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[helenmelon]

i'm at the second and more real stage of "wow. everyone's gone." finals are done, so students are mostly gone. nathaniel and bill are in america. mark and maybe david are in beijing. steve is out till wednesday, visiting students at home. dar is out just for the day, with teachers from other schools. the only other foreign teacher left is george,

Comments

[fred_smith]

I'm going for God Damn it. Because there's nothing inherently offensive about shitting or fucking. However asking Godto damn something may be considered offensive to some people for much the same reason that I don't parade my collection of headless Buddhas in front of Biddhists or one shouldn't confuse the terms "chaotic" and "evil" around a Chaote.

Bum is another word for arse. We need one word we can use.

I thought a swear word was an exclamation that conveys emotion. Therefore, Frell (for instance) is a swear word if used in the right context with the right emotion.

[gutzilla]

But "yay!" isn't a swear word.

[fred_smith]

When you use that word. its in a positive way.

[gutzilla]

Fuck yeah!

[patrick___]

I know what you mean. I virtually never swore in grade school, jr high and most of high school. As a kid I was honestly afraid of swear words! I thought they'd some how turn me into some sort of evil person if I ever let them out of my mouth. LOL. :D I remember not even saying the word "fart" on the playground in 1st grade when some kids were trying to make me, because I thought it was an evil "bad word".

Sometime in high school I decided that bad words weren't necisarily in and of themselves evil, and sense them do use them from time to time. I know I've suprised some of my friends though, who had no idea I ever did. "WHAT?! Pat, did you just say the f-word?!?!!?!" LOL.

[helenmelon]

i wasn't afraid i'd turn evil, but i had this huge, vague feeling that it was BAD and i wasn't a bad kid, so i wouldn't do that. like, the word "crap" was as bad as "shit" for me, i remember. my big turning point, funnily enough, was reading the book of romans:) nothing is good or bad but thinking makes it so. something along those lines. then i started swearing a lot. and THEN i got into a conversation with someone who pointed out that swearing can be a stumbling block for others, and whether or not you find it morally wrong, it can make others view christianity in a different light, or whatever. that's when i balanced out the amount of swearing i did. now, "goddamn it" and casual uses of "god" are the only things that i wouldn't say on moral grounds, but i still don't say other curse words very often, just because i think they're kinda... stupid:)

This American Life

[zaklog]

I love that radio show.  The first time I heard it I was driving around Houston on a Friday night.  I turned on public radio to hear them doing a story about a voicemail message that got passed all the way around campus at Columbia University.  "You and the Little Mermaid can both go **** yourselves!  I can't find the books you wanted.  You have some other books here.  They must be in La Jolla.  I'm not stayin' up all night for you.  G'bye."

If you haven't heard that one, you need to.  That particular story is absolutely hilarious.  I think the title is "Recordings for Someone."  It's way back in the archives, I think that was towards the end of 2001.

Another interesting one is where Alix Speigel visited a church in Colorado Springs.  I think that's in their "Favorite Shows" section.  You really need to look that one up.

I've heard the show about the prisoner production of Hamlet.  It was interesting, but it wasn't one of the ones that really caught my attention.

Re: This American Life

[helenmelon]

yeah, i heard the little mermaid one:) my favorite part of that story, though, was the friend of the guy telling the story, the one who brought up the story in the first place. he was great:)

[pamalama26]

I didn't start swearing until I was a sophomore in high school. I'm not sure that was ever because I thought it was evil, I think I was more afraid of what would happen to me if my parents found out. I remember once having the goal to go my entire life without swearing. lol! I can be extremely paranoid (even to this day) that my parents are going to find out if I'm doing something they wouldn't approve of. So in most cases, I don't do those things. It was a conscious decision on my part to start swearing. I was fed up with always being the 'nice girl' and considered a goody-goody. So one day we had just finished biology class and were waiting for history to start and someone said something to me about Mrs. Poppens (the biology teacher) and I replied with, "Mrs. Poppens is a bitch." A ripple of shock and awe went through the room. There was such a reaction from my classmates that I decided to keep swearing and I never looked back. (At that point in my life, any attention was good- bad or otherwise

[helenmelon]

yeah, i got some of that same shock-and-awe when i first swore in front of people, but i liked the effect mostly because it made people laugh. i don't think i used swearing in angry ways usually, but in joke-making ways. and i think i didn't start swearing earlier because i was (still am, to some extent) a HUGE rule follower, unquestioningly. that was a rule, so of course i wouldn't do that. i remember the waves of guilt i had just for swearing in my head the first time. i remember the first time i used the word "crap" in my head vividly. isn't that bizarre?