# How Often Do You Use Profanity
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-use-profanity/538583
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [May 7, 2010, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-use-profanity/538583 "2010-05-07T02:20:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2010, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-use-profanity/538583/1 "2010-05-07T02:20:07Z")
How often do you use profanity and swear? This includes both mild and strong ones and those in foreign languages. It does not include implied ones (ie what the…)
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### Author:  [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2010, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-use-profanity/538583/2 "2010-05-07T02:21:35Z")
All the fucking time
what?
😃
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### Author:  [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2010, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-use-profanity/538583/3 "2010-05-07T02:25:41Z")
Disclaimer: Profanity is a superstition.
I use what you’d consider profane as often as I use any other word.
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### Author:  [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2010, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-use-profanity/538583/4 "2010-05-07T02:31:16Z")
> [@aruvqan](#):
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> All the fucking time
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> what?
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> 😃
Goddamn you.
Fuck. Took my answer.
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2010, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-use-profanity/538583/5 "2010-05-07T02:45:18Z")
Took my fucking answer too. Asshole.
ETA: It is completely obvious that that’s a joke, right? 🙂
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### Author:  [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2010, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-use-profanity/538583/6 "2010-05-07T03:06:13Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#):
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> Took my fucking answer too. Asshole.
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> ETA: It is completely obvious that that’s a joke, right? 🙂
We can’t possibly know your intentions so we should probably just ban you to be safe.
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### Author:  [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2010, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-use-profanity/538583/7 "2010-05-07T03:13:06Z")
A lot.
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2010, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-use-profanity/538583/8 "2010-05-07T03:46:03Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#):
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> We can’t possibly know your intentions so we should probably just ban you to be safe.
It would probably be for the best.
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### Author:  [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2010, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-use-profanity/538583/9 "2010-05-07T03:47:48Z")
Almost never. I try to control myself as best I can.
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### Author:  [@Maiira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maiira)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2010, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-use-profanity/538583/10 "2010-05-07T03:51:28Z")
Pretty often. I keep it in check at work, but when I’m at home, it comes more freely.
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### Author:  [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2010, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-use-profanity/538583/11 "2010-05-07T03:53:34Z")
All day, every day. It’s a military thing.
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### Author:  [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2010, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-use-profanity/538583/12 "2010-05-07T04:14:25Z")
Constantly.
When I talk, I make blushing sailors blush.
The guys in Philly who were working for me once told me I sounded “kind of aggressive and angry” whenever I spoke.
My crew in Detroit once whined to the job steward that I was verbally abusive but he told them to “shut the fuck up and stop acting like your pussies’re hurt”.
Profanity is the garnish, the ornamentation, the icing on the cake, so to speak.
I just happen to like a lot of fuckin’ icing on my fuckin’ cake, ok?
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2010, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-use-profanity/538583/13 "2010-05-07T04:22:31Z")
Only when I’m talking with people who might find it offensive. Otherwise, what’s the point?
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2010, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-use-profanity/538583/14 "2010-05-07T04:28:52Z")
Constantly. Probably every other fucking word out of my fucking mouth is a fucking swear.
Why do you fucking ask, dammit? Fuck this shit.
(No, seriously, I swear a LOT. You should have heard my grandmother – she could have made a Teamster blush!)
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### Author:  [@1GothMama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/1GothMama)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2010, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-use-profanity/538583/15 "2010-05-07T04:32:29Z")
Every damn day.
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### Author:  [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2010, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-use-profanity/538583/16 "2010-05-07T04:49:07Z")
Just often enough that it’s an attention grabber.
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### Author:  [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2010, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-use-profanity/538583/17 "2010-05-07T05:03:53Z")
Pretty much fucking constantly.
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2010, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-use-profanity/538583/18 "2010-05-07T05:04:06Z")
Dammit, I have really bad feeling that we’re all about to get a fucking lecture on the evils of fucking swearing.
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### Author:  [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2010, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-use-profanity/538583/19 "2010-05-07T05:06:12Z")
Not often at all. Other than the (now) archaic and completely non-shocking “Dammit”. And an occasional “kicked my ass, it did” mild stuff like that.
I dislike it. NOT because I find it shocking, I find in utterly lacking in imagination. And when it’s someone who does it almost literally every other word, it’s annoying in a kind of “record skipping on a song”, time-wasting, kind of way.
It also takes what used to be kind of a sexy, naughty word, and turns it into the conversational version of a space holder. Boring really, now that I think about it. I feel like “JEEEEEEEEZ, it would have taken you about 20 seconds to tell me that story if it hadn’t been for the 357 different uses of the word ‘fuck’”.
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### Author:  [@horsetech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/horsetech)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2010, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-use-profanity/538583/20 "2010-05-07T05:09:38Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#):
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> Dammit, I have really bad feeling that we’re all about to get a fucking lecture on the evils of fucking swearing.
Son of a bitch. I don’t need to hear that on some piece of shit message board.
(Um, all the god damn time, why the fuck do you ask?)
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