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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2012 5:19:20 GMT
It's amazing how pressure can build up when you are restraining yourself from doing something like that.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 15, 2012 6:54:53 GMT
Joanne, I feel that was the only possible thing you all could have done in the circumstances. ;D
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Post by patricklondon on Aug 16, 2012 20:14:01 GMT
The point about a swearword is not what it refers to, but the fact that it is a swearword: it offends because that is what it's for, not because of its other, literal, meaning. If a particular word ceases to offend, then, by some sort of social osmosis, something else will be chosen. Who knows, one day "sneezing" and "marmalade" might be as unspeakable as racial epithets or any of the disputed swearwords are today: there will always be swearwords and offensive words, because there will be times when people want to offend.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2012 20:42:14 GMT
You sound like some sort of sneezing marmalade eater to me!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2013 14:39:05 GMT
I think that future insults might refer to internet illiteracy and other technological failings of an individual -- things like "paper payer" when everybody else has moved from cash to mobile phone transactions. I'll probably be insulted a lot.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2013 20:25:48 GMT
I was wondering about the origin of such expressions as "guilty as fuck". I would imagine that it is just a case of replacing a word like "sin" with the most extreme word that you can think of.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 3, 2013 19:58:57 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2013 20:05:44 GMT
That's always fascinating, as are the studies about swear words around the world -- the countries that base their swear words on sex, on bodily excretions or on blasphemy being the most prevalent.
When I was growing up, I think that my biological father's favorite term was "shitass." From what I remember, at least 25% of the people we knew were shitasses.
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