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Episode 112 - ADHD & Swearing: Why Our Brains Love to Say "F***"
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Hey friends! Welcome back to ADHDville, the podcast where we chat about life, laughs, and the wonderfully wiggly world of ADHD brains.
THIS IS YOUR OFFICIAL, SPOT-ON WARNING: This episode is a properly sweary one. We’re talking oodles of f-bombs, bastards, bollocks, and creative cursing galore. If you'd rather not hear that, this might not be the episode for you. But if you’ve ever wondered why swearing just hits different with ADHD… you’re in the right (and rowdy) place.
Join hosts Paolo and Martin as we pull up a chair in our local pub, The King's Agitated Head, to unpack:
🔸 The SCIENCE: Why does shouting "F**K!" actually help with pain and stress? (Spoiler: It's a legit dopamine hack for ADHD brains).
🔸 The STATS: Which country swears the most? (Hint: It's not Italy!). And what's the sweariest day of the week? The answers will surprise you!
🔸 The ADHD LINK: How is explosive, impulsive swearing tied directly to our brain wiring? We get real about meltdowns and emotional release.
🔸 The CULTURE: From elegant Jane Austen insults to the lost Anglo-Saxon swear words you need in your life ("You absolute nithing!").
🔸 Personal Stories: Including the time Paolo’s childhood swearing got him in big trouble with a neighbour… who turned out to be an actual bastard.
Whether you’re here for the laughs, the relatable ADHD moments, or just to hear two mates have a brilliantly profane chat, we’re glad you’re here. Grab a beverage, put the headphones in, and let’s get into it.
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Introduction and Warning
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That we're in. Back in the room. Oh, ah were and we're glad that you're here with us with maybe a good beverage and a snack. And ah fair fair warnings, this is going to be a sweary episode.
00:00:14
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Yes. You're going to swear possibly a lot. Yes, poodles. Yes. So if you if you don't want to hear us swearing, then this is not the podcast for you, ah suspect. Yeah.
00:00:27
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Given that it's the theme. Given, exactly. So if you just, yeah, if you didn't read that. There's no excuse. There is none. Yeah. It's right there. Yeah. On that's on the team. The clue the clues in the title.
00:00:42
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Exactly. All right. So let's go to a place where the destructions are where the distractions landmarks. So the details are the main roads. Welcome to
Swearing Across Cultures
00:00:50
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ADHD, Phil. All right.
00:00:54
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Swearing a lot, yes, swearing a lot. Swearing a lot, swearing a lot. Fuck. Blasted. Bottoms.
00:01:06
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Shit face. For example. Look at that.
00:01:13
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We're we're right out of the right exactly blocks. was actually improvising there. know it's hard to imagine. was actually improvising.
00:01:25
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Wow. Nice one. You just thought I'd been practicing for weeks that one, but no, sadly not. um All right. So I thought, right, well, let's, so yes I thought we'll just stay here in the pub because You know. Yeah, yeah. Good place to swear.
00:01:44
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Yeah. Anyway, I'm skipping ahead because they the... Yeah, I'm good to do It's true. Hello, I'm Tomson. Hello. i was diagnosed with the combined ADH and the D again almost exactly but not quite ah two years ago. And I'm Martin. No, more than two years ago.
00:02:04
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Yeah. And I'm Martin the fucking arsehole West. I was bloody well diagnosed with the combined ADHD poo-poo platter fuckery in 2013. And we start off, as I said, and we'll stay in a local pub, the e King's Agitated Head, where we'll take care of business. And this week's business is talking about swearing.
00:02:27
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Fucking hell. Fucking hell. Fucking hell.
00:02:32
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Bollocks! Shitbags! I know. So there's quite a lot to kind of cover, but I i do have some some little interesting little factoids about swearing.
00:02:45
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um Yes, yes. that term ah Who is, do you think, the ah the world's sweariest country, i.e. the country that swears the most?
00:03:01
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Right, country being the operative word. Yeah. Yeah, which one? ah The sweariest. Ireland. No, not even close. It is the US of fucking Is it Yeah, by far.
00:03:19
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By buy a I have ahve forgot the the expression. But by a long way... America way sweeter than any other country. And the UK is second.
00:03:34
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Okay. and And Canadians swear about half as much as as as ah Americans. It turns out that Italy, that that it the Italians are not very sweary compared to everyone else.
00:03:51
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They're kind of just mid-tier sweary. Okay. sweary I'd say, via Kegare, via Kegare. Go and shit yourself, Martin. and yeah and and good that there And Greece is is is is even less swearing. is' it's it's It's almost polite compared to... I'd say in Italy, it changes so much on the region, though.
00:04:22
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but For us, it's where I live at the moment in lomb the Lombardy region. the Especially men, every second word is a figure, which roughly translates as vagina.
