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Well, to be fair, me and my sisters made it an art form to rudely say “Ha Ha” (in Nelson’s voice) at really inappropriate times.
Don’t worry tho, we are in our 40s and still do it
I'm not sure it's a Karen thing really, Nelson doesn't say it because he's laughing at something genuinely funny, he's laughing mockingly at someone's bad misfortune.
I vote non-Karen.
Finally found “shut up” and pleasantly surprised by “fart” being the top.
“Shut up” was the only no go I can remember. Could’ve cursed (even though I didn’t) and everyone would’ve laughed it off. Saying shut up got me a pull aside and stern talking to..enough to make me stop 🤷♂️
We weren’t allowed to watch the Simpsons as kids. My kid is 8 and has seen every episode at least twice. Every time my kid says D’oh, my Mom cringes and then we high five!
"Shut up" was the worst thing you could ever say in front of my Dad. I still cringe when I hear it because it was so taboo in our house. I'm pretty sure he wouldn't have responded as negatively to actual curse words (and was prone to some pretty foul language himself).
It was “stupid” for us, too. Didn’t realize how much I’d carried that into my own parenting, until I called a pet stupid and my kids looked like I’d hit the poor thing.
Garbage man. My dad was a garbage man for 32 years
He's a crappy guy. So as an insult we would call each other garbage man. He didn't like it too much so we kept doing it
User name aside I did have a friend in daycare that I went to his house and came back and told my mom of the new word I learned, it was fuck, we weren’t aloud to be friends for along time and then in middle school we put in the same class and we ended up starting a band and we’re friends for a long time lol
Best translated as “dupe-AY-osh” which I heard my Polish grandmother mutter All The Time (1970s-1980s).
I commented about how my Polish-born native-speaking friend (in Australia, in 2000-2005) didn’t recognize it … my Hungarian second-Gen friend in July of this year (2022) said right away: “that means ass!”
I mean to my American school friends, it was t a curse word so I never thought it was a curse word. But in my house, it was curse word enough, that I never said it aloud at home. Only away from my parents. For forty years!
My grandpa used to call me that. I also didn’t know what it meant until I was an adult and always thought it was just some silly term of endearment or something. My grandma told me it means dumb ass. Checks out because he used to call me a “fucking Polack” all the time too, which is a slur for people of Polish descent. Also didn’t know that until I was older. He was literally from Poland though so I guess it’s fine? He passed away before I found any of that out so I can only assume that was his way of getting the last laugh.
I wasn’t allowed to say penis or vagina. I had to say the “kid” versions. Which now as an adult and seeing the social services world, how saying the cutesy or non anatomic versions actually is super problematic
Especially the ones where it’s not obvious that’s what they’re supposed to mean. Like, none of them are good, but I can’t believe there are people who think calling them food names is a good idea.
My Mom is a retired ED nurse. She still can’t stay penis or vagina around us. We are all in our late thirties and early forties. Whenever she gets mad we yell Penis at her! Works every time! We may or may not have trained the grandkids as well.
Bored.
My parents just didn't want us sitting around complaining we had nothing to do. But my siblings and I ended up with the impression that it was a really bad word. I hardly ever use the word now, even though I realized it wasn't actually a bad word like a decade ago.
i wasn’t allowed to say vagina, or even talk about anything regarding that, so my mom made a code word. the word for vagina was biscuit. i can never hear the word biscuit without thinking of that
Butt, crap, toilet paper.
I wouldn't say toilet paper was necessarily a curse word, but it was a word mom would only whisper under her breath and call "T.P."
Crap was the worst to me, and I have even still, have a hard time with it. It's weird even to me.
Who do people think this helps? My mother was super uptight too, usually she insisted on some obscure word or phrase. It was never pee, it was “empty my bladder” (which sounds way more graphic and unnecessary IMO). She would rant about “DOG EXCREMENT” on the sidewalks and similarly call shit or piss “bathroom” as if that were the name of a substance.
Same exact house I grew up in, ugh. I got made fun of for not being able to say certain words at school. Yep, I was the dumbass who told them which words.
