I’ve certainly posted some profanity-laced tirades, although I try to remember and not set those entires for public view.

I won’t cross that line in a professional setting, even though a string of it may be going off silently in my head. Never in an office setting.

I’ve consciously sworn at a superintendent at a meeting once because he was getting way out of hand and unfortunately it took that to snap him back to the reality of the situation.

Usually it is the end of the rope anger and frustration that triggers it. And then it’s a string of ‘f…ing’ this and ‘f…ing’ that.

I don’t usually use it in casual conversation, even with friends and buddies.

I don’t recall any of my characters using profanity even at their worse.

I think that’s part same-reason Lilithiel has, and part old-timer role play. I remember when reading it in role play was pretty rare and if and when I did read it my first reason was, “WOW, someone REALLY messed up!”

Now, when it comes to out of character writing–Princess I am not, yes :p

Character wise/writing wise, it is exceptionally rare for me to use profanity. Much as Lil does, I save it for the extreme situations.

Kids read the forums. I have my blogs locked down so I know who has access to read them.

Knowing that any number of family members occasionally view this blog keeps my writing relatively tame.

Lilithiel, I completely agree with you about using profanity in roleplaying games for extreme emphasis only. Foul language has a lot more impact when your character is not known for dropping the F bomb.

But when I write something for public consumption, it generally won’t have any words that one wouldn’t hear in a Disney movie . . . either an old habit from communicating through AOL’s TOS or a habit from business/workplace writing.

Granted I do have private “drafts” of posts that have a lot of F-s, S-s, and C-s in them if I’m ranting, and those words do come out in my roleplay for emphasis only. They’d lose emphasis if I used them too often.

If someone sees my character say F- in a public area, there are going to be O.o reactions, and there will be comments of “Uh oh, did you see what she said? She never uses that kind of language! She’s PISSED now!” whereas no one bats an eye at the characters that habitually and casually drop F-, S- and C- bombs, as they’re no longer emphatic.

I use profanity a lot, daily, in my regular speech. I don’t blame that on anyone, I just picked it up and it’s translated into my writing.

That doesn’t mean that every second word out of my mouth or typed is a four letter word ol’ George would be proud of; strangely enough if I think I’m being funny, or witty, or if I am at my wits end about something, I’ll use it.

It’s true that I hope to use 2phatgeeks as a small income chance occasionally, but it’s still my own personal blog. I suppose if I really wanted to make a hard-core strictly business blog, I’d have a second word press all pretty and shiny :p