People who swear a lot make better friends

[Matata]

AHAH, I knew it and kept telling my friends that my cussing made me a better friend and I have been vindicated by science. Ain't that #@!&*+$%%%^##@@!

Scientists Say People Who Swear A Lot Actually Make Better Friends

If you were thinking of ditching your profane friend, you may want to reconsider. Science says that people who swear make better friends.

theheartysoul.com

 

[Karl_K]

B$$#^$^$#^&$#^%#&$%^*$^#&$#W&%&E! lol
I never swear and im the bestest friend in the whole wide world.
Just ask me.

 

[Matata]

I never swear

Never? What the **** is wrong with you, you pure-tongued $%*@++ If you slam your finger in a door, what do you say "oh great googly moogly". Fer *@#&& sake.

 

[Karl_K]

Never? What the **** is wrong with you, you pure-tongued $%*@++ If you slam your finger in a door, what do you say "oh great googly moogly". Fer *@#&& sake.

I say ssssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooootttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt!!!!!!
sometimes with an i instead of o but that isnt technicaly swearing.

 

[Matata]

I say ssssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooootttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt!!!!!!
sometimes with an i instead of o but that isnt technicaly swearing.

Baahaaaahaaa. You are a silver-tongued devil.

 

[kenny]

Matata, you state,"People who swear a lot make better friends"
Oh, what nonsense.
Everyone just prefers others like themself.

I prefer people who swear, because I swear.
Still, I don't think you and I (though we sit on the same side of the political aisle) could be close friends.

 

[ItsMainelyYou]

I'm from Maine, swearing is our second language

It's an art.

 

[stracci2000]

I swear like a sailor.
My older sister taught me all the bad words when I was 12, and I find them very useful!

 

[Matata]

My DHs family is too prim and proper to utter an explicative and his parents never fought (at least in front of their kids). Enter me and my arm waving cussing and very loud Italian family whose indoor regular convo voices could shatter windows and who would start arguments over such things as how much sauce to put on the pasta. Poor man breaks out in a cold sweat every time I raise my arms.

 

[Matata]

Matata, you state,"People who swear a lot make better friends"

Clean off your $#$% glasses. I didn't state that, I quoted it from the article headline. Sheesh. What are you now anti ***ing science. Most of my friends don't swear and think that I'm vocabularly-challenged

 

[kenny]

Enough!
Welcome to my ignore gang.

 

[Polabowla]

It's fan fcking-tastic until your kid goes to school & uses the swear words that mommy uses.... lol

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

I swear alot
i think its from years of serving the builders down on the trade desk
it was always hard to mind my Ps and Qs serving joe public

i have to be really mindfup here to watch my language because i notice no one swears here

on my Bruce Springsteen forum we swear ....well like Bruce Springsteen !!

However it has to have context and i do not like one particular world that British people use more than Americans

 

[Matata]

You are joining my ignore gang.

I was kidding with you.

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

My DHs family is too prim and proper to utter an explicative and his parents never fought (at least in front of their kids). Enter me and my arm waving cussing and very loud Italian family whose indoor regular convo voices could shatter windows and who would start arguments over such things as how much sauce to put on the pasta. Poor man breaks out in a cold sweat every time I raise my arms.

I remember the one and only time i ever heard my dad say the F word
he was will his work mates and didnt know i was in earshot

i was shocked
I honeatly didn't know he knew such a word

I remenber the first time i ever heard it
at school when i was in standard 2 - (about 10) and we had a new checkly little sh** of a new class mate
I went home and asked mum what it ment
She just told me to never use that word
...and i never did till the army
Where i made up for lost time !

 

[1ofakind]

The people upstairs from my DD sure know lots of swear words at 4 am....they don‘t seem like they would make very good friends and they are lousy, inconsiderate neighbors.
I personally don’t swear...part of being intentionally different than my dysfunctional parents and I guess it just never became a habit...like smoking, I just never started. My friends don’t seem to mind.
Upon hurting myself once, I did suddenly cry out “Smokey and the Bandit!!”. A curse word never came to mind and after making sure I was OK my family almost died of hysterical laughter.

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

The people upstairs from my DD sure know lots of swear words at 4 am....they don‘t seem like they would make very good friends and they are lousy, inconsiderate neighbors.
I personally don’t swear...part of being intentionally different than my dysfunctional parents and I guess it just never became a habit...like smoking, I just never started. My friends don’t seem to mind.
Upon hurting myself once, I did suddenly cry out “Smokey and the Banit!!”. A curse word never came to mind and after making sure I was OK my family almost died of hysterical laughter.

