April 15, 2006

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• I don't see why nigger isn't at the top or how it was so low before, even considering cultural differences (that I admittedly don't know much about) and how much the British throw the word "cunt" around.
• ..spastic is a swear?
• The British don't have a history of lynchings, civil rights problems & so forth of quite the same intensity as the USA, so the N word isn't the same firebrand it is there. Although calling someone a 'nigger' in the UK will get you beaten up rather quickly, but perhaps not shot to death. Depends on how white the hearers are. Everything's a different flavor. I think the deal here is that the rating reflects broadcast propriety, rather than actual social acceptability. i.e., The Beeb might show a serious drama with a character using the term, after a certain time in the evening. They wouldn't be so quick to show something with 'motherfucker' & 'cunt' every other minute. I hear the BBC rather heavily edited the HBO/BBC co-production ROME when aired on British tv. (On preview): Spastic is a swear? It is the same as 'retard' is used in the US. Making fun of cripples = not ok, says Auntie.
• This list sucks cock. BBC must be staffed with a bunch of fucktardish bitches.
• Its the viewers you should blame
• There exist more than 25 people in Britland that saying the word "crap" is very severe swearing. This freaks me out.
• Should be: ....that think saying the word...
• Since when is God a swear word? They use it in church all the time.
• Motherfucker is hardly ever used, AFAIK, and nigger has no bite. Both words are amusing Americanisms, to most people. Crap, on the other hand (so to speak), is akin to shit, and so is Very Naughty.
• And Mr. Knickerbocker, it should be "WHO think that". I find that kind of mistake more offensive than any so-called swear word.
• "WHO think that" Fucking right!!1! Soffcock!
• Since when is God a swear word? They use it in church all the time. I had to leave the service because that man just couldn't stop swearing.
• Choad!
• Up here in the Northeast we use the word spastic to desrive someone particularly uneasy or odd.
• Tiger Woods found out the hard way that spastic is frowned upon in the UK.
• 20% found it Very Severe to call someone a Jew? Let me guess, it'd be more polite to say "people of the Mosaic persuasion."
• God, Jew, and Christ all make the list. Happy fucking Easter, everybody!
• Zounds, man! The word "cur" is finally off the list! Huzzah!
• North Amercian notes: Fanny is a fair example of a word now regarded as an often amusing or even childish reference to the human buttocks/backside in North America, while east of the Atlantic it's still rude insofar as it's applied to female genitalia. Shag in these parts usually a kind of carpet. Or a kind of dance. Or a kind of cormorant, if you're Christopher Isherwood. One of my personal favorites is 'artshole', a coinage a very young acquaintance of mine -- and which, from time to time, I find apt in condemnning the behaviours.atrtitudes of pretentious confreres, etc. Quite possibly only an artshole would find this amusing, though.
• Dang! That had more artitude than I intended!
• I don't see why nigger isn't at the top or how it was so low before, even considering cultural differences (that I admittedly don't know much about) and how much the British throw the word "cunt" around. Why should "nigger" be higher, or lower, on the list than "Paki" or Jew"? I'd imagine individuals of those descents feel pretty persecuted as well. Hell, the Jews have been downtrodden for centuries longer, if you want to get right to it. BTW, I'm white and American, and I avoid using any of these (except motherfucker and the like), so I'm not soapboxing. My point is, like a recent South Park episode says, "either it's all okay...or none of it is." To take issue with the fact that a certain word is lower on the list than you think it should be? Pah.
• Also, I find it interesting, the cultural difference. "Arse" and "arsehole" are pretty much along the lines of "crap" over here; you say "crap" because you don't think you can get away with saying "shit". Same with "asshole". And "bollocks" and "slag" wouldn't even make the richter in my neck o' the woods.
• Why isn't "mee krob" on the list?
• I still find it weird that "wanker" is so high on the list. Why exactly is that an offensive word? I don't get it. Perhaps I'm too American to be offended. I see it as a funny word, nothing worse.
• You bloggerds lack bollocks! We shaggers love frolics! And the Beeb's list is prolix. Bit baffled as to why why the stats for Piss off and Pissed off should differ. During my lifetime the standards of cursing, swearing, and blasphemy have declined shockingly. Now we are left with mere vulgarity, alas.
• I remember the first time I heard the word "ass" on TV. Dean Stockwell in Quantum Leap. I remember my jaw literally dropping.
• Semprini?
• Zounds, man! GramMa sez, Watch your filthy mouth!! *heads out the thread door to get the soap
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• *bows to the Master*
• *sends money*
• When I was a kid a friend and I came up with the term "scum chicken" because we weren't allowed to say most of the words on the list above (although the phrase that would get you in the most trouble with my mom was "shut up," which I am still oddly offended to hear).
• *sits on wallet*
• *cuts small hole under Wolof's seat*