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I just had a delicious Durangos salad. Time to blog. Something I was just thinking about is swearing. Although I don't encourage people to swear I do find it quite hilarious when people do. Little background on me. I find most things hilarious. This is why I don't think I would be cut out for a serious executive job. I was in a business meeting yesterday for the company I work for, and the guy in charge of the meeting said "duty". I almost started laughing, because in my mind duty converts to doodie (poo). It took quite a bit of effort to not laugh. What I am saying is that just because I am 24 it doesn't mean that I am going to act like an adult. I possess the ability to act like an adult from time to time, but if someone says "do do" or "duty" or anything even close to a "that's what she said" I can barely control myself. So having said that, back to what I was originally saying. I know that swearing is childish and inappropriate, but I just find it funny. You can't have the same bout of laughter from someone saying "shoot" after doing something stupid as you can when someone yells the swear word equivalent. This is my opinion at least. I mean yeah, there are some people that don't ever condone swearing, and those people are good people and in some cases have a sense of humor. I don't think it is nice to call them prudes, or make fun of them. It is not my place or anyone else's place to judge anyone on how they live their lives. Unless they are a felon in which case the judge will judge them, but that is beside the point. I think swearing is funny in a lot of cases.

There are a lot of circumstances where swearing is annoying, and very inappropro (hip and cool way of saying inappropriate). This is when 13 year olds are swearing because they think they are cool and rebelling. This is neither funny or even close to the right context for swearing. Swearing, when done correctly, will flow effortlessly and either convey an emotional extreme, be hilarious, or even a little of both. For me, when I say stuff like shoot, darn, freak, crap...I am usually thinking it's inappropro equivalent. So really, I don't see the difference between them. Like I said before, you aren't a square or a prude if you don't approve of swearing. You are even likely a better person than I, but I am a really easy going person and don't really get offended very often. I just like to laugh. I believe this is a better way of reacting to situations. If you get offended by things usually it is just awkward for everyone, and I hate feeling uncomfortable. Obviously, there are some things that offend me, but generally speaking it is very difficult to offend me. I believe this makes life easier for me, and allows people to enjoy my company. There are just way to many people who take things seriously, and unfortunately that is their entire life. I don't understand how a person can be so serious about stuff all the time. We are here to be happy, and be good people. Not to get offended by other people. It is your problem if you are offended, not anyone else's. Your choice is to take offense, and I would say that most of the time it isn't worth it.

I felt like I was gonna wrap this up, but I just thought of a story to prove my point about this. My sophomore year in high school was shaping up great. The seniors were large and definitely in charge, such as it is in high schools. The beginning of the year assembly was practiced, and deemed appropro by whomever was in charge of deeming things at the school. When a couple of guys who were up to no good started makin' trouble in ma neighborhood. I got in one little fight...Just kidding. The whole point of the assembly was to make everyone laugh. Unfortunately, there were some students in my class that take things too seriously. In the assembly the seniors were making fun of sophomores, and at one point they had spray bottles of, what they called, sophomore repellant. If a sophomore came too close they would spray the repellant, and the sophomore would be repelled. There was another sketch where some sophomores were walking to Wendy's, since they didn't have cars, and they had a senior on a scooter drive by and circle them while laughing hysterically and pointing at them. I was in tears, because I was laughing so hard. Most of the sophomores were, but there were a couple of them who were in tears because they chose to be offended by the skits. After a few phone calls from some parents who, apparently, had no sense of humor either. We were forced to stop the tradition of making fun of sophomores. A tradition that had been passed down for years. It was all done in fun, and it was clear that there were no hurtful intentions. I mean there were sophomores on stage acting this out for crying out loud. The students in the sophomore sections were laughing just as hard at it as any other section of students.

The moral of this story is to choose to laugh when given the option. Hint: there is always that option. When people get offended they complain. When they complain they guilt the person they are complaining to into changing the rules that regulate what they were complaining about. When those rules change everyone else has to start living by rules that were made because 1 or 2 people were offended by something they shouldn't have been offended by. This is what is happening everywhere. Everyone feels that because they are offended by something they can go complain, and have it their way. Well because of that the constitution has turned into a Burger King menu.