While you should always watch your profanity around people, sometimes, after a thing or two happens, saying a bad word from time to time is only natural. There is something relaxing about profanity and cursing, even when social norms say that they are bad. A curse word seems to come out of your mouth instantly when the stress builds up. However, sometimes, we should be careful when we use curse words.
We aren’t all saints, so it’s normal to lose control. For example, when we are in the middle of some nerve-damaging stressful situations, profanity and swearing are the cheapest and best ways to release all the stress in just a few seconds. However, some no-no words are said accidentally. Since the English language dictionary is so limited, the list of curse words sometimes collides with more everyday ones. Fluff can be confused with another F word that rhymes with ruck.
When it comes to the best examples of swearing, the internet is the best place for it. User jhfridhem asked about accidental profanity usage on the popular group AskReddit. We have compiled the best ones in the list below for you to learn from. Upvote the ones that you found to be funny and relatable. However, if you want to share your own swearing experience, you can do so in the comments below.
#41
I was with my fairly religious aunt and her two kids. My aunt never cusses or uses any sort of “crass” language. Well, we were driving from New York to Connecticut or someplace and there was this insane traffic / tollbooth situation. And we were talking about how crazy it all was an then my aunt says something about it being a “clusterf*ck” and her and I immediately went silent and slapped our hands over our mouth. And then erupted in a fit of laughter. My cousins, in the backseat, figured out that something was said but had no idea what and we certainly weren’t going to tell them. Flash forward to the next day - we were at the Ben and Jerry factory and all of a sudden I heard one of my cousins tell the other one “I think I know what mama said” and I watched where he went and pointed to... a sign for the Ben and Jerry flavor called Fuster Cluck."
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#42
"I 100% don’t cuss at work unless I’m injured. Burned my hand once and gave my coworker a heart attack when I said sh*t. Thankfully it wasn’t that bad.
Then on Friday I sliced my finger on a meat slicer pretty badly. Boss just heard me say f*ck when he asked how bad it was and sent me straight to the office to deal with workman’s comp. usually they’re supposed to at least look at the damage but no one wanted too after they heard me cuss because they knew it would be bad. Ended up needing 5 stitches. =/ it still hurts like hell and I can’t really use my hand much for 10days before they’re taken out. But at least I was taken seriously because of the cursing!"
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#43
"I’m a high school math teacher with pretty strict expectations about positive and respectful language. Last year my class of freshmen was driving me up a wall with their whiny, disrespectful behavior so I went into full lecture mode and said that it “pisses me off” when they act that way. They all gasped and went silent. That’s literally all it took for them to take me seriously: the word piss."
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#44
“My roommate gasped in surprise when I was playing a video game and said that his movement ‘got his a*s unalived.’ He still hasn’t gotten over it even though that was two weeks ago.”
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#45
"I've never actually had an aversion to swearing, it just isn't something I do much, especially in professional environments. One time I was talking to some friends in between classes in high school and I think I said sh*t in a sentence and they all gasped. There were no teachers around so high school me thought it would be fun to say a whole bunch of swears for shock factor and also to prove that I have no problem using swears."
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#46
"In law class, we were playing hangman, and there was this one guy who just kept guessing random letters and causing us to lose. At one point I just looked at him and said, "Shut the f*ck up" without thinking. The entire class just went "ooohhhh" and the teachers were so surprised, they just laughed and didn't really get too upset."
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#47
"When I was about 10, playing a free-for-all game of M:tG against my dad and brother. I was playing blue and had left mana open for a counterspell. My dad played something, I knew it was part of his combo, but still wanted some time to think. After a good minute or so, my dad says "so is it going to stay or are you going to counter it?" to which I said "aww, what the H***"
I grew up in Mormon household. My parents swore like sailors, but heaven forbid if one of their children ever did. I immidietly clapped my hand to my mouth, unbelieving of what had came from my pure angel lips. My father looked at me very sternly, then said "At least your mother isn't here..." and we continued to play.
Since then, I've only really sworn twice more, both telling jokes, one of them as a quote from another Mormon who taught a sociology course when I was up at college."
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#48
“I was playing online with friends, when I looked up at the sky and saw four planes people flying in a V-Formation. This is rare in this game and I was so surprised and in awe, me being a dream pilot. I said. ‘Oh my god, that’s so ****ing cool.’ I blushed right away and felt real bad... no one heard.”
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#49
"Probably was yesterday, a snow plow knocked me off the road and I was stuck in more than a foot of snow for over an hour until a few guys rescued me. I was super frustrated going in reverse and forward and realized how helpless I was in that moment. I was enraged as well because the plow truck left me. Thank goodness I wasn’t there for too long."
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