Fuck and shit just ain’t cutting it anymore.

  • yermaw@sh.itjust.works
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    1 minute ago

    You could go full British. “You absolute/complete/total (any noun)”

    You absolute sponge.

    You complete brick.

    You total signpost.

    Its all in the delivery. Say it with enough malice and anything is an insult.

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    6 hours ago

    Niggard/niggardly sounds like a really, really, awful choice for a word to describe someone cheap like Scrooge. It’s not a slur it just sounds way too much like one. The use of the word is controversial despite the only connection the two words share is how they sound.

    I wouldn’t use the word around people though. Explaining how a word that sounds racist isn’t racist makes you appear to be more racist. It isn’t a slur but gets treated as if it was one.

    ✓ quite offensive

    ✓ not a slur

    X you probably still shouldn’t use it

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    11 hours ago

    As an Australian, I would like to introduce you to a word more offensive than “fuck” while just as versatile, and that is “Cunt”.

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      11 hours ago

      Big fan of the word. I use it frequently. I also eat Vegemite and say she’ll be right. Big fan of y’all.

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      10 hours ago

      Cunt is one of the most Australian words I know. I sadly left OZ more than a decade ago,but I still get a bit of a melancholic feeling whenever I hear it.

      The fact that you can also say cunt in an positive sense is fucking funny.

      Sick cunt! And Oi cunt is always a bit of a hit and miss for someone who is not an native Australian slang speaker.

      (Oi cunt once got me thrown out of an irish pub somewhere in County Cork - when used to greet my Australian mate

      Bogan is also a word that needs much more recognition worldwide. Same as Drongo and Fair dinkum. And so many others.

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    11 hours ago

    I have a good one. Once a small machine shop in my hometown had their adjustable sign say “gravely bad-boy scag” which sounds like the best insult ever, but apparently all 3 are brands of lawnmowers that they sold.

    Me and my sister still call each other scag to this day lol

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    13 hours ago

    Not a word, but my favorite recent addition was when someone told me her husband, rather than flip people off in road rage situations, just looks at them and gives them a thumbs down gesture, and it makes them so much more mad. I’ve been doing it whenever I see Cybertrucks.