WTF? Study Shows Swearing Reduces Pain

Reba said:
I don't know your parents but if they swear 0 times, then yes, I'm the same. Hubby is also a 0 swearer. :)

I don't even use euphemisms for swear words. I think that's cheating.
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Ditto for my parents. They don't use the euphemisms either. I had to learn the euphemisms thru a great deal of reading.
 
jillio said:
A single word, uttered loudly and with feeling, accomplishes so much more in a shorter period of time. Much more efficient. And one does not add the stress of trying to monitor oneself to the stress already experienced from the pain.:wave:
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Cussing out someone on the other hand ....
 
StSapphire said:
The next time I stub my toe, I'm going to end up saying "Oh my goodness!" now. Thanks for that.
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deafskeptic said:
Ditto for my parents. They don't use the euphemisms either. I had to learn the euphemisms thru a great deal of reading.
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You both have just reminded me of my friend Margaret. She is also a 0 swear words person. The last time I thought she was going to curse she said 'Shoot!' But she has been mad enough to slam a door hard enough to lock it and she ended up locking 3 supervisors in the Evis office. LMAO. :lol:

I just cursed in the last 5 minutes. Why? My DD feel down the stairs because my dad stacked so much shit on the stairs she tripped over it and fell. Yeah I gave him a good tongue lashing. I don't go for crap like that.

See I just cursed again!
 
Dixie said:
You both have just reminded me of my friend Margaret. She is also a 0 swear words person. The last time I thought she was going to curse she said 'Shoot!' But she has been mad enough to slam a door hard enough to lock it and she ended up locking 3 supervisors in the Evis office. LMAO. :lol:

I just cursed in the last 5 minutes. Why? My DD feel down the stairs because my dad stacked so much shit on the stairs she tripped over it and fell. Yeah I gave him a good tongue lashing. I don't go for crap like that.

See I just cursed again!
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Well, I guess cussing out your dad is justifed. I was thinking more like cussing out someone to bully or degrade them..
 
deafskeptic said:
Well, I guess cussing out your dad is justifed. I was thinking more like cussing out someone to bully or degrade them..
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I agree. There's nothing beneficial about cussing a person out to degrade them. I'm probably the worse person to curse in my church. My FB profile is sprinkled with profanity and people from my church regularly look at it. :shock: Only once or twice have I been called out on it. However I think the more people get to know me and why I am the way I am, I feel like they realize why I'm so 'rough around the edges'.
 
Dixie said:
Oh I've said things in front of my pastor when I was in high school that would have made his momma blush!

I was in the 4x1600m relay - last leg, 3rd lap, I get a MAJOR cramp from my hamstring to my calf. As I ran past him he said "C'mon go faster!" or something like that. I told him to STFU Lardass! :shock:

I've had so many cussing fits people tend to remember me for them. I had one guy come up to me and he said "I couldn't figure out where I worked with you from but then I realized you were the one that had a cussing fit during spray down and threw the stand across three lines!"

WTF?!?!

Usually if I'm in extreme pain the first thing out of my mouth is GD, Son of a bitch!
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When I was boarding school I burned my hand from the hot water in the bathtub! I was cussing my ass off and I got phone at the same time and had to take the call downstairs! The house mother was there too and I was using every four letters in the book! I was told every time the housemother got up to help me I would cuss and she LOL so hard she had to sit down! I was lucky as another girl cuss and got her mouth washed out with soap! All that cussing did not stop the pain!!
 
whatdidyousay! said:
When I was boarding school I burned my hand from the hot water in the bathtub! I was cussing my ass off and I got phone at the same time and had to take the call downstairs! The house mother was there too and I was using every four letters in the book! I was told every time the housemother got up to help me I would cuss and she LOL so hard she had to sit down! I was lucky as another girl cuss and got her mouth washed out with soap! All that cussing did not stop the pain!!
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Think how much it would have hurt if you hadn't been cussing, though.:P
 
I cuss like a sailor. My favorite swear word is "fuck". It was the first swear word I learned at age 6.
 
Reba said:
I don't know your parents but if they swear 0 times, then yes, I'm the same. Hubby is also a 0 swearer. :)

I don't even use euphemisms for swear words. I think that's cheating.
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Such as "heck" for "hell" or "feck" for "fuck"? That's no fun.

It's more fun to swear, honestly.
 
One time a long time ago, I gave someone the finger just for the fun of it (I and a co-worker were just having fun with each other) and it was right in front of my boss who I didn't realize was there. But he just broke out laughing and just said to get back to work. It was in a plastic factory, so language didn't seem to matter much. We talked dirty a lot too. It was just part of the work environment.

My foster moms had cussed in front of me all the time, no big deal. When I swore, they never punished me. As long as it was not aimed towards my foster moms or in front of my little foster brother (he was 4 at the time), it was alright.
 
This whole thread is sad.

Yes, there have always been some people who cuss. There have always been some people who have all kinds of nasty habits. Just because the habits are common doesn't make them any better.

At least in the past, people recognized that foul language was not something to be proud of or joked about, and was not used commonly in public. Now, it seems too many people have no standards left, and parents don't even care what their children do.

It's very sad.
 
Society changes. What used to be unnacceptable is now acceptable.
 
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