View Full Version : "Swearing Can Make You Feel Better" - No &@#$%, Sherlock!
Zydekitten
07-13-2009, 01:38 PM
Hey, Scoop - check this *&^%$#@! out . . .
Swearing Makes Pain More Tolerable
livescience.com (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/livescience/sc_livescience/byline/swearingmakespainmoretolerable/32680516/sig=10sog4vj6/*http://www.livescience.com) – Sun Jul 12, 10:10 am ET
That muttered curse word that reflexively comes out when you stub your toe could actually make it easier to bear the throbbing pain, a new study suggests.
Swearing is a common response to pain, but no previous research has connected the uttering of an expletive to the actual physical experience of pain.
"Swearing has been around for centuries and is an almost universal human linguistic phenomenon," said Richard Stephens of Keele University in England and one of the authors of the new study. "It taps into emotional brain centers and appears to arise in the right brain, whereas most language production occurs in the left cerebral hemisphere of the brain."
Stephens and his fellow Keele researchers John Atkins and Andrew Kingston sought to test how swearing would affect an individual's tolerance to pain. Because swearing often has an exaggerating effect that can overstate the severity of pain, the team thought that swearing would lessen a person's tolerance.
As it turned out, the opposite seems to be true.
The researchers enlisted 64 undergraduate volunteers and had them submerge their hand in a tub of ice water for as long as possible while repeating a swear word of their choice. The experiment was then repeated with the volunteer repeating a more common word that they would use to describe a table.
Contrary to what the researcher expected, the volunteers kept their hands submerged longer while repeating the swear word.
The researchers think that the increase in pain tolerance occurs because swearing triggers the body's natural "fight-or-flight" response. Stephens and his colleagues suggest that swearing may increase aggression (seen in accelerated heart rates), which downplays weakness to appear stronger or more macho.
"Our research shows one potential reason why swearing developed and why it persists," Stephens said.
The results of the study are detailed in the Aug. 5 issue of the journal NeuroReport.
pokerchick66
07-13-2009, 01:55 PM
lol, I read this earlier and was gonna post it but you beat to it . . . dammit! :p
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linza22
07-13-2009, 02:00 PM
Hey, Scoop - check this *&^%$#@! out . . .
Swearing Makes Pain More Tolerable
livescience.com (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/livescience/sc_livescience/byline/swearingmakespainmoretolerable/32680516/sig=10sog4vj6/*http://www.livescience.com) – Sun Jul 12, 10:10 am ET
That muttered curse word that reflexively comes out when you stub your toe could actually make it easier to bear the throbbing pain, a new study suggests.
Swearing is a common response to pain, but no previous research has connected the uttering of an expletive to the actual physical experience of pain.
"Swearing has been around for centuries and is an almost universal human linguistic phenomenon," said Richard Stephens of Keele University in England and one of the authors of the new study. "It taps into emotional brain centers and appears to arise in the right brain, whereas most language production occurs in the left cerebral hemisphere of the brain."
Stephens and his fellow Keele researchers John Atkins and Andrew Kingston sought to test how swearing would affect an individual's tolerance to pain. Because swearing often has an exaggerating effect that can overstate the severity of pain, the team thought that swearing would lessen a person's tolerance.
As it turned out, the opposite seems to be true.
The researchers enlisted 64 undergraduate volunteers and had them submerge their hand in a tub of ice water for as long as possible while repeating a swear word of their choice. The experiment was then repeated with the volunteer repeating a more common word that they would use to describe a table.
Contrary to what the researcher expected, the volunteers kept their hands submerged longer while repeating the swear word.
The researchers think that the increase in pain tolerance occurs because swearing triggers the body's natural "fight-or-flight" response. Stephens and his colleagues suggest that swearing may increase aggression (seen in accelerated heart rates), which downplays weakness to appear stronger or more macho.
"Our research shows one potential reason why swearing developed and why it persists," Stephens said.
The results of the study are detailed in the Aug. 5 issue of the journal NeuroReport.
oh Hell yeah! i knew it! that's why i'm always pain free...i cuss like a sailor!
PaulC
07-13-2009, 02:04 PM
i wish that could explain how the @#$% this is possible in this @#$%in' day and age....
The GOP's Young Hatemonger
by John Avlon
John P. Avlon is the author of Independent Nation: How Centrists Can Change American Politics. Audra Shay, accused of endorsing racism on Facebook, became head of the Young Republicans on Saturday. John Avlon uncovers new details about her disturbing online comments.
