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Anonymous — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:44:49 -0800

I need to stop swearing, speak more softly, and in general become a more "ladylike" (I hate that word) person. Please please help me. I am training right now to become a direct entry midwife. I have completed a lot of my preliminary training, and I am now ready to be an assistant to a midwife.

One of the most important things I need to be able to do is to respect the homes and decorum of women who I will be assisting. If I am letting f-bombs drop , I may make a woman who is laboring uncomfortable by my presence, and that's completely unacceptable to me.

I have to wrap up a CPR/NRP course and so I have about a month to go before I NEED to be good to go.

I've already made a casual effort to stop but I've had only minor success. When I get stressed or on edge, I end up breaking my resolution. I know birth has its moments that will be stressful, and I need to get a grip on this now!

The area I live in is very conservative/religious, so even "oh my god" is off the table.

One success I've had is I've replaced the f-bomb with "fudge" and "jesus christ" with "cheese and rice", but I'm worried these may offend people too.

Anyway, please help me AskMe, I'm open to anything (that doesn't cost a lot of money) to help me stop swearing!

What's with the cursing on Aceyalone's Magnificent City? Not a question about quantity or quality...

chesty_a_arthur — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:48:35 -0800

What's with the cursing on Aceyalone's Magnificent City? Not a question about quantity or quality... There are plenty of Aceyalone recommendations in the history of Ask Mefi, apparently, so I'm hoping one of you Acey recommenders can help me out here. I bought a copy of Magnificent City and for some reason, all the curses are edited. I learned from my Googling that there was a rule against cursing at the Good Life Health Food Centre's weekly open-mic night, which was an early influencer, but that doesn't really help me understand why "motherf er" is edited just like that all over this 2006 record. It's really distracting and annoying.

I've looked at reviews of MC and I've looked at the Wikipedia page on Aceyalone and I can't find any reference to this.

Is there an unedited version of this record?
Does anyone know why this was done in the first place (given that Aceyalone is not a staple of commercial radio)?

Next stop is actually emailing the record label to find out but thought I would ask y'all first.

Songs with swearing

wackybrit — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 14:57:48 -0800

Which songs/albums (preferably otherwise good) feature extreme amounts of cussing and swearing? It's often said that rap, in particular, features a lot of swearing, but I find little of it in my collection, with Dr. Dre's "Bitches Ain't Shit" being the only song that I'd say has a 'lot' of cussing. What other songs feature a lot of cussing? I'm having no luck finding any. I only ever found one song with the c-word too.. the Libertine's "What a Waster". Others?

How to deal with a cussing child?

cedar — Wed, 19 May 2004 12:17:59 -0800

Cussing kids. My sweet little baby girl (8) cut loose with an unbelievable string of profanity when she got off the school bus today. I was actually embarrassed, and believe me, that takes a lot. I have no idea where it came from. We don't speak like that and her peer group consists of exactly one child (very small school). I didn't even know she knew these words. Besides grounding her forever (done) and I have no idea how to best to address this.