00:04:36
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Oh, really? Figa. Yeah. Oh, let's do a podcast. Figa, they would say. Oh, really? It's like, come on, guys.
00:04:48
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so it's And we'll get on to this. It's like when swearing is appropriate, when it's not. Right. Yeah. when how it's It's not how it's not if you swear, it's how
Creative Swearing and Its Effects
00:05:00
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you swear.
00:05:01
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It sounds like for me your town could do with a little bit more, little bit more creativity. I think i think that you should you should do you should teach a class, Paul,
00:05:13
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on on on creative swearing Yeah, ah I could do that. i could do that. Yep. ah Some other little interesting things. ah Tuesday is America's favourite day to swear. we Okay.
00:05:31
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we we saw We swear more on on Tuesdays. We also swear on social media more at at around 1am in the the morning than and than any other time.
00:05:44
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ah Independence Day. The sweariest hot is the squareest holiday. And if you're listening in in the States, of Georgia is is is America's sweariest state. And Maryland, where my wife's family comes from, is the second.
00:06:09
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my various state okay some little fun thunder fun fun uh swear swear facts that i came across um i'm on roughly this theme but not i i've kind of i i ah kind of like ah like the concept of the square like the i like the objective of the square word you know it's principally swearing is to you know throw insults at people right But I'm a big fan of like the Jane Austen come of kind of insult, personally, where it's just really elegant, and but a hell of lot more powerful to me, right? So I've got some examples here.
00:06:54
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so There's a line that said, she says, or one of the characters says, I would call you tedious, but that would suggest your conversation has substance enough to a weary listener.
00:07:06
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Right. i Or, yeah I admire your terminations to speak your mind, though I confess I wish your mind possessed much better company.
00:07:18
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That brilliant. Or, few people are so admirably persistent in their errors. Love that. Yeah.
00:07:30
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That's just kind of like ultimate put-downs. They're masters of put downs, you know? Oh, I love it. Yes. So there's actually, um so there's there's that sort of swearing, if you like, which is kind of like a,
00:07:48
Speaker
ah as as you say, it's it's a sort of a an expletive that kind of comes from the so from the intelligent part of your brain. But there's also like if you're in ah like an you know ADHD you know so meltdown yeah where you're kind of like where you just lost it. And then that's where it comes from.
00:08:16
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a very old part of your of your brain. yeah It actually comes from the um from the more sort of reptile part of your brain. kind of it's ah It's a very... What?
00:08:27
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It's a very primitive... risk risk response which is wow which i find quite interesting um okay obviously like one one thing which is like you know why are we like this you know like when you kind of swear and the words fly it you fly out of your your mouth but before your brain is even kind thought is i mean that is a core trait of a kind of like impulse because we were talking about impulsivity little bit little bit earlier um know like like that is a impulsive trait of of yeah yeah is this kind of like we'll just you know we think big and loud and then we tend to be big and loud as well
00:09:18
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that' but when it When it's impulsive, it's also what I've discovered because I ah live in Italy for 21 years. i actually think in Italian, right?
00:09:31
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But if I'm really mad and i and then it becomes an impulsive, have impulsive need to like... express my anger or frustration or it comes out 100% English I can't when it's that impulsive and spontaneous it's 100% I can't do it in Italian it just doesn't come out Right. So so your your
Personal Stories and Social Cues
00:10:00
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your partner always knows like how serious it is. Yes. if you switch, when you start switching from Italian to to to English, it's like, oh, yes the gloves are off.
00:10:14
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Yeah, Exactly. That was a, by the way, gloves off used to be another insult they did in like, um in in um kind of in Wardian times. know, that like the the ultimate insult was that if you got, if you slap someone in the face with your glove.
00:10:33
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Right. That was like massively insult because they said, you're not worthy of my real hand. I'm only going to give you my glove. o Ooh, burn. Nice.
00:10:46
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Nice, though.
00:10:49
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like that. good That's funny. I've got a list here, like a short list of our old English swear words that disappeared. Right? They're really nice.
00:11:00
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it's so such It's a short list, don't worry. So one of them is nithing. Knithing, right? All right. Means being a coward, a villain of the lowest sort.
00:11:11
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Knithing, blithering knithing. The level of insult is one of the worst accusations in Anglo-Saxon society. it that Because it implied moral corruption and lack of honour, right? Another one is Ergie, Ergie.
00:11:30
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All right. Being unmanly and morally perverse. Look at you, he's not Ergie. Wankel, Wankel. Okay. Unsteady, weak-willed and unreliable.
00:11:44
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All right. That was... And let's have a last one. I've got other stuff here. Fop. Oh, the classic. The classic fop.
00:11:55
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The classic fop means a foolish vain man, socially dismissive and mocking. Yes. Oh, he's such a fop. Oh, I like that one. Yeah, that that one's that one's a classic.
