These people are fucking amateurs. I normally shout my first expletive by 7:00 am. A better survey would be the volume of expletives per day. When I got to work on Monday after a 2 hour and 10 minute commute due to fucking rain and incompetent government fuckwads who can’t clear sewer grates, my staff asked why my voice was hoarse. They thought I was sick. Nope. I had just unleashed tirade after tirade of expletives about drivers and the fucking government on my drive to work. My drive home usually induces even more expletives. 
The average American utters their first curse word of the day at 10:54 am, according to new data.
A study into the everyday stress and frustration of 2,000 Americans aimed to explore how much stress Americans take on and how exactly they deal with it.
Having a bad day? You might be one of the one in four Americans who can’t get past 9 am without cursing most days, while the majority of respondents swear before 11am.
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Perhaps the number of potty mouths isn’t too surprising considering that cursing is the most common way to express stress and frustration, according to the results of the study.
The new survey, conducted by 9Round Kickbox Fitness, found financial worry to be the biggest cause of stress and frustration among Americans (56 percent).
Followed by such time-honored stress-contributors like not getting enough sleep (36 percent), health concerns (35 percent) and work (30 percent).
But some Americans are stressed and frustrated about things that one might not expect.
For instance, one in ten (9 percent) listed the environment as a source of stress and frustration for them and four percent actually said the national deficit stresses them out. A curious three percent said they’ve been stressed about the national deficit within the past week.
The bar is low, as even something as mundane as slow wifi is enough to send 52 percent of Americans into a tizzy of frustration.
Stress is an inescapable part of life it seems, with the average American experiencing 1,205 stressful events every year, according to the results. 57 percent of Americans even believe their life is just always going to be stressful.
As mentioned above, cursing is the most popular way people express their frustration, with 63 percent saying that’s how it manifests for them most frequently. Yelling is another popular method of relief(49 percent) and, sadly enough, crying (39 percent).
So, with stressful events piling up in the thousands every year, how do we cope with it?
Listening to music is the most popular way of dealing (50 percent), followed by watching TV/movies (47 percent) and physical exercise (40 percent).
“People of all ages face stress every day and it can be difficult to find effective and healthy ways to cope,” said Shannon Hudson, CEO and founder of 9Round Kickbox Fitness. “While listening to music or watching TV can be relaxing, one of the best ways to reduce tension is through regular exercise because it improves both physical health and overall well-being. When you are physically and mentally strong, you are better equipped to handle life’s frustrations.”
Forty-seven percent of Americans reported that they’ve worked out after a long, stressful, frustrating day and of those that have, nine in ten report it helped them feel less stressed.
Physical exercise has many benefits, both mental and physical. 64 percent of the 2,000 respondents said that physically working out actually helps them think more clearly.
But free time does not come easy for many Americans, as half (49 percent) say they don’t have enough time in the day to do everything they want, or even need.
So, it’s no surprise that exercise can take a backseat, with one in four saying they don’t workout regularly because they simply don’t have time.
“We understand busy schedules and limited time constraints that’s why at 9Round we don’t offer set class times,” added Shannon. “Members are welcome to complete our 30-minute kickboxing circuit on their own schedule and get a great, stress-relieving workout seven days a week. Our workouts change daily and you can burn up to 500 calories each session.”
Many years ago, the three of us – me, wife, 4 yr old daughter went to an elegant restaurant (St Paul Hotel) for Thanksgiving. A waiter spilled a tray of dishes – my 4 year old startled, and shouted: “Jesus H Christ.” Broke up the entire restaurant.
The wife promptly said to me: “You know she get’s that from you!”
When I was a little kid, many decades ago, someone blew their car horn at my dad, my mother told me I yelled ‘blow it out your @ss’.
I still hold a memory of a time from when I was about 5-6 yrs. old. We had just moved to town a few months earlier, and one evening when dishes were done (dad had built a little wooden stepstool for me to reach the sink), with less than an hour of daylight left, I was stomping through the house, getting madder (stressin’ out) by the second. My mother asked me what was wrong, and I told her “I can’t find my other cocksuckin’ tennis shoe”. She freaked out, back-handed me across the chops, and gave me a bite of soap, sent me to the bedroom and wouldn’t let me go outside to get into the neighborhood ball game. Couple hours later, when dad got home, she threw open the bedroom door and told me to “go out there and tell your dad what you said !” I can still remember the slight grin on his face when I told him I thought it (cocksucker) had somethin’ to do with chickens !
I’m 77 years old and I almost can’t remember a time in my life where I didn’t lace any utterances over anything that pissed me off with a one to one ratio of common English words mixed with, (I’ll misspell) some variation of fark, krunt, cooksucker and arsehole.
I’ve been riding a stationary bicycle (used to be regular but I kept falling off) 8-10 miles every day for the past 15 years. It doesn’t reduce my stress, but I’m convinced that along with quitting smoking, it’s kept me alive a lot longer than I expected and therefore has elongated my repertoire of choice words.
thanks!!!!!!!you made my day!!!!! keep going
A 2 hour 10 min commute, 0ne-way.
Stress – wonder where that comes from?
Get another job!!!
Easy for you to say “get another job” or “move” or both. Not so easy to actually do even if you don’t take family obligations into account. I could probably get another job if I was willing to do a 2 hour commute each way from where I am or move to MA or NY or CA where, given the cost of living, I would still have to do a 1 hour commute each way in order to be able to afford living there and I’d have to live in a shithole alone because there is no way hubby would come with me. No thanks.
