We also worked on our thermal bathing skills, lowering ourselves into the lake where streaks of brilliantly coloured algae betrayed the presence of a hot mineral spring, alternately gasping and cursing in the freezing and scalding currents.
Ken Jones, 29, said he could hear yelling and cursing in the Slade apartment at 2 a.m., while he was smoking a cigarette on the terrace of his eighth-floor apartment.
James Yorkston tells of hosting Suhail Yusuf Khan at his house in Anstruther ahead of this Celtic Connections festival date, and while washing the dishes, absent-mindedly scalding his hand and cursing in the local parlance: "Ooh, ya bandit!" His Indian guest for some reason looked out of the window.
They said he was prone to mood swings and extreme anger, yelling and cursing in the office.
And those of us who identify as Christian know the dichotomy of blessing and cursing, "in the name of Christ".
They are both simple -- Wainwright strums his guitar while belting it out and cursing in the car.
"If that's inherently wrong, then yes, we're wrong, but despite the weed and cursing in the show, I think there's a genuine sense of respect for people of faith.
She wanted something, but I couldn't hear her over the rattle of all those idling engines, the hiss of the rain, the shouts and curses, and in the next moment somebody else was there, some stranger, and he was taking care of it.
I crumpled, seeing stars and cursing in pain.