00:12:09
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um You know what? i was I often think this when it comes to... And probably mainly, i think this is why... One of the reasons why you switch to to English is because...
00:12:23
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The English language is so good for swearing in. Yeah. we For some reason, the way English works as a language, it's much more creative to kind of come up with stuff.
00:12:40
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It's like, it's just it's if going to swear, swear in English because we've got all the words. We've got all of them. Yeah. It's a very direct and efficient language. So if you want to get like really, we'd like really nail it with a single or a couple of words, English is great for that.
00:13:00
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Right. You know what? I mean, like, and, you know, one of the ways that, you know, like we um bond with people is around swearing. Like if we, um you know ah you know, like when you can get that, the swear, if you can pick out the right swear word, you know, when you're sitting in a pub and you're having conversation with your friends and that in a bar,
00:13:26
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and then you you you drop the perfect swear word at the right yeah the right moment. it's It's a killer. It's a real crowd pleaser.
00:13:41
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um Yeah, it's true. yeah and i guess yeah I wonder sometimes, because the language in England has changed so much since i lived there 21 years twenty one years ago That is probably, well, I've already noticed the language has changed, definitely, in the last 20 years.
00:14:03
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Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A lot. Especially amongst the youngsters, Gen Xers. Yeah, I mean, you know, each generation has its own, like, you know, sweary, fun words, right?
00:14:20
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, you know, one thing that I can look that that was i feel is good for our dopamine-starved brains is that when you swear, there is a quick, like, jolt that you kind of get from it.
00:14:38
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There's of... Yes. there's there's There there there is a there is a dopamine hit to be had what's just going right yeah like you can just feel it yeah and your brain goes oh and that's so nice i like especially if you don't swear a lot yeah you know if you do it sparingly and then when you do sweat swear people really set up a notice i'm quite careful to dose i'm quite careful with the dosage
00:15:11
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of swear words. That is very key. That is very key because yeah Dr. Thompson, if that is your real name. It probably is. um You know, ah swearing is is is really good for, um um want to say like sort of, it can reduce pain.
00:15:38
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Yes, I've heard that and that. That your pain tolerance threshold yes um is is is better when you swear. So like if you stub your toe or you step on some Lego. Yeah.
00:15:55
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you know, ah and you and you just swear, it helps. yeah your i i I think I saw a figure like 33% or somewhere around around there. Yeah. um Where it it helped reduce pain. And I'm wondering whether that's true with anxiety as well because it feels like it should be. Like when you're really, really anxious and you have that sort of fuckity, fuck, fuck, fuck, sort of thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:16:21
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That helps. Someone did some research on this and they got people to put their hands and or and part of their arm in um in an ice bucket.
00:16:34
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Okay. And they actuallyly they couldn't do that with fire because it's a bit more dangerous or a lot more dangerous. But with ice at a certain point, it becomes really painful. But with people who constantly sweared,
00:16:47
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during that time could go on much longer with their hand in the in the ice and resist the pain. And to to go back to to the earlier point, it only works if you don't swear that much normally. So you swore all the time, but if if you were effing and blinding right all the time, the effect...
00:17:17
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wears off and you don't actually get that effect. So it helps if you actually don't swear too often. And then when you do, that's when the real, why that's that's when it really helps. It really kind of yeah kicks in.
00:17:35
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but My understanding is not that it's swearing stops hurting. It's this the act of swearing distracts your mind from the pain. All right.
00:17:47
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It's not the actual swearing in itself. It's distraction of your mind of, okay, I'm not in pain. I'm actually, you know, um yeah I have some other ah research which is the opposite of that, which says right that only only the proper swear words have that pain tolerance effect. So if you went fuck or shit, those are the premium top shelf swear words. But if you do that thing where you substitute words,
00:18:27
Speaker
out a word for you know like a swear word for something that's a little bit more sociably acceptable like you know like yeah can't think of one like like good lord or or goodness gracious yeah or you know or or or brother hubbard you know right it doesn't have the same effect it Right. it It won't do that anxiety meathouse reducing pain tolerance thing. It has to be the rule coy, Paul. has to be the OG. All
00:19:06
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right.
00:19:09
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Talking about delivery in a way, one of the best deliverers of swear words is a wonderful British actor called Brian Blessed. ah well yeah And he swears, God, he swears so much, but it so it just sounds really cool and funny as hell.
00:19:32
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And he claimed, actually, once, when he met the Queen, the Queen went up to him and she said, hello, Mr. Blissett. Did you know that the word fuck is an Anglo-Saxon word and it comes from the word meaning spreading the seed?
00:19:50
Speaker
I cannot... No. No. Yes. I said that. That's what he claims. Yeah, but he... The thing. He is a...
Triggers and Cultural Variations
00:20:00
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Yes. He tells stories like nothing.
