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F**k

  • 19-09-2013 08:20PM
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭


    It's perfectly okay to print 'f**k' in newspapers but it'd be considered rude to spell it out properly.

    During a match you can scream 'Are you blind?' at a referee and get away with it but add the word 'f**king' to it and you're in trouble.

    My cousin, who gossips viciously about people, considers me to be rude because she heard me use the word once before.

    It's probably the most powerful word in the world. Some people refuse to use it. Some people use it in every sentence. Do you think it will still be considered a terrible word in 50 years time?

    I like to think that we will have gotten over it by then. It's just another word at the end of the day and a pretty harmless one too when you think about it. Can anybody really be offended by it anymore? I'd be equally upset if someone told me to 'go away' as I would if they said '**** off'.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    Ach,




    Fùck off OP.


    ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    Fcuk that


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,248 ✭✭✭kbell


    C u n t is a better word.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,087 ✭✭✭✭wp_rathead


    lahalane wrote: »
    It's perfectly okay to print 'f**k' in newspapers but it'd be considered rude to spell it out properly.

    During a match you can scream 'Are you blind?' at a referee and get away with it but add the word 'f**king' to it and you're in trouble.

    My cousin, who gossips viciously about people, considers me to be rude because she heard me use the word once before.

    It's probably the most powerful word in the world. Some people refuse to use it. Some people use it in every sentence. Do you think it will still be considered a terrible word in 50 years time?

    I like to think that we will have gotten over it by then. It's just another word at the end of the day and a pretty harmless one too when you think about it. Can anybody really be offended by it anymore? I'd be equally upset if someone told me to 'go away' as I would if they said '**** off'.

    "C U Next Tuesday" seems more powerful
    bunch of americans were over and they were using f*** alot and when c**t was used they almost "grimace"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,339 ✭✭✭Artful_Badger


    I think these days its seen as offensive not because the word itself is actually offensive but because its perceived as offensive and to use it shows either a disregard for others on your part or an attempt to be offensive by showing that disgregard...........I got lost halfway through that one I think. :D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭lahalane


    And obviously some people still use it to get a reaction, which is grand if not a little childish :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,985 ✭✭✭Dunny


    Shi tehawk


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,238 ✭✭✭mutley18


    Great word, who needs dialogue eh?



  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 15,824 ✭✭✭✭paddy147


    You cant say Sh!t on TV.....


    Or can you?????





  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    Fuck


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,525 ✭✭✭miller50841


    Ah fcukin hell


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭lahalane


    its perceived as offensive and to use it shows either a disregard for others on your part or an attempt to be offensive by showing that disgregard

    That would probably be a lot of peoples reasons for disliking it although I don't necessarily agree with it. If I use the word it's because I don't see a problem with it so I'm not attempting to be offensive. It doesn't mean I am showing a disregard for other people either. It's not my fault that they are offended by a word.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,478 ✭✭✭wexie


    wprathead wrote: »
    "C U Next Tuesday" seems more powerful
    bunch of americans were over and they were using f*** alot and when c**t was used they almost "grimace"

    You cant say c.u.n.t. in Canada



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,518 ✭✭✭stefan idiot jones


    lahalane wrote: »

    It's probably the most powerful word in the world.

    Prayer is the most powerful.

    Now all together 'Our Father, who..........


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭lahalane


    Since most of the replies are from people with the sole goal of using the word to get a reaction, I suppose we're not going to be mature enough to get over the world for a while yet :(


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 15,824 ✭✭✭✭paddy147


    Fcuk fcukidy fcuk fcuk fcuk



  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 15,824 ✭✭✭✭paddy147


    lahalane wrote: »
    Since most of the replies are from people with the sole goal of using the word to get a reaction, I suppose we're not going to be mature enough to get over the world for a while yet :(


    Fooking Hell







    Fupp Off



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Ffffffffffffff ffffffff PLOPPERS!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,339 ✭✭✭Artful_Badger


    lahalane wrote: »
    That would probably be a lot of peoples reasons for disliking it although I don't necessarily agree with it. If I use the word it's because I don't see a problem with it so I'm not attempting to be offensive. It doesn't mean I am showing a disregard for other people either. It's not my fault that they are offended by a word.

    I suppose it doesn't matter what your reasons are for using it as people will just respond to it based on how they feel about it. Its a word that has always been used to be vulgar and a lot of people dont care for vulgarity when dealing with other people they might not be that close to.

    Its always been right to be polite to other people and in being vulgar or to act without caring if you come across as vulgar would be to be impolite.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    No homework tonight lads?:pac:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,087 ✭✭✭✭wp_rathead


    slight off topic, but i love the blog in your sig Lahalane :D

    agree anyfilm can be made better with dinosaurs


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,901 ✭✭✭Howard Juneau


    No homework tonight lads?:pac:

    We have to decline the verb fúck
    Fúck me
    Fúck you....
    :)


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 15,824 ✭✭✭✭paddy147


    No homework tonight lads?:pac:






  • Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭lahalane


    I suppose it doesn't matter what your reasons are for using it as people will just respond to it based on how they feel about it. Its a word that has always been used to be vulgar and a lot of people dont care for vulgarity when dealing with other people they might not be that close to.

    Its always been right to be polite to other people and in being vulgar or to act without caring if you come across as vulgar would be to be impolite.

    True. It's just annoying that most of the people I know that would deem using the word to be impolite are themselves impolite in numerous different ways.

    If the word was taken down off the pedestal it's on then maybe it wouldn't be deemed offensive or risqué. Sadly I don't think that day will ever come in my lifetime anyway so I will have to deal with the people who still get offended by it/use it to come across as funnier/cooler.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 996 ✭✭✭HansHolzel


    wprathead wrote: »
    "C U Next Tuesday" seems more powerful
    bunch of americans were over and they were using f*** alot and when c**t was used they almost "grimace"

    Yes, in America that is a very bad word.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,901 ✭✭✭Howard Juneau


    HansHolzel wrote: »
    Yes, in America that is a very bad word.

    Pity GUNS isn't ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,915 ✭✭✭✭Eeden


    What about the argument that people who use "bad" language are inarticulate or lazy? Anyone go along with that?

    I think it's waffle, as some of the most interesting, intelligent and articulate people I know swear like sailors.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 996 ✭✭✭HansHolzel


    Pity GUNS isn't ;)

    Nude Nuns with Big Guns is a 2010 nunsploitation thriller film. So Wiki tells me.

    There's no accounting for cultural sensitivities, is there?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭lahalane


    Eeden wrote: »
    What about the argument that people who use "bad" language are inarticulate or lazy? Anyone go along with that?

    I think it's waffle, as some of the most interesting, intelligent and articulate people I know swear like sailors.

    I dislike that argument. People who use bad language are making use of more words in the English language. If anyone is being lazy it's the non potty mouths.

    Some people use bad words for shock value, sure, but some people use them cleverly and wittily. Moreso the latter in my experience.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,478 ✭✭✭wexie


    Eeden wrote: »
    What about the argument that people who use "bad" language are inarticulate or lazy? Anyone go along with that?

    I think it's waffle, as some of the most interesting, intelligent and articulate people I know swear like sailors.


    Don't go with that argument at all

    I've heard some wonderfully innovative and articulate swearing in my time.


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