Fuck is just so fucking versatile. There are several websites that detail the supposed entymofglg… fuck that, the word history of the word, including instances and examples. Many are fictitious and fallacious examples, but look them up for some inspiration. If you don’t feel like it, I can fucking summarize you lazy fuck.
Emphasiser. Compare “Oh, Hell” to “Fucking Hell”. BIG difference there, hey shorty?
Verb. Fucking, the act of making sweet sweet chocolatey love. Fucking off. Getting fucked.
Adjective modifier thingy. Compare “That’s just great”, to “That’s just fucking great” (best used on a girl falsely accused of rifling thru someone else’s shit (obscure thread reference)).
I just realised that the first one and the last one are EXACTLY THE SAME. What a fucking idiot. In penance, I submit the following Fuck Variations, much like the Goldberg Variations but much more pleasant sounding.
Fuckwit, fuckwad, fuckwipe, fucknut, fuckchuck, fuckass… the list goes on forever. And I mean forever.
Well, poop is just such a soft, wimpy-sounding, juvenile word. If you didn’t know what it meant, it would be a “cute” word. Although, to digress for a second, there’s little that’s more revolting than some woman, and, sorry ladies, it’s always a woman, calling someone else “poopsie”. Shit, at least, has a more aggressive sound to it.
What I’d really like to know, and I’m sorry if this turns out to be a highjack, is why women so strenuously, sometimes hysterically, and, in my experience, universally object to the word cunt. I know it’s demeaning; so is prick, but we men don’t go postal over that one. Oddly enough, I’ve never been called a cock, although that has a more aggressive sound, and is more similar to cunt. For some reason, it’s never been popularized as a curse, on its own.
Anyway, women go far more ballistic over cunt than they do over twat, whore, slut, or any other insult I can think of. I find this odd. Does it have some secret meaning to women, that they’ve managed to keep secret from all us guys for hundreds of years? Anyone got the straight dope on this one?
Apparently it is, or at least was. A common, perhaps slightly less vulgar variation was “bleeding”. Ah, bleedin’ 'ell Scotty, you’ve really buggered it up this time. Bugger. I assume you all know what that refers to. Them wacky Brits.
Fuck is just so fucking appropriate in a multitude of situations. It’s short and to the fucking point. No one can fucking misunderstand what the fuck you mean.
I will now share a conversation I had once with an American girl on a kibbutz.
Her: You used to live in England, didn’t you?
Me: Well, Scotland. Close enough*
Her: I’ve always wondered - is “bloody” a really bad word in England.
Me: [somewhat nonplussed] Not really. Sort of … ummm … mild swearword I guess.
Her: Oh. I thought it was sort of like “Dee Aye Emm Enn” is in America
At this point the conversation ceased, since my head exploded at the thought that anyone, anywhere, considered “damn” a bad enough word to have to be spelled out.
And considering that pretty much everyone else I met there could curse like sailors, I wonder how she survived as long as she did!
I always like it when someone gets so angry or frustrated by something that they mess up even as they’re trying to swear; a friend of mine was expressing his anger regarding the attitudes of some fundamentalist Christians who had cornered him in a restaraunt, and all he could say was “Jesus fuckshit!”
There was a thread on this recently. It’s hard to rationalise, other than it’s perhaps a later-breaking taboo (despite DH Lawrence) - eg it’s less common than fuck, but also I have found that the sort of men who use cunt as an insult are usually extremely misgynistic men. It’s not just an insult, it’s a sexist-intended insult, it’s demeaning. Whereas “prick” - although etymologically based on a man’s body - doesn’t come with quite that sexist intention. At least not in the nuances I perceive. It carries the weight of “bastard”, but doesn’t feel specifically “anti-men” or “men hate”.
You may be right about the sexist slant. I must have missed the previous thread you’re referring to. I don’t think you can really call it a late-breaking taboo, though, when you’re talking about one of the oldest words in the English language. Both fuck and cunt are carry-overs from Anglo-Saxon.
"Step 4 don’t say fuck anymore
Because fuck is the worst word that you can say!
Yes fuck is the worst word that you can say!
You shouldn’t say fuck, no you shouldn’t say fuck, no you shouldn’t say fuck fuck no!
Yes - and poor old DH Lawrence tried to reinstil some earthy charm in the word, to zero avail!
Unlike a university friend who actually called her *** her “cunt”, not crudely, it sounded really good and right, sort of natural. Hard to describe. Maybe like the Wif of Bath and her “queynte” in the Canterbury Tales, if my hazy memory serves. I am sure if I called mine that it would just sound awful.
What I meant by taboos was that “fuck” has been quite widespread for quite a while now. The first “fuck” on TV happened quite long before the first “cunt”. You can get away with a fuck on TV (ok I’m talking about the word here!) much more easily than a cunt.
Anyway we should all be glad English has such great expletives. Other languages have really scant amounts. In Arabic the only way I can find to say fuck translates literally to “your mother’s cunt” or “your sister’s cunt”. Not very nice to have to bring a third party in, IMO, and quite sexist