00:20:03
Speaker
Oh, yeah. He once claimed that he had a fight with a polar bear and then in the North Pole. right and and one of course of course so funny funny man he's it's a perfect example of like delivery how it's delivered it makes a massive difference right it's a i mean like yeah it it's It is kind of interesting, this kind of cathartic effect that it has. like this little you know like If you get a long street string of curse words, just kind of goes on for a two. It's such a good way to kind of get all that crap, all that frustration out.
00:20:52
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you know without actually being an angry at someone in particular. You're just like yeah just like pouring all your anger out into the... Oh, yeah, just like letting off steam.
00:21:05
Speaker
Yeah. Well, when I was growing up in my grandmother's house, my my grandmother was such a terrible snob. She was awful. And so she was really particular about manners, especially at the table when you're eating, right?
00:21:23
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um But the best thing of all was when my aunt was there, my aunt um Anne, she was there, and she would effing blind the whole day the table. And I would just oh just like watch her in total adoration and bewilderment. so How is she getting away with this? But she could because she was really posh.
00:21:48
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blabbing And so she had this like very posh London, southeast Surrey a accent. And so the delivery was amazing. You couldn't criticize her at all.
00:21:59
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It wasn't vulgar somehow when she swore. Right. Oh, wow. Yeah. Some people. i'm i just week week We come from a very non-sweary family.
00:22:15
Speaker
Okay. Like my dad, I only heard him swore once in my entire life and everyone else. No, no, like really, really, uh, I, ha yeah, I hardly, I never heard mine except my father swearing until the last 20 years.
00:22:37
Speaker
But when I was growing up he never swore ever. Right. and My mom, I think once, maybe twice has her heard her swear. Right. it was it was It was always a a big thing.
00:22:50
Speaker
Like, if if you heard anyone in our family swear, it was like, what? Yeah. What? I'll tell you, the first time I heard my mother swear was because my dad, he he lost all of his hair when he was 20, right?
00:23:04
Speaker
He had alopecia. he lost all his hair. The only thing, weirdly, that he retained was a moustache and eyebrows. Right.
00:23:16
Speaker
That's the only hair that stayed, right? It was very selective alopecia, right? Right. Well, one day mum came home and my dad decided after years and years of sporting the bald and the moustache look, he had like a droopy moustache, a bit bit like yours, a a bit like mine actually, right?
00:23:38
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He shaved it all off. Right. And he didn't tell my mum that he was going to do it. and he just he just rocked up, stood up in front of my mum. And my mum went, fucking hell.
00:23:51
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And he went, ah. yeah Blimey. You'd lost your shit at that point. Yeah. but i'm not sure watch I'm not sure what shocked me more. My mum's wearing all my dad looking like looking like a roll on deodorant.
00:24:09
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Oh, God. You're just like a baked baked bean. A baked bean. The singular baked bean. Yeah.
00:24:20
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I mean, like one thing that... you were talking about sort of alluded to earlier is like, is like knowing when it's appropriate to swear or not.
00:24:34
Speaker
And I think that's probably why I don't, probably that's one of the reasons why I don't swear that much apart from, ah you know, was brought up to not swear, but, but it's is's kind of like you, you don't always read the social cues to kind of know when it's okay to swear.
00:24:53
Speaker
not yeah i'm i'm pretty good now but but i think when i was younger it was a bit more of a mystery yeah it was mystery for me i think i've told you the story about my neighbor I called my neighbour a bastard.
00:25:10
Speaker
Oh yes. Why? You know this story. You're not heard of it. Oh come on, mean. I was watching, it was like in the, I think I was about 12 and I was watching the soap on TV. was called Crossroads.
00:25:28
Speaker
Oh yeah. And there was this, like for one of the characters in it was called Benny. Yep. And Benny it was like heavily autistic or something. He oh others being called someone a bastard.
00:25:42
Speaker
But in in actually the the the proper use of the word, right? Oh, right. And to me, my autistic, as of now that I realise, my autistic little mind, it just sounded really good.
00:25:58
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And I liked, saw the reaction that he got from using that word. So I ran out of the the house, went into the garden, peered over the hedge and called neighbour bastard.
00:26:12
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Just to say, yeah Bastard! Isn't that that young poor boy from next door? Oh, how cute he is. He is about 12 years old.
00:26:24
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Bastard! Bastard! Bastard! I mean, he dropped his rake and it was like... Exactly! Just in shock.
00:26:35
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Exactly. and ah And my father came out and I was sent to my room for the rest of the day. i was surprised, mate. i like i I'm sure your neighbour, like, for years afterwards, would just, like, you wake up in the middle of the night with having this reoccurring dream of this kid calling him bastard. Exactly. PST.
00:26:56
Speaker
Post-remorture. I think I had to go round his house the next day and apologise for calling him a bastard. Turns out, ironically, he was a complete bastard. Well, there we go.
