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Would you be able to stop swearing for a YEAR?

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  1. Lawrence

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    Right now. Cold turkey. 365 days free of cussing. Would you manage it?

    If you need an incentive, imagine that your job (or a job you'd manage) is offering a 2% year end bonus, if you succeed.

    I'm just observing that my dad doesn't often realise how much he swears.

    If you already don't swear, then I dunno :lol:
     
    #1 Lawrence, Mar 24, 2015
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    F**** no, I don't swear much in neutral/sad mood. But when something is bloody annoying I can swear for couple of seconds and then I'm fine... :slight_smile:

    edit: and it's pretty hard to annoy me (x
     
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    Painfully honest - no I couldn't.
     
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    Define "swearing", because some folks don't consider certain words as a swear.

    In theory, sure, I could. But I'd miss the coloration it provides my speaking, as well as the emphasis. But, sure, easy enough. With a 2% year end bonus, that makes it easier.
     
    #4 Kaiser, Mar 24, 2015
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    Hellll to the no.
     
    #5 C P, Mar 24, 2015
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    No.i can't even stop swearing in class...let alone rants about certain...topics
     
    #6 randomly me, Mar 24, 2015
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    If nothing fucking pissed me off for a year, maybe.
     
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    Nooo! Even if I tried as hard as I could, I'd fail as soon as I get seriously annoyed. Or hurt myself. Swearing is my natural response to those things.
     
    #8 CrazyAwkward, Mar 24, 2015
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    Whatever the poster considers swearing. No changing their minds about what they consider swearing after reading the thread. That's the best idea I have right now to define it. Without making a huge list!
     
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    Fuck that shit.

    I don't understand why anyone would want to. Yes, there is a time and a place for swearing but it's just words expressing ideas and emotions.
     
    #10 gibson234, Mar 24, 2015
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    No. Because even if I agreed to do it at some point my concentration will lapse, and some casual swearing will slip out and I'd fail pretty fucking quickly.

    ^Like that.
     
    #11 TigerInATophat, Mar 24, 2015
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    Absolutely fucking not!
     
    #12 waitwhat, Mar 24, 2015
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    I don't swear that much so yes.
     
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    I could because I barely swear. Its something about my upbringing where my siblings didn't really follow but I felt compelled to adhere to not swear.

    Have I sworn... Yes. But it makes me uncomfortable and I don't enforce this now internalized rule on others its just another quirky thing about myself.

    Downside is that hearing others swear provokes my anxiety.
     
    #14 OfTheKokiri, Mar 24, 2015
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    Aw, hell naw. I'd f#%$ things up way too much.
     
    #15 Purp, Mar 24, 2015
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    I probably wouldn't even last a couple of days.
     
    #16 CSD Pepelexa, Mar 24, 2015
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    Nope.
     
    #17 NingyoBroken, Mar 24, 2015
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    It would be super easy for me, I don't swear a lot and it's only when I act I have to swear because the play requires it.
     
    #18 Justinian20, Mar 24, 2015
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    Nope, hell, at school me and my friends have swear wars, of course I can't. I'd be suprised if I could go a day, let alone a year!
     
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    I probably could, unless we're going by the 2nd grade definition that includes "crap" and other mild words like that as "swears". I don't tend to swear very often otherwise, so I think I could go without it.

    I have no opposition to it, though--it's just another way language can be quite colorful.
     
    #20 TENNYSON, Mar 24, 2015
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