I knew it! I always suspected this to be the case, and now I have evidence to prove it! (Empirical I hear you say? Suck My Balls!). Ha! No one can stop me now....

What's wrong with a good swear every now and again? Eh?

Go on, let the expletives fly.....

PS.....

Where is the Paris Hilton angle?

I could have told F*CKING told them that!!!!!

I've worked in a IT support office where I wasn't allowed to let rip after having delt with a "thicker than pig shit" Luser. Drove me &^%($$£ !()*& *"*"!)" king nuts!!!!

.. fuck off!

I swear all the time at work and now i've got an excuse! thanks el reg :)

I've just pointed my colleague to this article and he agrees with me that's it's a load of bollocks...

I can't friggin believe none of you a$$hats have commented on this GD story! :o)

Fuck that!

Like I always say, it *is* big, and it *is* clever.

Maybe it would be great incentive to set up a swear jar at work !!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI3Y1auTFpU

I hope you can see this outside the US.

Enjoy!

I doubt telling your boss to "suck a fat one" then presenting him with this news article will exactly go down good. Would it?

imagine that not walking on bloody eggshells is good for bastard staff morale :-O

never understood offense at a word, might as well get in a strop about apples or mushrooms being said as someone saying cu*t or fuck.

personally id rather be a stupid cu*t than a prolapsed rectum, or a wolf bagging greasy fart taster any day.....

This response is the only one without profanity in it. Hurray for maturety! I'll get my coat..

Bugger isn't a swear word. At least, not here in New Zealand...

Does that include any of the non-English swearwords like:

merde (s***), Niquer ta Reum (F**k off!) (French)

merda (s***) (Portuguese)

perkele (s***), vittu (f***) (Finnish)

fek (s***), Forfikiĝ! (F**k off!) (Esperanto)

Quote; Dictionary.com

characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.

Would this be sloppy journalism?

Naa, bugger describes a normal human-ovine relationship in New Zealand, eh?

What is it exactly.

What the fuck people? Here we are reading a fucking good story about being able to swear in the shit hole of a work place, full of wankers, and we're using fucking stars on el reg!!

Get a grip you fucking retarded piss buckets

In the nicest way possible :P

Pissflaps!

...is, I am reliably informed, the most amusing swearword ever.

I hate the living fuck out of my boss because she can't manage a god fucking damned thing - every single email is her threatening to fire the entire fucking IT department over not filling out her current piece of misnamed paperwork. Today, it was "Project Plans" which for whatever fucking reason aren't plans at all, but the same fucking thing as the "Project Time Sheets" she was on to us about last week, which are prettymuch the same fucking thing as the "Work Logs" she was on about the week before that, which are deadly identical (except on letter paper instead of an index card) to our hourly workers' time cards. But yeah. Threatening to fire the whole fucking department over paperwork that most of us do as a condition of getting fucking paid anyway is real fucking motivating and good for fucking morale. Useless fucking pissflap cuntsack.

So, naturally, I've announced my intentions to leave the company, because I've had enough of her shit. I'm told by my surviving coworkers that I'll be missed - my constant fucking swearing about how much I hate that useless cunt (preferably within earshot of her. This is a bridge that I not only want to burn but want to light ABLAZE, and then fucking call the Department of Labor about some payment irregularities that I've noticed (THE FUCKING CUNT STIFFED ME A WHOLE WEEKEND'S OT PAY BECAUSE SHE TRIED TO CALL MY DESK "TO MAKE SURE I WAS WORKING" AND I DIDN'T ANSWER BECAUSE THE FUCKING PHONE NETWORK WAS OFFLINE FOR FUCKING SCHEDULED UPGRADES - WHICH I WAS FUCKING WORKING ON!)) is apparently the only thing keeping some of these other people sane - and they aren't confident enough to just quit and then go job-surfing.

