This story is true, I swear......!
In case anyone hasn't read my profile, here's a small recapitulation:

I have done a fair whack of stuff. I've done a wide range of drugs (legal or otherwise), I smoke, I drink, I gamble and I'm an adrenaline-junkie.

I've done it all and I could take or leave it. I don't really have an addictive personality. But there is one thing I went through utter hell to break free of.....

Swearing.

Up until 2 years every other word would either the "P-word", the "S-word", "F-Word" or the "C-word". If I were to say "Some gentleman told me go away", it would come out like:

"That 'effing c-word just 'effing told me to 'eff off!"

I was so inarticulate. My turning point was when I read "The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas. I read his prose and the way he structured sentences and thought "I wish I could sound like that".

From that day onwards, I gave up swearing. It wasn't easy, everytime I couldn't express myself or got flustered or angry, I'd resort back to swearing again. It took 6 months for me to start structuring sentences without any swearing in it without thinking about it.

After 2 years, I've finally given up swearing. I'm quite proud of myself. It was the toughest bad habit I've ever had to break, but I feel it was for the best.

Now it's time to learn some new words. Anyone got a dictionary.....?

Length? Well, after 2 years, I'm still going strong...
(The Stig, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 20:06, 5 replies)

And now.....
your an articulate little fucker. *grin*
( girlinthehole, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 20:12, closed)

You sir
sound like me.

In tribute to you and my long-lived intention to quit swearing, I've just gone looking for my thesaurus, in Roget's original format I may add, but I can't find it.

Fuck! Bother!
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 21:02, closed)

In the past week
I have used the exclamations, "What the dickens?!" and "Man alive!"

But I might just be a pretentious b'staad.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 21:19, closed)

Snakes
Alive Sir!
( slapdash flying through the cool clean air since, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 22:52, closed)

swear words are just part of the langauge
I consider myself an articulate fellow but often swear for Ireland.

A well-placed expletive is a thing of beauty.
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Fri 19 Dec 2008, 13:11, closed)