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[HisElk]

No, it doesn't bother me; I'd rather hear that word than swearing. I have an acquaintance who uses the "JC" and GD" words a lot. I'm not even sure she realizes how much she uses them.

It finally got to my DH and me and we asked her if she would please stop saying it when she's around us.

[Preds]

It did at one time, but since most things sk right now it doesn't bother me at all anymore. I tend to agree with it most of the time.

[Preds]

On 3/2/2015 HisElk said:

No, it doesn't bother me; I'd rather hear that word than swearing. I have an acquaintance who uses the "JC" and GD" words a lot. I'm not even sure she realizes how much she uses them.

It finally got to my DH and me and we asked her if she would please stop saying it when she's around us.

I've done the same. I've heard it so much that I've actually said it! That's one I don't want to put in my "colorful" vocabulary.

[NoelSeven]

On 3/2/2015 imaclotheshog said:

On 3/2/2015 hyacinth003 said:

The closest I can come describing it would be it was considered like a "swear word" term.

I don't think I have ever said it.

Hyacinth

I'm betting you are my age or older.

Our generation didn't use that word and certainly didn't use the Eff word.

The younger generation uses those words all the time. They also use "friggin" which my grown kids say instead of the other Eff word. oh well.

I'm betting you and I are about the same age, and am here to say our generation did use the eff word. Not so much the girls, at least in my high school, but our generation surely did, especially when we were college age.

Even Holden Caulfield used it and that was before my time.

[Moonchilde]

I'm not even sure it started out to describe an act. It has held the connotation of ""stinks"" forever. I use it frequently.

[sunshine45]

i didnt use it growing up, but i do use the term occasionally now. i hear so many teens using the word that it has become commonplace now.......believe me, i would rather hear THAT word than a lot of the other words that are being used.

[SnowPink]

I'm not offended by it, but I make a point to not say it in front of my parents or other older people because I know it offends them.

[child prodigy]

On 3/2/2015 mominohio said:

Depends on where and how used.

In casual conversation with people I'm familiar with, the term doesn't bother me. But in a professional situation or used in an articlej like this and just used for the 'shock' factor, then I find it inappropriate because a writer or journalist should be able to have the skill/talent to capture my attention with a headline using more creative language, rather than try to shock me with some 'gutter language'.

I agree. I wouldn't take the article very seriously if the writer's vocabulary is that limited. I do use the EFF word but not in published work.

[lulu2]

I've heard far more offensive terms. Actually I find it no more offensive than stinks. Su&c&king in itself is not a negative term. Stink is never a good thing.

I admit I've used it on more than a few occasions.

[LilacTree]

Odd, but I hate that word too, even though my favorite frustration word rhymes with it. I never ever use the word that starts with "s."