You swear like a truck driver. Or a longshoreman. Or...?

In My Humble Opinion
1

Okay, so do truck drivers and longshoremen really swear more than those in any other professions?

I think tree guys swear quite a bit–at least, the ones who took down a huge Modesto ash tree from my back yard swore for 10.5 hours (7 hours one day and 3.5 the next–it was a big-ass tree).

“Why is it taking three god damn guys to do a one-person job?”
“Why don’t you pick up that small shit?” “Because you’re fucking dropping logs over there!”
And so on.
I can understand this, since it was quite stressful and involved being in high branches and using chain saws and such.
Still, I’d like to know if any studies, unofficial or not, have been done on who actually swears the most in certain occupations. And why are truck drivers and longshoremen the archetypes for this?

2

I swear like a sailor. Not like Sailor, but like a sailor.

Navy penchant for irreverant swearing confirmed by several enlisted family members.

3

I swear like a God damned mother fucking son of a bitch. Is that allowed?

4

My brother-in-law is a timber cruiser, and he swears more than just about anyone else I know. However, my dad comes in a close second, and he actually is a truck driver.

5

Shit Piss Damn Fuck Hell

6

After I converted to Judaism my Stepdaughter complained that I still swore like a Christian. :slight_smile:

7

What’s a timber cruiser?

8

I heard mule skinners swore a lot.

My dad’s a retired sailor, and I sure did learn new words and compound words when he stubbed his toe.

9

I am a GODDAMN, Non-Commissioned Officer in the US FUCKING Army, and you want to know what profession swears the most?

That’s as easy as a $2.00 whore on nickel night at the Arcade.

SSG Schwartz

10

He works as a contractor for paper companies and lumber companies. Basically (I’m not an expert on this) he goes out into the woods and surveys their holdings, e.g. how many board feet of lumber per acre, what percentage of trees are diseased, what’s the average diameter, what’s the average height, etc. He spends a lot of time camping outdoors and living in motels.

11

Soldiers like me tend not to give a fuck how offensive their words are.

12

I swore in almost every sentence as a soldier. Then I had kids and stopped. (stopped swearing I mean.)

13

That’s fu…that’s darn funny! :slight_smile:

14

Bullockies had a reputation for colourful language.

15

What the eff are Bullockies?

16

Bullockies are/ were bullock drivers. Bullocks were castrated cattle- I guess similar to an ox. They used to haul heavy loads over a century ago.

17

Me too; my dad was a squid, my brother was a squid, and my Grandpa Bailey was a career squid (retired as a CPO; fought in the Pacific in WWII). While he was still alive, Gramps elevated cursing to an art form, creating colorful stand-alone vulgarities and amazing curse combinations that would make Baptists swoon.

18

An old dutch idiom is: “vloeken als een ketter” - to curse like a heretic (ketter, from Cathar).

19

I swear like a sailor and I sweat like a pig.

Longshoremen outswear sailors, though.

20

Oil field workers. Holy fuck, what a bunch of god-damned potty-mouths.

Having spent an isolated stint on the oil patch I returned to civilization and met an old friend I hadn’t seen in years. After about 10 minutes of conversation he was taken aback and said, “Do you realize that you’ve said ‘fuck’ about 150 times in the last 10 minutes?”