• @[email protected]
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      Sonic? Or Sonic 2? Because that underwater level made my heart race as a KID! Imagine the damage it could do to me now as an ADULT!!! I mean, I’m not elderly or anything, but I just don’t want to risk a heart attack.

      • Rhynoplaz
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        I had to go take a heart pill because I can hear that music in my head.

  • @[email protected]
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    Never swearing is as weird as swearing constantly. They’re words, they have meaning and context.

    A number of women I know would rather use any word besides “moist”, it’s quite funny.

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      I have random stupid hangups and for who knows why profanity is one of them. I’m fine with it. I barely notice when others use it. But I just can’t. It doesn’t sound right in my context or in my voice.

      Of course I hate my own voice with a fiery passion, but that’s another hangup.

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        I’ll try dropping it at Thanksgiving dinner, I’m giving even odds that I get asked to leave, especially if combined with moist.

  • @[email protected]
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    1111 months ago

    As others have mentioned, for me I sometimes use it as just filler (part of natural language). Alternatively, I can use it to add emphasis or to exaggerate.

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    2111 months ago

    Fun fact! Swearing actually reduces pain perception, thus increasing pain tolerance. There are scientific benefits to swearing.

  • @[email protected]
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    You give the word power and meaning by viewing it certain way. To me cuss words have no power they are meaningless. equivalent to a simple filler word. Others around you might give power to cussing, but then why is it your fucking problem that they choose to be simps for a word?

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    Part of it must be upbringing. I couldn’t bring myself to even say the words hate and stupid because they were treated as just as bad as fuck, but since I’ve moved out and live with a woman who casually swears, it’s rubbed off on me.

  • magnetosphere
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    It’s even weirder when people self-censor memes , posts, and whatnot. Like F*CK. You’re allowed to swear on the internet, people!

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      It seems to me this became a thing when social media algorithms started downranking content with profanity in it. It’s weird when people do it elsewhere.

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        People just repost form other places without a second thought.

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      i’ve seen possibly one of more egregious example of this like three days ago. gopro video of a trench warfare, cameraman (ukrainian) shoots two intruders (russian) one of which has no face attached by the end of video with bits of it dripping to the ground. audio track is bleeped out and subtitles are **** out too for some reason

      or anything involving youtube, or gods have mercy if that nipple hating son of a bitch zuckerberg notices something. then you can say goodbye to your account

  • Max-P
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    English is my second language, and culturally where I’m from swearing is pretty normal and nobody gives a fuck anyway.

    It’s only swearing because at some point someone decided it was bad language, and if you pay close attention, a lot of them go with “taboo” topics like sex and religious items. And then everyone proceeds to substitute them like fuck/fudge, shit/shoot, bitch/bench which IMO, you might as well have said it, everyone knows that what you were thinking.

    Language is language and sometimes a good choice of colorful expletives is what drives the meaning. Getting offended by swears is a sign of fragility of the mind.

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      People honestly get offended by someone having a different opinion these days even. Fragile minds everywhere. Or perhaps more like fragile egos.

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    From a historical perspective, it’s stranger that swearing isn’t normal for some people; it seems to be a universal feature of human languages throughout history and around the world.

    The exact swear / taboo words vary of course, but in general it does seem like just about every culture ever has had and used swear words.

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      Many “bad words” have roots in other countries or cultures and are a half translation, this is why many words are labeled bad or rude, when they really mean “that’s an immigrant word” or foreigner slang.

  • the post of tom joad
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    Why do some people hide their view on things behind rhetorical questions? People, man. There’s a billion different ways to people it up. People man …Being all different n stuff!