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Remember when obscenities used to mean something?


More and more I'm beginning to resent the way kids have appropriated all the good old-fashioned swear words. In the old days, when you were really angry at somebody, you could call them a M-F- or a bitch and it USED TO MEAN SOMETHING! Now, as exemplified by Morris in this film, obscenities have just become a part of everyday speech. Something's been lost now that we don't reserve these words for special occasions. I no longer even know what to shout at somebody in traffic. What would it even matter, especially to some millennial or younger kid? Probably he'd just say thanks. The obscene insult; it's gone now.

Movies like this one don't help.

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