I was shocked when Grandpa used the F word

Riverslim

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First time I had heard an adult say it. Late '50's. A bee nailed Grandpa in the barn. I never heard Dad curse. Once in a while Mom would let out a "damn it to hell". I try not to take the Lord's name or use the F word. Not always successful.
 
It is used too much these days. Expletives have a place and sometimes nothing else will fit the bill. I have neighbor who can't complete a sentence without swearing.
 
My parents never used four letter words, ever. One day when I was a teenager we we're in the barn loading cattle. The trucker commented about a certain heifer saying "she is as wide as a schoolmarm's arse". I about froze in my tracks because I had never heard a word resembling that word in the barn! I don't know when I fell off the wagon but when I had hogs in that barn the language changed. Lol.
 
I am guilty of using one word occasionally. If something does not go right, I will say "D**M it".
Never heard my parents cuss.
Richard
 
I work with a woman (notice I did not say Lady) that is from New Jersey. She can't complete a sentence without the "f" word.
 
Oh, and here on our farm, the F word might be Farmall as we are JD, Ford, and Kubota folks. LOL
Sorry Paul.
Richard
 
After ten years in the Marine Corps, I've heard it all, and probably used it all at some time or other, but I've always thought there was something lacking in me if I couldn't express myself without using profanity.

Not that I'm a "goody goody two shoes" or anything.
 
When I was a kid my parents never swore . One day we watched the town DPW guys installing new playground equipment in the park. That day we learned every bad word in the book, Concrete was cow crap [only worse]. I'm talking the whole gamut. Those boys could swear .
 
When I was about four, I was watching a fellow try to adjust the drive chain on a small roller with a big crescent wrench. The wrench slipped off the chewed-up nut with a loud bang, and the fellow used a word I had never heard before. It had such a nice bark and sounded so authoritarian, I went home and tried it out on mom. Her reaction was so immediate and profound, it sticks with me to this day. Definitely not a word to be lightly tossed around. unc
 
My five year old grandson one day said--"that makes me so mad I could say the D word"
Out of curiosity, I asked him to whisper and tell me.
He got close to my ear and whispered---"the dee word"-- mind you, he didn't say d***.---I had to LOL
 
I am guessing it was something other than "FIDDLESTICKS!!!".

Know a lady whose husband says an F as every-other-word... and I am not exaggerating.
You don't even want to have kids get within earshot.
It actually makes it difficult to follow his conversation... amd it is odd because he is actuall a very mellow, friendly person.
Seems like it has just become so habitual... that he doesn't even realize how much he uses it.
 
(quoted from post at 23:14:36 07/19/18) I am guessing it was something other than "FIDDLESTICKS!!!".

Know a lady whose husband says an F as every-other-word... and I am not exaggerating.
You don't even want to have kids get within earshot.
It actually makes it difficult to follow his conversation... amd it is odd because he is actuall a very mellow, friendly person.
Seems like it has just become so habitual... that he doesn't even realize how much he uses it.

I used to know a guy like that.
A large younger man cured him of that habit when he used that word in front of the young mans wife and kids.
I was there and it wasn't enjoyable.
I never heard him use that word again.
 
Years back I was substituting in a high school level auto body class at a skill center. Back then many schools shunted their bad actors to the skill centers to get them out of the general school population. This particular class seemed to excell in raising foul language to new heights. Did you know a particular word could be used in all categories of word usage sometimes in the same sentence? You know, noun, pronoun, adjective, verb, adverb, conjunction, preposition... Fought that battle a few times, and decided I didn't need to put up with that behavior and turned down other calls for that position. Wonder how that bunch ever turned out when they ran into real life.
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I grew up listening to my dad. He had the filthiest mouth of anyone I have ever heard to this day!

He had no filter, didn't matter where he was or who was listening, he let it freely flow. Happy, mad, angry, it didn't matter. Several times I heard him get called down for it by an angry husband/dad for it's use in front of family. It didn't phase him in the least, surprised it didn't get him in more trouble than it did.

Of course I was right there parroting it back, that was some of the first words I ever learned. The only thing that saved me from real trouble when I started school was my mom would not put up with the F word. Then I found out I couldn't use any of those words!

I think my teachers thought I had a speech problem because I had to think and speak slowly to filter them out! LOL
 
After many years in the Army mid 60s and a tour in VN, words don't seem to have an effect, they were common in conversation. Earlier post mentioned HS shop classes, I taught HS automotive shop in a rural area of Eastern MN, so of the cities. Good kids, the kids off the farm worked their tails off, language never a problem, but the town kids, some of the rottenest crap came out their mouths. Back in the 70s it was a piece of cake to drop the kids for 20 push ups or so, and they did it because their only job was to not irritate the instructor! Our boss (principal) had a requisite that his phy ed guys, coaches and all shop teachers had served in the military. He didn't seem to worry about education credentials, he figured you could teach the subject, but you had to be able to "handle" his boys. His system worked.
 
My dad never used foul language very often. I however was Combat Arms in the Army where language was common. I could turn it off and on depending on the company.

I did get my mother in law to drop the F bomb once. Our 2 oldest boys spent some time with her and grandpa. When we picked em up I ask if they had given her any problems. The 2nd oldest had gotten angry with her and said F Y to her. When she tried telling me about him I kept telling her I didn't know what F Y meant.......so finally she told me. Man when she figured out that I knew what she was talking about she blew a gasket!

Rick
 
I went to a country school back in the 50s and early 60s. Most of the kids there swore worse than a bunch of sailers. I even heard
Fudge!
I spent almost 38 years in the active army and army reserve. There were some soldiers who couldn't complete a sentence without swearing.
It was just a fact of life.
Brian
 
During my years on the harvest we invariably had one young man on the crew every year who had a good grip on using profanity. Every year, after two weeks of getting used to the 20 or 25 guys on the crew I noticed the crew would get kind of quiet every time the ‘cusser’ would go on a profanity rant. This one person definitely was not good for the morale of the crew but it seemed like the ‘cusser’ was always one of the more productive guys. So we just endured him.
 
Dad played baseball when he was young. I was probably 6 or 7. When the fuel truck drive brought us fuel dad and him would talk baseball for two hours. Every other word that guy said was a cuss word. If he had left out the cuss words they could of said everything in a hour.
 
We were laying storm sewer on a city job and the foreman showed up one morning with hay chaff in his hair and on his clothes. I kidded him, saying I thought a man of his age would be able to do the morning chores without getting hay chaff in his hair. He said he slept in the barn last night. No kidding? Why did you sleep in the barn? He said he mentioned the "F" word. No kidding? Sometimes I strike out, but I never had to sleep in the barn over it. He said the "F" word that he mentioned was "F""A""T". Aha! He went on to say that his wife had proudly showed him a new dress that she had bought the previous day, and he asked her if she had already outgrown the one she bought last week. It went downhill from there, with him ending up having hay chaff in his hair.


Good memories for me, but probably not for him. . .
 
I hired a preacher/carpenter and his three young sons to help me put a new roof on my house. I cautiously warned him that I might say a curse word if I smacked my thumb with a hammer. In response, he cautiously warned me that he might also say a curse word if he hit HIS thumb with a hammer. Neither of us hit our thumbs, and we finished the entire roof without needing to swear about anything.
 
I've known too many like that, they don't even realize it.

I've come to the conclusion it is sometimes a stall tactic, something to fill the void while they think of the next thing to say.

Just like some that repeatedly say "you know man" or "dude", "say bro".
 

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