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Anyone else uncomfortable with this term?

hyacinth003 — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 23:18:11 GMT

Was just reading a headline - "How to tell if your 401K s*cks."

I cringe every time I read or hear this term.

Perhaps it is generational, but this term was introduced to me as a description of a secksual act. It was not thrown around much at all. It was rather serious.

It is thrown around a lot these days.

Anyone else find it makes them cringe?

Hyacinth

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NoelSeven — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 23:21:30 GMT

No. It has other denotations and connotations, so I don't immediately jump to the other and focus on that one.

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Plaid Pants — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 23:22:32 GMT

Nope, not me.

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Azcowgirl — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 23:23:35 GMT

It doesn't bother me as much as some of the slang terms for female body parts.):

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Suziepeach — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 23:23:36 GMT

Not at all.

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NoelSeven — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 23:24:40 GMT

On 3/2/2015 Azcowgirl said: It doesn't bother me as much as some of the slang terms for female body parts.):

I agree with that!

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Plaid Pants — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 23:24:46 GMT

Well, there is the obvious "act", and then there are vacuumes, too, so the word has more than the "seksual" connotation.

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Marianne1 — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 23:24:57 GMT

My first introduction to that work was not secksual.

My first meaning of it was ""stinks""

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MickD — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 23:25:33 GMT

I use it occasionally.....maybe more lately... As some things that people are going through really s*ck......I use it with my teenage son.....it fits.....

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Gooday — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 23:26:20 GMT

I have bigger fish to fry. Besides, I swear like a sailor anyway (in my own home).

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MickD — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 23:28:16 GMT

Gooday - now I know why I like you.....i am the worst.....DH hates it....I tell him to F off.....

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Gooday — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 23:28:17 GMT

Hey Mick ~ being we're from the same city, s*ck is MILD! Right?

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ROMARY — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 23:28:32 GMT

Always reminds me of a baby s**king on a pacifier, or his/her thumb. But, still, I'm not crazy about the term, anyway.

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Suziepeach — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 23:29:02 GMT

On 3/2/2015 Gooday said:
I have bigger fish to fry. Besides, I swear like a sailor anyway (in my own home).

Gooday, did you see my response to you on the upstairs or downstairs thread?

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MickD — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 23:29:26 GMT

Exactly put a dis or a dat before the swearing...and dare ya go!

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Marmalade_1 — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 23:29:45 GMT

Yes it does bother me I suppose because it sounds so much like the F word. I never would allow my children to use it.

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brii — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 23:29:51 GMT

I don't really like it. I use ""stink"" instead.

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DoneTryin — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 23:30:57 GMT

HA! I was watching The Music Man yesterday & the song Trouble in River City references "swell" as a disturbing word their youth might be using.

Oh, how times change!

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croemer — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 23:31:34 GMT

N,...doesn't bother me at all.

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bluejeansluvr — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 23:33:22 GMT

It's just becoming very mainstream now. Even the Eff word is becoming mainstream.