yeah, the thing that made me and my sister laugh so much re my niece is that she was pulling off inflections and substitutions and facial expressions which were totally "d00d it;ls the 21st century get with the programme!" -- but she's very good at making us laugh, which is probably storing up trouble (she can get out of bother with US, she knows how to put on a show, but at some point she's going to encounter someone with another set of rules)
my mum would have found this all VERY funny
― mark s, Friday, 2 September 2011 23:50 (twelve years ago) link
I was about 16, I think. My parents didn't curse around me until I was about 18-19, even though I'd pretty much gotten the (correct) impression that my mother had a filthy mouth much earlier.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Saturday, 3 September 2011 03:45 (twelve years ago) link
Probably not until I was 12. I didn't know what it meant.
― corey, Saturday, 3 September 2011 03:55 (twelve years ago) link
I very clearly remember deciding to say it in a conversation when I was 11.
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Saturday, 3 September 2011 23:22 (twelve years ago) link
i first said 'cunt' when i was 7 iirc
good times
― diouf est le papa du foot galsen merde lè haters (nakhchivan), Saturday, 3 September 2011 23:24 (twelve years ago) link
Age 6. My friends were debating as to whether the correct spelling was "fuk" or "fuck", so I asked my mom.
― ockfen aprilscherz (Ówen P.), Sunday, 4 September 2011 02:59 (twelve years ago) link
Said it v young. Wrote it on the board in huge writing aged six, got in bug trouble. Rebel.
― LocalGarda, Sunday, 4 September 2011 03:07 (twelve years ago) link
Big trouble, no bugs present.
― LocalGarda, Sunday, 4 September 2011 03:08 (twelve years ago) link
still waiting for the right moment, it's gonna be awesome
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 4 September 2011 03:34 (twelve years ago) link
12? Always said bloody hell.
― jel --, Sunday, 4 September 2011 11:35 (twelve years ago) link
jel i find it hard to believe you have ever said fuck! you are way too nice
ps it is time you ventured into central london again to visit us
― mark s, Sunday, 4 September 2011 11:39 (twelve years ago) link
further to my accidental discovery of the word aged 7, I probably didn't use it again until a conspiratorial "lol rude words" conversation with schoolfriends aged about 10, and didn't attempt to insert it nonchalantly into a sentence until I was 12 or so and trying to sound tough (at school, again)
it probably didn't slip out unplanned until at least 18, but now I have a bad habit of muttering it if things go even mildly wrong, or occasionally if I'm on my own and have just randomly been struck by the memory of something stupid or embarrassing from a decade ago
was rather naive re: cunt, however; probably didn't even know this was a word until well into my teens. remember reading magazine interviews aged 13-14 and being confused as to why they'd starred "c***" out cz neither "crap" nor "cock" made sense or seemed worth starring
― the ascent of nyan (a passing spacecadet), Sunday, 4 September 2011 13:01 (twelve years ago) link
called my lil brother a cunt when i was nine, it was just another word i'd learned off the headmaster's son tbh. He told on me, i got destroyed.
― even blue cows get the girls (darraghmac), Sunday, 4 September 2011 13:39 (twelve years ago) link