PeacefulChaos Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 or something unpleasant happens, what do you say? Do you say an expletive or something else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kewb Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 Depending on the situation I may say any one of the following.... Oy! Crud! Aaah! Oh #$%@* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardening momma Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 Oh, Shoot! Ugh! or something like that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slartibartfast Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 I usually say "poop!!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeacherZee Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 sugar or attans daggmask (you are going to need google translate for that one:D) Sometimes I also swear in Finish but I am not even going to write that here 'cause it is really offensive and is usually done under my breath. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalanamak Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 Yikes or yikers. Ouch if I or someone else gets hurt. If something is amazing, I fall back on my brother's Gad Zooks or E'gads. Oy Gavalt is popular here, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Mungo Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 I usually say, "GAH!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsquirrel Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 My son once said "Mom, how come when you drop things you always say, 'Oh SHHHHH'?" :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tap Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 "ah, man!" "crap!" especially if my back hurts and I have to pick something up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeannie in NJ Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 I use exactly the same words as Tap, Tap, Tap Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrixieB Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 You mean like when I dropped the uncooked pizza upside down on the opened oven door? "Oh, cr@p! Cr@p cr@p cr@p cr@p!" I'm still cleaning up the melted cheese. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thescrappyhomeschooler Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 Sometimes cr@p, unless the boys are around. Sometime cra@p when the boys are around and they chide me for saying a bad word. Note: They think "God Bless America" is a swear word, because that's what I say instead of the other one that starts with God when I do something really stupid. Often, if I'm in a really bad mood, I will say bad words in French. Only my sister understands those in my house. My boys know they are bad, but don't know what they mean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swellmomma Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 or something unpleasant happens, what do you say? Do you say an expletive or something else? That depends I try hard to never say a cuss when I have kids around, but I can say when the art cart came crashing down today I said "oh, sh*t" and when I burned my arm I said the F word, and you don't want to know what came out of my mouth the day I screamed at the man driving the semi that hit my ds8. I didn't even know that I knew that many bad words. I say other things like "son of a biscuit", "flipping faddle fiddlesticks", "crap on a cracker", "good gravy" "Mother Farmer" and a few others that I come up with in a the moment of trying not to let a cuss slip out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swellmomma Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 Sometimes cr@p, unless the boys are around. Sometime cra@p when the boys are around and they chide me for saying a bad word. Note: They think "God Bless America" is a swear word, because that's what I say instead of the other one that starts with God when I do something really stupid. Often, if I'm in a really bad mood, I will say bad words in French. Only my sister understands those in my house. My boys know they are bad, but don't know what they mean. :lol: Oh my that is funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dustybug Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 I don't curse. What I usually say is one of the following: Sheesh! Argh! Ugh! Aah! Well, poo! Aw, man! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeacefulChaos Posted March 10, 2012 Author Share Posted March 10, 2012 My son once said "Mom, how come when you drop things you always say, 'Oh SHHHHH'?" :lol: I've found myself slipping back into that a little bit again - ok, more than a little bit :leaving: . Does it never go away? I hadn't cursed at all for years...then one day I drop something and bam! :001_huh: You mean like when I dropped the uncooked pizza upside down on the opened oven door? "Oh, cr@p! Cr@p cr@p cr@p cr@p!" I'm still cleaning up the melted cheese. Yeah. I would be yelling. I would be yelling that, actually. Sometimes cr@p, unless the boys are around. Sometime cra@p when the boys are around and they chide me for saying a bad word. Note: They think "God Bless America" is a swear word, because that's what I say instead of the other one that starts with God when I do something really stupid. Often, if I'm in a really bad mood, I will say bad words in French. Only my sister understands those in my house. My boys know they are bad, but don't know what they mean. DH says God Bless America, too! He also says things like you stupid mother loving idiot! :lol: It has occurred to me how strange he would sound... This is unrelated, but if something is hot (say he grabs the pan out of the oven and it burns him just a little) he says 'hot chihuahua!' :001_huh: :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldberry Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 I say cr@p a lot, and wish I didn't. I also started saying "holy cow" when I was trying to get away from "oh my god"... I didn't think that I was going to offend a whole other group of people! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aggieamy Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 Depends on who is around at the time. ;) Kids - Oh jimminy Christmas! Alone or just DH - not suitable for being posted here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desert Rat Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 I curse. I was so good about not cursing for 10 whole years. For some reason, I've slipped back into my sailor mouth ways. