I seriously don't know how to start this post. It's like ... Boring using the same lines over and over again, about how long have I not touched the blog or that many things have been going on in my life. I think I shall go straight to the point man!
There's something in my mind that I wish to talk about - Vulgarities. It's just different now, as compared to my younger days. Everyone's using it.
I still remembered the time when I spoke my first vulgar sentence. It was in K1, I think. My classmate who took the same schoolbus as me taught it to me. He pointed the middle finger at some other person who pissed him off, and whispered "KNNBCCB ..... @#!@#?" with an additional sentence behind. Ever since then, whenever someone ticked me off, I'll be thinking of that sentence. It was really cool at that time because no one around me knew the real meaning of it even if I shouted it out loud, but soon I got over it.
Then came primary school, where no one spoke a single vulgar word. Or maybe there were just that I didn't know. It is the time when a single vulgar word would make everyone go "ORH HORRR!" and starts shaking the index finger right at the front of your face. And your classmates would make a big "HOO HAA" over that matter complainin to the teachers about it and you get all the scolding.
I remembered when I was in Primary 3, the first time when we were told to bring an English Dictionary to school. This guy forgot to bring it, the teacher gave him a good scolding, and he scolded "Bastard" really softly. Another guy sitting next to him, did what a Primary 3 student would do - Tell the teacher. The poor guy got another scolding, for the second time. In addition, the teacher kept asking him for the meaning of "Bastard" and if he could not answer it, she would have to complain to his parents about this matter. Of course he didn't know what the meaning of the word. All he knew that it was a swear word. Then in a class, there were bound to be busybodies around him who went to search for the meaning of the word using their dictionaries and passed the meaning of it all around the class to everyone except him. HAHAHA. We were quite childish then.
Secondary school came and go. Most of the time, it was only the Ah Bengs and Ah Lians who spoke their Hokkien vulgarities. Oh yes, and also the more active students in class. Or at least, most of us spoke it when we were undergoing puberty when our attitudes took a change for the worst. Secondary school was also the time where I learnt most of the bad words and slangs. Then, I only scolded vulgarites to certain groups of people, mainly my close friends.
College is the blast. Everyone is speaking it! Or at least most of us. Even the studious ones were speaking it too! It wasn't much of an issue to scold vulgarities. I think almost every of my sentence has a swear word. A small matter would spark me off scolding the "F" word. I even used it when talking to my parents! My mum would ignore these words at times, but sometimes, she changes all my "F" words to "Fish". It sounds really dumb going "What the FISH !?!?". Oh yes, I know that fishes sure are tasty. But when my relatives are around me, it just seems hard to scold a word or two, yet alone slip my tongue.
I was talking to my aunt the other day. She too knows a lot of vulgarities. She was telling me about a pair of coffeeshop owners - Husband and Wife. Somehow they were quarrelling and start sputing vulgarities at each other.
H: "F*** your mother!"
W: "Okay. Go and dig her grave, take her body and F*** here for me to see it."
W: "Also, if you want a complement, you can dig my father's grave too and F*** him since it's beside hers." And the whole coffeeshop was laughing at them, and they themselves were laughing at their own jokes. What a quarrel uhhh?
Well, the situation of the coffeeshop owners just sends me a message. In no matter what circumstances, if you're the first to use vulgarities, you lose the game. I guess it's about you being able to think fast enough, to be able to argue with whatever content that you are talking about, and turn the table in your favour.
I think that the sarcastic manner is the best as the things that you say out is not as straight-forward, and it takes a longer time for the other party to digest whatever you have said. Even if you made fun of them, they wouldn't know until a long long time. It sets them pondering. COOL UHH?! But the sarcastic way gets irritating after some time.
Oh yes, Gunbound is being irritating blocking all sorts of words deemed vulgar to them. It includes the word "PIMP". Can you imagine how it was like for me to type the word "Pimple"? IRRITATING!I guess I should end my post here.
BYEEEE!
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