My mother's word was wheelbarrow

our neighbours sound like yours
I do not like people swearing at their kids

 

[1ofakind]

My mother's word was wheelbarrow

our neighbours sound like yours
I do not like people swearing at their kids

I think for me that was it....being sworn at as a kid made me never want to talk like that. I don’t think the upstairs people have kids....probably a good thing.

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

I think for me that was it....being sworn at as a kid made me never want to talk like that. I don’t think the upstairs people have kids....probably a good thing.

The little kids next door are only knee high to a grass hopper
We are sure the littlest one must have c#*# on his birth certificate
And yet i know she loves them
she doesn't beat them
she usually yells the most when it looks like the little guy is making a break for the road (no front fence)
But its just not right
and what going to happen when he goes to school ?
The teacher won't like that kind of language

 

[Matata]

I'm often amused at some of the things that academics research and publish. When I read the article I thought it was a fluff piece but I found the actual paper and it was done as serious scientific research. The purpose of the study was to find if there is a correlation between profanity and honesty. I read the conclusion a couple of times trying to figure out if it had any practical usefulness and apparently the only thing the research established was the basis for more research.

For anyone interested in how their state fared on the integrity scale, here's the paper. It's a good read if you have insomnia.

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[dk168]

I am a lot more polite in writing than in person for certain!

I blame it on working in a male-dominated factory in the 90s for years with minimal customer facing, which meant I did not have to mind my language as I used to in hospitals and retail environment.

I do try not to swear in front of young people or people I do not know well.

If I were to swear in writing, I would use abbreviations such as WTF or alternate words such as frigging or feck.

I don't like using the C word, except to describe one person that I truly despise.

DK

 

[Dancing Fire]

If I were to swear in writing, I would use abbreviations such as WTF or alternate words such as frigging or feck.

I didn't know Wednesday,Thursday, Friday were bad words...

 

[AllAboardTheBlingTrain]

F&%k me, I knew there was a reason I’m such a good friend Okay now that I’m done tooting my own horn haha I’ll weigh in and say that I do think behavioural studies like these can hardly be relied upon as universal truth. Swear or don’t swear, that’s your own business, as long as you’re not sanctimonious about it! A few years ago (before I got together with my current partner) I went out with a guy who started lecturing me about being uncouth on a first date (at a pub!) because I dropped an F-bomb. Felt like asking him if he got confused between whether he was out with a peer or with a secret daughter he conceived when he was barely out of the womb himself (we were the same age).

 

[stracci2000]

My ex-husband chastised me for swearing.
Now that I'm away from him, I swear all the time.

 

[chrono]

Shush, you guys are onto me being a terrible friend since I don't swear. Absolutely not allowed to swear at home, not even the mildest of swear words like shoot. I've had my finger slammed in the door and still did not swear. I just yowled and cried.

 

[lyra]

I learned to swear in my late 40s. Husband doesn't approve, but he swears, so I don't care. I'm not likely to have grandchildren, so I just need to improve for the sake of my bird. I thought I heard him say wtf the other day. Not good.

 

[Matata]

I've had my finger slammed in the door and still did not swear. I just yowled and cried.

What a pity that you were denied the soothing effects of pain relieving endorphins that the researchers claim is also a benefit of swearing. I've read other research papers that chocolate has the same pain-relieving effect and I would much prefer stuffing a piece of chocolate in my mouth, should I ever slam a finger in a door again, to uttering an expletive.

I wonder if there is research being done into which one -- swearing or chocolate -- has longer pain reduction effects. Recruiting volunteers for that would be interesting.

 

[chrono]

Bring on the dark chocolate!

 

[Maria D]

F*k yeah!

 

[Tekate]

that's me!!! I tell my friends and family - it's my destiny and also it's easier than long drawn-out explanations.

AHAH, I knew it and kept telling my friends that my cussing made me a better friend and I have been vindicated by science. Ain't that #@!&*+$%%%^##@@!

Scientists Say People Who Swear A Lot Actually Make Better Friends

If you were thinking of ditching your profane friend, you may want to reconsider. Science says that people who swear make better friends.

theheartysoul.com