All swear words are, probably. They are getting to be too commonplace to be all that shocking any more.
This was a girl with HER MOTHER at Bumbershoot last weekend. Wearing a shirt with the F word on it like it was no big deal.
I also saw some other girl wearing a pair of pants with the F word stenciled along the butt in rhinestones. Did you hear me? Rhinestones. All Juicy Couture style.
And last week I was at the Theatre. Guess what? The F word shows up on all the new tee shirts and other merch for the musical Spring Awakening. Not to mention being set to music.
Anyway. Once a word is okay around mothers, shows up on track pants in rhinestones, and gets sung in Broadway musicals, it just seems like we are missing the point of having a good swear word or two.
Do you think someone is going to invent something to top the F word? It seems likely that something is going to have to come along to take its place, but I can't even imagine what it might be. Nothing seems to raise many eyebrows anymore.
(Maybe we shouldn't write our suggestions in the comment section, though.)
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As with so many other facets of modern life the Russians have us beat. I have it on good authority that there are 24 different ways of saying the *F* word in Russian-- many of which are way worser than ours.
It is probably because they couldn't keep saying "dude. your mullet is so f-ing awesome" all the time. They needed a few other ways to express appreciation for the finest hairstyle ever.
it was a fun moment in the er the other day when a mom with her two young girls fumbled to find her phone who's ringtone was blaring away to the tune of kate perry's hit single...very nice.
i use to get my cuss words from the names of cities in foreign countries. like yelling kuala lumpur when i was mad or calling someone a hangzou.
it didn't catch on
Holy Eff. This mother-scratchin' blog post has me in fetchin' stiches Becca!
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