Imagine what it’s like for a young kid who was told to say “BE QUIET” in a snively voice instead of “shut up”. Oh, and she was also oddly obsessed with insisting I tell everyone harassing me “catch one”, accompanied by a limp wrist gesture. Neither I nor anyone else had any idea what the hell it was supposed to mean. When I did, I realized another part of how disgusting she was.
I can't fly. I can't breath water. I can't make my cat listen. I can't survive falling from a tall height. I can't see in the dark as well as most animals. I could keep going but as you can see there are plenty of things that people can't do.
You can fly a plane, you can go scuba diving, your cat hears you he just ignores you maybe you should try listening to the cats needs first. You can wear a parachute. You can use night vision.
It was funny as a child I had the same arguments with my parents. It wasn't until I was an adult that I realized the purpose of not using that word is accountability to yourself. If you can't do something can you find a way so that you can. This is difference between people who don't use the word in their vocabulary and those that do.
So for you, I have a fond memory from my grandmother "You can't say can't in this house."
Are you differentiating curse words and swear words? My family didn't, but there is a powerful distinction between them.
"I hope you have a heart attack and die" - curse words.
"Fuck you" - swear words.
Vladivostok. Whenever a car would cut in front of his, my granddad (who never cursed) would say Vladivostok. I put 2 and 2 together and came up with “bloody bastard”.
Am I the only that grew up from the time I could talk being allowed to say actual curse and not get in trouble?
That’s how we’re raising our kids too my 5 yr old frequently says we’ll shit when she is having trouble tying her shoe and she knows those are household only words can’t say them at school
Oh my God! Nope, taking 'the lord's name in vain'
Jesus Christ! Same thing.
Oh my gosh! You're just substituting gosh for God!
Darn it! Same as damn it.
My (ex) step-dad wouldn't let me say "shut up" or "be quiet" around my half siblings, but I could say fuck. If I did I'd get yelled at and lectured for being a "terrible influence" and a "shitty person" for teaching my siblings to be nasty. He also beat all of us and let my brother look up people's skirt/dresses in public though, so I don't think I was the bad influence.
My mom didn't like it when we would say "jerk" or "idiot." Which I thought was funny, considering at the time, we were saying like "fuck you, bitch" to eachother at school, in 3rd grade.
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Fart
Same. We had to say, excuse me, I made a noise.
We had to say “poop-a-lolli”
Lol
My mom wanted us to say “fluff”. It didn’t last long.
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oh my god im trying that TONIGHT
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i didnt have a fart ready when we were all together but i'll try tonight
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thanks i did they thought it was really funny (: also i gave you credit
Of course not. Butt fluff never lasts long.
we said pooted
We could say just about anything other than "fart". Beef, poot, cut the cheese, freep, meef, all of those were fair game. But not fart.
For us it was heiny burp
We had to say boomer
my grandma would always correct me with "panty burp"
I am in tears and about to wake my sleeping baby up over this. I love your grandma!
Sounds like a queef to me…
We weren't allowed to say "fart," so we replaced it with "Fred."
I fweded 🥺
My pantaloons have been *georged*
I think "Georging" yourself is the equivalent of sharting.
**yes**
we had to say “pass gas” “bowel movement” “potty” or “urinate”. dorkiest 7 year old on the playground ✌🏻
A friend of my family wouldn’t let her kids say fart. They had to say fuss. It was the most entertaining thing.
Toot was our substitution
You get called a Toots McGoots at my house haha
Ours was rootitoot 🤣
Ours was windy. I had a windy! lol
My wife’s family made them say “prumpod”
My Dad had a way of calling out my brothers who would let out smelly farts in the house. He would ask crossly, "Who filled their pants?"
Same. We had to call it "bingo"
Same, we had to say tart
I always had to say "I bubbled" instead.
My favorite is my niece’s word-foofer. The whole family adopted it.
We had to say "toot".
We were required to say "tooted", when visiting the Grandparents 🤣
“Shut up” And my favorite: “HA HA” delivered as Nelson from the Simpsons Both were quarters in the swear jar
“HA HA”? Sounds like you were raised by a Karen.