Thirty-eight-year-old Audra Shay’s campaign to become the next chairman of the Young Republicans went from obscure to infamous over the past week, after details were revealed of posts on her Facebook account. Specifically, a thread where one of her friends posts that “Obama Bin Lauden [sic] is the new terrorist… Muslim is on there side [sic]… need to take this country back from all of these mad coons… and illegals,” and Shay responds eight minutes later with: “You tell em Eric! lol.”
“This is an outrage and I CAN NOT believe this nation has him as our leader! It makes me sick!” She posted a few minutes later: “My disdain for Obama is directly proportionate for his disdain of this country.”
Following those revelations, several Young Republican colleagues urged Shay to remove herself from tomorrow’s election at the group’s convention in Indianapolis—a request Shay, the favorite going in to the vote, has pointedly refused. Instead, she said that she was responding to an earlier post from her friend, and labeled criticism against her “political attacks” which “proves that my opponents will stoop to the lowest levels to steal this election from the jaws of victory.”
Now, more troubling details about her online musings—despite clear attempts by Shay to scrub her social-networking pages clean. Specifically:
* In October 2008, in the wake of news that an effigy of Sarah Palin was being hung outside an affluent Hollywood home as an offensive Halloween decoration, Shay replied, returning to the “LOL” style that she employed after the “coons” comment: “What no ‘Obama in a noose? Come on now, its just freedome [sic] of speech, no one in Atlanta would take that wrong! Lol.”
She picked up the thread again the next morning with a clarification and a new insight. “Apparently I could not spell last night. I am wondering if the guys with the Palin noose would care if we had a bunch of homosexuals in a noose.”
* Posting and endorsing a conspiracy-theory video that attempts to prove that Obama believes he can only “ensure his own salvation” and “fate” if he helps African Americans above whites, complete with Barnum-esque captions (“LISTEN AS HE ATTACKS WHITE PEOPLE”).
* Numerous posts in which Shay says that President Obama is “anti-American” and has “disdain of this country.”
Collectively her comments are products of an increasingly common GOP mind-set I call Obama Derangement Syndrome, the right-wingers’ version of a virulent strain of obsessive presidential hatred that many liberals exhibited during the Bush years. Symptoms include comparing the president to Hitler and ascribing to him every evil and unconstitutional intention imaginable. It is accompanied by the belief that such a partisan fever is patriotic.
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the painful truth is a 38 year old racist idiot is now the leader of the "young" republicans... i swear no one does hate better than the @#$%in' right wing... and i swore my way through the whole article and the pain did not subside....
festivalgirl
07-13-2009, 04:18 PM
fuckin' hell ......
being a good ny'er, i've always found cursing cathartic and have never been offended by "bad words". cursing at someone is better than knocking the shit out of them!
to paraphrase george carlin, there are more words to describe "bad words" than bad words themselves.
festbabe
07-13-2009, 05:29 PM
flucking righteous
Blitzzzzz
07-14-2009, 01:45 AM
&&^%$#@$#%%%^%&^&*)(*(&(*&^^&^&%%$$#$#$#^^#@%!
(Just getting warmed up!):cool:
Gards
07-14-2009, 09:11 AM
&&^%$#@$#%%%^%&^&*)(*(&(*&^^&^&%%$$#$#$#^^#@%!
(Just getting warmed up!):cool:
Keep that up and someone will call you a fowl mouth
fargin' bastages!
cork suckers!
duende
07-14-2009, 09:49 AM
oh, in other breaking scientific news, it appears that cats control their owners! BRILLIANT!
http://www.livescience.com/animals/090713-cats-cry.html
linza22
07-14-2009, 09:55 AM
oh, in other breaking scientific news, it appears that cats control their owners! BRILLIANT!
http://www.livescience.com/animals/090713-cats-cry.html
Damn those blasted cats!
oh, in other breaking scientific news, it appears that cats control their owners! BRILLIANT!
http://www.livescience.com/animals/090713-cats-cry.html
This has got to be the biggest waste of research effort to prove the obvious since the study that showed that human males think about sex a lot.
oh, in other breaking scientific news, it appears that cats control their owners! BRILLIANT!
http://www.livescience.com/animals/090713-cats-cry.html
This has got to be the biggest waste of research effort to prove the obvious since the study that showed that human males think about sex a lot.
//Must...resist...comment...connecting...the...two.. .studies//
freebo
07-14-2009, 10:25 AM
From the comments section of that 'article':
The dog says, "You feed me - You must be a god."
