Stub your toe? Skip pain pills. Employ expletives instead.
Cursing can act as a form of pain relief, according to a study by Keele University in England published this month in the American Journal of Pain.
A caveat: Persistently profane persons — those who swear as much as 60 times a day or more — see less benefit from blue language as opposed to those who curse just a few times a day.
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Let's not let our kids read this and think it means they can swear all they want, so long as they pretend they hurt themselves...
this article is from a college in England,that right there speaks for itself.
But not on Sundays though. Drinking and swearing are not allowed round these here parts.
BS
@$$%W^$$%^^%^&&&!!!!
For those calling this article "BS" or suggesting that it isn't credible because it's from a university in the UK, I suggest you take a look here:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=why-do-we-swear
While the article specifically addresses the Keele University study mentioned above (though it references a study published two years prior in the journal NeuroReport), there are many experts that agree with the study. Harvard University psychologist Steven Pinker addresses this issue in his book The Stuff of Thought.
If you feel like reading the actual study, you can read the abstract (and subsequently subscribe to the journal or just purchase the study) here:
http://journals.lww.com/neuroreport/Abstract/2009/08050/Swearing_as_a_response_to_pain.4.aspx
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