Profanity in Mayo

Spon Farmer

I’m currently living in Mayo and the c-word gets used a lot. And I mean a LOT beyond the amount Karl Urban says it in THE BOYS. - and it isn’t always intended as an insult.

Just a word instead of “dude” or similar or a way to describe the weather. And it is by men over the age of fifty.

Is this just a common word nowadays or is this a Mayo thing?

Tony EH

TBH, I'd rear up more if someone said the word "dude" to instead of the word cunt.

Dude is just so American.

Cunt is profane and it's terribly sharp, but it's more familiar I suppose?

Timfy

Try North Connemara ya'cunchya!

I'm pretty sure I've heard it in mass :-)

Tony EH

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120780225#Comment_120780225

From the priest.

😁

wotzgoingon

Anyone ever see that teen film called 'Cúnt where's my car'.

Spon Farmer

I dont hear dude a lot but it was the only thing I could think of when typing.

Just curious if this is just a Mayo thing but I think it must be be going on decades as it is all ages and especially among old men.

An example - I was in a cafe a for breakfast and a two old fart was welcomed by the waitress asking how he was and he declared the weather to be “c**tish”.

gigantic09

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120780252#Comment_120780252

Not to be confused with 'dude where's my cnut,'

mikewest

Really op, you need to get out more. That's refined conversation round "them thar parts"

Spon Farmer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120780458#Comment_120780458

If by that you mean you think I’m shocked or offended or something - it is not that.

It is simply a curiosity - everywhere else I’ve been that particular word is kept for the most serious and deserved of situations.

And that is what I’m asking - is it just the norm in Mayo?and always has been?

mikewest

It's pretty much the norm. The normal conversations in a schoolyard in any village in the west or midlands would embarrass a fishwife, never mind where the adults gather.

.Donegal.

I’d rather hear that being said than dude.

funny to me that in Ireland “dude” is seen as intolerable and absolutely horrendous thing to say whereas in the states calling someone a Cnut is the same.

Spon Farmer

It is a shame but profanity has lost all its impact. It used to mean something once.

The makers of THE BOYS think the use of c**t is funny or something but it became boring very very quickly. Loki saying quim to Black Widow bears it hands down.

Anyway I guess the question is answered. It isn’t Mayo but a Midwest and west of Ireland thing - although I’ve never witnessed it anywhere like in Mayo.

I must pay more attention and see if it is mainly men or if women are the same.

Mellor

In australia it's basically a terms of endearment for mates.

That's how it should be. No word should have some magic ability to offend in and of itself. Context is everything

Spon Farmer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120780563#Comment_120780563

Disagree with this.

The point of such a word is to insult - that is the purpose.

However, that purpose is lost.

Eldudeson

It's used a lot in North Meath too. Laughed out loud at the ya-cuntchya posted before as I've heard that a lot from people I work with!

With the insult of that word being lost, what's the new one to cause outrage?

Spon Farmer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120780850#Comment_120780850

I don’t think is one.

Can’t imagine there ever being another that would have the impact that c**t used to have.

jumbone

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120780434#Comment_120780434

In the book 'The Commitments' when Jimmy first goes to recruit Deco in the canteen his opening gambit is 'How's the soup' to which Deco responds 'cúntish'

So 'proper dubs' like Roddy Doyle (and Deco I suppose!) were using it like that in the 80s

The 1991 movie adaptation by Alan Parker plays it a little safer (international market yano) and upgrades the soup to a mere 'poxy'

Mellor

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120780695#Comment_120780695

You can disagree if you like, but you are wrong. No word exists soley as to be an insult. It's always contextual. Saying the soup or the weather was cúntish is not an attempt to offend. Saying somebody is a "good cúnt" is a compliment, ot an insult. It was a word for vag for centuries before it became an offensive insult. That offense as worn off over the last of decades, as it's just a word.

John_Rambo

Yeah, it's used as a regular word in some rougher parts of the country even in front of kids.

My kids were introduced to it by adults and a Paddy's Day parade in Kilkee, Clare. Unbelievable, half pissed men and women in their mid 40's roaring "c4nt" at each other in the middle of the day as tractors towing floats for kids drive by.

statto25

"You B0llocks Yuh" would also be a term of endearment in Mayo. Used to greet a fond acquaintance or colleague

Look who is after coming in now....Howya John you b0llocks yuh"

Tony EH

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120780548#Comment_120780548

The word cunt used to be used in respectable society. It wasn't viewed as a "bad" word up until a couple of hundred years ago. In fact, There used to be a street in London called Gropecunt Lane. I'm sure you can guess what trade went on there. There were other Gropecunt Lanes elsewhere too.

But in England, especially in the London area and the south, the term cunt is used with great regularity. Someone can either be a "good cunt" or a "bad cunt". Which is why the character played by Karl Urban is always saying it. I know a lad from London living here and he uses to word in every second sentence. But not in an aggressive fashion.

In America, you'll find more people who'll be abhorred by the word. But, frankly, Americans have a very strange relationship with the English language. They have a very strange relationship with a lot of things.

