{"id":45567,"date":"2025-12-22T03:07:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T03:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=45567"},"modified":"2025-12-22T03:07:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T03:07:20","slug":"power-of-the-potty-mouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2025\/12\/22\/power-of-the-potty-mouth\/","title":{"rendered":"Power of the potty mouth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><h2>&#8220;Not only does swearing increase pain tolerance, it increases strength too,&#8221; writes Jennie Ridyard <\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Someone once asked Himself, an author, why his books don\u2019t contain sex scenes. \u201cBecause my mother is still alive,\u201d he replied, only half-joking. <\/p>\n<p>And that is why I don\u2019t swear: because my mother is still alive. <\/p>\n<p>I may say bloody, but only at cocktail time when it directly precedes Mary. <\/p>\n<p>I may say ass, but only when talking about donkeys. I may even call people ice-holes and cake-suckers and jolly naughty chaps. <\/p>\n<p>But full-blown cursing? No sir, not me. None of your filth will pass these delicate lips. Or rather \u2013 full disclosure \u2013 I don\u2019t swear in front of my mother. <\/p>\n<p>But when she\u2019s not around, well, given the impetus, then golly gee and goodness gracious me\u2026 \u201cYou kiss your mother with that mouth?\u201d asks Himself. <\/p>\n<p>Naturally, I call him a rude word. As anybody who\u2019s ever tried it knows, sometimes dropping a well-chosen cuss bomb, or even a lazy, badly-handled one, is the only thing that gets the job done. <\/p>\n<p>And now, hell yeah, scientists have shown that swearing can be good for you. <\/p>\n<p>They say it\u2019s like a performance-enhancing drug without the side effects \u2013 apart from risking a slap across the head from your mother. <\/p>\n<p>Apparently, it\u2019s particularly useful when you\u2019re doing something physical and need to harness your every ounce of strength. <\/p>\n<p>They know this after test subjects on exercise bikes, or with a hand in iced water, were able to push themselves to the limit when repeating a juicy swearword. <\/p>\n<p>Not only does swearing increase pain tolerance, it increases strength too \u2013 which is why the baddies in movies don\u2019t go \u201cbedknobs and broomsticks\u201d as they\u2019re beating the bejaysus out of each other. <\/p>\n<p>As chief researcher Richard Stephens puts it: \u201cSwearing is an easily available way to help you feel focused, confident and less distracted, and go for it a little more.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>A good cussing lowers inhibitions, boosts self-confidence and helps get the potty-mouthed into a state of flow. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s \u201cliterally a calorie-neutral, drug-free, low-cost, readily available tool\u201d to use when needing a performance boost, Stephens told The Guardian. <\/p>\n<p>However, as it probably works simply because of the taboo nature of swearing, one should use one\u2019s powers of profanity wisely: one must keep it taboo. <\/p>\n<p>So no, I won\u2019t be swearing in front of my mom \u2013 while hoping that, on occasion, she too explodes in expletives, just not in front of her darling daughters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOW READ: Death, where art thy sting?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n#Power #potty #mouth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Not only does swearing increase pain tolerance, it increases strength too,&#8221; writes Jennie Ridyard Someone once asked Himself, an author,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mzansi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45569,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45567\/revisions\/45569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}