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Mystic William's avatar

I really don’t like it. But another place I don’t like it is in stand up comedy. I have heard very funny jokes that need and use the ‘f’ word. That’s fine. But I also have heard jokes that would have been quite funny except there were f bombs tossed in every fourth or fifth word. And the joke didn’t require it. It had no place in the joke.

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Steve Kohn's avatar

"Knock it off," indeed.

By the way, "just about everyone I’ve ever met in the military" may be true -- my Army uniform was hung up for good twenty years ago after 36 years on active duty, and things may have changed -- but profanity was almost never heard while on duty. The higher the rank, the less the profanity.

It's as if, as was stated in the article, profanity is a substitute for power. Lower ranks had little, so cursed more. I'll be glad when we're all tired of it.

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