Your cat says, "You feed me - I must be a god."
We have three cats, with three separate degrees of intelligence. I used to be indifferent to cats - but they've made me love them. :D
linza22
07-14-2009, 10:37 AM
//Must...resist...comment...connecting...the...two.. .studies//
hahahaha! don't resist!! DO IT! this is hilarious!
hahahaha! don't resist!! DO IT! this is hilarious!
Well let's just say that, as applied to men, it might be said that both studies reached the same conclusion about what they are controlled by.
linza22
07-14-2009, 11:22 AM
Well let's just say that, as applied to men, it might be said that both studies reached the same conclusion about what they are controlled by.
OMG! i'm must be incredibly slow this morning! i didn't even see that coming! hahahaha!
funkkjunkie
07-14-2009, 11:28 AM
I tried out the cussing theory last night. I stubbed my little toe on a chair and I felt immensely better after letting about 10 f00ks fly. The more I said it, the mo betta I felt. :D
linza22
07-14-2009, 11:29 AM
I tried out the cussing theory last night. I stubbed my little toe on a chair and I felt immensely better after letting about 10 f00ks fly. The more I said it, the mo betta I felt. :D
:)
Well let's just say that, as applied to men, it might be said that both studies reached the same conclusion about what they are controlled by.
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Zydekitten
07-14-2009, 01:10 PM
fargin' bastages!
cork suckers!
Roman Moroni (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0227315/): I would like to direct this to the distinguished members of the panel: You lousy cork-soakers. You have violated my farging rights. Dis somanumbatching country was founded so that the liberties of common patriotic citizens like me could not be taken away by a bunch of fargin iceholes... like yourselves.
I tried out the cussing theory last night. I stubbed my little toe on a chair and I felt immensely better after letting about 10 f00ks fly. The more I said it, the mo betta I felt. :D
I've found that this is best done when one is alone.
Unleashing a barrage at an inanimate object (like, for instance, a glass baking dish straight out of a 400 degree oven that had the audacity to touch your bare thumb last night) may unfortunately cause loved ones in the vicinity to think the expletives were directed at them.
And it will scare the hell out of the cat.
funkkjunkie
07-14-2009, 01:57 PM
Bwaahaa!
Roman Moroni (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0227315/): I would like to direct this to the distinguished members of the panel: You lousy cork-soakers. You have violated my farging rights. Dis somanumbatching country was founded so that the liberties of common patriotic citizens like me could not be taken away by a bunch of fargin iceholes... like yourselves.
You fargin sneaky bastage. I'm gonna take your dwork. I'm gonna nail it to the wall. I'm gonna crush your boils in a meat grinder. I'm gonna cut off your arms. I'm gonna shove 'em up your icehole. Dirty son-a-ma-batches. My own club!
PaulC
07-14-2009, 04:09 PM
You fargin sneaky bastage. I'm gonna take your dwork. I'm gonna nail it to the wall. I'm gonna crush your boils in a meat grinder. I'm gonna cut off your arms. I'm gonna shove 'em up your icehole. Dirty son-a-ma-batches. My own club!
ma kelly: "i love em', but one day I'm gonna knock em' on his ass"....
Zydekitten
07-14-2009, 05:25 PM
http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n121/randehay/johnny.jpg
Delta
07-14-2009, 05:29 PM
The &$#)&*#!*^&ing definitely helped with the pain when I ripped my toe open on the nail gun this morning, but it didn't do a damn thing for the bleeding.
festivalgirl
07-14-2009, 05:37 PM
George Carlin Quotes: What I Have Learned / Cursing
Thursday, June 26th, 2008
“I used to collect the most colorful curses I heard and write them down. I actually carried in my wallet things like “kraut cunt” and “burly loudmouth cocksucker” and “longhair fucking music prick,” which was a thing Mikey Flynn yelled at a Juilliard student that he was kicking in the head.”
jerseygirl67
07-14-2009, 05:57 PM
fargin' bastages!
cork suckers!
One of my favorite movies!!! I own that!!!
jerseygirl67
07-14-2009, 05:57 PM
I've found that this is best done when one is alone.
Unleashing a barrage at an inanimate object (like, for instance, a glass baking dish straight out of a 400 degree oven that had the audacity to touch your bare thumb last night) may unfortunately cause loved ones in the vicinity to think the expletives were directed at them.
And it will scare the hell out of the cat.
I agree...and it scares the dog too!!!