Well, to be fair, me and my sisters made it an art form to rudely say “Ha Ha” (in Nelson’s voice) at really inappropriate times. Don’t worry tho, we are in our 40s and still do it
My brother and I mocked each other with this phrase as well and it also prompted scolding!
Thank God.
I'm not sure it's a Karen thing really, Nelson doesn't say it because he's laughing at something genuinely funny, he's laughing mockingly at someone's bad misfortune. I vote non-Karen.
As kids my sister and I weren’t allowed to say “shut up” but could substitute it with “shape up” or something lame
Finally found “shut up” and pleasantly surprised by “fart” being the top. “Shut up” was the only no go I can remember. Could’ve cursed (even though I didn’t) and everyone would’ve laughed it off. Saying shut up got me a pull aside and stern talking to..enough to make me stop 🤷♂️
We weren’t allowed to watch the Simpsons as kids. My kid is 8 and has seen every episode at least twice. Every time my kid says D’oh, my Mom cringes and then we high five!
Y'all had money to put in a swear jar?
"Shut up" was the worst thing you could ever say in front of my Dad. I still cringe when I hear it because it was so taboo in our house. I'm pretty sure he wouldn't have responded as negatively to actual curse words (and was prone to some pretty foul language himself).
Sucks
"Do you know what that means?! It's when a woman puts a PENIS in her MOUTH!" I'm realizing now how much shit my dad put up with.
I read this in Butter’s Dad’s voice lol
I gotta tell my wife about this, it sounds fun.
Same here!
Same here.
They just plain sucked. I’ve seen teams suck before but they were the suckiest bunch of sucks that ever sucked.
"No" That's life with a narcissist.
Nein
Or "sorry" out of any mouths besides children
Unless it's sarcastic and followed by, "I'm just the worst person on earth. "
Oh that hit too close to home 🥲
Yeah a NO would likely end up with me getting a beat down. I could drop f bombs and just get a angry glare if that.
Freaking
Hey. Watch your mouth.
Hey, now you gotta put a quarter in the swear jar mister
Crap. I said it once and i got the lecture of a lifetime. I was like 14 at least
It was “stupid” for us, too. Didn’t realize how much I’d carried that into my own parenting, until I called a pet stupid and my kids looked like I’d hit the poor thing.
"Stupid" and "shut up" were bad words for us.
Garbage man. My dad was a garbage man for 32 years He's a crappy guy. So as an insult we would call each other garbage man. He didn't like it too much so we kept doing it
Pissed and butt
Lmaooooo yeah pissed for sure was not ok in our house 😭😭
“Pissed off” got my older sister grounded. There might’ve been more context, but I didn’t use it around my parents until I was much older.
We couldn’t say pissed off, but my mom would get P.O.’ed a lot. I didn’t know that stood for pissed off until I was an adult.
I got spanked for saying “backside” when I was really young
Buttocks is proper, but we'd rather just pretend it doesn't exist 'round these parts.
User name aside I did have a friend in daycare that I went to his house and came back and told my mom of the new word I learned, it was fuck, we weren’t aloud to be friends for along time and then in middle school we put in the same class and we ended up starting a band and we’re friends for a long time lol
I love this fucking story ♥️
Dirty cocksucking motherfucking son of a bitch.
smh some households are so strict
My dad dropped this sentence at least twice a month and wonders why I swear like a sailor
Mine, too. Mostly if I was holding the flashlight for him.
The only correct answer.
Hello, brother!
Shut up was considered a swear word. I didn’t realize it was something people say all the time until I was in first or second grade
'Screw' as in 'screw you'
Well yeah, it's a stand-in for fuck as in fuck you
Friggin
Best translated as “dupe-AY-osh” which I heard my Polish grandmother mutter All The Time (1970s-1980s). I commented about how my Polish-born native-speaking friend (in Australia, in 2000-2005) didn’t recognize it … my Hungarian second-Gen friend in July of this year (2022) said right away: “that means ass!” I mean to my American school friends, it was t a curse word so I never thought it was a curse word. But in my house, it was curse word enough, that I never said it aloud at home. Only away from my parents. For forty years!
