Cluster F-Bomb/Real Life

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Examples of Cluster F-Bombs in Real Life include:

  • This trope is the reason why you don't, uh, fuck with Christian Bale. Here's some audio proof.
    • And here it is with a nice beat in the background.
    • And to give some context to the whole thing, this epic rant was the result of a lighting assistant walking on set during the shooting of Terminator: Salvation one time too many.
      • Every time a light technician walks onto the set during filming, the take is useless. The shot has to be reset, the actors have to wait around for ten minutes to half an hour and try to keep up the energy so it doesn't look like they're completely bored when they do the next take. If you're giving it your all, it's bound to be a little annoying. And it sounded like the guy had done this several times. Sorry for ruining the fun.
        • Fuuuuuck, that's not fucking ruining anyone's shit, fucker. *smirk* That was just adding more fuckin' context, can you fucking dig it?
  • David Jaffe, essentially knows no social context, and will sprinkle these into his speech, whether it be on his personal blog, while doing interviews, or appearing on a panel of guests. Most of the time he's not even upset when he says it.
  • The founder of the Parti Quebecois, Rene Levesque, is famed among other things for being the first person to utter the word "fuck" on television in Canada, as noted by Bowser and Blue in their aforementioned song. "C'était foké."
    • Please note that "fuck" in Quebec French is a mild Expletive and an Anglicism. The direct equivalent is... Just pick any of them.
  • EGM once noted that, in person, John Madden seems to say "fuck" every other word, and his most impressive power is the ability to stop doing this when he goes on-air. This may explain his sometimes redundant speaking style; he's concentrating too hard on not cussing to say anything informative.
  • An amusing now-PG version is recorded in a letter to Abraham Lincoln from a slavery proponent:

God damn your god damned old hellfired god damned soul to hell god damn you and goddam your god damned family's god damned hellfired god damned soul to hell and good damnation god damn them and god damn your god damned friends to hell.

    • God damn!
  • Not used by Richard Nixon. Contrary to popular belief, most of the "expletives deleted" were apparently "hell" and "damn", and at the worst "shit".
  • Former US Congressman and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is notorious for this.

Actual quote to PA Congressman Joe Sestak on the phone: If you fuck this up I will fuck you, I will kill you. All right, I love you. Bye.

