Canada's Most Vulgar Cities: Ontario Tops List (INFOGRAPHIC)

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The Huffington Post Canada   First Posted: 01/23/2012 4:16 pm Updated: 01/23/2012 4:17 pm

What the #%$!?

How many times did you swear today? Scratch that, how many times did you drop the f-bomb in a tweet about your slow commute or the weather? Tbk Creative, a digital marketing and social media company based in London, Ont., aggregated over one million tweets between October and November 2011, to find out which Canadian city has the worst pottymouth online.

"The tweets that included the vulgar term must have been combined with the city's name," wrote senior partner Andrew Schiestel, on the company's site. "This means, not every tweet came from the city or its citizens, but instead were simply tweets that mentioned the city name and the vulgar word. Draw your own conclusions."

The verdict? Apparently the city of Brampton, Ont. can't control its vulgar verbal diarrhea, coming in at 1.41 per cent of all tweets.

The company only used English tweets, and for cities like London and Quebec City, it did get a little tricky.

"In a random sampling we took of 100 tweets by Canadian users that contained the term Quebec, 21 per cent of those tweets referenced Quebec City specifically. Hence, 21 per cent was used to gather the data," Schiestel says in his post.

Check out the infographic below of Canada's most vulgar cities:

ALSO: We found our own vulgar tweets from the top 10 offenders. Naturally, coarse language is involved:

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ontariogirl
Power to the People
01:51 PM on 01/25/2012
What the bleep are they talking about???
12:43 PM on 01/25/2012
Huh...all Easterners...should've done a search in Mandarin for the Westerners
08:15 AM on 01/24/2012
#2? How the f*$k weren't we #1? That is f*$king bulls**t!
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LIONNYC
09:25 AM on 01/24/2012
LOL.
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Mike vdB
Get involved, always question, don't just exist.
08:03 AM on 01/24/2012
When did "Dang It" become a bad word?
06:58 AM on 01/24/2012
Brampton? I'm not surprised
04:34 AM on 01/24/2012
#$%?&@#%% dumb article
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ljkcan
Yes, I am prone to spelling errors
12:11 AM on 01/24/2012
Try driving in Brampton it would have a nun swearing within a minute.
08:09 AM on 01/24/2012
and they had to put the ikea right there. >:(
08:58 AM on 01/24/2012
We have an Ikea???
07:52 PM on 01/23/2012
At least Laval was actually recognized as it's own city for once...
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07:37 AM on 01/24/2012
don't worry, it's just a suburb in real life. ;)
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gx5000
Life's too short, be happy..
09:16 AM on 01/24/2012
You mean there's a city next to the Airport ? ;-p
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Johnnyash
What if the Hokey Pokey IS what it's all about?
05:04 PM on 01/23/2012
Big ^@#%#!! Surprise
04:52 PM on 01/23/2012
Swearing equals vulgar? I disagree with that.

My top ten examples of vulgar are, in no particular order:
Reality TV, racism, climate change denial, disparaging the poor and homeless, proselytizing religion, saying "I gave at the office" when you did no such thing, 64 ounce soft drinks, super-size anything, cutting in front of others in a queue, littering.
When you see someone littering, is it vulgar to tell them to pick up their bleeping garbage? I don't think so.
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gx5000
Life's too short, be happy..
09:17 AM on 01/24/2012
To be fair those who do what you listed are usually swearing at the time too ;-p

Cheers !
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Jude Arsenault
11:00 PM on 01/24/2012
the number one most vulgar thing is that we as humans abuse,murder and eat animals and animal products or harm any species.don't say you don't agree unless you have been to a slaughterhouse and all farms animals end up there.
11:29 PM on 01/24/2012
I have indeed killed and plucked and eviscerated chickens, stuck them in a freezer and then eaten at a later date. I still think racism is worse.
04:41 PM on 01/23/2012
Twitter pays HuffPo to do a story on twitter.

Yawn.
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gx5000
Life's too short, be happy..
09:17 AM on 01/24/2012
You scratch my back......