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I'd like to take this opportunity to thank young people for inventing swear words in the year 2000.

Because before that, whenever I hit my thumb with a hammer or someone cut me off in traffic or a player from my favorite football team dropped a pass, I could never think of the right thing to say!  ::)

Glad to see you have a sense of humor, you should be all right here. :)

Having said that I have to ask you:  Roughly how old were you when you noticed people around you starting to use more swear words?

Well, apparently you're not from New York.  ;D

I do notice that they allow more cussing on TV now then they did in the past.

Two of the first shows I remember hearing b!tch/sonofab!tch & b@stard were in the '80s. Moonlighting & M*A*S*H.



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15. Nothing to do with age. ;) That would be already be too late in any case.

aside of friends cousins and other people.  But i definately remember kids/teen overly using swear words out of context or excessively at certain time in the 2000s.

In terms of media there was a lot less censorship over cussing than before.


You couldn't move an inch in my junior high or high school without hearing the f word, and that was in the 90's.  I don't think swearing is more common than it has ever been - I think you just started noticing it more. 

^Exactly.  My friends and I started cursing like sailors when we were in junior high, and that was in a small town in Nebraska in the early 80s. I think it's just part of the whole macho/rebellious thing that comes along with the onset of puberty.

And the reason kids don't hear swear words very much before they're 13 or 14 is simply because most adults make an effort to watch their language when they're around children.     

cursing on tv came with the advent of non-paid cable channels that weren't broadcast tv... ie FX, A&E, TNT, TBS, USA  are not held to same the standards as the networks ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX....   

in otherwords you can say pretty much anything but the F word on the non broadcast/non paid channels (paid channels being HBO, Shotime etc) 

once the cable channels got away with it the networks became less controlling on their reality shows. In fact, because they needed to compete with the other channels out there it became more encouraged.  Now they just bleep whatever they need to but you will find you still can't go that far in network scripted shows.  The regulations are far less stringent in broadcast tv but they are still there. 

As time goes on the lines of censorship get pushed further back everyday. 

I think the fact that people are offended by curse words is ridiculous.  I'm far more offended by words like "hate, violence, torture, or murder" than I am by someone saying "Oh Sh!t."

I think the fact that people are offended by curse words is ridiculous.  I'm far more offended by words like "hate, violence, torture, or murder" than I am by someone saying "Oh Sh!t."


Agreed. I personally could care less about curse words. People are offended way too easily.

I think the fact that people are offended by curse words is ridiculous.  I'm far more offended by words like "hate, violence, torture, or murder" than I am by someone saying "Oh Sh!t."


I totally agree!  A word I do not like at all is a very "mild" word...Stupid.  It bothers me more when I hear an adult calling a kid stupid.

haha, no really i remember when it just such a taboo to say really basic swear words on adult tv shows and with your friends but then after a while kids were using it way too excessively to the point where it became too normalized. South Park helped with that for sure


South Park, Jersey Shore, Mob Wives and a few others.

I hear people say sonofabitch and god damn but the f word is bleeped out.

My very first cuss word was the "f"-word. I learned it at a young age from my cousin, who wasn't much older than me, either. I heard him shout out the "f"-word while playing a video game. This was in the '90s, by the way.

That's what I'm talking about. Nobody seems to get it.



A lot of the curse words we hear today is what we got from those kind of shows.

A lot of the curse words we hear today is what we got from those kind of shows.


Howard those words we hear today were around long before those shows ever got on the air. They've been cursing in movies for decades

A lot of the curse words we hear today is what we got from those kind of shows.

Howard those words we hear today were around long before those shows ever got on the air. They've been cursing in movies for decades
Some of the curse words are Anglo-Saxon, long before television was invented.

Some of the curse words are Anglo-Saxon, long before television was invented.


This is also true... people have been cursing for centuries.

Howard those words we hear today were around long before those shows ever got on the air. They've been cursing in movies for decades



Frankly, my dear....



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Frankly, my dear....



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Damn  :-\\
















































:D

Frankly, my dear....



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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2RxWs60dRM

If the clip works...

F*ck

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

List of recent uses

In 1928, D. H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover gained notoriety for its frequent use of the words f*ck, f*cked, and f*cking.

