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Things you'd say instead of cussing...

Unfortunately I work in high tech sales and even the women I work with swear like truckers. Terrible language in my business for some reason.

I try not to swear in any way in front of my 2 year old and out of respect, the super religious few people at work. Beyond that, I am generally terrible with the bad language and/or trying to cover up the bad words.
 
There's a class of international cussing, that like ours, falls a little short of crossing the line:
In Japanese - Bakatare - (bak-a-tod-di). Especially effective coming from a Japanese mom making it sound like a verbal assault with all those aggressive syllables.
Chingow - a favorite among my Spanish speaking friends.
For Southerners (an alternate country in the US), insulting women with too much lipstick: "Looks like a hen's butt at poke-berry time".
And the classic German: Do has poopoo in dine laderhosen!!".