As to whether it's men or women who would use the word cunt with more regularity, well then I can tell you in my experience it's mainly men. And some women will take you to task for saying it. Even if they're more than comfortable themselves with using their own profanity.

Tavrin Callas

Shakespeare used it all the way back in Hamlet. Act 3, Scene 2, between Hamlet and Ophelia he says:

Hamlet: Do you think I meant country matters?

There would have been every expectation that audiences in the time would have known exactly what he was implying.

waywill1966

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120780850#Comment_120780850

https://youtu.be/VcLZvw_amm8

Reminded me of this scene from Dead Man’s Shoes

endacl

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120780493#Comment_120780493

More evidence of us being right and then being wrong, I suppose.

waywill1966

When the Americans say fanny it sounds so funny in comparison to our use of the word!

For Forks Sake

OP, don't ever go to Australia is all the advice I'll give you.

John_Rambo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120784094#Comment_120784094

Yeah, it's the go to expletive for rednecks in Australia too. Cant's.

Spon Farmer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120782724#Comment_120782724

You can say I’m wrong all you like but I’m right and you are wrong.

Spon Farmer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120784094#Comment_120784094

Why?

I see sheep

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120786800#Comment_120786800

Sharks.

I see sheep

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120780252#Comment_120780252

I think 'Where's my car ya ****' would be better.

Spon Farmer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120786830#Comment_120786830

Okay. I thought maybe you were going say that Australians are all c**ts.

mickdw

I'm from mayo and would have used the word growing up without ever knowing anything of its meaning.

It would be used as regularly as fuc k or anything else.

tayto lover

Curses are common in Mayo. Ask the footballers.

Archeron

Very rarely hear c*nt in general, but prick, geebag and wankstain are very popular.

put_the_kettle_on

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120783756#Comment_120783756

Good film that. I'll watch anything with Paddy Considine in it.

Sorry, back to thread.

AndrewJRenko

This cúnt is from Mayo I think

https://twitter.com/cyclingformind/status/1674765763398230018?s=46&t=3l1OhjvjsuAh4w9RMjlH8g

Spon Farmer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120789071#Comment_120789071

This is an understandable reaction.

Not at all the same thing as being unable to speak without profanity.

Why is this lad filming himself cycling? For reasons like what happened there?

John_Rambo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120789157#Comment_120789157

Yeah, drivers use them in cars for the same reason, they're called dashcams. Don't believe for a minute you've never heard of them.

Spon Farmer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120789377#Comment_120789377

Here we go again. There seems to be quite a few members who don’t bother reading posts they are responding to and just want to be seen as foolish.

Where in my post did I say anything remotely resembling “I’ve never heard of dashcams” or “never heard of cyclists using video cameras”?

scotchy

On a related note. How common is the use of the word Gee (Hard G, Ghee. as opposed to the American soft Gee, Jee)?. I had an incident a few years back in Ennis where I was told the Lady hosting the party I was at, was famous for her Ghee. Now I knew it was some kind of Indian butter, but I had to explain why I was laughing, no one else had ever heard of its eh, other meaning.

I know there was a similar mix up on the Pat Kenny radio programme too that was very funny.

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cj maxx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058302846/profanity-in-mayo

Common enough , not exclusively Mayo , though there are alot of cu@ts in Mayo 😬

John_Rambo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120789464#Comment_120789464

You asked why is this man was filming himself cycling. It's fairly obvious. Turns out you knew exactly why.

Spon Farmer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120789738#Comment_120789738

I haven’t heard that used in years but recently I did see the Indian Butter mentioned on something and a similar mix up.

no idea what it was though

StupidLikeAFox

Nothing to worry about as long as you're a sound cųnt or a decent cųnt. Don't be a prick of a cųnt

Spon Farmer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120789841#Comment_120789841

No it isn’t obvious why because there are several reasons he could be doing it such he is cycling for charity, perhaps a charity related to mental health hence why the Twitter account is called Cycling for Mind.

You don’t have a clue why he is filming himself.

Regardless that has little to do with your original post to me about never having heard of dashcams - something you now want to ignore because of the foolish mistake you made earlier.

Spon Farmer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120790088#Comment_120790088

THE BOYS was the first time I heard the use of “a good c**t” and thought that was a first time such an expression was used until I got to Mayo.

Purple Mountain

I live in rural Ireland. Proper culchie card I carry.

C*nt would be a fairly common expletive used by most farmers.

The thing is, to them it's just another curse word like b1tch or ba5tard. There's no connotation to a woman's anatomy.

So I don't even bat an eyelid if I hear it, no more than if I heard a litany of fcuk yous.

Stay out of cattle marts and old man style pubs, OP is my best advice.

Spon Farmer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120790185#Comment_120790185

People swear. I swear.

Just the reason that led me to post is that (as you and others have said) the swearing in Mayo is just indeed words.

And the end of your post suggests you think I find it all highly offensive and that I’m a sensitive soul or something - I’m not. It is just as I said to others who thought the same - just curious about it all.

Spon Farmer

Just occurred to me now - is it the reason why the vast majority of front of house staff in hotels in Mayo are foreigners?