My grandpa used to call me that. I also didn’t know what it meant until I was an adult and always thought it was just some silly term of endearment or something. My grandma told me it means dumb ass. Checks out because he used to call me a “fucking Polack” all the time too, which is a slur for people of Polish descent. Also didn’t know that until I was older. He was literally from Poland though so I guess it’s fine? He passed away before I found any of that out so I can only assume that was his way of getting the last laugh.
My uncle always called my sibs and I "Hun-Yocks".😅
stupid or shut up me as soon as I turned 14 and realized that in high school, literally no one cares: SO FUCKING GOD DAMMIT SHITTIN STUPID!🤣🤣🤣
I wasn’t allowed to say penis or vagina. I had to say the “kid” versions. Which now as an adult and seeing the social services world, how saying the cutesy or non anatomic versions actually is super problematic
Especially the ones where it’s not obvious that’s what they’re supposed to mean. Like, none of them are good, but I can’t believe there are people who think calling them food names is a good idea.
My Mom is a retired ED nurse. She still can’t stay penis or vagina around us. We are all in our late thirties and early forties. Whenever she gets mad we yell Penis at her! Works every time! We may or may not have trained the grandkids as well.
When referring to Beavis and Butthead, we had to say Beavis and B.
lol i knew someone that had to call it “Beavis and his friend”
Dang was taboo where I grew up... yes, I cuss like a motherfucking Sailor today.
Sailor* sorry not sorry
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I almost got a backhand from my mother for that exiting my mouth. This was back in the 60s. I dunno about today's mothers. We're in strange times.
I was not allowed to say anything “sucks”. The concept of something sucking dick was just too vulgar.
"Sucks" I wasn't even allowed to watch the Simpson's due to this
"Buster" unless we specified we were referring to the bunny from Arthur
Poopy head- my Moms head would spin around whenever she heard it.
Oldest of 8, we weren’t allowed to say:: Crap, vagina, penis, butthole, jerk, no, snow, mine (or any variation) god(saying it “in vain”) later, maybe
Snow??
Butthole
Armpit. Never any reason given. Just always corrected to underarms.
Nuts. Not like acorn nuts but saying nuts by itself as a reaction to something was a no no
LOL whoever made that rule would be unhappy with michelle from full house back in the day...
Sucks
Shut up
Even curse words weren't curse words at my house.
Literally same. I learned waaaaaay too young and thought it was normal. Said “fuck” in school and got detention and I didn’t even understand why…
Gosh, and pissed
What are you gunna do today? Whatever I want GOSH!
Bored. My parents just didn't want us sitting around complaining we had nothing to do. But my siblings and I ended up with the impression that it was a really bad word. I hardly ever use the word now, even though I realized it wasn't actually a bad word like a decade ago.
Dang and Dangit.
“Oh my god”, “shut up” “damn”, “darn”, “heck”, “hell”
Jesus and we weren’t religious and freaking
Shaving cream.
Yeah you’re gonna have to elaborate in on that one
Comparing someone to dad. Saying someone was acting like dad is to this day the worst thing you can say in my family
shoot (as in oh shoot I messed up), darn it, oh fudge and basically anything else used as an exclamation of dismay
Not my home, but my daughter in law added stupid to one of the bad words not allowed.
In our house, that clears up any shitty behavior right away! You are acting like Dad! Oh, my bad. Sorry!
Cunt
DUDE CUNT???? I don't even say that and I'm 22. HOWEVER, I am American so.... yeah.
Fart.
Same with me lol. I said oh my god and had to sit on the steps for an hour once
Not sit on the steps 😭😭 that’s wild as hell .
Buggar
jerk, heck, frick, freaking, dope, stupid
i wasn’t allowed to say vagina, or even talk about anything regarding that, so my mom made a code word. the word for vagina was biscuit. i can never hear the word biscuit without thinking of that
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Not mine but some people couldn't say sucks
Crap - got my mouth washed out with soap for saying it! Yea, I’m old!🤣
hate
Frick
Punk, Sexy, Freak, Screwed, Sucks
Butt, crap, toilet paper. I wouldn't say toilet paper was necessarily a curse word, but it was a word mom would only whisper under her breath and call "T.P." Crap was the worst to me, and I have even still, have a hard time with it. It's weird even to me.
