Swearing.
I often talk onstage about swearing and give a preamble to the show warning about the copious use of it when i speak between songs. How it is geographically potent. “Fuck” in Ireland for instance is like “the” or “and” in a sentence. Whereas in Canada calling someone a “cunt” is likely to stop time itself.
So here is a clip on swearing by the person i would probably most love to sit down and have a coffee or seven with, Stephen Fry. What I love about this clip is his use of the phrase “…is fucking lunatic” instead of “is a fucking lunatic”.
March 2, 2009 at 1:30 am
Funny you should post this because I am the same way. My filler word between spoken thoughts is often “fuck” and I was recently at the library studying physics and a girl I was studying with started lecturing me how inappropriate it was. She told me I only do that because I obviously don’t have a good enough vocabulary to find some other way to express myself. Of course I quickly pointed out that she should shut the fuck up because she had no business jumping to conclusions about my lexicon based on such a simple observation as that but my point is that I hate people that single out words for exclusion from every day use just because if offends their delicate sensibilities. It is censorship of the most idiotic kind.