pfucka
So, I was reading all of my fave bloggers (fucking finally - I get around to doing this, like, once every few weeks, which blows llama dick, but there it is), and I go to make a comment and I get the standard Blogger verify-you're-not-a-robot shit page (I left my comment in, as the blogger in question - one of my Pussy Posse - reads this blog on occasion):
PFUCKA! Pee-fuck-uh! How cool is that?!
I had actually been noting some of the strange configurations of letters in Blogger's verifying thingy, but had failed to note them down ... until now.
PFUCKA!
LOL, I just love it and consider it a sign. It's a sign! The Gods of Expletives are looking out for their devoted handmaiden.
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On a slightly different note, I recently had an encounter on one of my boards where a group of us were spanked by a mod for using the word 'penis'. He reminded us that it was (supposedly) a 'family friendly' board.
(In case you're curious as to what sort of board I'd be on where penii were discussed freely, don't get too excited. Someone mentioned baking a penis cake for a friend's bachelorette party. Apparently they're all the rage, these penis cakes. I wouldn't know as no one has ever offered to bake me a penis cake, or thrown me a bachelorette party, or, indeed, a baby shower, even. And I have five kids. Not that I'm fucking bitter or anything. What can I say? I'm a tiresome old broad and no one loves me.)
ANYway, number one, in order to be a member of this board you must be 13 or older. When did the word penis become unacceptable to 13 year olds? If your 13 year old has a problem with that word you are in trouble as a parent. My TWO year old knows what a penis is and will happily point out his own (or, y'know, a family member's) and my 3, 4, and 5 year olds are positively phlegmatic about the whole body part thing. Yeah, whatever; it's a nipple, a testicle, a toe, an earlobe. *yawn*
Of course what really happened was that one of the people on the board complained, I suspect. Let me hasten to say that I'm all about rules. I'm also a pretty respectful person (despite what this blog reflects). So I'm all cool with not discussing penises on a board that I don't own if it makes folks uncomfy. I just don't understand it, is all.
How does one form one's perception of acceptable language?
Is it learned from and patterned after one's parents like our basic language skillz? Sort of hardwired in early? (This is one of the problems facing teachers today: idiot fucks who speak and write like this, send their children to school speaking and writing like they do and wonder why our harried, under appreciated, and underpaid public school teachers can't transmogrify them all into college-bound successes. But I fucking digress.)
I don't buy that ones parametres for acceptable speech are formed early. My dad is the son of a Baptist preacher and he curses like a bastard. I was raised by two people who cursed and was taught that it was an adult thing. I never uttered a curse word until I was in High School. Seriously, I started tentatively cursing when I was 13. I also started my period at 13 (Gee, thanks for sharing, Blue!) so maybe it's a hormones thing.
Obviously one's environment has a lot to do with it. Religion comes into play; a Pagan is more likely to be laid back about body-part-and-natural-act words than a conservative Jew whose faith stresses modesty.
I dunno. I have never cursed in the workplace, I never do so around my Evil Genius Husband's family, or in public where I might be overheard (erm, usually). I say fuck a lot because - as I said in the last post - it's a good word; quite versatile and I'm a grown up who can judge when and where to utter epithets. As for penis, well, it's not a dirty word IMHO it's just a part of a male's anatomy.
What are your thoughts, Randy Readers? Upon what do you base your level of expletives?
While you ponder, I shall leave you with this parting indication of my fondness for you:
PFUCKA!
Check out the verifying string.
PFUCKA! Pee-fuck-uh! How cool is that?!
I had actually been noting some of the strange configurations of letters in Blogger's verifying thingy, but had failed to note them down ... until now.
PFUCKA!
LOL, I just love it and consider it a sign. It's a sign! The Gods of Expletives are looking out for their devoted handmaiden.
Jeez, wouldn't that make a great toast? Along the same lines as slainte?
"Now let's all raise our glasses to our founder and CEO ..."
"PFUCKA!"
This is SO a sign that I should say 'fuck' more often. Seriously. Despite what me mum says.-----
On a slightly different note, I recently had an encounter on one of my boards where a group of us were spanked by a mod for using the word 'penis'. He reminded us that it was (supposedly) a 'family friendly' board.
