Acceptable words to replace curse words..HELP Please

[RkyMtnHigh 0]

Instead of SHIT!...shoot, shucks, crap

Instead of FUKK...?????

Instead of Hell...Heck?


Help me...I don't want to slip out the bad words in a professional environment...so far I have caught myself at the first consonant...then clear my throat

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[windcatcher 0]

Just don't say them!

I used to swear, once you break the habit Rky you'll have no need for substitutes.

Mother to the cutest little thing in the world...

[RkyMtnHigh 0]

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Just don't say them!

I used to swear, once you break the habit Rky you'll have no need for substitutes.

So..."wow" and "golly gee" as a response from now on?

I recall the SouthPark movie said "don't say shit, say poo! and FK is the worst word you can ever say..." but I can't recall the other replacement words..
It's like moderation with other habitual things..I need to moderate and ease myself out of those words to nicer words and transition from those

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[PeterB 0]

When a "Shit" or "Fuck" is warranted, I use it. I'm a white-collar guy.

Might not be professional but at least my clients know when trouble is up.

Ya know, to be honest I've ran into many cases where the artificial atmosphere of 'professionalism' through PC-induced limitations on language have made real relationships with customers harder to attain. It becomes a bit fake somehow.

It's all about juding the people you're around. Some people like it natural and others want to maintain that while we work we're always well behaved and civilized.

Plus, it really shuckin annoys the crap outta me when people say "heck" or "shoot"

[Unstable 9]

I lived in Provo Utah for some 3 months - and those replacement words are all I heard...Frankly more annoying then the real thing. Nothing like a nerdy white guy shouting...

"Flip!! What the heck happened to my bookmarker!"



Now that I'm back to Kansas, my vocabulary is slowly normalizing, but I don't think I'll ever have the zing I used to have.... which is okay.

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[willard 0]

Try "fiddle-dee-dee".

[Lindercles 0]

There are some good suggestions here. It's easy, mmmkay?

[happythoughts 0]

I try to avoid swearing at work, but, as a rule, I've got plenty of reasons to.

I use the famous Homer Simpson "Doh".

I used "barf" once in the office and some of the women picked it up and use it liberally because they think it is cute.

[Lindercles 0]

In all honesty, I say "nutty fudgekins." I'm serious, I really do.

[unformed 0]

It's great. My boss sits there cursing all day. First week I was there he decided to find out if I was someone who got offended easily.

Nope.

Great, so now we sit back and talk about porn and hookers and beer all day, with, of course, a good many "shit" and "fuck" and "goddamn" thrown in for good measure.

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[lawrocket 3]

Instead of fuck, say copulate or fornicate.
Instead of shit, say excrement or feces.

Think of other more proper words and put them together.

Instead of "You fucking piece of shit" say, "You fornicating morsel of excrement."

"That dirty cocksucker" becomes "That soiled fellator."

"That skanky slut is a ballbreaking bitch" should be said, "That bedraggled strumpet is an aggressive go-getter."

It actually has a more profounf effect than cussing itself, sometimes. Honestly, when I really want to leave someone defecating in his britches, I will use polite forms of swear words.

My wife is hotter than your wife.

[quade 4]

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Help me...I don't want to slip out the bad words in a professional environment...so far I have caught myself at the first consonant...then clear my throat

I can go ya one worse.

The guy I work for is an ultra religious right, focus on the family, evangelical, in fact, probably 75% of the people that work for the company are (I bring down the average quite a bit).

Anyway, NOBODY in the entire company swears in any way, shape or form (except a very select few behind closed doors with those that are of the same mindset).

Silly thing is, they ALL have an amazing vocabulary when it comes to euphemisims.

What's hilarious about that to ME is they haven't thought it through very well. If you subsitute a word for a word then it becomes that word. Lemme give you an example; if you say the word fudge, everytime you mean the word FUCK!, then fudge becomes FUCK! and everybody around you understands that you mean FUCK! so it's really no different than saying FUCK!

So, why subsitute words at all? While you may be saving somebody's ears, you're certainly not fooling anybody's brains. We all know you mean FUCK!

Soooooo, don't even use the euphemisim. Think of something more intelligent to say and avoid them (at least around those people you're trying to offend).

quade -
The World's Most Boring Skydiver

[SkydiveStMarys 0]

Instead of FUKK?

