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Melissa Mohr
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He was still given a code violation for “audible...
He was still given a code violation for “audible obscenity” at Wimbledon—might as well have said “Shit.”
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Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing
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2013
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Personal Branding Journal: Closing the Gender Pay Gap
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Level 50.the cancer chronicles
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| Who to Believe is the best thriller I’ve read in a long time! It is completely bonkers and over the top—I can’t say anything more or I’ll ruin it. It’s got very well-drawn and layered characters, which can sometimes work against the momentum of a thr ...more | |
“Boxing the Jesuit” was eighteenth-century slang for masturbation. As Francis Grose explains in his 1785 dictionary of slang: “to box the Jesuit, and get cock roaches” is a “sea term [used by sailors] for masturbation. A crime it is said much practiced by the reverend fathers of that society.”
― Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing
― Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing
“In a 2005 study, intrepid researchers showed that swearwords actually do “increase the believability of statements.” Testimony that contained words such as God damn it, shitty, fucking, and asshole was perceived by test subjects to be more credible than the same testimony minus the swearwords.)”
― Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing
― Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing
“And Queen Elizabeth I even used profuse profane swearing as a way to strengthen her hold on the English crown. She liked to sprinkle her speech with “God’s death!”—still one of the most shocking phrases a sixteenth-century Englishman could utter. Man is the operative word here—women’s language was supposed to be both chaster and more devout than men’s. As one poet who worked at Elizabeth’s court put it, women should avoid indecent or irreligious words, because “the chief virtue of women is shamefastness … when they hear or see anything tending that way they commonly blush.” Elizabeth, though, swore “God’s death!” so often that even foreign ambassadors remarked on it. When”
― Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing
― Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing
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