Okay, swearing is not a big deal in my family, although we don't do it around kids. Maybe I should say other people's kids. Here's an example:

When I was about 12 (this would have been in 1982), my parents and I watched some show about the '60s. I don't even remember what it was. And I started thinking about how I was born in the '60s (okay, in the last month of the '60s) which had only been 12 years ago. Not so far removed from the '60s, yet when I looked around, I didn't see any long-haired, fringe-wearing, peace-loving hippie types anywhere. So I asked my mother what happened to all the hippies. She thought for a second, then said:

"They fucked, they had kids, they had to get jobs, and that was the end of that."

Probably the clearest and most logical explanation anyone's ever given me for anything.

So, yeah, we don't sweat the swears.

@fatchickonabike that was so funny. I almost spit my coffee out!

I don't swear at work, I have messed up a few times and said shit and a couple of others at work, but for the most part I've managed to keep swearing out of my vocabulary at work. I try to not swear in front of my parents, and if I do I try not to use the word fuck. My bff swears a lot, pretty much every other word out of her mouth is fuck, so around her I tend to swear a whole lot more.

I used to swear a lot at work, but less at home. Now that I don't work, I swear more at home now. Lol. Although I do try to curb the F word, as I get in trouble from all 3 kids if I even say 'Crap'.  :-<

CanadianMama said:

I swear all of the time, it's so bad that sometimes I don't even notice I'm doing it! I'm working at watching my language, but it's hard as I'm pretty addicted to the f bomb. 

THIS. ME TOO!!!

@madme...it totally spoke to me. DH thinks its hilarious that I am such a grammar/spelling/speech nazi, and have a pretty impressive vocabulary of non-swear words, yet I swear constantly! I can swear eloquently, though, can't I??

@Sammie just because we know big words doesn't mean we have to use them, and sometimes swearing just gets the fucking point across better, doesn't it??
;;)

I swear constantly its a really bad habit.. I try not to swear at my bfs parents house and i dont even talk at his grandparents house... I will say something around his dad and his dad will correct me.. My brother says i swear like an irish soldier with an absess tooth and no whiskey... I worked with kids for a whole decade and the worst thing i said was omg theres shit running down my arm... I meant to say poop but at that moment with someone elses little pride and joy with explosive diaper it just came out... I need to stop cusing about as much as i need to give up cigs...

FoulMouthedSailor said:

 "alright fucking listen the fuck up, we are fucking gonna do this fucking shit the right fucking way, no fucking issues for fucking this fucked up bullshit, any fucking complaints?".

This is exactly how DH talks when he's working in construction. I have not one time ever heard a construction worker form a complete sentence without cursing. Ever. At least not while they're on the job. I'm pretty sure he says "fuck" as much as he says "the", but I'm kind of the pot calling the kettle black, here. 

anonymommy said:

You can pretty much judge how my day is going by how much swearing comes out of my mouth.  When fuck makes more appearances in a sentence than all the other words combined, watch out.

Now this is me. I do cuss alot in general, but when the f-bomb starts dropping like rain...HIDE!!

@PurpleFlowers, I know, right?? That would be the equivalent of me beating them for smoking pot as teenagers when I did/do it, too.

I had a terrible mom moment the other day. We were at the soccer wind up party, and I was sitting with my girls and a bunch of other kids. They were horsing around, and this little 2 or 3 yo boy just stands up and yells "Shut up you fucking bitch!" There was stunned silence from the other kids, and then I started laughing. He wasn't mad, this little kid, I'm pretty sure he just said it for the reaction, but I couldn't help myself. So then he said it like....5 more times. His mom had to step away for a bit to get something from her house or whatever. I know she would have been completely appalled if she'd heard him, but to me that's even funnier. Cause that kid had to have heard that somewhere, right? It just came out so clear and enunciated, it was just hilarious.

 Eh I can't even condemn the mom. But the witnesses probably could've stepped in and corrected him. It takes a village people.

I'm pretty awful. 

My oldest son says I'm like Deb, from the show Dexter.   I used to try harder, I have found that the older they get the less I try and censor myself.  They still don't cuss around me though.. the oldest one (20) is foul mouthed, his brother says, but around me there's only an occasional slip.    I have been lucky.  There was one moment when they were both younger and I was trying to get the older one to get out of the car (he was about 8 or 9), younger son was 3 or 4, he pipes up to his brother with "C'mon!  Get out of the fucking car!"  And I about died.

Used to be I would never have dropped an F bomb around my mother, and never heard it from her for the longest time, but she HAS used it in my direction in the past few years so I don't try and censor myself around her either.  Now my Grandma is another story, I never would have used the F word around her but she was quite fond of the word "shit" and never tried to stop herself, at home anyway.    I am pretty good about keeping it under control when it's work,  school, or around other people's kids, etc.

This is pretty much me.  Kinda long but love the ending.. :)

We didn't really think about it until one day one of our boys (ds4.5) ate something and said "this is damn good". Lol. Now we try to be more conscious.

I joined the Navy when I was 16 (the reserves), and although I didn't have the 'cleanest' language then, it went down hill fast from there. I remember talking on the phone with my mom one night when I lived in Halifax (I was 18) and she commented "you swear like a sailor!" I don't think she appreciated when I replied, "Mom, what the fuck do you think I am?".... I'm not in the navy anymore and that was over 12 years ago, but I still have a long ways to go with cleaning up my language. I try to be professional at work (in a government office), I'm generally good around kids (except the F*bomb I drop as DS daycare last week :-SS ), but I find it hardest at home, especially when friends are over... I just get too relaxed and it comes out. Oh, and for the record, we weren't allowed to aware as kids, but now my parents will drop a cuss here or there, but never anything really offensive.  

Potty mouth in recovery here due to ds learning and starting to copy sounds. I don't work in an environment where it's appropriate, but luckily my supervisor likes me and laughs when I get riled up and on a "fuck this" rant. I don't curse around my grandparents or any elders for that matter, and trying to clean it up. Motherfucker it's tough!