Agreed, swearing is shorthand, but does using verbal shorthand qualify as improper speech? On reflection, I guess it’s not really about what’s improper, but rather about what’s proper, and I’m so not the fucking person qualified to address that!
Two points. First, if “fucks” is a stand-in for heaven’s, it seems to me it’s more replacing something that has no basis in reality (heaven) with something that has a real basis in reality! Fucking is definitely real!
And second, not only innocent, but pure, pure as the driven slush. That’s me.
That works, discussing it as proper for an individual person rather than as a generalized rule for communicating with everyone else.
As I look at my own behavior, I realize I do that too. I tend not to swear around older women based on a discussion I had with my dad when I was nine or ten. I used some swear word (probably hell or damn) around a blue-haired old lady on time and my dad heard it. He took me aside a little later and said, “you know, swear words are just words, but some people, mostly older women, don’t like to hear them, especially out of a young person’s mouth. It’s more considerate to those people to not swear around them,” and consideration for others was a big fucking deal in my parents’ house as a child (and remains so in my house). To this day, even though I’m older than some of the aforementioned older women, I refrain from swearing around them out of a lifetime’s habit. Mrs. mota, who, of course, swears with the best of us, laughs her ass off when she sees it happening!
Never could understand why parents get pissed and blamed tehri kids for their own fuck-up… wasn’t your fault-they didn’t make sure they had everybody!!!
Although it may seem incredible, the area you see in the photo is the gigantic Xico Crater, located 40 km from CDMX in Mexico
It is one of the most amazing geological formations in the country, and also one of the most unknown.
And it has gone unnoticed for years because its magnificence could only be seen from above. Only through a helicopter, drone or satellite image is it possible to see the perfection of this giant circle.
That is why the inhabitants of the region have called it the “Belly Button of the World” since ancient times.
Must be one hell of a climb in and out of that crater.
I think it’s entirely possible that not one of the people in that photo even know who Mick Jagger is much less what he looks like. Just some old guy, eh.
