Foul Language Crusader Has Bar of Soap for NYC

this is so stupid.. words are only as bad as you want to believe they are. fucking stupid.

it smells like hemorrhoids in here

I like the Farscape curses:

Frell, Hezmana, Yotz...

Swear word replacements don't really solve the problem of the lazy speaker, because they have the same meaning as the actual swear words themselves. Just stay cool until you really need to blow the steam. And sometimes nothing compares to an icy stare.

i have to agree with Spiritof76 on this. i hardly ever swear, but when i let loose & curse, my friends snap to attention because they know i mean it.

Wouldn't calling someone a Philistine, in a derogatory way, be a slur?

This is about the dumbest thing I've read in a week.

Actually in New York -- I'm not sure about other places -- "asshole" is replaced by security guards, doormen, etc. as "sir", as in:

"Sir, can I help you?"

Translated, this means:

"Asshole, get away from there!"

www.forgotten-ny.com

Starrygordon, perhaps you don't recall an infamous scene from "Do the Right Thing." There was a classic case of long-winded cursing in the city.

I just love popping Spirit's cherry. Such a fine individual. NOT!

Good swearing is an art, a kind of folk poetry, containing elements of both tradition and creativity. The greatest practitioners I have run into have been old Army NCOs from the South. "Son of a one-eyed, yellow, bald, bow-legged bitch!" That sort of thing. Unfortunately the pace of city life doesn't give one much time for lengthy verbal excursions.

Ah, the ever amusing (not!) Snoopy.

Ask me if I care whether I can curse kewl. I'm not trying to impress anyone, least of all uneducated kiddies who think it's kewl to use vulgar language in polite society.

As for philistine, I guess you've never had keyboard bounce, eh? And unless you're from Philistia, it's lower case.

The whole point of swearing is to say something offensive. These words aren't offensive.

So you want to offend people every other minute? His whole point is not that you can't use those words at all, but you should reserve them for when they're appropriate. If you say "shit" for every little thing that annoys you, that takes away its shock value, which runs counter to the purpose you're giving. If you say it all the time, what do you have left when you really need to show anger? People who know me well know that if I say "fuck this shit" even softly, they should leave the room quickly because I don't use language like that unless I'm really pissed -- not annoyed, not steamed, not peeved, not ticked.

I don't like gargoyles. : [

They give me nightmares.

Fuck him! :-)

I wish Conan O'Brien's attempted popularizing of "krunk" had caught on.

The whole point of swearing is to say something offensive. These words aren't offensive.

If Jim O'Connor wanted to improve people's vocabulary, he should be making up new, more offensive curse words. Suggestions?

Splicer, Whiskey-Tango-Foxtrot? Fudge man! OMG LOL! *giggles like a teenager* *texts friend on T-Mobile Sidekick*

Anyone I hear using these "replacement" words will get a slap from me.

i just got bungled in the gargoyle.

Spiritof 76.

Your choice of words "Drat, darn, screw it, to heck with it, baloney, hogwash, horsefeathers, jerk, fool, cretin, nitwit, knucklehead, boor, barbarian, phillistine, pig, the list goes on and on" are fine for those that were in school in the mid twentieth century. Unfortunately most people today think those words "suck." Are you Kool with that? Are you groovie?

I believe Philistine is spelled with only one "L".

Popular slang is so boring. The combination of those "secretive" verbs, adverbs, nouns, and adjectives get so dated, so soon, it's laughable. It's kiddie language.

Can you dig it?

I like:

F-Word -

Frak (Battlestar Galactica), Farg (Johnny Dangerously - as in, "fargin' iceholes"), Flip(ping), Freaking, God-forsaken, Poughkeepsie, Frammin'

A-Word -

Jackal, Turkey, Cretin, Dunce, Nincompoop, Arse (does that count?), Dullard, Troll (although this is best preceded by the F-word, IMO), douchebag, Philistine, knuckle dragger, jerk, knave, etc.

S-Word -

Dadgummit (actually, better substitute for GD, but still...), Shucks, Sherbet, Shoot, Merde (with an American accent), Ham-fisted (as in, "that's a really ham-fisted way to go about making a point"), underwhelming, crappy, dunder-headed, etc.

Spirit of 76, I presume that you mean Bay Ridge, when you refer to the "hood."

You can convert George Carlin's famous Seven Dirty Words to clean equivalents:

Intercourse

Urine

Excrement

Vagina

Fellatio

Incest

Breasts

I feel that Bolshevik is more offensive to way more levels than bullshit...

CUNT. Oops, I meant to say "Jim O'Conner".

The guy has a point. Everybody dropping the S-, A- and F-bombs every day has made those words almost meaningless. As he suggests, I use them only when the occasion demands. There are so many other perfectly adequate words that are underused. Drat, darn, screw it, to heck with it, baloney, hogwash, horsefeathers, jerk, fool, cretin, nitwit, knucklehead, boor, barbarian, phillistine, pig, the list goes on and on. The worst offenders are uneducated people in the hood, who can't seem to go one minute without using at least one of the big three cuss words.

what's the replacement for cocksucking douchebag faggot asshole?