When I was in college, for a while we adopted "Pope" as a swear word.

"Pope you, motherpoper!"

My mother used "Ayatollah Khomeni" as a swear word when I was a girl. It does have a ring to it, but is now sadly outdated (he died.)

I like "scheisse." I should try to use that more often. You can put a lot of rage and venom into "scheisse."

I picked that one up from Run Lola Run.

Hooray! I have a bathroom to use!

Unfortunately, it has no door and there are all these construction workers around, but I don't care.

So that was weird.

Got called over for birthday cakery. Everyone's speaking a language I don't. They then sing a version of happy birthday with God in it, and two of the guys hand feed the birthday boy tiramisu.

I ended up wandering off. If they can't be bothered to speak English, there's really no point me hanging around.

I used to watch my mouth really carefully at work, but then my Mormon boss was let go and replaced by an Italian from Queens. So things have loosened up a bit.

I have four onerous tasks.

Someone will need to threaten to fire me so that I will accomplish them.

I have been told I don't swear enough at work. I have trained myself over the years to say Fudge or Bless instead of my usual dirty words, I don't see that changing soon.

ALLYSON! do one of them.

Well, the sell of the PS2 may fall through, as pick-up cannot be scheduled until Sunday. BUT, it looks like I have a buyer for the Guitar Hero games and guitars as well. YAY!

Now I am really motivated to list a bunch of other stuff for sale. too bad, I have to be somewhere tonight or I could crank out ebay and craigslist listings.

And I always want to get on a plane, go to England, get Margaret Thatcher, and have her kick the shit of the dude while screaming, "who's the alpha male now, bitch?"

I think the Queen would have a greater impact. Or, you could get Helen Mirren, combining her roles in The Queen and RED.

Otherwise, the f-bomb is dropped a lot (not by me) along with frequent reference to balls and how hard it is to work with chicks. Yes, you can tell I work in a male-dominated environment.

I prefer working with women, as a general rule. My current firm is pretty good on the whole, but the bloke culture gets out of hand sometimes.

Then you run into German speakers who give you the evil eye. I used to say "Oh, bugger" a lot and got looks of "Oh, how quaint!" Then I got a supervisor who spent a lot of time in England, and her look was one of "WTF!!!" I apologized quickly and everyone else went "What? What?"

I use 'bugger' as one of my go-to swear words. Despite the referent, it's really quite mild in the Australian context. (And the English.) I got called out on it once, on a board frequented by Mormons, again by someone who'd spent some time in England. (For some reason they thought I was a teenager going for shock value.) I apologised sincerely, assuring them I hadn't intended to slip anything in through the back door. Signed off with "Roger and out". They complimented me on my courtesy.