“Why? Because it’s fucking there!” – Edmund Hilary “You want what on the fucking ceiling?” – Michelangelo “How the fuck did you work that out?” – Pythagoras “Any fucking idiot could understand that.” – Albert Einstein “Let the fucking woman drive.” – Commander of Space Shuttle “Challenger” “Heads are going to fucking roll.” – Anne Boleyn “Who’s gonna fucking find out?” – Richard Nixon “That’s not a real fucking gun.” – John Lennon “Where the fuck is all this water coming from?” – Captain of the Titanic “Where did all these fucking Indians come from?” – General Custer
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“What the fuck was that?” – Mayor of Hiroshima It has also been used by many notable people throughout history: It can be political – “Fuck Donald Trump!” It can be used in business – “How did I wind up with this fucking job?” It can be used to tell time – “It’s five fucking thirty.” It can be used in an anatomical description – “He’s a fucking arsehole.” Inquisitiveness “How the fuck did you do that?” Panic “Let’s get the fuck out of here.”Ģ2. Apathy “Who really gives a fuck, anyhow?”Ģ0. Perplexity “I know fuck all about it.”ġ7. Displeasure “What the fuck is going on here?”ġ6. Pleasure “I fucking couldn’t be happier.”ġ1. Difficulty “I don’t understand this fucking business!”ġ0. Fraud “I got fucked by the car dealer.”Ĩ. Aside from its sexual connotations, this incredible word can be used to many situations:Ģ. There are very few words with the overall versatility of the word “fuck”. It can even be used as a conjunction (“Mary is easy, fuck she’s also stupid”). Interjection (“Fuck! I’m late for my date with Mary”). It can also be used as an adjective (“Mary is fucking beautiful”) or an It can be an action verb (“John really gives a fuck”), a passive verb (“Mary really doesn’t give a fuck”), an adverb (“Mary is fucking interested in John”), or as a noun (“Mary In language, “fuck” falls into many grammatical categories. It is the one magical word which, just by its sound, can describe pain, pleasure, love,Īnd hate. Would you not attend a seminar if the speaker used the word “Damn” or “Jeepers, what are you doing” or “Crap” or Gadzooks”? Profanities have been with us for many a year (Read your Shakespear) and through usage move into the main stream. I believe there was an outcry when Rett Butler said ‘Quite frankly I don’t give a damn” in Gone with the wind. Perhaps we’re not so judgemental.Īs for saying it in front of children, my grandchildren have heard it from me and their other grandparents. One hears the word in business all the time here in Australia.
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And we would make sure we did not split our infinitives, end sentences with prepositions and would watch the syntax. He and the others were far from inarticulate, a number having been to Eton and Harrow in England. The Chairman, in exasperation of the conversation from his fellow directors, exclaimed “Oh fuck me”. I first heard the word used in business in the 1970’s when I attended Board meetings as the Company/Corporate Secretary. Isn’t that groovy?Īt school in the 1950s we had, in the library, at book of slang and in it was the word “fuck”. Not different at all to how I’m stuck with knowing the original meaning and derivation of the verb “sucks,” which came from-ugh.Īnd, for that matter, the original meaning of the word sh*t, which conjures up the wrong thing, for me, when people go with the trendy “get sh*t done” or last decade’s “get your sh*t together.”īut this is humans and the way we work. The old meaning sticks to the sides of my head when people use it this new way. Can’t you just love science? On the other hand, 23 million likes for that page. Yesterday I found the Facebook page for “I fucking love science.” Seriously. Is his wording better than “work hard” or “work really hard?” Not to me. In reality, there’s only one habit that you can emulate that will get your somewhere. Toward the end, he comes up with a brilliant highlight point (the illustration here): I caught a great post on Medium the other day: Jon Westenberg’s Why Copying the Habits of Successful People Won’t Make You Successful. Over the course of the show "damn it" has been used 282 times by all the characters including Jack.Hey, younger people, are you really all okay with f*cking as a synonym for really? Seriously.
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They said it 137 times over the course of the show.
#DAMN IT OR DAMMIT SERIES#
Jack has used this many times in the series for a number of characters.īelow is the same chart as above including references by all characters other than Jack. One of the many variations of the phrase is used Jack shouting "Damn it" followed by the name of a person he is upset with. Jack said "damn it" 145 times over the course of the show. The table below shows how many times Jack said "damn it" in each episode.