# You swear like a truck driver. Or a longshoreman. Or...? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 26, 2009, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-swear-like-a-truck-driver-or-a-longshoreman-or/501116 "2009-06-26T23:23:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2009, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-swear-like-a-truck-driver-or-a-longshoreman-or/501116/21 "2009-06-27T18:15:05Z")
Professional baseball players and marines are probably rather profuse in their use of invective. ---
**Author:** ![Otanx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Otanx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otanx)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2009, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-swear-like-a-truck-driver-or-a-longshoreman-or/501116/22 "2009-06-27T18:35:00Z")
When I was in high school and swearing was cool I had a saying, “I have never fucking cussed, I don’t fucking cuss, and I never will fucking cuss, you got that you damn asshole?” That got a lot of laughs at high school. > [@SSG\_Schwartz](#): > > 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 When I was in AIT we had a DS that had problems with that “no swearing” order that came along with the newer cleaner Army. We were at PT doing push-ups, and he was doing a good job keeping it clean, but he didn’t notice the 1SG had come up behind him. So the DS goes and calls us a “bunch of pussies.” He then notices the 1SG behind him looking not too happy. Without missing a beat he adds “and by that I mean you are a bunch of kitty cats.” 1SG just walked away shaking his head. -Otanx ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2009, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-swear-like-a-truck-driver-or-a-longshoreman-or/501116/23 "2009-06-27T18:49:33Z")
Amateurs. I swear like a high-school student. ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2009, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-swear-like-a-truck-driver-or-a-longshoreman-or/501116/24 "2009-06-27T19:11:56Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > I swear like a high-school student. I have heard a 16 year old girl deliver a tirade that would blister concrete at 20 yards. Thats some serious shit you’re talkin. ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2009, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-swear-like-a-truck-driver-or-a-longshoreman-or/501116/25 "2009-06-27T20:04:01Z")
I have always thought that construction workers and auto mechanics would have to rank high on the list of people who swear on the job. I know I would if I were in either of these occupations. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2009, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-swear-like-a-truck-driver-or-a-longshoreman-or/501116/26 "2009-06-27T21:19:44Z")
My favorite one is “swear like a wounded pirate”, which IIRC is from Scott Adams’ “The Dilbert Principle”. ---
**Author:** ![BuzzSaw101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a3d4f5/32.png) [@BuzzSaw101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuzzSaw101)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2009, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-swear-like-a-truck-driver-or-a-longshoreman-or/501116/27 "2009-06-28T01:18:49Z")
My grandmother used to say “swears like a drunken boatsman.” It has a little more style than a drunken salior. ---
**Author:** ![vandal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/858c86/32.png) [@vandal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vandal)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2009, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-swear-like-a-truck-driver-or-a-longshoreman-or/501116/28 "2009-06-29T02:33:18Z")
> [@vivalostwages](#): > > Okay, so do truck drivers and longshoremen really swear more than those in any other professions? Not really. You could pretty much say the same for any profession where males predominantly work. ---
**Author:** ![Noel\_Prosequi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b19c9b/32.png) [@Noel\_Prosequi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noel_Prosequi)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2009, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-swear-like-a-truck-driver-or-a-longshoreman-or/501116/29 "2009-06-29T09:01:48Z")
Worst swearers I have ever come across are prison guards, but only because prisoners themselves tend to try to be at least marginally more polite around me. It was really unimaginative swearing, though. “So I fuck’n went to the fuck’n shop and fuck’n bought some cunt some fuck’n shit…” Really just using swear words as sentence expanders in every possible space you could cram them in. Of course, it is obviously an occupational hazard to pick up bad language from prisoners, so I’m certainly not condemning them for it. But it was boring as hell, and slightly quease-inducing even for me, and I am no shrinking violent when it comes to the potty talk. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2009, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-swear-like-a-truck-driver-or-a-longshoreman-or/501116/30 "2009-06-29T11:34:01Z")
fuck speak was popularized on Wall Street. Personally, I think Preacher’s Kids can usually hold their own. Anyone from Hong Kong swearing in Cantonese would makie most people’s ear blister if it was translated to English. And those are the little old ladies on the telly! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-swear-like-a-truck-driver-or-a-longshoreman-or/501116.md?page=1)