The good thing about science is it keeps on interpreting things that make me understand a bit of myself better each day. I have always regarded myself as a bit of a masochist. I never thought of relating that to my curse-dominated ideolect but science has.
Keele University researchers studied the relationship of cursing with pain tolerance and they found that those who curse can endure pain nearly 50% longer than those who don’t. This result gives everyone who gets hurt some good reason to belt out expletives.
On average, the students could tolerate the pain for nearly two minutes when swearing compared with only one minute and 15 seconds when they refrained from using expletives.
Researchers have yet to explain the link but they believe that it has something to do with the human beings’ flight or fight response. For a more detailed, check out this article on BBC.
Anyway, at least this gives me a bit of license to skip the PC bullcrap and curse whenever I want. I’ll just pretend that I stubbed my toe or bit my tongue.
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