F'ing Friday Five

[angledge]

Haven't done one of these in a while ... but the theme was irresistable.

1. Do you use profanity?

More often than I ought to, probably.

2. What are your favorite words of frustration?

"SONOFABITCH!" Variation: "SON. OF. BITCH."

3. Did your parents ever swear in front of you?

When I was younger, they refrained from cussin'. But no longer - now we all use whatever words we feel like. However, I'm still a bit squeamish about dropping F-bomb in front of the Lil' Lucy Woman.

4. Do you think that films should be rated based on the language they use?

Among other things. I'm sympathetic to parents who don't want their children soaking up tons of profanity - or to people who just don't enjoy listening to that kind of language.

5. If you could curse out someone right now, who would it be?

How about Cingular Wireless, for screwing up my cell phone so that I can neither send nor receive text messages? Yeah, them. Fuckers!

Addendum: I'm not sure whether I should curse out myself or my swimming coach, but someone needs to get yelled at about last night's swim practice. Did I really do 1,000 yards of butterfly? Why was that considered a good idea? My arms feel like overcooked noodles this morning. If I was challenged to an arm-wrestling competition by a six-year-old, I'd either 1) decline, or 2) lose. I have adjusted my keyboard to a lower position because lifting my arms all the way to the top of the desk is just too damn hard. And tomorrow's the swim-a-thon - JOY!

Comments

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

If ever a Friday Five could be dedicated to djdysfunction, this would be it...

1. Do you use profanity?

Yup. Or, as this questionnaire would merit, "Fuck yeah."

2. What are your favorite words of frustration?

GODTHEFUCKDAMMIT. Yes, with "the" in there. Although if I'm cursing at a person, it would inevitably be "fucktard" that comes through.

3. Did your parents ever swear in front of you?

My dad would curse us out in German when we were misbehaving. We knew he meant business then.

4. Do you think that films should be rated based on the language they use?

Yes. Although one of the funniest things I ever saw on film was a TV-censored version of "Blazing Saddles". Obviously a lot of words were cut, but they also very creatively overdubbed some of the profanity with other terms. The absolute highlight of this is a scene where Gene Wilder talks about how a little kid shot him in the ass (actual text), and they cut a soundbite from somewhere else in the movie so you hear "Little punk shot me in the ass*you know*." The sheer inconsistency of the phrase made it comedy gold.

5. If you could curse out someone right now, who would it be?

Robert Jordan. Goddammit the man still pisses me off to this day. I used to worry that he'd die before finishing his masterpiece. Now I worry that he might NEVER ACTUALLY DIE. Fucktard.

[kwokj.livejournal.com]

My mother does not swear. Not even substitutions. In all my life, I have heard her slip once, and that was to say "Damn," when a car broke down in her lane in gridlock. My dad tends to say "shit" and "Jesus" which rarely slipped out when we were kids but does a bit more easily now that we're all adults.

I swear in frustration and just as a description ("that was shitty,") but I do not swear at people (at least not to their faces,) and I get offended when people swear at me or apply bad language to me. As in, exclaiming "Son of a bitch!" or "That son of a bitch!" is okay, but telling somebody they are one ("You son of a bitch!") isn't.

[llefser.livejournal.com]

While my mother and father took great pains never to utter obscenities in front of my sister or myself, we did get to hear my mother refer to us as "you god-damned kids" about thirty times a day for most of our childhood.

[angledge.livejournal.com]

I'm confused. Your parents didn't swear in front of you, yet you ... what, overheard? ... your mom calling you bad words?

[sskipstress.livejournal.com]

I think it's OK to rate movies based on language (or nudity or violence) but I wish it was more common to explain what kinds of potentially unacceptable content a movie has. I would've seen a lot more rated-R movies when I was young if my mom knew that the "bad" stuff in the movie was sex or language instead of violence or gore.