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natalieclare Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 I say, "Ooops!" How's that for boring??? Oh dear, my oldest is sitting here next to me and insists on full disclosure. She says I say: Poop on a stick Fiddlesticks Shoot a pickle Really. I think she's exaggerating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeacefulChaos Posted March 10, 2012 Author Share Posted March 10, 2012 Oh, I forgot, I used to say (and still occasionally say) 'shoot a monkey'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunriseiz Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 "Shoot" or "doggonit" Sometimes it's a pirate-ish "argh!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marylou Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 It depends upon whose foot it lands :001_smile: But I definitely don't say "jeez" :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookfiend Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 I say cr@p, but I wish I didn't say anything. DH says albondiga which is Spanish for meatballs. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngieC Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 What I'm saying in my head and what comes out of my mouth area almost always two entirely different things. I wouldn't wan to print what I'm thinking, but what comes out is "argh" or "phooey" or something else along those lines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tristangrace Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 Sometimes I surprise myself. I have never been a fan of cursing--I'm agin' it. Sometimes when I wack my toe on the corner of the bed (there is an infamous tight corner in my bedroom), I just hop around, silently grimacing. Sometimes it's "Cr@p!" But very occasionally I find myself mouthing, "Sh--!" or even "F---!" In general, "cr@p" is my most-used expletive. My children will gently chide me, "Mom, you shouldn't have said that; you said it's crass." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dangermom Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 I mostly say "Dangit!" Or sometimes "Whoopsydoodle!" --which is what I used to say to my kids when they dropped something so they didn't think it was the end of the world. :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CalicoKat Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 or something unpleasant happens, what do you say? Do you say an expletive or something else? I've trained myself to say, "Did anyone get hurt?!" Because that's what most important. What I used to do before that ...... was ugly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spock Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 I usually say Pooey Ooooo! Grrrr! (really) No Fair! Stupid ___________ (name of whatever I dropped/bumped into/etc) No Good ________(same as above) Oh, butterscotch (I like the sound of the word butterscotch and the way it feels in my mouth. Sometimes it cheers me up.) I often go into a long boring rant about why it's no fair, or how stupid I was or whatever, too. I tend to ramble and grumble when I'm annoyed. Much of this consists of repeating combinations of the above. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elegantlion Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 I believe in authenticity, I use curse words if something like darn it won't suffice. :tongue_smilie: I don't curse in front of small children, old people, or in most public places. I have been known to let loose, however, in the privacy of my own home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myfunnybunch Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 I say... Oh, crumb! Rats! Shoot! Cat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AHASRADA Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 Thankfully, I never started the cursing habit, so at least I don't have any bad words to eliminate from my vocabulary. My generic exclamation when something goes wrong is: Stupid!, Stupid thing!, Stupid idiotic thing! and, for the worst offenders, Stupid idiotic piece of cr@p! When it is more of a circumstantial annoyance, I use "Oh, for heaven's sake!" BTW, we use "cr@p" shamelessly in our house. It's somewhat of an inside joke between ds and I. It's always used with a chuckle and a wink, such as "Put away your soccer cr@p!", "Who left this cr@p on the table?", and ds's favorite from years ago, when he asked me what "politics" means. I didn't have time to give an appropriate answer, so I hastily shouted, "Umm, ohh, government cr@p!" (Isn't that the official WTM definition? :tongue_smilie:) I guess we use it interchangeably with "junk", but cr@p is so much funnier. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnificent_baby Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 Oopsie daisey! I got it from my Mom, and now that I think about it (and with 4 pages of replies, apparently no one else says it), it sounds pretty silly. :lol: If the kids aren't around, and I actually broke or hurt something, my initial reaction is much different. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joyofsixreboot Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 Depending on location and the nature of the event Lord love a duck if children or genteel older ladies are present. Fudge or rats if mildly vexed. Da@@it or sheisse If somewhat irritated. Things that would make sailors blush if you really hit my hot button of messing with my family. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmoira Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 (edited) It depends upon whose foot it lands :001_smile: But I definitely don't say "jeez" :tongue_smilie: I'm not ashamed to admit that I say much worse. At least I think it's much worse. YMMV :tongue_smilie: ETA: Stephen Fry on the joy of swearing (not for the overly sensitive) Edited March 11, 2012 by nmoira Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ereks mom Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 "Oh, crap!" is pretty much the worst thing I ever say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marylou Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 Does anyone else plead to young onlookers, "Don't look at me!" when grimmacing in pain? I don't know why I say it. I just don't like being watched when I'm trying to deal with pain! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meggie Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 Crap is the one most frequently used. Jiminy Crispies comes next. I'm trying to get out of the habit of saying, "Stupid whore." :glare: Pigby thinks "stupid" is the bad part of that phrase and I'd hate to hear him repeat the other part. True story: (Pigby and I driving down the road, cut off by some idiot Utah driver) Me: Watch the road, you stupid whore (may have been a man)!! Pigby: Mommy, we don't say stupid in this family. Me: :blushing: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKL Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 If my kids are around: Farts Fartsicles Crappadoodles Whatever other random syllables come out as I'm trying not to use swear words - think "shuckalockamockafffoolish mommy!" If I'm by myself: You dumb sh-t (to myself) you son-of-a-poopy shyyy-mo-nelly (if it hurts really bad) f--- (if it feels like a big catastrophe, like spilling a lot of coffee all over my work papers - which did happen once as my boss was walking through the door at my first job) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nukeswife Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 We use the word Crap with no remorse in our house. I guess the way I see it, there are much worse things I could say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swellmomma Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 Thankfully, I never started the cursing habit, so at least I don't have any bad words to eliminate from my vocabulary. My generic exclamation when something goes wrong is: Stupid!, Stupid thing!, Stupid idiotic thing! and, for the worst offenders, Stupid idiotic piece of cr@p! When it is more of a circumstantial annoyance, I use "Oh, for heaven's sake!" BTW, we use "cr@p" shamelessly in our house. It's somewhat of an inside joke between ds and I. It's always used with a chuckle and a wink, such as "Put away your soccer cr@p!", "Who left this cr@p on the table?", and ds's favorite from years ago, when he asked me what "politics" means. I didn't have time to give an appropriate answer, so I hastily shouted, "Umm, ohh, government cr@p!" (Isn't that the official WTM definition? :tongue_smilie:) I guess we use it interchangeably with "junk", but cr@p is so much funnier. :lol: Here too. When we were growing up my mom told my sister that other cuss words were not on her "word list" but when sister asked about crap mom said yes that is on your word list. SO that is what we say here too. When my kids say something wrong I ask them if it is on their word list and if in a jovial mood will even pretend to check the list. However crap is on their list and okay to use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alte Veste Academy Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 They think "God Bless America" is a swear word, because that's what I say instead of the other one that starts with God when I do something really stupid. :lol: Here too. I say mother of pearl or Fahrvergnügen if I'm really mad and there are little ears around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrsBasil Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 Oopsie daisey! I got it from my Mom, and now that I think about it (and with 4 pages of replies, apparently no one else says it), it sounds pretty silly. :lol: If the kids aren't around, and I actually broke or hurt something, my initial reaction is much different. :D I say this too! My DS picked it up, but he puts his own spin on things(being 3) and says, "Oop A Daisy" and laughs. He says it when I drop things which diffuses my tension. I'm a pain wimp so if hurt myself I usually just groan. I let loose if glass breaks or water spills near something that can be ruined. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KidsHappen Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 I cuss like a sailor. What can I say, my dad was a sailor. :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs_JWM Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 I say, "Pickles!" I have no idea why. I love pickles of all types and I'm not sure why I malign them like this...:lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remudamom Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 I make Swellmomma sound like a nun. I'm trying to learn how to say Sonofanutcracker and Motherfathersisterbrother instead of my tried and trues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jen500 Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 Does anyone else plead to young onlookers, "Don't look at me!" when grimmacing in pain? I don't know why I say it. I just don't like being watched when I'm trying to deal with pain! Well, sort of. I'll go into another room alone and sit down for a minute until the pain subsides. I like a little privacy at that point. :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denisemomof4 Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 That depends I try hard to never say a cuss when I have kids around, but I can say when the art cart came crashing down today I said "oh, sh*t" and when I burned my arm I said the F word, and you don't want to know what came out of my mouth the day I screamed at the man driving the semi that hit my ds8. I didn't even know that I knew that many bad words. I say other things like "son of a biscuit", "flipping faddle fiddlesticks", "crap on a cracker", "good gravy" "Mother Farmer" and a few others that I come up with in a the moment of trying not to let a cuss slip out. :lol::lol::lol: all of it. :lol::lol::lol: I tend to be more like your first paragraph when I am alone. :blushing: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirty ethel rackham Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 "Oh crummybuttons" or "dagnabbit" or an explitive under my breath if I am really frustrated;). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joker Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 I rarely say anything out loud in those moments, but what is being said in my head is really bad.:tongue_smilie: I've always mostly kept it to myself. If it's so bad I speak out loud, it's usually some cleaned up version of what I'm thinking and comes out as, "Flippin', flappin', something or other...!". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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