In an effort to stop scaring away kids with my excellent catalogue of vocab, I am going to attempt to go one day without swearing within the next week. Hopefully I become more PG-13 or something.
One day: defined as the time period from 12:00AM to 11:59PM on any given day, as opposed to days defined by my dogwater sleep schedule
Swearing: usage either verbally or online. Words include those from this list: https://qr.ae/prrgV1
If I use words like 'fork' and 'birch', the-good-place style, these will also count as swears.
Come bet on my ability to control myself!
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@nettedjay 19 hours in!!! theoretically i could just take a good old nap and resolve it but maybe i'll wait - surely today is the day
@nettedjay 1.5 hours left. the end is nigh fr (i hope, i have slightly regretted this market ever since i made it)
@nettedjay i was so close 😭 not going to talk to myself tomorrow either, too easy to swear under my breath
2/7 days left
Jan 7 update,,,,
it was going well until i forgot that i had a call with a friend, and talking does not serve me well ☠ i also saw this headline https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/us/newport-news-school-shooting-virginia.html so uh also like incomprehensible,,,
3/7 days left. tomorrow i will probably actually try not talk to anyone
Jan 6,,, update: lost in the first hour of the day because i was extremely tired and had to work on another application. however i have done my final application and likely prepare to become a monk tomorrow? who knows. without the applications i think i can actually focus on not swearing ☠ 4/7 left
@nettedjay update: JK i submitted an application and the feeling of liberation had to be celebrated with cannons (and by that i mean i just dropped an f bomb on accident). oops, 20% regret but also i lasted for like a solid 20 hours which is a solid improvement. 5/7 days left and i by this trend i reckon i can probably do it by tomorrow 😎 no guarantees though. fuck yes for liberation from stupid essays though
consider doing some of these, it's in both our best interest
setting reminders to not swear that go off every 30 minutes
punishing yourself for swearing by immediately spraying your face with a spray bottle. The spray bottle should be carried around at all times and also serves as a reminder.
setting autocomplete to delete your typed swear words or replace them with nonsense (not minced oaths)
@nettedjay UPDATE: jk i forgot my pure hatred for unethical exams and let slip while complaining about past exams. if this is the hill i die on, so be it - fuck unethical exam writers who include organic mercury in their practicals without telling us ☠ 6/7 days left(?)
@jacksonpolack i would say v true but also i'm trying to use this as a proxy to think about my words before i speak - it is still not going very well
Background: I swear a LOT. I also have a bad memory. My impulse new year's resolution was to not swear on the first day of the year, and I managed to break that resolution 24 minutes into the year. I proceeded to supplement my mistake with even more swears.
The next two days have also detailed failures: today (Tuesday 3rd Jan) was a failure where I went a record 10 hours without swearing before letting slip a fuck. I have since given up on today and am free to lose as many fucks as I please, although this is notably not a good look for my YES shares.
@nettedjay on the other hand, fuck you @pranav for buying it down to 10%, I am also very committed to making my friends lose mana 🥰 this will be a war between my dogshit memory/habits and my determination to make you go broke