Yeah, that makes you look really manly: Cursing

Man I tell you what, that !@$*!% ball was coming in so !@%!% fast that I just said #^#%@ @#%$@# and knocked the @#$(@#( out of it.

Listening to some guys talk you hear curse words tossed around like dodgeballs in a grade school. Just look at the phrase above. You probably filled in some of the words in your head as you read it. I just find that cursing doesn't add a lot. Compare that phrase to:

Man I tell you what, that ball was coming in so fast that I just said "Here Goes" and knocked the stuffing out of it.

The two phrases tell the same story, but the first phrase would garner a PG-13 rating, while the second was G.

Why those added adjectives? I mean, does it add to the sentence?

 Michael Jordan was the best basketball player ever.

VS

Michael "His Airness" Jordan undoubtedly, yet notably was the single most talented and skilled and just the best ever in the history of mankind in the whole wide world basketball player who ever played the game of basketball since it was invented and he started playing.

 Once again, two phrases that mean the same thing, but one says it much more concisely. 

Cursing doesn't make you sound classy or sophisticated. Think about this, when is the last time you heard a billionaire stand up in front of a crowded banquet hall and say: "We've had a #$@#% awesome @##$% @#$@ year." Never? When is the last time you saw an alcoholic who can hold a job use the same phrase with "horrible" substituted for "awesome"? You might have actually heard that one.

Would you like to hear your heart surgeon say "Today, we are going to take your old heart out of your chest and put in a new one." or "Today, we are going to take that $@#% old heart out of your #$%#$ chest and put in a @#$@# new one."?

At the very least, men should watch their language around women and children. There are actually a number of states and cities that have laws on the books that say cursing in front of a woman or child or preacher is punishable by a fine, usually about $100. I can't believe the amount of times in a store, parking lot, or at an event I hear curse words whizzing by my children as we walk past a group, with me just praying that one of them doesn't find my daughter's sensitive young ears. The last think I want to be doing is explaining to a 3 year old what the "f-word" means.

So be a real man and think before you talk. Try to sound more sophisticated and see where it gets you. Who knows, maybe leaving out a few extra words in your phrases will make you sound smarter and get you a promotion - or at least a better reputation.