Hearing help required.

When watching that Precious flic a while back, I became quite captivated by the performance of Mary Jones, the mother of Precious, played by Mo'Nique. She was a horrible nasty character yet towards the end of the film I managed to have a touch of empathy for her.

Who was this Mo'Nique woman? I don't watch much TV so I had not heard of her much before. I knew that she won an Oscar for the role of Mary Jones, it said so on the DVD box ;-) so I figured she was 'just' an actor.

But, I googled (of course) and OMG! She's fucking hilarious!

I love this clip:




I had to watch it a few times to hear much of what she said but I still can not understand what she said from 1:17 to 1:25... can anyone hear it clearly? Help?

If swearing bothers you, I suggest you pass on the clip!

Science of the fucking obvious.

I was just reading the Beeb and came across this article that discusses that "reseachers found volunteers who cursed at will could endure pain nearly 50% longer than civil-tongued peers."




Well, duh. Anyone who has ever stubbed their toe knows this already but one of the researchers, Dr Stephens, raises an interesting point:

"If they want to use this pain-lessening effect to their advantage they need to do less casual swearing.

"Swearing is emotional language but if you overuse it, it loses its emotional attachment."

I'm not sure that I agree with this. I think there are likely many types of swearing that people use depending on the context. I swear casually all the time and that sort of swearing is very different that how I swear when I'm in pain or when I'm pissed-off.

I think, for me, there is casual swearing and 'charged swearing.' For instance, one of my favourite movies is The Big Lebowski. Apparently is has the most mentions of the word 'fuck' than any other film. I barely even notice it as to me it's mostly used very casually and is somewhat similar to how I swear casually in certain contexts. But how I use the word 'fuck' when in pain could peel paint off walls.

I think this clip illustrates what I mean; there is 'yeah, fuck it' and 'FUCK!!!'. If you don't like swearing, run away now.



Sooo....

What do you think about what the researcher says? Do you feel that you have different categories or types of swearing? etc...