-the-word-fuck/820544/47 "2018-08-31T17:33:50Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > It continues. > > Is fuck so ingrained in our lexicon now that it’s perfectly acceptable to converse like this in public? > > I’m sorry. Not for me. There’s no rhyme or reason for this. > > “Every fucking door.” > 'A fucking Ford truck." > “Showing fucking pictures.” > “Fucking dipshits.” > “A fucking plus.” > “So much fucking shit.” > This is every sentence. Every single one. Why? Damned if I know. I mean, that should be a _cocksucking_ Ford truck. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2018, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-every-sentence-out-of-your-mouth-need-to-contain-the-word-fuck/820544/48 "2018-08-31T17:35:09Z")
> [@Cabin\_Fever](#): > > Your remark made me laugh. > One day long ago when I was doing contract IT work for a corporation whose name rhymes with aspirin and was smitten by unreasonable requests somewhere left of reality, I excused myself, went out the front door into the parking lot to my vehicle and yelled “FUCK! fuckity fuck fuck!” to the sky above. > > I got a few smiles from people arriving, and I felt better. > I don’t do that often, hardly ever even. But dang that felt good. 😃 I have a phrase I have used around the Christmas season for more than 40 years that actually caught on at Da Jungle (where I work - think about it) for basically the month of December ------ “Bah! Hum-fuck!” It isn’t used very often but when your lane is over 500% and the boxes are piled higher than your head, it helps. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2018, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-every-sentence-out-of-your-mouth-need-to-contain-the-word-fuck/820544/49 "2018-08-31T17:43:18Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > I have a phrase I have used around the Christmas season for more than 40 years that actually caught on at Da Jungle (where I work - think about it) for basically the month of December ------ > > “Bah! Hum-fuck!” > > It isn’t used very often but when your lane is over 500% and the boxes are piled higher than your head, it helps. Every time i place an Amazon order (and that has become almost daily) I think of you.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2018, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-every-sentence-out-of-your-mouth-need-to-contain-the-word-fuck/820544/50 "2018-08-31T18:54:49Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > That’s why I sit in the corner at the bar, by the video crack machine. So I don’t have to listen to the douchery. This is why I drink in the Jeep with my dogs, far out in the desert. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2018, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-every-sentence-out-of-your-mouth-need-to-contain-the-word-fuck/820544/51 "2018-08-31T19:00:13Z")
> [@Cabin\_Fever](#): > > I don’t do that often, hardly ever even. But dang that felt good. 😃 I used to curse a lot more often than I do now. I work at an advertising agency, and I joke that “ad agencies run on coffee and foul language” – and, so, I think that my environment had an influence on just how often I swore. So, maybe a decade ago, I decided to try and limit how often I swore, and I was able to do so. At the place I worked at a few years ago, the people who worked for me would remark on the fact that I didn’t swear often (because they were all 23 years old, and they _did_ swear like sailors). And, then, one day, we got word that a vendor of ours had completely screwed up a project. I let loose a couple of F-bombs, and my employees looked at me, open-mouthed. 😃 I call it “cursing for effect.” ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2018, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-every-sentence-out-of-your-mouth-need-to-contain-the-word-fuck/820544/52 "2018-08-31T19:06:37Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > I call it “cursing for effect.” There are three ways to curse. 1. Like cursing makes you cool and/or edgy. Every other word. People who don’t know you think you’re an idiot. People who do know you stop hearing the swears they way they stop hearing the air conditioning. 2. Like curse words are just words. So they get used now and then without fanfare but not to excess. Nobody thinks you’re an idiot, but the words have comparatively little impact when they’re used. 3. Like cursing is bad and should always be avoided. When a person like this _does_ curse it has a lot of impact because it’s presumed that something big must have happened to cause them to lose control of themselves like that. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2018, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-every-sentence-out-of-your-mouth-need-to-contain-the-word-fuck/820544/53 "2018-08-31T21:16:34Z")
[This scene from _The Wire_](https://youtu.be/YOyvDRxK--o?t=1m8s) is rather famous. For 4½ minutes two top-notch homicide detectives work a crime scene communicating using only ‘Fuck’ and its variants. I count 36 ‘Fucks’ during the scene, though only 23 appear in [this transcript](http://www.tvsubtitles.net/subtitle-5630.html). Altogether, those transcripts show 767 ‘fucks’ in Season 1 of _The Wire_ though, as I say, 13 ‘fucks’ were omitted from the transcript just in that one scene. ---
**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2018, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-every-sentence-out-of-your-mouth-need-to-contain-the-word-fuck/820544/54 "2018-08-31T21:22:11Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > Altogether, those transcripts show 767 ‘fucks’ in Season 1 of _The Wire_ though, as I say, 13 ‘fucks’ were omitted from the transcript just in that one scene. So somebody just didn’t give 13 fucks? ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2018, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-every-sentence-out-of-your-mouth-need-to-contain-the-word-fuck/820544/55 "2018-09-02T01:13:43Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Every time i place an Amazon order (and that has become almost daily) I think of you.😃 Thank you for your support -------- I think? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2018, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-every-sentence-out-of-your-mouth-need-to-contain-the-word-fuck/820544/56 "2018-09-02T02:57:05Z")
Embrace it, don’t discard it. The Word Man says it’s [such a lovely and useful word.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1dRsBVvxlU) ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2018, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-every-sentence-out-of-your-mouth-need-to-contain-the-word-fuck/820544/57 "2018-09-02T03:33:04Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > Embrace it, don’t discard it. The Word Man says it’s [such a lovely and useful word.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1dRsBVvxlU) Carlin said it better or [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/xZkb4TPI-Lo/maxresdefault.jpg "George Carlin - Usage Of The Word Fuck") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZkb4TPI-Lo) (Should read back to see if anyone else posted these) ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2018, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-every-sentence-out-of-your-mouth-need-to-contain-the-word-fuck/820544/58 "2018-09-02T03:48:54Z")
I like tree-fucking-mendous. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2018, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-every-sentence-out-of-your-mouth-need-to-contain-the-word-fuck/820544/59 "2018-09-02T05:09:16Z")
Given that I’ve never heard Alestorm use profanity in any of their other songs, I think this little ditty is intended to poke a little fun at other bands that feel the need to use profanity in every song: [Fucked With an Anchor](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th4Czv1j3F8) ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2018, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-every-sentence-out-of-your-mouth-need-to-contain-the-word-fuck/820544/60 "2018-09-02T07:05:41Z")
So, here’s the thing. Six of us went to the same pub on Friday evening. We’re all the same age(ish), and I counted two “fucks” over three hours. Yes, I was listening. Again, I can swear along with the rest of you, and so can my friends, but we DON’T! What is the point? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-every-sentence-out-of-your-mouth-need-to-contain-the-word-fuck/820544.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-every-sentence-out-of-your-mouth-need-to-contain-the-word-fuck/820544.md?page=4)