SWEAR WORDS, EXPLETIVES AND WORDS OF EXPRESSION

A word is a word is a word.    A word in itself cannot be bad - it is just a sounds or a scribbling on paper.  

The following are expressive expletives I find coloring my speech almost daily.  And, in many cases they are words that best express my strong feelings at the time.

Fuck

Fuck you

Fuck off

Fucktard:   My reference to Donald Trump supporters. 

Damn

Shit:  I don’t care for the word shit – to me it seems nasty – but sometimes it fits.

Crap

Piss

Shit fire and molasses: An favorite expression of an uncle of mine.

Fuck me silly!   That came to me from my Company Commander, a first class bosons mate, when I was in Navy boot camp many decades ago – he also called his girlfriend his duty whore…I would never.   Actually his saying was Fuck me silly with a handy-billy (a water pack used in firefighting.)

God damn I: a favorite expression of an old Maine guide I use to know.

Asshole; I use this one a lot – especially when I am driving.

Sonofabitch: one word

And when you can’t say it, there’s the middle finger: my wife hates it when I flip the bird.

Words are bad only when they are used to hurt – but it is the intention - not the words.  

People are bad when the intent is to degrade; express bigotry; or talk to incite violence - the type of prejudice often spewed in the Bible and from pulpits and during political rallies  without using any of my colorful expressive words.

            

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In all cases, these so called cuss words are words we have learned from someone else at some point in our life.  

My first experience with so called ‘bad words’ came in the first grade in Kentucky.   I told the kid sitting next to me, Johnny Hunt, that I knew how to write a bad word.  He dared me to write it on the Valentine card we were making for our parents (my grandmother.)   I wrote God Damn on my card and Johnny Hunt ratted me out to the teacher, who tore my card up and gave my hand two smacks with a ruler.

 

Most so called swear words we picked up in elementary school along with misguided information about sex; but some of the more expressive we adopt from special people we have known - sort of a connection or remembrance.

And to the people that use watered down expletive like SUGAR instead of saying shit – I would like to feed them a steaming pile of horse shit until it dawns on them that shit is not SUGAR.

God damn I!

the Ol’Buzzard

WHEN DOES AN ASSEMBLY BECOME A MOB

GROUP PERSONALITIES 

In the military I was a SERE (survival, evasion, resistance and escape) instructor, and as part of our program we studied how individual prisoners and prisoners as a group behaved in captivity – this included interviewing our own U.S. prisoners of war that had escaped or were released in Vietnam.

This characterizing of people vs group behavior can carry over to any assembly of people.   As individuals people are restrained, but as they become a part of an assembly or group, individuals tend to take on the character of the group personality.  

The seventy-two-year-old man that punched the young black man at the Trump rally would never have considered doing that if he and the young man were in a room by themselves.   The man was not acting as an individual, he was acting as a bonded part of a larger personality – the personality of the Trump assembly at that venue.

Groups of people, assemblies, mobs or whatever you would like to call them, unify to take on the persona of a single personality; and if you can identify the characteristics of the group personality, you can understand its personality traits, and even manipulate it.

But, unlike more stable people, most mobs are Schizophrenic: capable of abnormal social behavior and failure to understand reality.  This volatile group personality easily buys into false beliefs and unclear or confused thinking of situations. 

The group personality of the Trump rallies is a low intelligent, angry, zealous, bigoted group personality that is easy manipulated by a charismatic leader;

 but, one capable of losing self-control and become a mindless mob without direction.

There are other people at the Trump rallies with more reserve, but they are marginalized because of the temperament created by Trump.  If the extremist were decried by their leader the more reasonable   personality could assert itself, though the overall characteristics of the group would not have change.

Maybe I am over thinking this: what we all need is a glass of wine, a good fuck and a nap.

Words of wisdom from 

the Ol'Buzzard