00:27:07
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Oh, so yeah so maybe he was just, he was ah he was used to it. Yeah. Turns out years later, his his wife discovered that he was he was like ah producing pornography but without her knowing.
00:27:24
Speaker
And pretty nasty stuff. And he got kicked out. Turns out, so yeah, it was pretty much a bit better. Wow. Okay, that's top-level bastard. Jesus Christ. Top-level bastard.
00:27:37
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So, yeah. it ri This has got nothing to do with swearing, but about that same time... but same time And I don't know where this comes from. I'm going to have to work with this out from a from a you know from a therapy point of view.
00:27:57
Speaker
But there was my neighbour, but it was across the road, right? I didn't like him, right?
00:28:09
Speaker
But I didn't call him a bastard or anything. I just didn't like him. And... One day, for some unknown reason, I'm in my driveway with my mum and I say to my mum, I saw a woman go into my neighbour's house.
00:28:29
Speaker
Mum was like, what? I said, yeah, I saw a... And it wasn't his wife, it was like during the day. And I lied. and made up this story about this woman going into his house. to get into trouble.
00:28:44
Speaker
And then mum was like, is that true? is that true i think I was i was seven um i at at the time.
00:28:55
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um And I said, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's it's all it's all true. And they did split up. um sometime after. Because of you? Well, he was a cunt anyway. Oh, hang on. I have to go and get the door. Hang on.
00:29:12
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Just filling in. Well, that's fine because I paused the whole the whole thing. was singing for nothing. Yeah. I was singing a song by called Please Mr. Postman.
00:29:24
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All right. By the Marvelettes. No, by the Marvelettes. Oh, all right. I think was covered by by the by the by the carpenters.
00:29:36
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it was just the postman dropping something off and and needed bollocks and crap. Oh, where were we? Where were we? We were... Oh, you got to chat with your man.
00:29:55
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Yeah. I mean, so, i yeah, I don't know what the... foot Yes, I...
Favorite Swear Words and Their Impact
00:30:00
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but What the hell was I doing, Paul? Yeah, that is weird. What was that about?
00:30:08
Speaker
I don't know. That is weird. That incident is stuck in my brain for, like, forever, decades. And I sometimes think, why did I do that?
00:30:21
Speaker
That is strange. what What was it about the the guy that you didn't like? Well, my mum would say that he hit, that he would hit his his he would hit his wife. so he was So he was physically abusing her, which I knew because my mum told me.
00:30:41
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Yeah. And I think I somehow...
00:30:46
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for some reason thought of a way to make it right in the world maybe where i made something up right okay blimey though that's quite imaginative that's quite um yeah right yeah look at me go but seven-year-old kid stirring up trouble in in the street.
00:31:17
Speaker
So what's what's the thing, Martin, that is most guaranteed to make you swear? Oh, nice question. oh Oh.
00:31:30
Speaker
i don't yeah i to think i don't read I swear to myself a lot. um Yeah, that's what I mean, really. And it tends to be when I'm doing something that I really don't want to be doing, that I'm being forced to to do, and I come like and i'd just swear my way through the task.
00:31:51
Speaker
Right. the thing but it's And I think it's it's always like, you know like If you get into an argument or something, and I don't ah don't swear in ah arguments that much, it's the kind of afterwards.
00:32:07
Speaker
So like if you've had a if you've had a heated dis discussion on something, I'm not exactly swearing any more than normal. hated debate ah right but afterwards know when i'm going off i'm like i'm like you know yeah i'm doing a sort of a muttly right
00:32:28
Speaker
like dacily mu yeah i'm doing a at the mutley right african for north forget
00:32:40
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that What about you, Paul? what For me, it's fit full filling online. Oh, blimey. Forms. And when you get really lazy, we've talked about this in other episodes, when you get lazy programmers who've done a really bad job of the back end or something, and if you go, you fill out form, and if there's an error somewhere, you have to go back to something, you have to refill it all over again.
00:33:12
Speaker
That kind of thing. And I'll swear, it's a guarantee, 100% guarantee that I'll be swearing at that point. Right. The other thing, though, biggie, is bad Italian drivers.
00:33:27
Speaker
That's all of them?
00:33:30
Speaker
That's, it's a lot of them. I don't think Italians, sorry Italians out there listening, Italians shouldn't be able to drive. It's just really bad.
00:33:43
Speaker
They're just, God, they're really aggressive. Right. And they just learn some of the things that they do just drives me insane. And then they claim, is like they look at me like, I didn't do anything. the What are you talking about?
00:33:58
Speaker
You muppet. You muppet, you fucking arsehole. um Right wing journalism, that really gets my go. I can rudge i i have to i i try to avoid watching Italian TV.
