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What makes yours more acceptable?
"real" swear words practically all have a cultural history tied to either blasphemy or sex.
You have also forgotten racial and other minority related slurs, but that's the gist of it yeah
Yeah, the origins of some swearing can make it worse than say, biscuits.
So?
Biscuits can to, what’s your point?
Everyone knows you’re replacing a word for another anyways, so you seriously think that makes it somehow better? That you’re lying to yourself and everyone else know anyways? Just use the words instead of trying to be cute. The only thing it does to anyone else other than the others like you, is make you look like a puritanical follower.
I wasn’t part of, and neither were you when they decided that some words are okay to speak and not others. That’s the part that’s the issue here.
You’re not being cute, you’re not being funny, you’re only perpetuating that others control you. The issue has and should always be the context they are used in. You don’t get to decide what’s an okay word to say and not. And substituting words just shows that you want to swear, but you follow societal standards, and everyone sees that instead.
I ain't never gotten kicked outta Dennys for calling someone a "shitass" just more flapjacks
I mean, it’s okay to swear regardless of what anyone thinks of the words.
Unless you’re being an unserious silly pants and I’m too autistic to tell.
Read the comments? That’s literally the point I’m arguing since some small portion of people decided decades ago that some words are okay, but not others.
The issue has and should always be the context they are used in.