Perhaps the earliest usage of the word in popular music was the 1938 Eddy Duchin release of the Louis Armstrong song "Ol' Man Mose". The words created a scandal at the time, resulting in sales of 170,000 copies during the Great Depression years when sales of 20,000 were considered blockbuster. The verse reads:

(We believe) He kicked the bucket,
(We believe) Yeah man, buck-buck-bucket,
(We believe) He kicked the bucket and ol' man mose is dead,
(We believe) Ahh, f*ck it!
(We believe) Buck-buck-bucket,
(We believe) He kicked the bucket and ol' man mose is dead.

The liberal usage of the word (and other vulgarisms) by certain artists (such as James Joyce, Henry Miller, Lenny Bruce, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, in their Derek and Clive personas) has led to the banning of their works and criminal charges of obscenity. After Norman Mailer's publishers convinced him to bowdlerize f*ck as fug in his work The Naked and the Dead (1948), Tallulah Bankhead supposedly greeted him with the quip, "So you're the young man who can't spell f*ck." In fact, according to Mailer, the quip was devised by Bankhead's PR man. He and Bankhead did not meet until 1966 and did not discuss the word then. The rock group The Fugs named themselves after the Mailer euphemism.

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger featured the use of "f*ck you" in print. First published in the United States in 1951, the novel remains controversial to this day due to its use of the word, standing at number 13 for the most banned books from 1990–2000 according to the American Library Association. The book offers a blunt portrayal of the main character's reaction to the existence of the word, and all that it means.

The first documented use of the word f*ck on live British television (probably on any television system) has been attributed to theatre critic Kenneth Tynan in 1965. Controversy also ensued in 1976 when Today host Bill Grundy interviewed the Sex Pistols, after guitarist Steve Jones called Grundy a 'dirty f*cker' and a 'f*cking rotter'.

One of the earliest mainstream Hollywood movies to use the word f*ck was director Robert Altman's irreverent antiwar film, MASH, released in 1970 at the height of the Vietnam War. During the football game sequence about three-quarters of the way through the film, one of the MASH linemen says to an 8063rd offensive player, "All right, bud, your f*ckin' head is coming right off." Also, former Beatle John Lennon's 1971 release "Working Class Hero" featured use of the word, which was rare in music at the time and caused it to, at most, be played only in segments on the radio.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia and I have heard this in the song.

In Hey Jude by The Beatles, at 2:58 of the song, someone can allegedly be heard to say, "F*cking hell!" There is some dispute as to who said this, and whether it was really exclaimed at all. Sound engineers Ken Scott and Geoff Emerick claim the exclamation came from McCartney, and that it was Lennon's idea to leave the mistake in the final mix. "'Paul hit a clunker on the piano and said a naughty word,' Lennon gleefully crowed, 'but I insisted we leave it in, buried just low enough so that it can barely be heard. Most people won't ever spot it...but we'll know it's there.'"

F*ck

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

List of recent uses

In 1928, D. H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover gained notoriety for its frequent use of the words f*ck, f*cked, and f*cking.

Perhaps the earliest usage of the word in popular music was the 1938 Eddy Duchin release of the Louis Armstrong song "Ol' Man Mose". The words created a scandal at the time, resulting in sales of 170,000 copies during the Great Depression years when sales of 20,000 were considered blockbuster. The verse reads:

(We believe) He kicked the bucket,
(We believe) Yeah man, buck-buck-bucket,
(We believe) He kicked the bucket and ol' man mose is dead,
(We believe) Ahh, f*ck it!
(We believe) Buck-buck-bucket,
(We believe) He kicked the bucket and ol' man mose is dead.

The liberal usage of the word (and other vulgarisms) by certain artists (such as James Joyce, Henry Miller, Lenny Bruce, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, in their Derek and Clive personas) has led to the banning of their works and criminal charges of obscenity. After Norman Mailer's publishers convinced him to bowdlerize f*ck as fug in his work The Naked and the Dead (1948), Tallulah Bankhead supposedly greeted him with the quip, "So you're the young man who can't spell f*ck." In fact, according to Mailer, the quip was devised by Bankhead's PR man. He and Bankhead did not meet until 1966 and did not discuss the word then. The rock group The Fugs named themselves after the Mailer euphemism.

