I will admit I use it more than my husband, but I don't use it in public. I use when I am at home and venting. Or when I am behind the wheel and someone does something reckless or unbelievably stupid.
Recent research, published this week in the London Times, shows that women now use the F-word more than men. Do you believe it? Do you use it? Is it considered more ladylike if you spell it with a 'Ph'?
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Dear Didge,
No I don't use it...although I do occasionally curse *&^%$#@!!
But not the beautiful joining, how can it be profane?
My ex-wife used it quite a bit when she was drinking, which was all the time . She said it a lot and I don't miss hearing it around here all the time. I haven't said it in a while . At least not today as my yard chores are done and it's a chill day for me.
My fiancée rarely ever uses it. Any woman I know occasionally uses it. I use it non-stop. Not in public though, not in front of children, not infront of adults, not infront of anyone who might and should find it impolite to curse. I don't think it's not true. It's not like I can prove the research wrong or anything.
My new assistant, an American lady (she had joined the company the week before) was with me on a trip to see a customer on the South Coast. She was a little red-headed thing, pretty rather than beautiful.
As a new recruit, she was a bit circumspect, and we passed the time on the journey talking about nothing in particular.
It was a good trip and we left the customer happy and cheerful.
On the return journey she started referring to various of the people we had met as this MF or that MF.
In the end I had to ask was an MF was.
"Well, it's mother******, isn't it? Or don't you use that ****ing expression in England?
It shouldn't have been, but it was quite funny.
I don't think I have ever heard the f word used so gratuitously over such a long period by a woman since.
(But she was an exceptional worker, and worked for me for the greater part of 10 years, (with somewhat toned-down language)).
Maybe once a year.
Usually only after an injury around the house. Getting ripped open by a thorn or smashing part of me with a tool I will let loose with a stream of words (better left to nautical pursuits) that includes that one.
