# Like any of us give a fuck.... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 18, 2005, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-any-of-us-give-a-fuck/317548 "2005-08-18T05:25:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![cowgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@cowgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cowgirl)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-any-of-us-give-a-fuck/317548/21 "2005-08-18T19:02:51Z")
> [@askeptic](#): > > Wow, I did not see that coming… Me either. I thought it was going to link to a thread pitting this thread for getting hijacked by the CFL [arrrrr-goooooos], or maybe a thread pre-emptively pitting whoever is going to start the next thread pitting Mods for their participation in some other pit thread … ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-any-of-us-give-a-fuck/317548/22 "2005-08-18T19:06:06Z")
> [@cowgirl](#): > > Me either. I thought it was going to link to a thread pitting this thread for getting hijacked by the CFL [arrrrr-goooooos], or maybe a thread pre-emptively pitting whoever is going to start the next thread pitting Mods for their participation in some other pit thread … I love the twisted logic, have me laughing out loud. 😃😃😃 So someone could start a thread oitting the person who closed a thread that was pitting a person who hijacked a thread that was closed because it ??? Wait I lost myself. :o ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-any-of-us-give-a-fuck/317548/23 "2005-08-18T19:08:43Z")
Hey, goddamn you. The thread is titled “Like any of us give a fuck…” It’s only natural to assume that it was about the CFL. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-any-of-us-give-a-fuck/317548/24 "2005-08-18T19:09:59Z")
> [@Happy Scrappy Hero Pup](#): > > Hey, goddamn you. > > The thread is titled “Like any of us give a fuck…” > It’s only natural to assume that it was about the CFL. …or the Cubs. ---
**Author:** ![Metacom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecae2f/32.png) [@Metacom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Metacom)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-any-of-us-give-a-fuck/317548/25 "2005-08-18T19:41:05Z")
> [@jrfranchi](#): > > Please see > [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=330807](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=330807) Must… Not… Start… GD Thread… Titled… “Can you use logic to prove that God exists?” or… “Can we all agree that classical Liberalism is a dead-end?”… ---
**Author:** ![askeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@askeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/askeptic)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-any-of-us-give-a-fuck/317548/26 "2005-08-18T19:46:21Z")
> [@Metacom](#): > > Must… Not… Start… GD Thread… Titled… “Can you use logic to prove that God exists?” or… “Can we all agree that classical Liberalism is a dead-end?”… But it really is tempting, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-any-of-us-give-a-fuck/317548/27 "2005-08-18T19:56:57Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Actually, ellipses shouldn’t have space in between them, according to most stylebooks. They should have spaces on either side of them, as in “what a … maroon.” Hmm. They used to—I think. But what the hell do I know? I still put two spaces after all my sentence-ending punctuation (and colons). Even here, where it is routinely reduced to a single space. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-any-of-us-give-a-fuck/317548/28 "2005-08-18T20:58:25Z")
I thought it was mother fuckers, or muther fuckers. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-any-of-us-give-a-fuck/317548/29 "2005-08-18T22:28:14Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > I thought it was mother fuckers, or muther fuckers. You thought _wrong_, motherfucker. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-any-of-us-give-a-fuck/317548/30 "2005-08-19T04:59:27Z")
It should be M-Fers. A Fucker is one who fucks. A Mother, though, is not one who moths. Good thing, too, considering the access she has to sweaters. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-any-of-us-give-a-fuck/317548/31 "2005-08-19T05:26:21Z")
Well since people were talking about [ellipses](http://www.1728.com/ellipse.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-any-of-us-give-a-fuck/317548/32 "2005-08-19T12:56:01Z")
> [@Happy Scrappy Hero Pup](#): > > I always thought it was “M-F’ers.” > > You know, because the -er suffix on “mother” wasn’t necessary, and means something different than the -er suffix on “fucker.” Plus, it seems to flow a bit better. Hmmm…wouldn’t it be more correct to say mothersfucker? Implied hyphen sort of thing, along the lines of son-in-law singular, sons-in-law plural. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-any-of-us-give-a-fuck/317548/33 "2005-08-19T13:12:32Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Hmmm…wouldn’t it be more correct to say mothersfucker? Implied hyphen sort of thing, along the lines of son-in-law singular, sons-in-law plural. No, the quantity of mothers fucked per fucker is irrelevant to the quantity of those doing the fucking. ---
**Author:** ![Nature\_s\_Call](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nature_s_call/32/19006_2.png) [@Nature\_s\_Call](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nature_s_Call)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-any-of-us-give-a-fuck/317548/34 "2005-08-19T14:20:03Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > No, the quantity of mothers fucked per fucker is irrelevant to the quantity of those doing the fucking. This (and its predecessors) have literally brought tears of laughter to my eyes! Oh, and a question: What is the correct pluralization/abbreviation of mother-in-law-fuckers? ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-any-of-us-give-a-fuck/317548/35 "2005-08-19T17:44:59Z")
> [@Nature's Call](#): > > Oh, and a question: What is the correct pluralization/abbreviation of mother-in-law-fuckers? There isn’t one – nobody fucks with a mother-in-law. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-any-of-us-give-a-fuck/317548/36 "2005-08-19T18:18:19Z")
Well, it might be MILF. Maybe. You be the judge. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-any-of-us-give-a-fuck/317548/37 "2005-08-19T19:06:39Z")
> [@featherlou](#): > > Well, it might be MILF. Maybe. You be the judge. Wouldn’t that be a MILILF? ---
**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-any-of-us-give-a-fuck/317548/38 "2005-08-19T23:24:57Z")
Hey, I give a fuck! Err, sorry, that should be :- I want a fuck! ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-any-of-us-give-a-fuck/317548/39 "2005-08-20T00:01:54Z")
I’d give a fuck. Now I need to find someone to take one. ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-any-of-us-give-a-fuck/317548/40 "2005-08-20T00:22:06Z")
Most people do, but don’t want the mother-in-law aspect, or the associated pluralisation difficulty. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-any-of-us-give-a-fuck/317548.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-any-of-us-give-a-fuck/317548.md?page=3)