(December 2, 2021 at 10:03 pm)Oldandeasilyconfused Wrote:(December 2, 2021 at 8:40 pm)A. Secular Human Wrote: Once I figured out the reference (took me a second) I exclaimed "JESUS CHRIST that's funny!"
I gotta stop doing that.
Yair, might give people the wrong idea.
I've managed to pretty much replace it with "fuck".
My Catholic school is to blame. When I was about 13, our idiot class teacher told us we were bot to say Gee, golly, Gosh or gee wizz.
Are you ready for this?
Golly and gosh = god Gee and gee wizz=Jesus . So my mates and I decided we'd say' fuck' instead. However we decided probably nota good idea to say 'fuck' in front of adults.
Were you two faced like me and my mates? We each had two distinct personalities. One with each other and a very different one around adults.
Not so much with the different personalities...until I got to college.
When I was in my third and fourth year of engineering school, I earned spending money by selling building materials at a K-Mart. Nothing against the folks that work at K-Mart, but I just didn't have a lot in common with most of them. I got along with everybody famously, it was actually fun, kept me in shape, and I learned a *lot* about construction. It was also a great resource for "good" weed and "bad" women, but that's a different story.
I used saying "Hello!" to the greeter (upon K-Mart entry), as my trigger to shut off my brain, but I still got hounded weekly by the assistant managers and store manager to enter "The Program", which was the management trainee program for K-Mart. They said I was "a shoe-in" to eventually become a District Manager, which in their eyes was "making it big".
My response was to politely giggle, and thank them.
Disappointing theists since 1968!