I swear

I swear....occasionally.

Okay okay, I swear frequently. And maybe like a sailor. But, so what?

I don't think I've ever understood what makes certain words so bad. What's the difference between "luck" and "fuck"....ONE LETTER. It makes me wonder WHEN these "curse" words were assigned such negative meanings? And WHO were the so-called "word police" that came up with these meanings? If they came up as part of slang, they must seriously be the slang words that have stood the test of time because it seems like they've been around for ages.

But, oh wait...from what I've been reading and researching, it all starts with religion (go freaking figure). I checked a couple of sites, and although Wikipedia isn't always the most trustworthy source, you get the picture:

Profanity - Wikipedia

I think my favorite little piece of information from their entry is the statistics portion (see references at the bottom of their entry):

Tape-recorded conversations find that roughly 80–90 spoken words each day—0.5% to 0.7% of all words—are swear words with people varying from between 0% to 3.4%. In comparison first person plural pronouns (we, us, our) make up 1% of spoken words.[2]

Research looking at swearing in 1986, 1997, and 2006 in America found the same top ten words were used of a set of over 70 different swear words. The most used swear words were fuck, shit, hell, damn, goddamn, ass, bitch, and crap—these eight made up roughly 80% of all profanities. Two words, fuck and shit, accounted for one third to one half of them.[2]

Shit, that's alot of swearing.

Song of the day: "No One Sleeps When I'm Awake" The Sounds (cause these bitches aren't afraid to tell you how it is)