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When my siblings and I were little kids, we weren't allowed to say "jerk"...

Princess AlicePrincess Alice
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...so we said "soda-person".

I have no idea how we even learned what a soda jerk is.

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  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    weird
  • TatterhoodTatterhood
    we weren't allowed to say kill so we invented monster get-away-ers
  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    we weren't allowed to say shitfuck
  • eriophora ziaeriophora zia
    I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god
    My childhood best friend misinterpreted "don't swear" (I.e. use cuss words) as not being able to swear you'd do things, like she thought she couldn't pinky swear and such.
  • Yarrun XIXYarrun XIX
    Whores! we want "poems that kill."
    Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
    guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
    and take their weapons leaving them dead
    That was actually a thing that I tried not to do when I was younger. It was a derivation of the third commandment. Don't take the Lord's name in vain => don't swear by the Lord casually => don't make promises casually.
  • HexartesHexartes
    eriophora zia said:

    My childhood best friend misinterpreted "don't swear" (I.e. use cuss words) as not being able to swear you'd do things, like she thought she couldn't pinky swear and such.

    A loooooot of kids around here did the same thing, or at least did when I was a kid
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    edited 2017-04-08 04:48:41
    Strangely, despite being non-religious, I actually take the "don't take the Lord's name in vain" commandment seriously.

    (Along with other commandments of a less religion-specific nature.)
  • CalicaCalica
    Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.
    eriophora zia said:

    My childhood best friend misinterpreted "don't swear" (I.e. use cuss words) as not being able to swear you'd do things, like she thought she couldn't pinky swear and such.

    as yarrun implied, there are religious orders that require you not swear in that way; members thereof will often "affirm" when taking oaths
  • lee4hmzlee4hmz
    ⚠ THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS
    I remember thinking "stupid" and "idiot" were swears when I was really little.
  • ToolsieToolsie
    edited 2017-04-08 10:48:17
    ಠ_ಠ
    Meh, I was wearing by the time I was 8 or 9 years old.

    Blame South Park.

    And having older siblings.
  • eriophora ziaeriophora zia
    I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god
    Yarrun XIX said:

    That was actually a thing that I tried not to do when I was younger. It was a derivation of the third commandment. Don't take the Lord's name in vain => don't swear by the Lord casually => don't make promises casually.

    Calica said:

    eriophora zia said:

    My childhood best friend misinterpreted "don't swear" (I.e. use cuss words) as not being able to swear you'd do things, like she thought she couldn't pinky swear and such.

    as yarrun implied, there are religious orders that require you not swear in that way; members thereof will often "affirm" when taking oaths
    Huh, interesting! I was unaware of this. Maybe she didn't actually misinterpret, in that case. 
  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    edited 2017-04-09 16:44:32
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    “Again, you have heard that it was said to the people long ago, ‘Do not break your oath, but fulfill to the Lord the vows you have made.’ But I tell you, do not swear an oath at all: either by heaven, for it is God’s throne; or by the earth, for it is his footstool; or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the Great King. And do not swear by your head, for you cannot make even one hair white or black. All you need to say is simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything beyond this comes from the evil one."

    Matthew 5:33-37
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