I was once asked to fire an employee for using the f word. And I don’t mean fudge or filth/flarn/flarn/filth like Eddie Murphy used back when he was funny. This was the full f word with a capital F and all of the @#$ after. He didn’t say it around customers, and it wasn’t focused on anyone or anything. It was used under his breath and barely audible to anyone around him.
I explained that the F word is perhaps the greatest word ever invented. If it’s used appropriately, it’s perfectly acceptable, it just depends on the context and audience.
It’s used in frustration: ooooh fuck!. It’s excitement: Oh Fuck!. It’s surprise: OH Fuck! It’s frustration: OH FUCK! It’s aggravation with someone else or with yourself: Fuck you! Fuck me! It’s slow release surprise: oohhhhh fuuuuccckkkk! It’s mock confusion: what the fuck? It’s an act: Let’s fuck! Its a different act: Let’s fuck them up! It’s also despair and outrage and exhilaration, pain, confusion, befuddlement, and it’s used at heightened states of stimulation of the underwear area: FUUUUCCCKKKK! I still have the hangover from when we used it in drinking game while watching Wolf of Wall Street.
It was originally considered a pejorative but it can be used, sometimes with modification, as a noun, verb (both transitive and intransitive), pronoun, conjunction, adjective, adverb, and interjection. George Carlin famously used fuck and motherfucker as two of his seven dirty words, which, as he pointed out is duplication as Fuck is the root form and Motherfucker being derivative of said root.
Holy fuck it’s unfucking believable that fucking people use fuck in so many fucking ways and most fucks don’t give a fuck and those who don’t use fuck, are fucked and I can only say, what the fuck?
