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08-14-2007, 12:18 AM
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Today, I was at my friend's pool and her neighbor's son was also swimming there. For those of you who don't know, I have already prearranged a marriage with my friend's 8-year-old son to my 8-year-old daughter (I'm only half kidding... it would be great to make her and her family my family!). They haven't figured out yet that they are supposed to love each other unconditionally, and when the neighbor boy came over, he took my friend's son's attention from my daughter which annoyed her to no end.
Then, the neighbor boy started to squirt at her with a squirt gun, pull at her feet and then called her mean. I'm sure she said something under her breath (she always does), but I knew we were in trouble when she swam over to the ladder and started to bang her head against its rail and say "I have such angst!"
"What is angst?" asked the boys in near unison.
"I'm frustrated. I'm nervous. I'm hurt. And I'm wicked pissed off."
The pool fell silent.
Apparently, "pissed" (though not something I would WANT my child to say) is considered a vulgarity in the South.
"Miss Dawn," said the young boy, "she said the 'P'" word."
My eldest daughter said, "Mommy. She said 'Penis'"
"Did you say "Penis"?" I asked
"No. I said I'm pissed off!"
"Well, you shouldn't say that, dear."
I asked my friend why her neighbor's son was so distressed by that word and she said it is dirtier to say than Shit.
"No shit."
"Yeah."
Wow. Five years, and I'm sure I have not only used pissed off more often than I should have for a slightly rude thing to say, but apparently, I have said something that is equivalent to "dirty shit" in front of children. MANY children.
Pissed off, though not a pleasant thing, is quite a normal thing to say in New England.
With out pissed off, how can one say "Wicked Pissah! Papi struck out!"
Or, "Wicked Pissah! Aerahsmith tickets ah sold out!"
Anyhow... I got to thinking. What other things are really, really dirty to say where you live but okay to say in another place?
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08-14-2007, 12:27 AM
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I don't like p*ssed off one bit and consider it a dirty word, but I don't consider it "dirtier" than sh*t. Not by a whole lot, because they are both completely and total no-nos in our family, but if I had to grade them, the s-word is definitely dirtier. But that still doesn't make the p-word any better.
I do know that sh*t is not considered bad at all amongst Wisconsin farmers - I still remember my uncle telling the story of when he moved up there to take a preaching job, he went out to the barn with one of the church members and the guy said he needed to shovel the sh*t. My uncle 'bout fell through the floor!  Down here it is a very dirty word. 
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08-14-2007, 12:38 AM
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OMG Elyzabeth!!! Then don't send her to Townie News! Townie News
I think it's hilarious but Leslie says it sounds too much like her house to be funny. |
08-14-2007, 12:40 AM
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pissah is good. pissed off is bad. at least up here in nh.
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08-14-2007, 12:51 AM
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I know that the S word is much worse down south than around here. My dad had all sorts of colourful sayings, and he wasn't the Southerner in the family. He used to say,"You can catch more flies with sugar than with shit" and would nearly make my grandma faint. |
08-14-2007, 12:54 AM
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And also FALSE!  |
08-14-2007, 12:55 AM
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pissed off = angry.
I didn't think it was bad, just sort of vulgar |
08-14-2007, 12:57 AM
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08-14-2007, 12:58 AM
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Everything is bad.
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08-14-2007, 01:22 AM
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I can get the equivalent of that webcast by just walking down the street to Dunkin Donuts.
That said, I assume it's amusing to non-New Englanders.
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08-14-2007, 06:29 AM
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I've never heard someone say pissah. I guess it didn't come this far south in New England.
That being said, I say "pissed off" all the time. I've always thought of it as slang, but, never as vulgar. Usually we don't bother to say the "off" part.
Shit is a tough one. It's not a swear, but, it's not a nice word. It's a little vulgar but I can think of much more vulgar words  |
08-14-2007, 06:51 AM
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Wow. I was GOING to post this in it's own thread, but then I find you've all made a home for it here... 
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08-14-2007, 08:44 AM
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ew, Eris, just ew.
Wow, when I was a kid "sh!t" was most definitely a swear word. "Pissed" wasn't quite a swear word, but you wouldn't say it in front of your parents until you were in your late teens. Then HBO came along and suddenly everything was fair game. I still don't understand how "sh!t" gets beeped on TV but "b!tch," in a non-dog sense, doesn't get censored since the B-word was considered worse than the s-word when I was growing up.
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08-14-2007, 10:43 AM
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Quote: mjfrombuffalo said
ew, Eris, just ew.
Wow, when I was a kid "sh!t" was most definitely a swear word. "Pissed" wasn't quite a swear word, but you wouldn't say it in front of your parents until you were in your late teens. Then HBO came along and suddenly everything was fair game. I still don't understand how "sh!t" gets beeped on TV but "b!tch," in a non-dog sense, doesn't get censored since the B-word was considered worse than the s-word when I was growing up. | Ditto all that. I remember the first time I said piss in front of my parents. I was in the 6th grade. My dad was unimpressed with my new vocabulary. I still don't say it in front of him.
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08-14-2007, 01:34 PM
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piss is a vulgar form of pee. I don't think its a curse. I say pissed off or pissed all the time and don't think of it as a curse. Shit is definately a curse. Funny how our body functions become curses. |
08-14-2007, 02:52 PM
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In England, "pissed" simply means very drunk. |
08-14-2007, 03:12 PM
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In Australia, "under the weather" means hungover. So be very careful how you tell people that you're not feeling too well unless you want to give the wrong impression.
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08-14-2007, 03:49 PM
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What JP said- which ended badly for my SIL when she came over once. But then we'd need to get into the differences in slang between the two countires, which is even funnier.
My BIL was having some friends in for a drink one afternoon wheile we were visiting for the first time. One of them had recently begun a new job right down the street from BIL's house. My SIL was quite excited, and told the man "Make sure and knock me up if you're in the neighbourhood next week!".  |
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08-16-2007, 11:45 PM
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I love that Townie News!
ANd I love your knocked up to be neighbor, Cindy!
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