庶人， I can only imagine the words you must have used. I'm glad they worked for you. But, please, keep those words somewhere else. We have ladies and children here. Haha.
A construction site, quite like a battle field, is where you must show your muscle and teeth to establish authority. Your toughness is tested by the bottom line that how much you can tolerate the dirty words.
A few years ago, I was in a NYC MTA station project, directing a construction superintendent to follow design drawings. This red-nosed alcoholic was so tough and wild that everybody walked around him. One day he accused me, with a group walkie-talkie so everyone can hear him, saying that I screwed up and delayed the job. I was so embarrassed and furious that I grabbed the walkie-talkie and started yelling to him, with literally pure F words, for at least 5 minutes. Everyone in the field, more than one hundred I believe, heard me from the group walkie-talkie.
Guess what? This guy has been one of my best friends ever since.
North-village was right. To be successful in the two toughest profession, Wall Street and construction, you have to be a master of dirty language. Men or women a like, young or old alike, educated or uneducated a like.
Many years ago, a friend of mine, upon entering US, paid $20/hour to learn words used on the street, including some listed here. Today, he is a successful businessman. It seems that there is correlation between how-to in this case and his success.
My boss sometimes uses "idiot", but sometimes uses "moron", what's the subtle difference between the two? or in another word, do I want to be an idiot or a moron? Moron is a bit better, right? Somehow, it does not feel so stupid to me.
Turkeys have developed quite an unsavory reputation. They are rather dim. Tom Tyson, a free-range turkey farmer in Michigan (Michigonians should know, right? - present company excepted, of course), says that if you don’t put stones in their water trough, they’ll stick their heads all the way in and drown. But it doesn’t stop there. Turkeys are also mean when they are in a group or "flock.” Tyson has seen them attack the family dog. And to make matters worse, they smell bad too, but only when they’re wet. Tyson says, “There’s nothin’ worse than the smell of wet poultry.”
I have heard people say "bonehead", "jerk", "stupid", "dork", and the ones starting with "A" - all the others are new to me:)!! I guess I live in a relatively "clean" environment:).
