Researchers: swearing makes pain more tolerable

Go ahead.... say it.... it just might save your life

This is one of those things which we kind of already knew, and therefore didn't see a need for it to be researched. For those of you who do not shy away from using expletive language, I have some good news and bad news for you.

The good news is that researchers at Keele University have hypothesized and deduced that swearing can aid pain tolerance and stress relief. The bad news is that those of you who swear casually (often for no reason at all), will have to swear less, in order for the expletives to be pain relieving.

BBC News stated that "researchers found volunteers who cursed at will could endure pain nearly 50% longer than civil-tongued peers," and in a report from CNN, clinical psychologist Paula Bloom said that "We’re walking around thinking [swearing] is a bad thing…it’s not really.”

I am waiting with bated breath to read what the religious society will have to say about the findings of the study.