As someone who grew up in a house having to harshly censor any use of swear words or media containing swear words, and as someone who then dropped "fuck" and "shit" and "asswipe" very freely as an adult, I'm of an age where I've come to appreciate minced oaths for their own sake
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Letting someone talk and talk and talk at you and going "Yeah okay eat shit fucko"
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Which is exactly why setting a book aside saying "This is crap" or even just "This is dumb" -- because it's even lazier -- is so much more devastating than some histrionic "What is this dipshitting fucknuttery" of the kind some annoying Twitter accounts indulge in
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if you look like you're trying you've already lost
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the point, as you say, is to demonstrate power, to make manifest that the other's words cannot touch you and yeah, if you've spent even thirty seconds cooking up a highly-personalized insult, they've touched you
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I'm reminded of the story of Bart Giamatti's (Paul's dad), who was an academic, president of Yale University and briefly MLB Commissioner. Apparently, he had a gift for foul language, and his eventual successor as commissioner, Fay Vincent, was appalled...
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He said, "You're an educated man. Why do you swear?" Bart said something to the effect of, "I'm a writer, and I'm always searching for the right word. And sometimes, that word is motherfucker."
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Yeah, whatever.
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....dammit you got me
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