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“My hand is so fucking long”…
For those who know me, it would come as a surprise… I normally don’t use words such as “fuck” and stuff. I refrain from doing that because it’s not nice to swear. Well I am not saying all those others out there swearing is bad but then I just do not condone to such ways of expressions. I hope no one gets offended…
Those words were uttered by a girl, in public, more specifically, in a supermarket in 1U. The girl looks to me like somewhere between 12 to 14 years old. The max I would give her would be 15. I was standing there minding my own business when she tried putting on a long sleeve shirt outside the fitting room, and she was saying those words to her younger sister! Well I am not saying it’s wrong to communicate with your siblings, but does the communication has to come to this kind of language. I don’t think she got it from her teachers in school.
What I think I want to point out is that our youngsters nowadays are really picking up fast. I remember I was young, even though I knew the words, but I was still very picky of the situations to use them. It was like a very notorious or uneducated thing to do, especially in public. I remember being slapped just for uttering the word “fuck” or other such words, no matter what language they are in.
I remember something that Mrs Ramani thought me during my school days. She was my English teacher. She told me that the word “fuck” meant woo, and it was used mostly during the medieval times. At that time they need to woo the girl of their dreams and then to get married to with them. Well that is what she has told me and then now it has been used to terms that we all know, a vulgar word to show anger, disgust, etc.
I guess society is changing, and changing fast. Faster than I can comprehend. May be I am just outdated, an antique brain in a shell of the present. I still do not think that we should in any way use these vulgarities to anyone or even anything for that matter. No matter how much they deserve it. but then again, there are just times when you just blow your top and start screaming like a psychopathic maniac and starts cursing every damn thing in your line of sight or not. I cannot deny it, as I myself have done that, but I do try to control and refrain from doing such deeds.
To me, I consider this a social illness, unless if you say, the future that we foresee will officially consider insulting, angering, belittling and other degrading stuff to be the main communication language between human beings. Wait a minute, I think it already has, the word “fuck” might just be the most used word in the world, and understood by the most community in the world…
I don’t know, but I guess I don’t like people to curse me or something like that, so I try not to curse other as the saying goes, “don’t do to other what you don’t want others do unto you”. I mean imagine you start an argument or something and you start cursing, the other person might stop for a second and try to refrain, but as you continue definitely you will start to curse back. Then it would go on and on and on… until the end, it might just turn out to be a fist fight or may be a cat fight. I guess this is the way, the human’s way of interacting…
Just imagine, when you have off springs, and they come to you saying, “dad/mum, what the fuck is that animal/thing/or whatever?” What would you answer? That fucking what ever is a … or if you are like me or any of my school teachers or my elderly members of the family, a good tight slap would be the answer. If you do not believe me on this, just try to ask you parent’s something like “what the fuck are you doing?” I guess you would know the answer right after you finish your question. It’s just freaking disrespectful. Oh, believe me, that is definitely the things I will do, as I do not tolerate disrespectfulness, and definitely not vulgarities, especially to elderly people.
I am not saying I am right or that the girl is wrong. But if know the limits and of coz never pass down the bad habits to younger generation. If any one of your elder smokes, they don’t go around telling you smoking is good. They might even tell you it’s bad and do not follow their footsteps and start smoking. I guess the same thing applies here.
Has our society changed that much from the so called olden days?
Are vulgarities the “in” language?
Learn both good and bad
Practice only the good
Teach only the good


devilfrmheaven on 10 Dec 2005 at 10:15:16 718 #
sad to say, kids learn the worst thing in the shortest time. they learn from who? adults! so, adults should practise some discretion, too.
well, when i’m feeling very pissed and feel like cursing the F—, instead, i’d shout, “FISH!”
innovative, eh?
zeroimpact on 11 Dec 2005 at 12:17:36 803 #
I guess there are many theories to this, some say it’s the movies, songs, TV, adults, friends, and so forth. but I guess, we are just not teaching them to differentiate the rite from wrong. Can’t really stop them from learning, but then we still can teach them differentiation of rite and wrong, rite…
devilfrmheaven on 15 Dec 2005 at 19:56:20 122 #
wah! wht u said sounds a little cheem. but it’s TRUE! but then again, we can only bring water to the horse’s mouth but cannot force the horse to drink the water.
however, at least we brought water to its mouth!! hehe
zeroimpact on 16 Dec 2005 at 09:15:01 677 #
We can only do so much…
We can only do so much…
devilfrmheaven on 17 Dec 2005 at 23:20:19 264 #
er…yah. eventually i got the meaning of your earlier comment. but…
we can only do so much… hee hee