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MerryBlooms

(11,770 posts)
Sun Jan 5, 2020, 11:07 PM Jan 2020

One of my New Year's resolutions was to cuss less...

Then trump did his worse than usual shit, my hernia fucked up, vaguely related family members still supporting that orange shit stain. I decided it's the wrong year to make that resolution. Think I'll go with remembering to add fabric softener to my laundry. Seems totally doable.

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One of my New Year's resolutions was to cuss less... (Original Post) MerryBlooms Jan 2020 OP
...................................... still_one Jan 2020 #1
! MerryBlooms Jan 2020 #4
It's not good to tell the CEO's Secretary Dawn Oday Jan 2020 #14
No it isn't a good thing to do still_one Jan 2020 #15
Hah! Beat me to it! smirkymonkey Jan 2020 #18
Great minds think alike still_one Jan 2020 #19
I started watching Deadwood. dawg day Jan 2020 #2
Ha! MerryBlooms Jan 2020 #5
Oh, my dear, it seems you are afflicted by Arkansas Granny Jan 2020 #3
Ooo, there's a scientific name for it... MerryBlooms Jan 2020 #6
+++ still_one Jan 2020 #7
I am similarly afflicted. smirkymonkey Jan 2020 #20
You are my new favorite comedian DemocracyMouse Jan 2020 #8
You're a sweetheart. MerryBlooms Jan 2020 #27
The only way I can swear less is to drop dead....really. BigmanPigman Jan 2020 #9
Right there with you. Pacifist Patriot Jan 2020 #16
Yeah, it's looking that way for me, as well... MerryBlooms Jan 2020 #21
If you aren't cussing loudly at your TV shadowmayor Jan 2020 #10
Heehee, ayup. MerryBlooms Jan 2020 #22
I now say some version of "fuck" in the many parts... 3catwoman3 Jan 2020 #11
I'm trying to use, 'fook' more often... Dirty rotten fooker, fookin' us over again. etc.. MerryBlooms Jan 2020 #23
That's good. Harker Jan 2020 #33
In 2015, we spent 10 days in and around Edinburgh, which is... 3catwoman3 Jan 2020 #34
Fooking kids! MerryBlooms Jan 2020 #35
"Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer." eppur_se_muova Jan 2020 #12
There ya go! MerryBlooms Jan 2020 #24
Ain't that the... 3catwoman3 Jan 2020 #41
Oh, well. Harker Jan 2020 #13
! MerryBlooms Jan 2020 #25
Maybe cut down one word at a time. For instance I notice you only said rurallib Jan 2020 #17
Sort of a glass half empty of fucks instead of half full a fucks. I like it. MerryBlooms Jan 2020 #26
No fabric softener for sheets or towels. Phoenix61 Jan 2020 #28
Fook Yeah! MerryBlooms Jan 2020 #36
These hideous assholes Ohiogal Jan 2020 #29
Oh, same here. Can't stand the sight of that rat fucking bastard. MerryBlooms Jan 2020 #37
The only resolution worth making during this crisis MontanaMama Jan 2020 #30
It's really good made into a paste with baking soda to clean headlights too! MerryBlooms Jan 2020 #38
Fuck that. SamKnause Jan 2020 #31
Treasonous fookers. MerryBlooms Jan 2020 #39
You can still cuss and do fabric softener TEB Jan 2020 #32
I try not to let it get to me, but every day we're MerryBlooms Jan 2020 #40
Looks like I picked the wrong week to.... 47of74 Jan 2020 #42

Dawn Oday

(7 posts)
14. It's not good to tell the CEO's Secretary
Mon Jan 6, 2020, 03:03 PM
Jan 2020

I worked for a major defense contractor as a buyer. The CEO's secretary called up about some books they had ordered. I had just recently taken over the military side as well as the commercial side and she had not gone through the normal channels to place the order. So when she called and started condemning me I told her to shut the fuck up and slammed down the phone. My boss was sitting with me at the time. Luckily he did not immediately fire me, but defended me. I found I am on the autism spectrum with Aspergers and reacting badly was a trait of that affliction.

