Stuff like “god damn”, “fucking hell”, etc. Anything that stems from religious sources. That includes fudged varieties like “jeez/geez” and “heck”.
And to clarify, this isn’t some attempt to avoid blasphemy or anything. I’m not particularly religious and would rather rewrite the neural pathways for those “defaults”, but haven’t been able to come up with satisfactory alternatives so far.
*To clarify further, I’m all good with most other curses (shit, fuck, ass, etc). I’m not trying to be inoffensive, just non-religious.
Blood and bloody ashes
I feel you OP. I do feel silly saying “oh my god” as a reflex utterance considering I’m a lifelong Atheist lmao.
There’s gotta be something better than sarcastic takes like South Park saying “oh my science!”
My mom always hated god damnit so I started saying “Dang-ol’ dingus dangit” and it’s stuck for half my life.
Kid friendly, has a satisfying rhythm, silly enough to difuse some of the frustration, and usually gets a laugh
What about fictional or ancient religious swears?
- by the power of Ra!
- may Zeus grant mercy
- by Grabthar’s hammer!
- thank Thor
When I’m in a gaming VC I sometimes swap in setting-appropriate swears.
What about political figures?
- thanks Obama
What about cringy internet/gaming references?
- God damn -> mods ban
- thank god -> thanks chat
Fucking fuck
Fucking shit
Wtf
What the shit
Fuck me
I mean there are endless combinations
Sometimes simple is best.
“fuck me in the ass, that’s mildly inconvenient”
i mean, if you say so.
Bob Saget
Technically, it’s basically equivalent to “oh my god”, but the Vietnamese phrase Oi Troi Oi is outstanding
Rather than “god damn” I usually say “gods damn”. I’m not religious at all, but I’d rather someone mistake me for a polytheistic pagan than a Christian.
SoUnDs LiKe SoMeOnE nEeDs SoMe FrEeDoM fRiEs
Edit: its highly specialised against people like MAGA, the term originates from americans being angry at the french because they critisized a war made by the USAI’ve apparently offended the entire territory of Quebec with my question, so maybe that’s appropriate XD
oh, that was just a suggestion with a topic that i find hilarious
and sorry, i did not want to insult you(additionally, i am not from Quebec and i probably insult them more with that i dont know where that country is)
Wait are you saying you think Quebec is a country or that you don’t know where Canada is? I guess the username is appropriate either way.
oh, its in Canada
sounds like it could be its own country ^^
oops XD
“Kiss me where the wind blows”
SomethingInGERMAN!!!
Okay, little backstory here. When I was growing up, there was this fighting game called Karnov’s Revenge, and it was the 90s, so the characters said little 2 second phrases that more or less sounded like words. My friends and I were fascinated by it, ended up adding many of those phrases to our vocabulary. One of those characters was a giant German wrestler named Marstorius - and some of his phrases were just incomprehensible. So we ended up just yelling “SomethingInGERMAN” when he would pull of his big wresting move. No, not a translation, no actual German words were injured. And boyo did that stick, still say it to this day.
Just use Russian swears
I like the in-universe swears from some of Brandon Sanderson’s fantasy novels: Rust (rusting, rusted) and storms (storming) come to mind.
A québecoise roommate of mine got her whole office yelling “chicken FRITE” (fried chicken in franglais).
“What the shoes” is kind a fun one. I’ll also yell “fudge knuckles!” which doesn’t really mean anything but is pretty satisfying to say.
The Wheel of Time has some great ones too.
Blood and bloody ashes
Mother’s milk in a cup
Son of a goat’s left stone.
See also: Battlestar Galactica
Oh and Firefly, although a lot of that is in Mandarin.
I’ve started saying “death” as a curse word