In short, if it weren't for my motherfucking foul mouth, some of the brightest minds I've ever worked alongside would have probably hung themselves by their fucking ties (oh yeah. I forgot about the fucking UNIFORM TIES. With computers printed on them. There were matching shirts at one point, but I led the revolt against those. My tie is tied in a hangman's noose and currently dangles from the ceiling above the Helldesk - out of the useless cuntbag's reach. I don't even wear fucking dress shirts anymore.

And then there's the meetings with the bitch. Her personality is so absolutely abrasive it feels like sandpaper on your god damned nuts. She makes it a point to drag you into her office and shut the fucking door for positive things (which don't exist these days) and leave the door open and shout at the top of her lungs about disciplinary things. You should've heard her when I refused to sign the disciplinary form about my "fraudulent overtime" - on account of the fact that the security systems and a half dozen coworkers vouched for the fact that I was indeed present and that the phone system was indeed offline because we were indeed installing VoIP - god knows the rest of the building heard her - including HR, who promptly sent someone up to explain that what she's doing is A) Illegal and B) Against policy and will get her fired if I so much as breathe a word to the Department of Labor - which the HR weenies actually advised that I do (because they can't fire her for internal reasons relating to equal opportunity employment... she's apparently been diagnosed with about 808324883 different mental conditions that the company shouldn't and didn't know about, but she decided to make common public knowledge specifically so that, if she's ever dismissed, she can cry about it.

Ahhh, that was cathartic. Fuck my job. In 2 weeks, I'm out, in a month she'll be out, and I'll be working for one of our suppliers.

Oh go f*&k yourself

If swearing at work is a good thing then I guess it might just make PMQ's a bit more flavoursome. I can just see the speakers response now:

"Get the f**k out of here you b*ll*ck merchant!"

This is something that I have always wondered about. Why is "fuck" rude, but "f*ck" isn't? Why do newspapers asterisk out key letters in swear words? Are there really people out there who look at "f*ck" and _don't_ think "fuck"? It's not as if any other letter would fit (unless you count 'feck'). C*nt? Well, I suppose it could be 'cant', I suppose. But who would think that?

It's a bit like prossie postcards in phone boxes. Why do they bother putting the black dots over nipples? Everybody knows what's underneath, the postcards are against the law anyway, and the photo is almost certainly not that of the female at the end of the phone number (alledgedly...) Even if they are photos of Paris Hilton.

So asterisks and black dots, in my mind, are just signs of denial. Bollocks to them.

Coolio...

Now I can talk about my wife whilst at work.

However chaps and chappesses.... unless you are typing FROM work, all this profanity is being aired whilst at home or during a WiFi stealing exercise for which I am absolutely sure that there has been no law passed to permit you to say all these terribly naughty words.

So off you go now and write out 100 times, "I will not swear without a fucking good reason"

Feeling better?

I cant think of anything worse than not being able to swear while working with users, computers, bosses and other assorted twats.

If I couldnt swear at the retards asking me stupid fucking questions about why their print job hasnt come out (not switched on, paper jam, out of paper/toner) because their too fucking stoopid to have a look themselves I'd go cocksucking fucking mental!!

Fuck being able to use language, we need some punch bags! The last stupid cunt of the day gets a punch up the bracket. This should be written into my contract.

@One-armed Freddy:

Brilliant!! I wet myself at that one. God knows why.

and you can use it anywhere because nobody else knows what it means

QUINT

A combination of Quim and Cunt !

Oh hang on, I've told you lot now and the secrets out .... Awwww Fuck it

...fucking stress at fucking work fucking well cause fucking swearing. I'd have fucking thought that was fucking obvious...

Now fuck off and stop wasting my fucking time with this fucking shite, you fucking fuck-wits..!!

Oh nice work! Now you've gone and blown it for everyone you Wanunt

Agreed, swearing is way down there in our most basic instincts.

Fuck the fucking fuckers!!!

See!!

I don't know why it makes sense, but it does.