00:34:15
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So if you watch if I have to watch like Italian um news programmes, it'll drive me insane. So think it' it gets me walked up, so I avoid it.
00:34:27
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Good idea. Good idea, mate. All right. I think, have you got any and anything else that that you want to like? I don't think so. Not really. Well, I could my favourite swear word is bollocks.
00:34:45
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I'll wrap it up there. I like the way it sounds. It's very much a sound thing for me. it's It's just bollocks. It's a nice word.
00:34:56
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gotve Got some nice nice card
History and Catharsis of Swearing
00:35:00
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consonants in there. Exactly. Bollocks. And it's got a nice rounded feel to it. It feels nice coming out of your mouth.
00:35:09
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Yeah. that's word that's why That's why the word cunt sounds so good. It's so aggressive sounding. Yeah, I don't tend to use. that's That's one word that I don't tend to use.
00:35:22
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don't. About once every 10 years, maybe. feel like it's like super rare. um It's like you said, though, if I say it, it's only to myself.
00:35:37
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Right. But now you've said it on a podcast to millions. It's out there. It's out there. yeah Oh, boy. I think... It's going to do minus four algorithm on their YouTube.
00:35:51
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Yeah, right. I think mine is still... i think fuck is still the the king for me. Yeah. still It's still the king. It's like... It's just say it's so flexible and useful. can You can use it as a verb, as an adjective, as a... Yeah. I like it when it's repeated. It's going, fuck! fuck right which i think is isn't that how um hugh hugh grant in four weddings and a funeral and that's what came to mind as i was saying as i was doing fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck that's what came to mind yeah yeah absolutely all right so uh i think i think um that just leaves us to uh
00:36:47
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Go to the ratings. Ratings. Let's do it.
00:36:56
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spring is it Is it a a dopamine hit or or is it a burnout thing? thing? It's a big, massive dopamine score, think. I'm going to give it a solid 10. A 10 out of 10. Definitely.
00:37:11
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Just absolutely blinding. ah I think you're right. I think i'll i'll so I'll slightly come back a bit and go like 9. But, yeah. Yeah. Dopamine hit.
00:37:22
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Bang on. great loving you all of it yeah burnout right it's hard it's hard to think where the where the burnout thing is apart from saying it saying it in the wrong place or too often or too often yeah i'm gonna give it six for burnout score because it just really irritates me when people use it too much you know it's like a replacement for bad vocabulary Right. Oh, yeah. Other people. There we go. So if you get if you're getting getting a lot of, if you have someone who's swearing a lot, it is quite, it it does make you and anxious.
00:38:01
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So there yeah there is a big difference between. I want to say to these people sometimes, come on, mate. English is a beautiful language. use it. It's a beautiful language. Come on.
00:38:16
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You can't just keep keep saying vagina, vagina, vagina, vagina. Exactly. Exactly. It's a good point. Well put. All right. So is it it is a massive, massive with dopamine. heat I think to put it like a sort of a four out of five. So, yeah. So that is in the...
00:38:33
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that is a that is in the that is That is on the scoreboard ah for us. All right, so let's jump in the tractor. and We're going to make our way over to Alexandra's Haunted Inn.
00:38:53
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Fucking hell, out the way, you fuckers, you Italian retribers. Jesus, yeah.
00:39:02
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Nice music. Yeah, it just a little bit of a haunted vibes. um So, Ali, ali all so we were talking about soup last last week, and you said that you only do, like, very smooth soup.
00:39:17
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can Yes. um And, yeah, she's a soup fan, and yeah but she says that she can only do very fine, tiny chunks. Otherwise, blended to death.
00:39:33
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Exactly. Same here. I'm quite, um I'm quite, i I like a chunky soup. And in fact, I'm not entirely sure. You're missing out, Martin, I think. you You could have a very predictable experience, but no, you have to make it unpredictable because you have no idea what size the chunks are going to be.
00:39:55
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It's become so suddenly unpredictable.
Listener Feedback and Quiz
00:40:00
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I would argue, obviously, that that I can have smooth soup and chunky soup. So so so um so I have the full gamut of chunky sensations.
00:40:14
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So um from from in about 30 seconds, I went from feeling smug to envious. Oh, well, because it just tastes the same.
00:40:26
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What a rollercoaster emotions talking about soup. of The highs and lows. Highs and lows of soup. ah um I did, ah as ah as ah as I mentioned last week, Alexandra's homework was to watch Muppets of Treasure Island, which she did. a I watched Muppets of Treasure Island, but but she didn't say anything about whether it was good or not.
00:40:54
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She did think three exclamation marks. Yeah, yeah. Which, by the way, yes did you know that women, um it's ah it's actually a coincidence that she's used three exclamation marks because women, they did some research, women are three times more likely to use an exclamation mark than men.
