# How often do you use profane or vulgar speech?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-use-profane-or-vulgar-speech/559951>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 8, 2010, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-use-profane-or-vulgar-speech/559951 "2010-11-08T20:03:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2010, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-use-profane-or-vulgar-speech/559951/81 "2010-11-13T09:24:29Z")

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I swear at work all the time - “piece of shit”, “fucking thing” etc. My coworkers and I went for lunch yesterday and the cussing stepped up a notch, and one of my female coworkers referred to some other guy as “a complete cunt”. I try not to swear in front of my parents but often fail.

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**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2010, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-use-profane-or-vulgar-speech/559951/82 "2010-11-13T09:45:10Z")

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I used to try to make an effort not to curse (generally inserting pseudo-curses from comic books in their place)…now I really only make the effort if I know I’m in earshot of kids.

I don’t swear a whole lot - I don’t pepper all my speech with f-bombs, or anything of the sort, but…

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**Author:** ![ratmanizhere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b5ac83/32.png) [@ratmanizhere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratmanizhere)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2010, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-use-profane-or-vulgar-speech/559951/83 "2010-11-13T10:55:56Z")

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My MIL hates the word “fuck” and I use it every chance I get just to get a rise out of her.

My wife has picked up my habit of swearing and now she cusses worse than my cousin, who is a sailor.

At work, my boss is big on trying to keep us from using profanity as it offends him, yet we’ve heard him cussing on a daily basis. Count on the hypocrites to use the more colorful language!😛

As for me, I swear in just about every damn sentence and I don’t give a flying fuck if you don’t like it!

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**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2010, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-use-profane-or-vulgar-speech/559951/84 "2010-11-13T11:55:04Z")

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I have an adequate vocabulary. I don’t have a need for such common behavior.  
In other words, I refuse to have a battle of wits, with an unarmed man. 😃

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**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2010, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-use-profane-or-vulgar-speech/559951/85 "2010-11-13T16:46:14Z")

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“Great greasy Jesus”… “Neanderfuck”… I think I have a few new additions to my driving vocabulary. 🙂

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