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Can I swear on Talkbass?

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Cliff Colton said:
Refraining from speaking as they really speak.
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Our society gets lazier and lazier. It doesn't hurt to try to express yourself without profanity. Have you noticed how often "words can't express" gets used these days. Try - you may find that you can actually use laguage to better effect than by just swearing. I'm not specifically against swearing by the way, but I hate seeing the language we use getting dumber and narrower with the advent of electronic media. How well you get by in the world has a lot to do with how well you can play society's games and this is just one of them.
 
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Cliff Colton said:
Cussing is not always a result of ignorance. It's often used as a shorthand way of speaking, and may convey a sense of seriousness or urgency, often in emergency situations where there is little time to invoke full use of the King's English.
Perhaps people who are offended by benign cuss words should adopt the "that's life" approach.
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There's a memoir by a world war I soldier, in which he says that they knew things were REALLY bad when Sarge STOPPED swearing. If he told them, "Get your *&&^ing rifles!" they knew everything was routine, but if he snapped, "Get your rifles!" then something really bad was going down.
 
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hrodbert696 said:
There's a memoir by a world war I soldier, in which he says that they knew things were REALLY bad when Sarge STOPPED swearing. If he told them, "Get your *&&^ing rifles!" they knew everything was routine, but if he snapped, "Get your rifles!" then something really bad was going down.
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Is there ever anything good going on when you have to get your rifles, regardless of how sargy says so?
 
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hrodbert696 said:
There's a memoir by a world war I soldier, in which he says that they knew things were REALLY bad when Sarge STOPPED swearing. If he told them, "Get your *&&^ing rifles!" they knew everything was routine, but if he snapped, "Get your rifles!" then something really bad was going down.
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It makes me wonder whether The Wizard of Oz would have turned out differently if Dorothy had used the expletive when she told Toto: "We're not in Kansas anymore!"
 
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hrodbert696 said:
There's a memoir by a world war I soldier, in which he says that they knew things were REALLY bad when Sarge STOPPED swearing. If he told them, "Get your *&&^ing rifles!" they knew everything was routine, but if he snapped, "Get your rifles!" then something really bad was going down.
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That reminds me of a WWII story I read where a difference between cultures caused deaths. A British encampment was surrounded by enemies and were in dire straits, and radioed for help. Americans received the distress call and asked how bad the situation was. The British communications officer, with characteristic stiff upper lip and understatement, said something like "It's getting a bit tense". The Americans figured that meant it was no rush, so they arrived late to find nothing but dead. Whereas they would have rushed in if they heard "GAME OVER MAN!!!!"
 
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Kragnorak said:
That reminds me of a WWII story I read where a difference between cultures caused deaths. A British encampment was surrounded by enemies and were in dire straits, and radioed for help. Americans received the distress call and asked how bad the situation was. The British communications officer, with characteristic stiff upper lip and understatement, said something like "It's getting a bit tense". The Americans figured that meant it was no rush, so they arrived late to find nothing but dead. Whereas they would have rushed in if they heard "GAME OVER MAN!!!!"
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Kind of like Brexit.
 
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