00:41:15
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Oh, wow. All right. That's yeah cool. Leave it there. I'll leave it there. And it's not for the reasons you think. Well, it's not for the reasons I thought it would be.
00:41:25
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ah thought, well, maybe because women are more angry and frustrated. No, it's about empathy. ah it is? ah Yeah. It's a really interesting subject. If anyone cares to look that up. All right. well Interesting subject.
00:41:41
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I had another um text came in on my or my text phone. It's from Seth, who's our who we had on a podcast ages ago.
00:41:54
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And he's our minister of head head stuff. um He says, oh, my God, your ADHD soup quiz, which we had last last week, he says, I have actually had quite a lot of beer and cheese soup in Wisconsin.
00:42:12
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Please let Paul know it's delicious. Blimey. Seth, are you sure? Are you having a laugh? No.
00:42:22
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hi this is This is like, I mean, as I said, with Wisconsin is is cheese central. It is the centre of the cheese wheel.
00:42:34
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Yeah. Okay. I think, Seth, I'm going to throw this out to you as a challenge. You're going to come on on a future episode I'm going to watch you eating cheese and beer soup.
00:42:49
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For the whole episode. That's it. That is the episode. i just want to see it happen. I'll pay for it to happen. I'll buy the soup. You could just as easily make cheese beer soup at home. You can make it yourself. And we can watch you.
00:43:09
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okay all right well that just uh let's move on um uh actually you know what it's you should say here that your feedback is vital to us read all the comments blah blah blah yeah but we swore to do that yeah i've just quickly looked up a wisconsin native beer cheese soup it's a native soup of wisconsin It says here, i won't go into it, but they've put popcorn on the top.
00:43:44
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They sprinkle popcorn on the top. Holy shit. yeah holy shit um They've got sprinkles on the soup of popcorn.
00:43:57
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I'm pretty sure that's not standard. I don't know, though. Help us out here. You weed fuckers.
00:44:09
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It says here, this is just the description, this beer cheese soup is delicious, no exclamation marks. As a weak Wisconsin native, I'm accustomed to a fantastic beer cheese soup. This recipe is a salute to my home state, America's dairy land, and a state that brews a mighty fine beer, so we combine it with cheese.
00:44:36
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Served with lots of popcorn floating on the top! Exclamation mark. Wow. Okay. All right. There we go. That's a thing. Wow. There's no hope for you.
00:44:49
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Well, I'm sure Seth will will weigh in at some point this week and let us know, and I'll get back to you with anything. All right. Cheese, beer, soup-related. Exactly.
00:45:01
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In the meantime, your feedback is vital to us, especially you've feedback about popcorn sprinkles on your soup. We read all your comments, and we might read out your comments on a future episode.
00:45:15
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Yes, we will. Absolutely. What's your favourite swear word? All right, so let's get on to the quiz. i don't i i don't have a little musical bit for that, so I'll just i'll i'll just do do this.
00:45:32
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It's the quiz.
00:45:36
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got a quiz. We have got one. Yes. Every week. So that's what we decided last last week was... Oh, I didn't know. I didn't realize we decided to do every week.
00:45:47
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Yeah. Yeah. Oh, okay. Have a quick quiz. Well, unless you don't want to and then we'll... No, no, it's cool. a I'm off for that. But I like it. All right. So it's the three question, three...
00:46:00
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three possible possible answers and it's about swearing and you'll like this first one Paul <unk> because it's typographical you like a bit of typographical yeah right in the world of typographical swearing So, yeah you know, like um in the, you know, like if you see some as ah a swearing typed out and it's sometimes sometimes like exclamation mark, ampersand, crosshatch, dollar sign, you know percentage mark. When we do that, where you substitute the swear word for those yeah at characters. There is an official name for that string of symbols.
00:46:45
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No. Yes. Is it A, is it cool is it called a gibberish of grammar themes? Is it obs... That's total bullshit. You made that up. Next. Is it B, obs... obs... obs...
00:47:05
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no or or is it c the keyboard smash of fury
00:47:13
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Oh bloody hell So if you've if it's not A then is it B obscenicons or C the keyboard smasher fury?
00:47:25
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But then Jesus it's the A then, it's A gibberish of a gibberish of a gibberish of a gibberish of graphemes Yes. All right.
00:47:39
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No, it wasn't that one. It was B, obscenicons. Obscenicons. Yeah, it's the formal term for a sequence of typographical symbols used to represent a swear word.
00:47:54
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I like that. I like that. It's good one, Martin. um like I like that too. I lost. I failed miserably, but like it. I like the cut of your chip. Yeah, i I cut it especially for you. Right, nub question number two.
00:48:08
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this is a this is this This is a Scottish one in 2019 because I don't know much you like Scotland and the Scots and wearing a kilt and all of that. And haggis. We talked about haggis last week. as A square sausage. um yeah but Yeah. All that. Right, in 2019, Scottish town...