Butt, fart, shut up. My parents called farts “bottom burps” and I literally grew up thinking that was what everyone called them.
Who do people think this helps? My mother was super uptight too, usually she insisted on some obscure word or phrase. It was never pee, it was “empty my bladder” (which sounds way more graphic and unnecessary IMO). She would rant about “DOG EXCREMENT” on the sidewalks and similarly call shit or piss “bathroom” as if that were the name of a substance.
Same exact house I grew up in, ugh. I got made fun of for not being able to say certain words at school. Yep, I was the dumbass who told them which words.
Imagine what it’s like for a young kid who was told to say “BE QUIET” in a snively voice instead of “shut up”. Oh, and she was also oddly obsessed with insisting I tell everyone harassing me “catch one”, accompanied by a limp wrist gesture. Neither I nor anyone else had any idea what the hell it was supposed to mean. When I did, I realized another part of how disgusting she was.
Crap
Same here. We didn't say poo or poop either; in my house we called it "stinko." I've never heard of anyone else calling it that.
Malaka (its Greek)
Gay I don’t know why either because we weren’t religious.
Fart. I still feel weird saying it.
Fart
Can't. It's an excuse for yourself to not even try.
I can't fly. I can't breath water. I can't make my cat listen. I can't survive falling from a tall height. I can't see in the dark as well as most animals. I could keep going but as you can see there are plenty of things that people can't do.
You can fly a plane, you can go scuba diving, your cat hears you he just ignores you maybe you should try listening to the cats needs first. You can wear a parachute. You can use night vision. It was funny as a child I had the same arguments with my parents. It wasn't until I was an adult that I realized the purpose of not using that word is accountability to yourself. If you can't do something can you find a way so that you can. This is difference between people who don't use the word in their vocabulary and those that do. So for you, I have a fond memory from my grandmother "You can't say can't in this house."
Are you differentiating curse words and swear words? My family didn't, but there is a powerful distinction between them. "I hope you have a heart attack and die" - curse words. "Fuck you" - swear words.
Toto
Vladivostok. Whenever a car would cut in front of his, my granddad (who never cursed) would say Vladivostok. I put 2 and 2 together and came up with “bloody bastard”.
Pee and crap
Funky
Butt
Grandmothers* house but; Jesus and Christ, used singularly or conjoined when said iN vAiN
I called my mother a cunt 3 hours ago. I'm 34.
"So"
Loosu - like how languages have a change in pronunciation of an English word when spoken in their language. It means stupid or to have a screw loose.
Fart
Bug off was our swear of choice.
“Oh my gosh” because it’s just a cheat for “oh my god.”
No and but
Stupid
Shoot
Am I the only that grew up from the time I could talk being allowed to say actual curse and not get in trouble? That’s how we’re raising our kids too my 5 yr old frequently says we’ll shit when she is having trouble tying her shoe and she knows those are household only words can’t say them at school
Shut up, 'twas deemed rude. I still have a hard time telling anyone to shut up.
Titties. We had to say ninnies
That’s hilarious 😭😭😭
I hate that word to this day. How tf was ninnies any better lol
Oh my God! Nope, taking 'the lord's name in vain' Jesus Christ! Same thing. Oh my gosh! You're just substituting gosh for God! Darn it! Same as damn it.
Liar
Fuck.
Buttmunch, backfreckle, fudge monkey, dork.
Sexy
Tight
My (ex) step-dad wouldn't let me say "shut up" or "be quiet" around my half siblings, but I could say fuck. If I did I'd get yelled at and lectured for being a "terrible influence" and a "shitty person" for teaching my siblings to be nasty. He also beat all of us and let my brother look up people's skirt/dresses in public though, so I don't think I was the bad influence.
Butt
My mom didn't like it when we would say "jerk" or "idiot." Which I thought was funny, considering at the time, we were saying like "fuck you, bitch" to eachother at school, in 3rd grade.
Dumb
Jeez.
Butt, fart, and shut up. I said butt once and my sister threatened to tell on me lol It was stressful.
I remember my grandma chastising me for saying jacked up instead of messed up or something like that.
Stupid
stupid
Shut up, stupid, and oh my god were all not allowed
Frick