Quote Originally Posted by quickdodgeŽ
Let's check out this sentence:

I have to take a shit.

Plain, straight to the point sentence. Now. From that, keep in mind I said shit, am I angry because I have to take a shit? Should I have said: <snip>

Would that have given you different feeling towards my inner psyche? Later, QD.
You should say, whatever you want to say.

"I have to take a shit." is crude. When a person is crude, I perceive them as angry, disturbed or just not particuarly nice.

Researchers who study the evolution of language and the psychology of swearing say that cursing is a universal human occupation. Every living and dead language and dialect ever studied which was spoken by whole continents or only an isolated village has profanity. It is also universal that human beings use profanity as a way of venting aggression and stress.

If you are venting agression and stress, it follows that you had some anger and stress pent up inside that needed to come out. Petitio Quaesiti, why are you so ticked off?