Fudge? Freakin'

Fuckin' A! Try.... freakin' A!

Sometimes there is no getting around it and the "f word" is the only viable word.

Bobbi

A miracle is not defined by an event. A miracle is defined by gratitude.

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Help me...I don't want to slip out the bad words in a professional environment...so far I have caught myself at the first consonant...then clear my throat

I can go ya one worse.

The guy I work for is an ultra religious right, focus on the family, evangelical, in fact, probably 75% of the people that work for the company are (I bring down the average quite a bit).

Anyway, NOBODY in the entire company swears in any way, shape or form (except a very select few behind closed doors with those that are of the same mindset).

I'd be fired in under a week. One of my coworkers fucked up at work one time and I bellowed out "JESUS TITTYFUCKING CHRIST ON A PLYWOOD DILDO, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"

cavete terrae.

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I agree with quade, by the way. It's just a word, and acting like it's "bad" is where the "power" comes from.

cavete terrae.

[skymama 37]

Shoot and Darn it are what I use mostly around my kids. My daughter says Frickin', Crap and Piss a lot, even though I scold her for it. I probably don't need to worry about my language anymore.

My son's soccer team played a team last Saturday that kept getting yellow cards because of their filthy mouths. My son goes to a public school and has a potporri of players from different countries on his team. The team that got in trouble were boys from a Private Catholic School. What potty mouths the rich, religious kids were!

She is Da Man, and you better not mess with Da Man,
because she will lay some keepdown on you faster than, well, really fast. ~Billvon

[SBS 0]

Instead of "what the hell?", I like to use, "what the fuck?"

Hope that helps.

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I'm not conceited...I'm just realistic about my awesomeness...

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Shoot and Darn it are what I use mostly around my kids. My daughter says Frickin', Crap and Piss a lot, even though I scold her for it. I probably don't need to worry about my language anymore.

My son's soccer team played a team last Saturday that kept getting yellow cards because of their filthy mouths. My son goes to a public school and has a potporri of players from different countries on his team. The team that got in trouble were boys from a Private Catholic School. What potty mouths the rich, religious kids were!

I managed to get under my coach's skin at uni with my language and the associated cards, and he instituted a new rule stating that anyone who got a card for language would cost the team a 4 mile run at 5am the next morning. I figure "no big deal, I'll change languages".

THE NEXT GAME, someone blindsided me and I said the Russian-language equiv to "I fucked your mother, you fucking asshole!", and all of a sudden the ref pulls out a card...

...turns out he was raised in Moscow

Coach was so amused by it that he didn't make us run

cavete terrae.

[popsjumper 2]

Use the art of...what's the word I'm looking for...distraction?, deflection?

You know, throw in some distraction in the phrase.

Something like, "Go suck Keith's big blue balls."

They'll not hear the vulgarism...they'll all be sitting there wondering, "Who the fuck is Keith?"

My reality and yours are quite different.
I think we're all Bozos on this bus.
Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239

[shall555 0]

Memorize Darren McGavin's "swear" dialogue from A Christmas Story.

"You rabbid saggdeba! You ohbed sowf!"

From the narrator: "in the heat of battle, my father wove a tapestry of obscenity which to this day is still hovering somewhere over Lake Michigan"

[airtwardo 7]

they'll all be sitting there wondering, "Who the fuck is Keith?"

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...and how did his balls get so BLUE?!

~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~

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[udder 0]

CUNT

"In one way or the other, I'm a bad brother. Word to the motherf**ker." Eazy-E

[SkydiveStMarys 0]

"...and how did his balls get so BLUE?! "


Or big??!!

Bobbi

A miracle is not defined by an event. A miracle is defined by gratitude.

[Gawain 0]

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Instead of SHIT!...shoot, shucks, crap

Sugar, shoot, shiii i .. i .. i ... i

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Instead of FUKK...?????

Phooey!

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Instead of Hell...Heck?

Hell's a swear word?

So I try and I scream and I beg and I sigh
Just to prove I'm alive, and it's alright
'Cause tonight there's a way I'll make light of my treacherous life
Make light!

[airtwardo 7]

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Instead of SHIT!...shoot, shucks, crap

Sugar, shoot, shiii i .. i .. i ... i

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Instead of FUKK...?????

Phooey!

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Instead of Hell...Heck?

Hell's a swear word?

How the fuck should WE know?!

~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~