In this post, I am taking the privilege of peppering the page with plenty of profanity.
There. You have been warned!
I would suggest you click here if you are not interested in hearing the F word and suchlike, it will take you to a better place for you …
And if you are open to it, I thought I would share that I have found it most enjoyable to use the placidity and lack of interruption of early morning, to savour these clips – it set me up for a great day today, because I’ve been laughing my head off at some of these, while preparing the post. I’ve seen most of them before – but it just seems funnier in the solitary hours!
Let’s have Billy talk us through his thoughts as a little intro …
SO HELLO my name is Lise and I’m … fond of a swear word or two!
Apparently, when I was about three years old, I told my father to fuck off. I then ran away from him up the stairs, beseeching forgiveness, as he chased me, verbally chastizing my insolence. As soon as I got halfway up the stairs and realised he was giving up the chase, I waited til he started to walk away, and I said it again with even more stubborn determination. I don’t remember it, but maybe it was the start of all this with me?
Apart from my efforts to temper the ‘tinker’s cusses’, to align with with yogic teaching of SATYA, I don’t beat myself up too much anymore, as another aspect of yoga teaches us non-judgement, and how it’s more worthwhile to accept that things are what they are!
Hey, “cuss words” – they’re part of our language, whether you like it or not, they’re out there being used every day. I’m with Mr. Fry on this …
I’ve never responded well to being told how to speak or how to behave appropriately. Jeepers, even the word ‘appropriate’ riles me up in this context!! Not that I particularly like hearing it when it’s every second word in a sentence, because … wellllll … it can lose it’s effect, it’s emotion … can’t it ….
But I’ve always warmed to a person who could let out the odd expletive and make it sound acceptable or funny!
http://youtu.be/zj3sDx7CfxI
I admire them actually. (Even the President of Ireland can throw one in – he wraps it up so eloquently though, don’t you think?!)
http://youtu.be/fD0s-eKxUIY
I like swearing when used thoughtfully and creatively and I’d like to make better use of mine … in a more artful way … Some more examples come to mind …
Lily Allen says it well …
http://youtu.be/Fo0D0O-YMXA
… Cheryl Strayed, sparingly but masterfully here, in this link to her faboulous Dear Sugar column on The Rumpus.
I also like it when it’s used culturally, like …
… and here it is used in a way that to me, seems really Irish (the racist stuff is just bonus comedy – NOT TO BE TAKEN FOR ANYTHING OTHER THAN THE IRISH TAKING THE MICKEY OUT OF THEMSELVES, OK?!)
Goodness me – even in Dáil Éireann (Irish Parliament), this one’s a doozy
http://youtu.be/HQNE_Y6LCQw
And then there’s the whole swearing-is-crucial-for-certain-situations-thing …
Ah yes .. sometimes it can be so … cathartic, non?!
And now … on a more serious note:
PROOF THAT SWEARING CAN HELP EASE PHYSICAL PAIN?
Click here for TIME magazine’s article on it and here for one from American Scientific – they actually did a study that shows how swearing may serve an important function in relieving pain.
“There is a catch, though: The more we swear, the less emotionally potent the words become … And without emotion, all that is left of a swearword is the word itself, unlikely to soothe anyone’s pain.”
… In that case these guys are sooo fooked!:
These film short versions are genius:Life imitating art imitating life … or something!
I have had the BEST fun putting this post together, how do you like to swear and do you dare?!