Arkansas Granny

(31,519 posts)
3. Oh, my dear, it seems you are afflicted by
Sun Jan 5, 2020, 11:20 PM
Jan 2020
Trump Tourette Syndrome

The uncontrollable urge to curse loudly upon seeing or hearing Donald Trump

I've been battling it myself for the past three years. Hopefully it will have run its course this coming November.

MerryBlooms

(11,770 posts)
6. Ooo, there's a scientific name for it...
Sun Jan 5, 2020, 11:36 PM
Jan 2020

TTS, kinda sounds dirty though, like having something to do with female anatomy... but I love it!

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
20. I am similarly afflicted.
Mon Jan 6, 2020, 10:17 PM
Jan 2020

I am the type of person who, if I say even a mild curse word at work, people are shocked. It is so out of character for me in public. Little do they know I swear like a drunken sailor whenever the subject is Trump related and I am on the internet. Hopefully one of these days I will become a mild-mannered, soft-spoken human being again, but until he is out of office, all bets are off.

BigmanPigman

(51,611 posts)
9. The only way I can swear less is to drop dead....really.
Mon Jan 6, 2020, 02:02 AM
Jan 2020

I can't help it, especially when watching the news and driving.

MerryBlooms

(11,770 posts)
21. Yeah, it's looking that way for me, as well...
Tue Jan 7, 2020, 10:39 AM
Jan 2020

Pretty sure I upgraded my seat in the handbasket yesterday.

3catwoman3

(24,007 posts)
11. I now say some version of "fuck" in the many parts...
Mon Jan 6, 2020, 02:12 AM
Jan 2020

...of speech it can fulfil so often that I am afraid it will slip out in an inappropriate situation.

Remembering fabric softener seems like a very achievable resolution.

Harker

(14,024 posts)
33. That's good.
Tue Jan 7, 2020, 11:55 AM
Jan 2020

I'm more of a 'fark' and 'feck' sort, but I'll try to squeeze 'fook' into the rotation.

Is that 'fook' rhyming with 'book', or 'kook'?

3catwoman3

(24,007 posts)
34. In 2015, we spent 10 days in and around Edinburgh, which is...
Tue Jan 7, 2020, 02:55 PM
Jan 2020

...where I first heard the “fook” pronunciation. It is extremely liberally used over there. On one bus trip, I started counting how often I heard it in a 3-way conversation between some young teenage girls - probably middle school age. In that 30 minute bus ride, I counted 150 utterances of “fook” in one variety or another.

LOL - auto-correct wants to change it to “food.”

rurallib

(62,424 posts)
17. Maybe cut down one word at a time. For instance I notice you only said
Mon Jan 6, 2020, 09:59 PM
Jan 2020

'fuck' once. Very good. By November maybe you can cut that one out of you vocabulary.

Ohiogal

(32,010 posts)
29. These hideous assholes
Tue Jan 7, 2020, 10:50 AM
Jan 2020

Who are running our country just bring out the worst in us. I can relate. Any time my husband mentions rump, immediately the words “That asshole!” roll off my tongue....

MontanaMama

(23,322 posts)
30. The only resolution worth making during this crisis
Tue Jan 7, 2020, 11:48 AM
Jan 2020

is to outlive the orange motherfucker. FWIW, white vinegar is a good, cheap eco-friendly fabric softener. Cheers!

SamKnause

(13,108 posts)
31. Fuck that.
Tue Jan 7, 2020, 11:51 AM
Jan 2020

There has never been a more appropriate time to cuss about the destruction of our institutions and the massive

amount of unqualified judges being appointed all over the country.

Trump and his party are vile and evil.

The Evangelical cult and the Trump cult have joined forces.

I think that deems cussing appropriate.

MerryBlooms

(11,770 posts)
40. I try not to let it get to me, but every day we're
Tue Jan 7, 2020, 03:57 PM
Jan 2020

buried in the excrement flowing from these assholes, loosely referred to as the executive branch. No longer in my vocabulary is the phrase 'Well, it can't get any worse.', because before you know it, ad fooking nauseum.

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