We had a sales lady at work that dropped the f bomb a lot.

Once she told us she would give her left t*t for a certain truck

We didn't know what to say.

Just different from "left leg" and less disabling.

My wife used to say "do you to want to berkley " in certain circumstances.

She's English, and no one on the planet swears better than the English, although a proper Irishman saying the same swear words is pretty entertaining.

I thought we were describing one of the surgeons I occasionally work with. She's actually a unicorn, being a former ballet dancer, gearhead, and HPDE instructor.

Sounds like running a boat with my wife

My wife carries bags made by some french guy name Louy..... but we met serving in the Marine Corps... She works in a Jail... We are Sailors...

I couldn't not buy this shirt for her..

JohnRW1621 wrote: I read this thread title and wondered if it was going to be a workplace rant about Margie.

I started to type up a snappy response to this, but then I just said berkeley it.

I do curse like a sailor. Then again, I also use a very wide vocabulary. The secret? I talk a lot.

Margie

WTF?

She uses the word in many different ways. I'm impressed but I am from South Jersey. We were taught the F Bomb in school at an early age!

This is a culture thing. The US curses less than everyone, and we're more offended by it than anyone.

Also see: Paddy's GTR.

I would rather hear any person use language that would make George Carlin blush than to hear one more person tell me they "seen something" or whatever other evil corruption of the english language is becoming popular lately.

Swearing>bad grammar any day of the week.

Swank Force One wrote: This is a culture thing. The US curses less than everyone, and we're more offended by it than anyone.

nailedit

Brits swear a lot. Not a big revelation. Put one of those Brits in a rally car and that swearing will be amplified.

BFD.

Funny clip.

In reply to Jumper K. Balls:

"Needs rebuilt"

Datsun310Guy wrote: We had a sales lady at work that dropped the f bomb a lot. Once she told us she would give her left t*t for a certain truck We didn't know what to say.

My boss interviewed a woman who dropped the F-bomb during her first(and only) interview. Apparently, she didn't want the job.

1988RedT2 wrote: Don't get me wrong, I've cussed plenty. In fact, there was a time at the office (decades ago, when I actually worked) when the owner's son worked there, and I'll be damned if I eventually wasn't saying berkeley this and berkeley that as often as he was. And that's kind of the point. If you do it often, it becomes a habit, and you don't think much of it. But I think it shows a severe lack of shall we say, good taste, when one swears in front of people who don't, or women, or employers (unless they cuss more than you do) or children. That last one is a peeve of mine. Parents who think nothing of dropping every cuss word known to man in front of their kids. Says a lot about who you are when your 6 year old offspring cusses at school. Trust me, it isn't cute. Really, it boils down to respect for others, and sadly, not many parents are teaching their kids about that anymore.

Why no cursing in front of women? Are you sexist? Don't you want them to be treated as equal to men?

/flounder.

it's like the word "smurf"

It really is an incredibly versatile word. You gotta respect that.

Yup ... verb, adjective, adverb, and noun.

I am not offended by swearing, but I do find that saving it for really choice moments carries a greater impact.

Swearing is very distasteful to me. I very rarely swear.

However, I did have a job for a few years where my employees just didn't know how to accept communication if it wasn't full of swearing. Kind of an odd work culture that meant I was liked more as a boss if I cussed them out!? It took me about 6 months to purge it from my system after that job.

Good luck not cussing in construction. You might as well be invisible.

Gary Grant's a bud of mine... it's a toss-up who has a worse potty mouth, him or me.

Definitely situation dependent. In my job, I work in the shop as well as the office. In the office, in meetings, I'm clean as a churchlady. But out in the shop, you have to let the casual profanity "slip" to be accepted. Otherwise you're just some white collar who won't get his hands dirty (driving an old beater gives a lot of "shop cred", too). Likewise, at home, especially since my daughter was born, I'm cursing a heckuva lot less (and amusing myself, and likely my daughter, too, with words like "melonfarmer" and "shaboom"). But out in the garage, when a pair of pliers slips and crunches my inner finger, oh berkeleying E36 M3 mother berkeleyer E36 M3 E36 M3 E36 M3 berkeley berkeley yes.

Gary wrote: Yup ... verb, adjective, adverb, and noun.

It's also English's only infix, that is: inserted in the middle of a word.

And it can't be used everywhere. Van-f'ing-couver works, but Tor-f'ing-ronto doesn't. Unbe-f'ing-lievable. You can't do that with just any word.

I have also been told that "using profanity shows a lack of intelligence." I told them to F-off, because it was the most efficient use of language in that circumstance.

SkinnyG wrote:

Gary wrote: Yup ... verb, adjective, adverb, and noun.

It's also English's only infix, that is: inserted in the middle of a word. And it can't be used everywhere. Van-f'ing-couver works, but Tor-f'ing-ronto doesn't. Unbe-f'ing-lievable. You can't do that with just any word. I have also been told that "using profanity shows a lack of intelligence." I told them to F-off, because it was the most efficient use of language in that circumstance.

Don't forget Pronoun, as in:

"berkeleyer owes me ten bucks."