The key is to dig in as soon as you put the milk down.
Ten weird things I do that nobody else does...
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The key is to dig in as soon as you put the milk down.
warpus
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And yeah, if you do that the first couple spoonfulls are going to lead to non-soggy cereal in your mouth. But that's it.
Akka
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I don't even get what's supposed to make "damn" or "bloody" curse words. I never manage to consider them as such if I don't purposedly think about it.
warpus
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I have heard that in some places "God damn" is considered a swear word, but I have never heard of "damn" by itself being considered a swear word. Maybe past generations did, in some places?
Manfred Belheim
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I don't know, I'd think it's fairly uncommon. Obviously I don't mean noticing attractive women, I'm sure that's common, but mentally awarding a "number one in room" ribbon? Probably not.
warpus
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Weird, is that regional? I don't know of anyone around here who considers it a swear word. I mean, I haven't exactly asked, but.. I'm pretty sure my 4 year old niece has said "damn!" before and we all laugh at it
1. I live in a bible belt region of Canada;
2. I was raised mostly by my grandparents;
3. Kids were not supposed to swear, although my mother swore and had a "do as I say and not as I do" attitude;
4. My mother flipped out on two occasions when I parroted some swear words I heard her say:
She and I were out behind the house when she was having trouble getting the fire going when she was going to burn some garbage. She muttered, "God damn it." So a few minutes later I repeated those words, and she immediately turned to me, and said, "What?" in the tone of voice that meant she was angry.
Another occasion was when I'd heard her talking about one of her sisters (not the one I mentioned in another thread) and that she'd been frustrated with trying to sew something. She just started throwing things around and saying, "To hell with this, to hell with that..." So me, being the impressionable 4 or 5-year-old I was at the time, uttered "To hell with this" in front of company. That time it was my dad who said, "WHAT?!" and my mother was mortified - not because she realized that she had been setting a bad example, but because I hadn't obeyed the "do as I say and not as I do" rule. I got a spanking out of it that time.
As to why those words are considered bad, it's a religion thing. I remember a small scene from one of the Anne of Green Gables books in which two small children are walking to school, one of them is mad at one of the adults, and he says, "Darn her!" His sister is shocked, and says, "Davey, don't swear!".
And - not kidding about this - 20+ years ago there was a situation here where some people contacted the MLA (Member of the Legislative Assembly - provincial representative) of my riding with a petition to ban the novel Of Mice and Men from all the libraries. Apparently there was too much swearing in it. Well, next thing you know, you couldn't borrow or even buy that book anywhere in Red Deer or even Central Alberta - not because it was banned, but because people were very curious to see just how bad those 90-some swear words were. The wait list for it at the public library was dozens of names long and all the bookstores sold out (even the second-hand stores). So all that petition ended up doing was getting dozens more people to read that book than would otherwise have done. And it remained unbanned.
warpus
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So do some people consider it a swear word because it comes from the phrase "To be damned", as in, to be damned.. in a religious context?
That's pretty much it. It's very mild, in my opinion, but some people still get uptight when they hear it used.
warpus
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Shouldn't the words "sin", "sinful", etc. be swear words then too? I mean I get that swear words don't follow rules, but..
But those are words used when a religious "authority" - everyone from your father (the head of the household who is to be obeyed) to the Pope - says that something is not to be done.
Society has been messed up for a long time because governments caved in to the church with "sin = crime" notions.
warpus
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But priests and other church officials frequently use the term "And then God damned him to hell!" and other variants thereof. Unless I'm seriously misremembering mass.
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Well there's nothing in the bible that says specifically don't use curse words anyway, there are passages about being on your best behavior and such so just acting nice in general. But the only thing it really says is don't take the lord's name in vain, which almost everyone does and considers that much less offensive than f bombs and such.
When you say god damned them then damn is a verb and that is the original meaning but when you say damn it I think it's a variation of god damn it which would be lord's name in vain, so it's ok if god does it, but not if you do and invoke his name.
Just like an ass is a donkey, and a you know what is a female dog, it's all about the context.
I feel like we're quite off topic.
When you say god damned them then damn is a verb and that is the original meaning but when you say damn it I think it's a variation of god damn it which would be lord's name in vain, so it's ok if god does it, but not if you do and invoke his name.
Just like an ass is a donkey, and a you know what is a female dog, it's all about the context.
I feel like we're quite off topic.
warpus
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Swear words based on religious terms really only make sense to me from a Quebecois point of view. From my understanding a lot of their swear words are things like "altar" and whatever. But in English?
Nope, you're not misremembering - not that I've ever attended a Catholic mass, but it's the same basic idea in most other varieties of Christianity. The thing is, religious authorities are allowed to use those words to lecture and chastise lesser people. The lesser people are not supposed to use such words.
We need @Oda Nobunaga to explain this custom in Quebec to use Catholic religious terms as swear words.
warpus
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I guess "damn" being considered a swear word by some (weird) people explains the emergence of "darn" and "gosh" although you'd think religious types would consider "gosh" to be taking the lord's name in vain as well
Traitorfish
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It used to be they were the real swear words, because they were religious in origin and so skirted close to blasphemy. Stuff like "f***" or "s***" were just rustic ways of describing body parts and functions. It's only in the last few centuries that values have shifted such that obscenity rates alongside blasphemy, and only in the last century or so that the priorities have reversed.
I have to say swearing is not exactly weird...
Not sure if I can come up with 10....
I definitely do #5 on the list, as already mentioned by virtually everybody.
Otherwise...
- my diet is mainly liquid (Soylent). I'm definitely not the only one who does that, but it's rare.
- I normally do not join invitations to dinners at someones place (but for everything else). Because I don't cook myself (because see point before), and therefore wouldn't be able to invite someone back. And that makes me feel uncomfortable. Apparently I must be the only one ^^.
- I don't mind sweet things while drinking alcohol. My friends were looking at me like an alien when I went to grab some ice cream during a pub crawl.
- I prefer to sit naked on the toilet (if I go; not in general). No idea why. And at home (and try also at other private place) I pee while sitting (hygiene consideration; you don't realize how wide this sprays until you stood with sandals at an urinal). Don't think many men do that.
- I do not like the smell of money on my hands (and the microbiota which comes with it, but Im aware that there are worse things). I try to wash my hands after I touched money.
...er..makes 6 right now. Well, better than nothing
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Not sure if I can come up with 10....
I definitely do #5 on the list, as already mentioned by virtually everybody.
Otherwise...
- my diet is mainly liquid (Soylent). I'm definitely not the only one who does that, but it's rare.
- I normally do not join invitations to dinners at someones place (but for everything else). Because I don't cook myself (because see point before), and therefore wouldn't be able to invite someone back. And that makes me feel uncomfortable. Apparently I must be the only one ^^.
- I don't mind sweet things while drinking alcohol. My friends were looking at me like an alien when I went to grab some ice cream during a pub crawl.
- I prefer to sit naked on the toilet (if I go; not in general). No idea why. And at home (and try also at other private place) I pee while sitting (hygiene consideration; you don't realize how wide this sprays until you stood with sandals at an urinal). Don't think many men do that.
- I do not like the smell of money on my hands (and the microbiota which comes with it, but Im aware that there are worse things). I try to wash my hands after I touched money.
...er..makes 6 right now. Well, better than nothing
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