Annie….I wrote a lengthy-ish reply; think you would have liked it, but it disappeared.
A short reply:
Cost of transportation
Stress – long trip or White-Knuckle driving
Quality of Life
There are always trade offs. Most of the time you’re berating someone because they did or didn’t get a different job or move they’ve already evaluated the trade offs. The big one for me is that I have no life without Hubby much less quality of life. Admin probably is trading off something similar.
I had job stress but when I pulled into my farm’s tree lined driveway which was 10 degrees cooler than the rest of the world and then took my ax and chopped some brush (take that you stupid SOB supervisor etc), by supper time, I was feeling fine. Now I’m retired and just wander in the woods with my dog and the only stress is persuading her there isn’t a squirrel (in some particular tree) that I need to shoot.
Obviously the people surveyed don’t read TBP. If they read it over breakfast, like I do everyday, they would not get past 6:30 am without yelling: assholes, fuck-heads, WTF, shit, etc., etc.
Furthermore, I don’t see my primary reason for stress and frustration listed in the top 10. My top stress creator: I’m surrounded by fuckin’ idiots.
I’m in alot of traffic somedays and I can measure my blood pressure going up on my little machine .The more traffic the Higher my blood pressure
Ray Barsch construct says movement efficiency is created in a climate of stress. In short, you don’t move as fast when there ain’t no bullets headed your way. I think stress is probably a good motivator for some. If you’re surrounded by fucking idiots, maybe you circled your wagons in idiot country.
Retirement and moving to a rural area (less than 150 people in the zip code) has greatly decreased my stress level. Vehement cursing tirades reduced by 90%.
No longer surrounded by idiots, few deadlines or appointments, the only commute is the occasional supply or service run, and I’ve learned to view the insanity of the society as entertainment.
The whole damn world is one giant “People of Walmart” and “Friday Fail” on parade.
I have a 20 mile commute, on urban freeways. I’ve learned to ‘hang back’. Packs of vehicles, sorta like a swarm, where they go 50 mph, with one car length between them. There is no amount of insanity I haven’t seen: people reading books / newspapers / brushing teeth – all while attempting to drive. The ones on the phone, can’t keep their speed constant, drift in the lane.
I gave up cursing them.
Need anymore “reason” to get inland, rural, on a portion of arable, UNencumbered ground, gathered/grouped, gunned, gardened and . . . S-I-M-P-L-I-F-I-E-D? Wanna venture a guess on the [very uncomfortable] survival span of an “urbie” compared to a “ruralite”?
Start HOMEschooling the kids, chuck the “teLIEvisions”, ban the “dumb-phones”. For DAILY exercise: big-ass garden of edibles prepped with HAND tools. Rec: most anything that promotes family participation, more outdoor than indoor, non-impact, educational/instructive for ALL family members and lastly . . . inexpensive. ‘Nuf said . . .
No such thing as “unencumbered ground” in the US. Just try not paying your property tax and see how long you get to keep your “unencumbered ground”.
I’m just sayin’….
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“So, with stressful events piling up in the thousands every year, how do we cope with it? Listening to music is the most popular way of dealing (50 percent), followed by watching TV/movies (47 percent) and physical exercise (40 percent).”
Fuck that shit.
Masturbate.
How can driving in traffic not make the top 10. It would be right near the top in my book. The older I get the less patience I have for nitwits and fukwads. I swear every bad driver in the world is driving on the same road I am every time. My commute is only 30-40 minutes, but it is white knuckle most of the time so cursing is of course the best outlet.
Agree
Traffic is #1 for me. So many idiots on the road….
I will confess to blowing off steam while driving. One of my guilty pleasures is to combine legal terminology with archaic insults. You know, things like:
“CEASE AND DESIST, YA GILLIE-WET-FOOT FOPDOODLE!”
OR
“A CONTINGENT CLAIM UPON YE, YA FUSTILARIAN LUBBERWORT!”
Then- when the other drivers see me angrily mouthing those words and shaking my fist at them, their reactions will often put me in a better mood. It’s the little things that make life worthwhile.
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I don’t fucking swear.
Yeah, I would never fucking swear either.
I work with a guy who’s seemingly every other word is some form or variation of fuck. He can’t help himself, it just comes out. He is a regular customer in HR sensitivity training.
How is lack of pussy not in the top 10 stress list?
10:54am? Which is what, 4-6 hours after waking up?
Me?, probably 4-6 seconds after waking up. Fuck it’s already 5:30PM? (vampire shift). What day is it?….damn it, it’s only Monday #2. Do I have enough personal absence time to afford not going in today? Fuck no….fuck me, guess I gotta get the fuck up.
Perhaps the navy had some effect on that startup sequence.
so called society is one big shit test-
“fight fire with fire” is the way to roll
In 1971 my little girl could only say mama. She uttered with perfect inflection and context “God damned sonofabitch” . Guess who changed their language choices around the kids after that.
I do pity the Interstate Parkinglot people. I used to be one of ’em. Listening to music is great until you see the deutchebag bobbing his head up and down and drumming on the steering wheel, and you realize that’s what you look like. Once I learned to like driving slow, the stress of the commute came waaaaay down. Nowdays its a traffic jam if there’s five people at the 4 way stop sign in town, and the spectre of road rage is replaced by the perpetual awareness that a deer/elk/moose and baby might be standing in the middle of the road as I round a corner or crest a hill. It always makes your heart pound when you do see one and you have to slam on the brakes, but its never a thing to make you want to pound the dashboard over.