Remember when “that sucks” was vulgar?

That sucks.  He sucks.  How much does it suck?

Well, it sucks a lot that we’ve lost “to suck” to the juggernaut of common usage.  It’s not vulgar anymore.  Oh, I still diligently correct my children, and they still diligently say “it stinks” as correction, but I don’t have any illusions.  It’s just fine now.

Commence the mainstreaming of “Blow me!” next.

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3 thoughts on “Remember when “that sucks” was vulgar?”

  1. I remember my 10th grade Algebra 2 teacher lecturing us at the beginning of the year saying she didn’t want to hear the “S word”. We were all a bit confused as that’s a bit vague. She clarified it starts and ends with “S”. We all still had a blank look. Finally she said “sucks”. We were all kind of shocked that was what she was making such a big deal about.

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  2. Tahm, when I was in the tenth grade it wasn’t as egregious as fuck, but it was definitely on par with damn and hell. You would have gone to the principal’s office for saying it. (I mean, it went without saying. A teacher wouldn’t have had to make a preemptive point of it.)

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  3. Ha! I was going to ask if you saw my status on FB yesterday and was prompted to write this. Then I saw the date was Monday’s. 🙂 But yesterday sucked anyway.

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