How old were you when you started cussing in front of your parents...

My dad, about 24 - he told me I had a potty mouth.

I've got a friend who does this thing in front of his parents, at the dinner table even, where he'll say "All of those f_____kin people were crazy!" Literally, like he drops his voice completely out so that only air comes out of his mouth in the middle of saying "fucking", much like when a comedian is censored on basic cable.

To me, that's worse than cussing. It's just f____in' stupid!

Heh. Don't feel like that -- I thought many of the people outside my little local universe were raised in a much less strict manner. (I will be the first to admit that the way I was raised was decidedly strict, sure, but not uniquely so.)

Are your parents devoutly religious Dee? Slapped at 17 for saying damn seems a bit much.

Uh, were devoutly religious. My father was more of a strict adherent but ever since he's been gone my mother's not been as, uh, austere. As for the slapping -- eh, I wasn't surprised, really, and half of my high school-era friends had parents who would've done the same.

For what it's worth, I don't think it's strict or weird, I just think it's good manners. Or respect.

I remember coming home one day and complaining that one of my buddies was on me again about the whole not-cursing thing. My mother looked me in the eye and said "Tell him to fuck off."

I was wide-eyed.

"That's right, you tell him to fuck off. It's okay when you're out on the playground. Just don't talk like that here in the house."

I'm 30 now, and I still don't normally curse in front of her when I go home to visit, or when we talk on the phone.

But curiously, I recently asked my next door neighbor how school was after his *first* day at kindergarden and his response: "Fuckin' Dumb"

Oh well.

-- ailsa (ailsa_watson7...), August 28th, 2004 2:22 PM. (ailsa) (later)

this is tremendous.

i don't really 'cuss' in front of my parents, although i'm sure i'm permitted. my mum (now 61) has fairly recently begun using 'fuck'. she's not very good at it (she always says it like it has quotes around it), but we'll give her some time to break it in.

I still don't curse regularly in front of them. My brother does by proxy when they listen to his records (HAW HAW).

OK, I had no idea where to put this and it really doesn't have anything to do with cursing in front of my parents (which I do often) but GUYS I JUST GOT AN EMAIL FROM MY DAD CALLED, "video: I Love You - doggy style" It was a video of a pug "saying" I love you but that doesn't matter because my DAD JUST SENT ME AN EMAIL CALLED: video: I Love You - doggy style!! I can't stop laughing.

My pops sends me really bad taste vids that are like 5-10 years old all the time and I just delete them right away. Welcome to the Internet, dadderino!

Then he asks me months later if I watched the vid of the dog fucking the chicken or whatever, and I'm all like, yes not funny dads.

haha. cherish it.

still don't

My dad swore but my mum didn't so it was difficult for her to enforce her no-swearing rule.

When I was 10 she was driving a car of me and my schoolmates on a class trip. I used the word 'shit' and she stopped the car and made me get out and walk. But after a few minutes she backtracked and picked me up.

After that it was all downhill (from her perspective) but mostly because of my very cussing-enthusiast older sister.

I was probably 16-17. I was in some distress at the time, so my parents were more concerned with what was going on than with my swearing. Supposedly, though, my first word was "shit", after which my parents stopped swearing in front of me.

young. Real young

I'll drop a damn or hell in front of mom VERY rarely. My dad is so foulmouthed, it didn't really faze him the first time I cussed in front of him. I should let loose some long rant about some goddamn motherfucking jizz-gargling son of a bitch who cut me off in traffic or something, to let him know what he sounds like. But he wouldn't get the hint.

They tell the story on me, about how I was at kindergarten one day and was impressed with some little windup race car and said "look at that goddamn sonofabitch go!" Call home from the principal, etc etc.

I made up the word 'fuck' when I was a kid. So that would have been the first time.

I think the first time I cussed in front of my parents was when they informed that I would have to take a third year of foreign language in high school - I'd already taken the required two years. I stormed out of the house and yelled "FUCK ALL'A'Y'ALL!"

I really hate my teenage self.

Now I cuss in front of them - and they'll cuss in front of me - if I drop a dish or something, or if Bush comes up in conversation.

when they informed that I would have to take a third year of foreign language in high school - I'd already taken the required two years. I stormed out of the house and yelled "FUCKALL'A'Y'ALL!"

Is that Arabic for 'I know Arabic?'

No. It's suburban white-boy for "I just started smoking blunts this week."

I still do not do this.

Although I heard my dad say fuck for the first time EVER 2 years ago and am still a little creeped out by it.

i was drunk when i posted my story upthread. it is true, though.

Oh my, like 22 or 23, and by accident. They are v offended by Swears, Oaths, Taking-of-Lord's-Name-In-Vain, etc.

I do it all the time but my mother always had a problem with the f bomb so whenever I see them I make sure not to do that in her presence!

Convo between me & my younger sister a few months ago:

ME: It's fucking awesome to see you!
CASSIE: Uh...it's good to see you too!
ME: Oh, sorry.
HER: It's cool.
ME: Really? It's cool?
HER ....Well...no.

And that's how it is whenever I swear in front of my fams.

I call my bro a dumbfuck daily