Swearing actually helps relieve pain, especially after your have hurt yourself, according to scientists.
Scientists from Keele University in Britain found that letting forth a volley of foul language can have a powerful pain killing effect, especially for people who do not normally use expletives.
To test the theory, student volunteers placed their hands in a bucket of ice cold water while swearing repeatedly. They then repeated the exercise but, instead of swearing, repeated a harmless phrase instead. Researchers found that the students were able to keep their hands submerged in the icy water for longer when repeating the swear word, establishing a link between swearing and an increase in pain tolerance, the Telegraph reported. They found that the pain -numbing effect was four times more likely to work in the volunteers who did not normally use bad language.
Richard Stephens, who worked on the project, said: “Swearing has been around for centuries and is an almost universal human linguistic phenomenon.”
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Playboy virus traced to jacuzzi bath
Los Angeles Porn mogul Hugh Hefner had denied a role in the outbreak of a viral disease that left 200 ill after attending a Playboy party but officials have traced the virus to a hot tub at his famed California abode.
The Los Angeles county health department presented its findings on Friday at an annual conference at the Centres for Disease Control in Atlanta.
The legionella virus which causes a milder illness called Pontiac fever was found in a hot tub at the Playboy mansion.
Symptoms, which include fever and headache, are the same as those suffered by the Playboy Mansion partygoers.
The people who fell ill were at the mansion to mark the end of the three-day DOMAINFest Global Conference on Internet business. —PTI