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TOTP: Are you quite controlled with your swearing?
Will: We don't really cuss that much...I mean we cuss amongst each other but mine, like, turns off when I'm around my mom automatically, it turns off. My mom told me that your words make you what you are, they're the result of how you respond to things, emotionally and constructively, so you might as well have a whole bunch of good words in your head to describe how you feel in given situations.
TOTP: But sometimes you can't help yourself, right?
Will: Yeah sometimes when I'm nervous if I'm looking for my passport, I'm like "Aw phunk! Where's my ship?" [BEP Approved Swearing Filter in action] So if you look at that as swearing? But that isn't really swearing, a swear is like when it's negative upon someone else, so I could swear at you and not even say a bad word. Like "you pumpernickel!", "you kneecap!" You know what I mean?
TOTP: So that's not swearing but it's insulting?
Will: Yeah man, like what's worse, if I say "phunking ship!" Right?
TOTP: I guess the combination of the two...
Will: [Interrupting] So a girl right, you're with your girlfriend, and going "Oh ship!" right "oooh ship!", like, you know what I mean? Is that bad?
TOTP: No, you'd assume that that's good...
Will: Right? So what's swearing? All that is fear and control. It's fear and control.
TOTP: Have you ever have been angry or stressed and you have cussed in a situation where perhaps you shouldn't have?
Will: Yeah, like this one time I was mad, and I was like "Ahh SHIP!"
TOTP: And presumably you didn't need to apologise or talk your way out of it?
Will: I was by myself, so I apologized to myself. I looked into the mirror and said "George Bush would not like this..."
TOTP: And what did your reflection say back to you?
Will: "You're right!"
TOTP: What about you, Apl? Have you ever sworn in front of anyone you shouldn't have?
Will: [Interrupting] He's funny when he's cussin' though, cos when Apl gets really mad, his F's get messed up and he says "Ahh, buck!", his accent comes out pretty thick.
TOTP: Do you surprise yourself with your own swear-osity?
Apl: Yeah I've said some ship where I'm like "Damn! I can't believe I got that phunking mad that I said ship like that", you know?
TOTP: So what does it take to get you that mad?
Apl: Erm, I dunno. Like over repetitious silly arguments.
TOTP: About swearing?
Apl: No, so for example I get impatient that somebody just doesn't get it. Like "What the phunk? I can't believe you don't understand that ship!" Yeah, somebody you care about.
TOTP: Did you ever swear and then someone you respect turned around and said "What? What did you just say?" and you just turn around and pretend you just said something else?
Apl: Yes, my mom.
TOTP: Have you had lots of experience with British people swearing? A lot of people say British people are great swearers.
Will: Well when you guys swear it's cool 'cos you put a little accent on it. It ain't the same, you know what I mean? Like if you, like you're a criminal, you see a guy walking down the street and you want his wallet, how you gonna say it?
TOTP: [Blushing] Give me your wallet you muddy-fudder...?
Will: No, how would you really say it? You'd say "gimme your phunking wallet!" But that doesn't sound threatening, but like somebody from the hood would be like "Eh, you MUDDY-FUDDY! Gimme your muddy-fudding ship right now. You little binch!" And that's like, yeah, wow now that's some ship. OK? Well now I'm an English robber. I say "Hello mate, gimme your ship right now!" but it stops up, you know what I mean? Like everything is here. everything goes up. But when we do it everything goes down.
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