(In case you're curious as to what sort of board I'd be on where penii were discussed freely, don't get too excited. Someone mentioned baking a penis cake for a friend's bachelorette party. Apparently they're all the rage, these penis cakes. I wouldn't know as no one has ever offered to bake me a penis cake, or thrown me a bachelorette party, or, indeed, a baby shower, even. And I have five kids. Not that I'm fucking bitter or anything. What can I say? I'm a tiresome old broad and no one loves me.)
ANYway, number one, in order to be a member of this board you must be 13 or older. When did the word penis become unacceptable to 13 year olds? If your 13 year old has a problem with that word you are in trouble as a parent. My TWO year old knows what a penis is and will happily point out his own (or, y'know, a family member's) and my 3, 4, and 5 year olds are positively phlegmatic about the whole body part thing. Yeah, whatever; it's a nipple, a testicle, a toe, an earlobe. *yawn*
Of course what really happened was that one of the people on the board complained, I suspect. Let me hasten to say that I'm all about rules. I'm also a pretty respectful person (despite what this blog reflects). So I'm all cool with not discussing penises on a board that I don't own if it makes folks uncomfy. I just don't understand it, is all.
How does one form one's perception of acceptable language?
Is it learned from and patterned after one's parents like our basic language skillz? Sort of hardwired in early? (This is one of the problems facing teachers today: idiot fucks who speak and write like this, send their children to school speaking and writing like they do and wonder why our harried, under appreciated, and underpaid public school teachers can't transmogrify them all into college-bound successes. But I fucking digress.)
I don't buy that ones parametres for acceptable speech are formed early. My dad is the son of a Baptist preacher and he curses like a bastard. I was raised by two people who cursed and was taught that it was an adult thing. I never uttered a curse word until I was in High School. Seriously, I started tentatively cursing when I was 13. I also started my period at 13 (Gee, thanks for sharing, Blue!) so maybe it's a hormones thing.
Obviously one's environment has a lot to do with it. Religion comes into play; a Pagan is more likely to be laid back about body-part-and-natural-act words than a conservative Jew whose faith stresses modesty.
I dunno. I have never cursed in the workplace, I never do so around my Evil Genius Husband's family, or in public where I might be overheard (erm, usually). I say fuck a lot because - as I said in the last post - it's a good word; quite versatile and I'm a grown up who can judge when and where to utter epithets. As for penis, well, it's not a dirty word IMHO it's just a part of a male's anatomy.
What are your thoughts, Randy Readers? Upon what do you base your level of expletives?
While you ponder, I shall leave you with this parting indication of my fondness for you:
PFUCKA!
posted by MrsEvilGenius at 12:34 AM
3 Comments:
"My TWO year old knows what a penis is and will happily point out his own (or, y'know, a family member's) and my 3, 4, and 5 year olds are positively phlegmatic about the whole body part thing. Yeah, whatever; it's a nipple, a testicle, a toe, an earlobe. *yawn*"
This is EXACTLY what happens in MY household, Blue. My daughters, 8 and 10, are so laid back about all of it that the ten year old came home from school the other day - after having seen the "growth and human development" video in health class - and said (and I quote), "Mom, what's the big deal?! Why did we need a movie in school?"
Yeah. Exactly. I spent the better part of the afternoon explaining that some parents just don't feel comfortable teaching their children about their bodies. She had a harder time understanding that than she did anything else about that whole day.
We've talked about this question of language quite a bit in the Chili household. I have a far more colorful vocabulary than my husband, and he sometimes gets on me about that (he sometimes gets on me for other things, but we're not talking about THAT right now, are we?!). The thing is, though, I have talked - and continue to talk - to my girls about when that kind of language is appropriate, and we've talked about how, when they turn 14, they can use those words around me. They know they're never supposed to swear AT people - especially not teachers or their grandparents - and they understand that there are some situations where that kind of language really IS inappropriate. The fact that I use that kind of language around my children, and am providing an example of its responsible use, is going to go a long way to their growing up to be responsible cursers as well.
(oh, and thanks for the link love!)
PFUCKA
I think taht will be created into my Family's Crest! ROTFLMAO
I can imagine the crest now...
ROTFLMAO AGAIN!
Thanks for the laugh at 3 a.m. - I have now single handedly awkoen 3 of 5 children!
LOL
And you didn't post again to tell me about it?? I wish we could have a say in those - mine would all be dirty words!! Love ya BLUE!!
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