Lianachan,

Even within the US it can be like that. I had to come up with the "casual cursing" phrase to explain the phenomena. You see, some areas of the US don't use certain phrases as casual cursing. Which as expected gets "harder" the more urban you get. Even with television and movies.

In bootcamp, where this big culture collision is going on anyway, the big shocker for a lot of guys was the refference to one's mother. Where a lot of the guys came from that just wasn't said, while some of us from New York, L.A. and San Francisco had been using it since grade school. Meant nothing.

Guys got into to some injurious fights over comments meant to be no more insulting than, "Hey, dumb ***!"

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