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It is a good day to die.
Gotta love hilariously sensational newspaper writing.
The story itself is pretty unremarkable, but I love the phrases like "This five-foot martial arts sword capable of beheading a man..." or "The terrifying Batleth weapon..." or "Local Insp Mac McGarry wielded the sword, which he said had been sharpened to kill" (Italics added by me). Let me clue you in on something guys, it was sharpened to hack at trees, by a nerdy Star Trek fan, in his back yard.
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Yesterday while walking to work, a strange old man made a yowling cat noise at me, and when I looked up, startled, he chuckled this raspy chuckle, exposing huge, square, white fake teeth. It put me in a good mood for the rest of the day.
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I find euphimisms for "fuck", as a curse, confusing. Possibly even irritating. If you say "frick" or "fug" or "frug" or perhaps "fack", I mean, what is the point? Nobody is fooled, we all know what you were really thinking. As soon as you utter that polite-ified version, the real thing jumps into everyone's head anyway. So to me, if you are thinking fuck, and want to say fuck, then just say fuck, and if you have a thing against swearing, choose something tame like "damn" or even "darn", or refrain altogether.
Now I have to add a disclaimer here, because I consistently use "frick" and "frickin" myself, but that's not my fault, because I've grown up listening to my dad and dad's relatives use it, so it's irreversibly embedded in my brain. I kind of like it on it's own merits, not even as a substitute for fuck in an attempt to be polite, but just a good, satisfying sounding word.