Ok, now I cuss, so obviously I wouldn't make a good member for this group, but here's the groups website, obviously, they seem like a pretty serious organization. http://www.nocussing.com/
looks like a parody website to me. who knows for sure though; all types of wacky people in the world.
I cuss out of personality. I'm not uneducated either, but it just comes with who I am. If I didn't cuss for a while, people would think something was wrong with me. I use my language as a tool to express how I feel. And generally when I use a "cuss word" it's never directed at anyone, just filler words to show that I'm serious about what I'm talking about. You can tell that just by reading my other posts, damn it! So, no "no cussing club" for me! I'm proud to say that I stand by my choice to use colorful vocabulary.
It's for real. I've seen this kid on TV before. Awfully sugar-coated sweet-tooth all-american right wing fluff. He actually seems like a really nice kid (the one who started it) but I also stand by my right to use whatever language I want. I don't swear very often though out of choice. I have kids and I don't want them to get in trouble all the time throwing f-bombs all over the place. My husband on the other hand is a sailor so that's a whole other story.
I believe people should be able to talk any way they want. I mean, swearing is just too damn conveinent. It's colorful, it's crass, it's rude, it gets a point across in a heated argument or during sex, and it gives you something to say when you accidentally shatter your thumb with a ball-peen hammer.
Well said, brother. I too believe that people that cuss all the time, cuss loudly in public or where kids and old people can obviously here or cuss at other people are the problem. I think the worst is cussing at another person. It is worse to look someone in the eye with a stern face and say "You are a jerk." than it is to stub your toe and say "Fuck!!!" With that, I have something to admit. I called one of the posters in this thread an idiot in another thread, something that was not right for me to do. We were talking about politics, and I firmly believe that this other poster is 100% wrong in just about everything I have read from him in these forums. I believe that this other poster, and if s/he is reading this, s/he knows who they are, goes against everything that America was founded on. And I said "You are an idiot." Admittedly not cool. If I had said "What the fuck are you talking about?" That would have been less offensive, still not cool though. To that poster I tried to apologize in that other thread, but I don't think s/he read it, and I don't know if they would want me saying their name here. I'm not against it, I just don't know what they would want. Zoomie, the crutch of the uneducated, what? How many Oscar nominated films are rated R because of language? How many novels that have won awards of some kind or another have cuss words in them?
Yeah. I understand that this kid is trying to do something good, but it's kinda wrong that he's been taught to rule out words, just because they've been branded as 'vulgar'. I personally very rarely swear, but I don't really see any problem when others do (given that they aren't in the presence of younger children, or anything like that).
Good for these kids. I think swearing makes people appear rough and inelegant. I swear though lol. I think I started to do it to fit in, and now I do it out of habit. And I've been to university and college, so obviously swearing isn't only for the uneducated.
oh yeah, right, just because it is on tee vee, "IT MUST BE TRUE!" your 28 years old, you should know by now just how full of shit television is! as for little kids cussing; i live by a grammer school, and i walk by it daily. there are all these second or third graders out there yelling 'fuck this,' 'fuck that,' 'shit this,' 'shit that,' and calling each others 'cocksuckers,' 'faggots,' 'motherfuckers,' and so on. i hate to tell this to you, but this is what your "little angels" are doing when your not around. have fun and, good luck trying to put that cat back in the bag!