How Long Has This Particular Vulgarity Been In Use?

[Green_Bean]

@Pismonque

This thread has been a nice refresher on the whole “stick it” motif and given me a new second favorite expletive (behind “sumbitch”). It’s a lot of fun to think of that peculiar commonality across time, where everyday people hundreds of years ago could look at some random jackass and say, “Yeah, stick it up your arse.”

Ha, yeah!

Thanks to everyone for all the enlightening answers. I think I’ll link to this thread next time someone complains about how people are so much more vulgar these days.

[leahcim]

@Pismonque

It’s a lot of fun to think of that peculiar commonality across time, where everyday people hundreds of years ago could look at some random jackass and say, “Yeah, stick it up your arse.”

Time to update the wikipedia entry on Cultural Universals.