    • Lampooned by none other than his boss, Barack Obama, [paraphrased] "Rahm is having trouble with this holiday, he's not used to saying the word 'Day' after 'Mother'".
    • A bit of controversy erupted when he was chosen to be Obama's Chief of Staff. One reporter on NPR described him in Lewis Black's terms (below) as "using the F word like a comma." Another reporter described a plaque in Emanuel's office as having the text, "The Secretary of ____ Off." (Of course they had to bowdlerize for broadcast, as this was Morning Edition.)
      • And the quote by Obama: "Apparently, Eric claimed that Rahm Emanuel came up to him in the House locker room, stark naked, screaming obscenities at him. To which I say, 'welcome to my world'."
    • He refers to Washington, D.C. as "Fucknutsville," uses "fucker" as a term of endearment, and once jumped on a table and shouted, "The Republicans can go fuck themselves!" Yeah, he's practically this trope personified.
    • Well, as H.R. Haldeman once remarked, every president needs a son of a bitch...
  • Eastern New England. The Departed and Stephen King didn't pull it out of their asses, just fucking trust me here.
    • Fuck Yeah! For all their vaunted vulgarity, Long Island ain't got fuckin' nuthin' on Rhode Island!
  • The legendary Troggs Tapes. Definitely NSFW.
  • Let's be honest with ourselves here, The Aristocrats joke is pretty much built around this trope in about half of its renditions.
  • He's here, he's der, he's swearing everywhere, Joe Kin-near, Joe Kin-near! Interim Newcastle United boss Joe Kinnear didn't get on well with the press, to say the least.
  • Lee Elia, then-manager of baseball's Chicago Cubs, delivered this tirade at a postgame press conference in 1983, serving up his opinion of the Cub fans who had been booing his woebegotten team. I count 38 F-word iterations along with various other choice profanities.
    • Jay Johnstone copied and printed the whole thing in his book Temporary Insanity. He had very good reason; Johnstone was a member of that Cubs team and he, among others, were fired up and did better once he got that.. fervent show of true support from Elia. The coach still lost his job at the end of the season, however, likely due in large part to this truely inspired flood of invective. Elia himself never complained about it, although that could be because the first thing he said before the F-bombing run was "QUOTE ME". They did.
  • In Game 4 of the 1977 World Fucking Series, Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda came out to remove pitcher Doug Rau after Rau surrendered three straight hits to the Yankees. When Rau protested...well, listen to it here.
    • Here's some more moments in f-bombing with Lasorda, the Joe Pesci of the baseball diamond.
  • The Orioles' Earl Weaver goes off on umpire Bill Haller during a 1980 game against Detroit.
    • And here's Weaver sharing his thoughts while answering fan questions during a pregame radio show "on the Baltimore Oriole Baseball Fucking Network".
  • Ichiro Suzuki, a Seattle Mariners player whose first language is Japanese, in practice uses an interpreter for English language interviews. That hasn't stopped him from making some truly epic observations (such as his disdain for Cleveland), but in 2008, it was revealed that Suzuki makes a profane-laced speech—in English—to the American League team at every All-Star Game he has appeared in through 2010 (Suzuki was not on the 2011 team). No recording of this speech is readily available online. Other players who have witnessed the speech call it one of the funniest things they've ever seen.
  • After the infamous "tuck rule game" (an American Football playoff game decided by a particularly obscure rule), the losing Oakland Raiders were understandably put out. Analysts described the Oakland press conference afterwords as "the Raiders sounded like a truck backing up" (in the US at least, large trucks make loud beeping noises when in reverse).
  • Gordon Ramsay's ingredients for omlette: 2 fucking eggs, some fucking chives, 1 fucking knob of fucking butter, and show some fucking PASSION!
  • According to Anthony Bourdain, vigorous and frequent use of curse words is common in the culinary world. So the chefs preparing the gourmet meals at that 5-star restaurant you go to on special occasions? Probably cursing up a storm back there in that kitchen.
  • Yoshiki Hayashi would like to offer a Cluster F Bomb... with his apologies for doing so.
  • Hokkien peng, not least the Singaporean variety, (stereo)typically cluster C-bomb. And insult Your Mother.
  • Ferenc Gyurcsány, former Prime Minister of Hungary, dropped one that lasted over an hour. It pretty much killed his career (not because of the profanity, but because of the long list of things he accidentally confessed to. His native language being Hungarian, you'd wish 'fuck' was the worst thing he said. It wasn't.
  • DKos Oil Booming School: "Rope is not rope. It is fucking rope. All of it. Every yard of rope is fucking rope. Every section of boom is fucking boom." -- Fishgrease
  • When you've a place named "Fucking", articles about it are bound to fall into this. Such as that above otherwiki page.
  • Jim Cornette is such a constant cusser (if his RF Video shoots are to be believed) that it is amazing he is even ABLE to turn it off when the camera is on him.
  • Actually may serve a purpose: pain tolerance. A scientific study dealing with that was done with volunteers. Both groups were subjected to (an equal amount of) continuous pain (caused by the same thing), and they were to pull away the moment they could no longer bear it. Those who responded to the pain by cursing repeatedly were shown to be able to take the pain for longer amounts of time than the group who didn't. And it appears that neutral words or Gosh Darn It to Heck doesn't work nearly as well as serious 'fuck'-level obscenities.
  • And here's a website that uses Cluster F Bombs For Science!
  • The Winnebago Man. Here's the original video in all its glory.
  • The logic of many middle schoolers seems to go, "Adults swear more than children. In movies, cool people swear more than nerds. Therefore, the more you swear, the more cool and grown-up you look. Also, swearing is some fucking fun shit! *giggles*" The result is a lot of this trope.
  • The Wiener's Circle in motherfucking Chicago, Illinois is as famous for its profane staff as its hot dogs, bitch!
  • Mike Henry of Family Guy and The Cleveland Show stated on Inside the Actors Studio that his favorite curse word is "a series of fucks," and then demonstrated.
  • Jay fucking Naylor says the fucking word a fucking lot in his fucking podcast.
  • This little child didn't like what they were getting for breakfast. Prize for youngest ever Cluster F Bomb? I suspect so.
  • Australians swear a damn lot. When I first came into the country I was frightened.
    • Fucking Chileans also like to swear a fucking lot. There's a fucking particular word known as "huevón", which can fucking mean MANY things from "dude" to "fucker", and you never fucking EVER will hear a fucking Chilean covnersation in which there ain't two or three fucking "huevón" bombs dropped in.
  • Croatian ex-tennis player Goran Ivanisevic. Behold. Comment with translation is just under the video.
  • Russian even has a dialect that is based on forming sentences out of obscene and profane words using Buffy-Speak, called mat.
  • Donald fucking Trump wants you to know that he's not going to mess around with those motherfuckers in China, he's not going to let OPEC raise the fucking price of oil, and he's going to build a fucking school in Brooklyn.
  • In 2009, a bill was introduced in the South Carolina legislature to ban profanity. Several blogs commented on it, and the fucking comments tend to contain quite a fucking variety of fucking dirty words.
  • The Other Wiki lists "fuck" twice in its list. No, it's not "fuck" and "fuck", it's "fuck" and "motherfucker".
  • High school. Even the fucking Honors and AP kids fucking swear like you would not fucking believe.
    • Especially the Honors and AP kids.
  • People in the construction field fucking swear like crazy. Young or old, every other fucking word out of a construction worker's fucking mouth is going to be yours fucking truly.
    • The same can be said for many other trades. After working in a supply house for a few years, an electrician's language is no longer shocking, and a plumber's potty-mouth is hardly noticed.
    • There's a reason for the saying "Swears like a sailor".
  • Fuck you, you fucking fucks. A treatise on New Orleans after the storm.
  • This Big Bill Hell's ad.
  • Every blooper reel for basically every movie and TV show ever made, unless lots of child actors are hanging around. Actors swear like fiends.

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