Reserving your use of bad language for when you hit your thumb with a hammer or drop a box on your foot is the best way to get maximum relief from a burst of swearing, it was found.
Researchers at Keele University found that people who do not often swear in their everyday life could hold their hands in ice-cold water for longer when they did succumb to foul language than those who regularly pepper their conversations with curse words.
Read the whole story at the London Telegraph.