# Fuck F\*ck. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 30, 2012, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-f-ck/626846 "2012-06-30T20:42:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-f-ck/626846/41 "2012-07-02T07:24:21Z")
You don’t think reading lips is a bit more challenging for the tykes, or anyone who might be in earshot, than to just play fill in the vowel? Even without the vowel it sounds like ‘fuck.’ However, I do decree, from this day forward that the asterisk shall forever be referred to as the butthole\*. e.g. “You need to add a footnote to that butthole.” “…or press the _butthole_ to talk to a sales representative…” \*Yeh, I kicked around assterisk, or asskiss, but butthole is just too good. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-f-ck/626846/42 "2012-07-02T07:51:56Z")
Kn\*ckers! Whatever happened to that poster? ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-f-ck/626846/43 "2012-07-02T10:32:22Z")
F\*ck him. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-f-ck/626846/44 "2012-07-02T15:20:14Z")
Jah, und ze F\*kker vas flying a Messerschmidt. ---
**Author:** ![Terra1041](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Terra1041](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terra1041)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-f-ck/626846/45 "2012-07-02T18:08:45Z")
Some sites will automatically censor swear words, often in such a way that you can’t tell what the original word was (other than from context). I suppose to some, f\*ck is preferable to \*\*\*\*. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-f-ck/626846/46 "2012-07-02T18:13:07Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > Asterisks do kinda look like buttholes, don’t they? \* According to the late, great [Kurt Vonnegut](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakfast_of_Champions) they do. > [@Terra1041](#): > > Some sites will automatically censor swear words, often in such a way that you can’t tell what the original word was (other than from context). I suppose to some, f\*ck is preferable to \*\*\*\*. Ugh. I remember older websites would get smart enough to recognize when someone was trying to get past the filter, like typing “f u c k” or “f.u.c.k.” But then they got too liberal, so if you typed “pu **sh it**!” it would become “pu\*\*\*\*!” ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-f-ck/626846/47 "2012-07-02T23:15:36Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > According to the late, great [Kurt Vonnegut](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakfast_of_Champions) they do. What can I say? Great minds think alike. _sniff_ ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-f-ck/626846/48 "2012-07-02T23:17:58Z")
Oh man, that was supposed to be a Barny Fife sniff of pride, but now it looks like I’m smelling buttholes. What have I done?! ---
**Author:** ![Terra1041](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Terra1041](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terra1041)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2012, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-f-ck/626846/49 "2012-07-03T05:04:15Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > Ugh. I remember older websites would get smart enough to recognize when someone was trying to get past the filter, like typing “f u c k” or “f.u.c.k.” But then they got too liberal, so if you typed “pu **sh it**!” it would become “pu\*\*\*\*!” Some of them got quite ridiculous. Like censoring the “hell” in hello, or the “ass” in pass. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2012, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-f-ck/626846/50 "2012-07-03T14:38:35Z")
In a related note I always find it funnier when TV shows use a bleep to censor a bad word. Like say in South Park, A comedian, Family Guy or something. Reading a censor is pretty dumb, but I think hearing it is way funnier than the actual word. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2012, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-f-ck/626846/51 "2012-07-03T14:52:58Z")
> [@olivesmarch4th](#): > > I admit it, I self-censor on Facebook. The only reason why is my Grandma’s on Facebook, dude. My Grandma and a shit ton of overproductive mothers. It’s ridiculous, but it’s a little convention I’ll follow because it’s not worth the hassle. Well, I’m your extreme opposite. When i use Facebook it is because I’m drinking and any self filtering is out the window. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2012, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-f-ck/626846/52 "2012-07-03T18:03:52Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > In a related note I always find it funnier when TV shows use a bleep to censor a bad word. Like say in South Park, A comedian, Family Guy or something. > > Reading a censor is pretty dumb, but I think hearing it is way funnier than the actual word. You know what makes me stabby, and want to carve curses into the censors’ foreheads? When the take the 1-2 s sound clip of the swear, reverse it, and then reinsert it into the same spot. I’ve heard it in places like radio Eminem songs. It is so jarring and stomach churning when you hear it. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2012, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-f-ck/626846/53 "2012-07-03T20:58:04Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > You can also tell when someone says fuck on TV even if they bleep it, doesn’t mean it’s not more acceptable to bleep it than not (even on cable, where they don’t technically have to). > > Silly? Sure. Oh well, life is full of silly. Not necessarily. I find I have trouble figuring out the swears on Craig Ferguson’s show, for example, because they cover up the mouths. Plus he specifically uses unusual swears. And I agree beeps are funnier. Making the audience make that last connection themselves is just a general tactic. Plus, have you watched how much less funny South Park is online without the beeps? ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2012, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-f-ck/626846/54 "2012-07-04T00:51:11Z")
> [@Terra1041](#): > > Some of them got quite ridiculous. Like censoring the “hell” in hello, or the “ass” in pass. What a coincidence! Ih just p_ **ed a s** _\* while walking my \*\*\*\*zu on the beach! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-f-ck/626846.md?page=2)