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger featured the use of "f*ck you" in print. First published in the United States in 1951, the novel remains controversial to this day due to its use of the word, standing at number 13 for the most banned books from 1990–2000 according to the American Library Association. The book offers a blunt portrayal of the main character's reaction to the existence of the word, and all that it means.

The first documented use of the word f*ck on live British television (probably on any television system) has been attributed to theatre critic Kenneth Tynan in 1965. Controversy also ensued in 1976 when Today host Bill Grundy interviewed the Sex Pistols, after guitarist Steve Jones called Grundy a 'dirty f*cker' and a 'f*cking rotter'.

One of the earliest mainstream Hollywood movies to use the word f*ck was director Robert Altman's irreverent antiwar film, MASH, released in 1970 at the height of the Vietnam War. During the football game sequence about three-quarters of the way through the film, one of the MASH linemen says to an 8063rd offensive player, "All right, bud, your f*ckin' head is coming right off." Also, former Beatle John Lennon's 1971 release "Working Class Hero" featured use of the word, which was rare in music at the time and caused it to, at most, be played only in segments on the radio.




This should be the new V-8 engine post!!!!  ;D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2RxWs60dRM

If the clip works...



The censors were all over that back in 1939. But the line, "Frankly my dear, I don't give a darn" just doesn't have the same impact.




F*ck

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

List of recent uses

In 1928, D. H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover gained notoriety for its frequent use of the words f*ck, f*cked, and f*cking.

Perhaps the earliest usage of the word in popular music was the 1938 Eddy Duchin release of the Louis Armstrong song "Ol' Man Mose". The words created a scandal at the time, resulting in sales of 170,000 copies during the Great Depression years when sales of 20,000 were considered blockbuster. The verse reads:

(We believe) He kicked the bucket,
(We believe) Yeah man, buck-buck-bucket,
(We believe) He kicked the bucket and ol' man mose is dead,
(We believe) Ahh, f*ck it!
(We believe) Buck-buck-bucket,
(We believe) He kicked the bucket and ol' man mose is dead.

The liberal usage of the word (and other vulgarisms) by certain artists (such as James Joyce, Henry Miller, Lenny Bruce, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, in their Derek and Clive personas) has led to the banning of their works and criminal charges of obscenity. After Norman Mailer's publishers convinced him to bowdlerize f*ck as fug in his work The Naked and the Dead (1948), Tallulah Bankhead supposedly greeted him with the quip, "So you're the young man who can't spell f*ck." In fact, according to Mailer, the quip was devised by Bankhead's PR man. He and Bankhead did not meet until 1966 and did not discuss the word then. The rock group The Fugs named themselves after the Mailer euphemism.

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger featured the use of "f*ck you" in print. First published in the United States in 1951, the novel remains controversial to this day due to its use of the word, standing at number 13 for the most banned books from 1990–2000 according to the American Library Association. The book offers a blunt portrayal of the main character's reaction to the existence of the word, and all that it means.

The first documented use of the word f*ck on live British television (probably on any television system) has been attributed to theatre critic Kenneth Tynan in 1965. Controversy also ensued in 1976 when Today host Bill Grundy interviewed the Sex Pistols, after guitarist Steve Jones called Grundy a 'dirty f*cker' and a 'f*cking rotter'. (see also EMI and the Grundy incident)

One of the earliest mainstream Hollywood movies to use the word f*ck was director Robert Altman's irreverent antiwar film, MASH, released in 1970 at the height of the Vietnam War. During the football game sequence about three-quarters of the way through the film, one of the MASH linemen says to an 8063rd offensive player, "All right, bud, your f*ckin' head is coming right off." Also, former Beatle John Lennon's 1971 release "Working Class Hero" featured use of the word, which was rare in music at the time and caused it to, at most, be played only in segments on the radio.



I was thinking of Lady Chatterley's Lover, too.

Every generation thinks they invented cuss words & sex. I remember when I first read Lady Chatterley's Lover and was surprised that the "F" word was in there because I thought the word was invented in the '60s.  :D :D ;D ;D ;D ;D


According to http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl-f-word.htm the word originated in the 15th century.


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