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[illustratedjai]

Last semester, I took a socioling course at my Uni (low level, easy credits and GPA booster, as well as being my field of interest) and ended up doing a presentation on swearing. As a point of interest, and just for flavour, I'd done an informal online survey of as many people as I could find. One of the questions was "What's the worst swear word

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[debikm]

Being the only child of a Navy retiree (22 years active duty), my swear exposure is widely varied. I have had to censor myself at work and substitute my usual foul language with milder epithets since the department chief HATES swearing. But, when able to let fly AND very annoyed I tend to spew a string of words, a favorite being "Goddamnedmotherfuckingpieceofshit!"

Conversely, however, when driving and confronted by some idiot on their cellphone/not paying attention/yapping/texting, at 70 mph, I've been known to wave merrily and yell "Hi, how ya doing?!"

On the variations of using Jesus Christ as an expletive, my personal favorites are "Christ on a pony", and "Jesus Christ on a bike." A friend used to grumble "Cheese and rice!" Took me awhile to catch on...

Since I'm from the Southern US, I have heard some very interesting and creative uses of profanity. I'm fond of the creative threats and descriptions from the South.

[illustratedjai]

Nice! I'll bet that would've been a really awesome way to see a lot of different places too! (Also, well done on your 'rent's part. That's a long time and a lot of work.)

It's always fun, isn't it, to, when someone expects a curse, smile and wave cheerfully~

I think I need to start collecting the "Christ on/in a ____" ones! There're so many options~

Could you, perhaps, provide examples~~~? *hopeful*

[rirakuma]

This is another Jesus Christ related one, I don't think it's been mentioned yet.

"Jesus titty-fucking Christ! What the (insert colourful phrasing of your choice) are you playing at!" - usually used whilst driving :)

For me, swearing when expressing annoyance about a particular person tends to follow the pattern "expletive(adjective) expletive(noun)"

Eg cock-eyed twat, cunt-faced bastard, mother-fucking whore etc

[illustratedjai]

Nice~

I feel like I should be madly scribbling notes about all this...

[debikm]

Some Southern (US) Threats:

You better quit or I'll...

...knock your dick in the dirt.
...slap the taste out of your mouth.
...beat you like a rented/Missouri mule.

Ugly is a popular subject too. As in:

You so ugly you look like...

...you fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down.
...a bucket full of smashed armpits/assholes.

And one of my favorite expressions, given in reply when someone wants you to do something you'd rather not, "People in Hell want icewater, too."