What words, if any, really offend you?

dr.fuzzenstein · 18-03-2018 12:34AM

"I'm telling you this as a friend"
Anyone says that is neither trying to do you a favour, nor is he your friend.
All the really horrible, insulting and upsetting things are mostly said without using a single bad word. In fact it's always said in a calm manner and a superior attitude that just makes you want to smack the other person in the face with a fire extinguisher.
Rather trust the guy who calls me a c*nt.

18-03-2018 12:40AM

I was at a concert tonight where the band tried getting an ira chant going to get a rise out of everyone else there

retro:electro · 18-03-2018 12:40AM

Gusset
Barse
Sapiosexual

jaxxx · 18-03-2018 12:43AM

Words? None. Cos a word is just that, a word. It only means something once you give power to it. Take away that power, and it becomes just a word again.

Now that being said a few little things come into mind, i.e. common sense and decency. Be aware that certain words run deep in some people, so just because a word means nothing to you doesn't mean others share that view. Show empathy and respect. But then again common sense is becoming increasingly rarer.

I once had a friend... long rid of said friend cos said friend turned out to be a heartless wretch. But this friend found the word 'too' offensive. I kid you not. 'Too'. T-O-O. Alarm bells should've been ringing in me head at that time, but alas I ignored them.

RikkFlair · 18-03-2018 01:13AM

Hapax Legomenon wrote: »

Billy Connolly did a funny routine about reactions to that word in America (where 'motherfucker' doesn't even raise an eyebrow). He compared it with Glasgow, where one might casually use it when trying to remember a film star's name... "No, no, not him... some other cunt".

"Who's that cunt beside the Pope?"

andekwarhola · 18-03-2018 01:16AM

Words will never offend me.

Only some of the people that use then and/or the context in which they are used.

Capt'n Midnight · 18-03-2018 01:22AM

Omackeral wrote: »

Apparently, there are 7 dirty words that should never be said on television.

1972. On US TV. Back when boring two-faced prudes made the rules. US soldiers who were too young to drink were still dying in 'Nam. Many had only got the right to vote the previous year. "I'd like to help you son but you're too young to vote"

Back then Women couldn't vote in Switzerland.

And France was still using the guillotine.

RTE TV didn't start until the afternoon and stopped at bedtime, unless the Late Late Show got interesting and they'd keep going.

Here all of us were on LSD until Monday 15 February 1971.

BBC America has ads that list words you can't say on UK kids TV but aren't banned (yet) in the US.

BelovedAunt · 18-03-2018 01:22AM

I find the term “price point” incredibly cringey whenever I see it written online. Thankfully I haven’t heard anyone say it in person yet.

Zaph · 18-03-2018 01:29AM

Wellness. Whoever decided that was a word needs to be flogged. Lets see how fcuking well they'd feel after that.

AllForIt · 18-03-2018 04:29AM

Vulnerable. Especially if it's preceded by 'The Most' and followed by 'in our society'.

chatticusfinch · 18-03-2018 04:30AM

Chillax and guesstimate. Words utilised by chowder heads.

pleas advice · 18-03-2018 04:34AM

Troll

18-03-2018 04:47AM

Banter

18-03-2018 06:53AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Banter

What about bants or bantz?

18-03-2018 07:18AM

Omackeral wrote: »

What about bants or bantz?

They traumatize me..

dr.fuzzenstein · 18-03-2018 08:25AM

chatticusfinch wrote: »

Chillax and guesstimate. Words utilised by chowder heads.

Chowder heads...

Jakey Rolling · 18-03-2018 09:01AM

Funny how words that were once seen universally as offensive become merely soft insults through common usage over a few decades.

A point in question: Mong

In the 70's everyone knew that this derived from "Mongoloid", which was previously used in medicine to describe those with Down's Syndrome. So, it was the kind of insult you might use amongst mates, or the more socially retarded might shout it at random people across the street. You certainly would have the cop-on not to use it in the presence of those with Down's or their family.

Roll on 20 or 30 years and it is just another common put down used ubiquitously by those under 25. And I'd imagine that many of those wouldn't see a problem in using the term at a meeting of Down Syndrome Ireland.

So I and others of my generation may always flinch when hearing such an epithet, but I'm becoming more accepting of the blurring of the lines.

I suppose it's always been the case that you would insult someone by comparing them to someone of limited capacity - no doubt "lunatic" was once a nasty insult, it was actually a category on the census forms in the early 1900's!

Malayalam · 18-03-2018 10:02AM

Words don't really offend me. Though reasonably genteel, I curse a lot, it's because of the rough midlands town I was born in.

But at the moment one word is getting on my t*ts to an unreasonable degree - CIS.

I hate it. I hate the sound of it. Those phonemes - they don't remind me of kiss or sister, but rather of cyst, of piss, of hiss. I hate the implications of it. It's so loaded. Who the fcuk told any cnut that sh1tty word should be fcuking assigned a place in the world? I will never use it in a sentence. Ever. (except for just now obviously:) but that's it...feck off word, just feck off)

Jimbob1977 · 18-03-2018 10:15AM

I was looking at the 1911 Census online and noticed a mental status column.

People with mental defects were categorised as follows on the census form:

o Imbecile

o Idiot

o Lunatic

Those words cause uproar today, but language is evolving every day.

Martin Luther King's autobiography mentions the word 'Negro' hundreds of times. It's how he describes himself and his community. It was the word. Ten years later, that word was an insult.

Personally the word I hate is 'triggered'.

LadyMacBeth_ · 18-03-2018 07:19PM

What curse words offend me? Well, none. I suppose I'd be mad if someone told me to fcuk off alright but hearing curse words in general doesn't offend my sensibilities. I tend to curse quite a lot, not in work and I keep it to a minimum in front of my parents but I don't hold back with friends/my partner. Not that I'm cursing them out of it, I prefer to just throw them into sentences to add a bit of colour.

18-03-2018 07:20PM

Jimbob1977 wrote: »

I was looking at the 1911 Census online and noticed a mental status column.

People with mental defects were categorised as follows on the census form:

o Imbecile

o Idiot

o Lunatic

Those words cause uproar today, but language is evolving every day.

Martin Luther King's autobiography mentions the word 'Negro' hundreds of times. It's how he describes himself and his community. It was the word. Ten years later, that word was an insult.

Personally the word I hate is 'triggered'.

I regularly use those words..

EDit · 18-03-2018 07:24PM

As has been said before it’s about the context rather than the word itself. That said, not a great fan of the word “discharge” (always reminds me of Canesten adverts)

Sam Quentin · 18-03-2018 07:29PM

How many 'BODIES' are on site today? =
how many people are at work today?

I done 5 'YEAR' in the joy = I spent 5 years in mountjoy prison.

So bodies and year in them contextisis :P