00:48:29
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made international headlines for its creative approach to deterring bad parking. What did they do to deter bad parking? Did they a slap an...
00:48:43
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unnecessary parking sticker on the side of your car with a right with an angry looking Nessie so it's like unnecessary parking you see what they did there did they be install signs that politely read don't be a fanny park properly
00:49:11
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Okay. Or did they see introduce a parking badge of honour for drivers who consistently parked well? is the Is it the unnecessary parking sticker or the don't be a fanny park properly?
00:49:32
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i It sounds much more likely to be B. Don't be a fanny. And that would be right. Don't be a faddy properly. was putting my Scottish hat on.
00:49:47
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I liked the first one. Did you make that up? I did. It's nice though, mate. It's good. You're on fire. Thank you.
00:49:58
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um Yeah. Okay, so
Episode Wrap-up and Next Episode Teaser
00:50:00
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one all. Yep, so chance was the last one ah that was in the town of dn Dundee, which um which is where my friend Lee lives.
00:50:12
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and So, yeah. Famous for cake. Yeah, ah just, yeah, fanny in Scottish slang or even even in English slang is much stronger and more ah more of of yeah ah more ah offensive in it's in that in in so in Scottish. it's It's the front part, not them not the back part, it's the front area.
00:50:42
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It's the right ladies garden zone. um Right. ah Right, number three. There
00:50:53
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there have been many bazaar and he's... Oh, you know what? i think i think i think we've we had this question We've had this in a quiz at some other point many moons ago. so say Wow. That just shows how many episodes we've done. We've got repeating quiz questions.
00:51:14
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Yeah, but I still liked it, so I'm bringing it back. Right, so there are many bizarre and historical laws against public profanity. that remain on the law books in various locations. In which US state is it technically illegal to use... Wisconsin....prophanacy in the...
00:51:39
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Fucking cheese. Cheese, popcorn, beer. Fuck. What could possibly go wrong?
00:51:49
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ah In which US state is it technically illegal to to use profanity in the presence of a corpse of a dead person?
00:52:00
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Blimey. I don't remember this. Is it A in Georgia, B in Florida, or C in Maryland?
00:52:12
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you've got to Georgia down south. It sounds more south, doesn't it? It sounds south, doesn't it? Florida, which is also down south, and then Maryland, which is slightly north of south.
00:52:28
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I'm going Georgia. So ah all of my three answers have been B so far. no they haven't. It A, B, B. I'm going B, Georgia. And you'd be right.
00:52:39
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It is Georgia. There we go. Georgia. Strange bunch. sort Strange things go on in Georgia. It is technically illegal to use profanity in the presence of a corpse. Meanwhile, in Rockville, Maryland...
00:52:56
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um the law prohibits the use of profane language on or or or ah or on or ah ah adjacent to public streets and sidewalks.
00:53:09
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So you can't swear on the street, which as... which i've which as Maryland is the second sweariest state in America. feels like that law.
00:53:22
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that That law obviously had no effect whatsoever. No. Or just made them more frustrated. Yeah, and they just swore inside. They just swear more at home.
00:53:40
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Swearing at home. funny
00:53:45
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Let's move some some windows. and All right, so that just leaves us to what is your turn this this yes for next week's episode?
00:53:59
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this so This part of the show is sponsored by Carol, the Minister of s stackck Snacks. Thanks, its Carol. ah Yeah. and he's now And next week, Martin, ADHD and hobbies is their theme. Ooh.
00:54:14
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Hobbies. oh we like a hobby. We like a hobby. Yeah. Yeah. We're starting Splash some money on it. Starting them.
00:54:25
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Forgetting them. Yeah. Forgetting them. Yeah. the The hobby drawer of shame. All right. i am te I am interested. am interested. all right Okay, that's good. Yeah, yeah. All right. Well, that I think that that just leaves me to pause until I can hear the outro music. There it is. ah Yeah, so that leads me to say ADHD Village delivered fresh every Tuesday to all pavilions of fun podcasts. Please subscribe to the pod and rate us most fucking brilliant. There we go. And feel free to correspond out well in the comments. But wait, there's more. If you wish to see our beautiful...
00:55:04
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00:55:15
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And I beseech you fellow ADHDers, fare thee well with gladness of heart. Oh, marvellous.
00:55:25
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Marvellous. There, says the mayor, that's that. Yeah, there we go. um You know what? i I don't know if we caught that, but I decided to not swear.
00:55:37
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you know what? Because we that's the only time that I normally swear is when I say, be fucking kind to yourself. And this time... but Yes. I didn't. You didn't. Wow.
00:55:50
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didn't even spot it. know. I didn't spot that. I'll keep your APL. All right. Well, thanks everyone for being here. See you next week. should start show