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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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Cursing is when you use edgy filler words instead of saying something meaningful. (lemmy.zip)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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There're better words to use in any situation.

To make the point more clear. As much as people tend to use it in the way they do for words such as 'like'.

I mean people will just say f you, instead of thinking of a witty insult or express an emotion with more expression.

For example, say you want to express that a person is fat, which one is a more cutting way to tell someone they're fat:

  1. "You're a fat-f**k."

  2. "Don't bother trying to stand up. I know you haven't done that in years."

One more thing, As much as there is a time and place you don't curse, it's not a matter of "appropriateness" to me; what matters more is the impact of what's said. I hope my example showcases that.

One last thing, - cause I just starting to realise this matter more to people than I thought it would (nothing wrong with that of course) - cursing doesn't necessarily subtract from a remark as if it's a negative number in a math problem, it's just redundant for speaking (more often than not).

Southsamurai©sh.itjust.works gives a good example of cursing is bland as apposed to just using your brain.

Someone saying "I'm tired of this fucking rain" is more boring than someone saying "I really wish thor would give us a warning before bukkakeing the world".

I just realise this will work as a post in a unpopular opinion space if that exist, lol.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Sorry to hear about the speech problem; and I can relate to the hostility problem (It's why I try to understand others rather than freak-out and get nasty, although I'm not perfect at it).

Unironically, the reason I don't curse is because it helps me speak better and focus on the emotions (that I've) that aren't so clear to me. Cursing - from my point of view - can get in the way of understanding and engagment of speech & emotions.

As for picking one or the other, let me try to put the shower thought in one sentence, since I seem to have lost the original point, somewhere in having these coversations:

Cursing is uncreative & tends to be use as filler words.

Maybe it's too obvious to people that they assumed more than needed (the - "there's always something better to say," probably didn't help, I'll admit that.)

I genuinely thought it was intersting idea, since I've used them as filler words & I heard others do it too.

I noticing trends with the post, and - while responding - starting to see the can of worms I've opened up; I really thought this post would get something around 3 votes and 1 comment.

I understand and relate to most of speech ( and in art in general ) can boil down to personal preferences.

Speech to me can be a little bit more than that, but I'll rest my case here.