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when i look for songs in morpheous w. the word fuck its all puncuted out with underscores and astericks. Its a good word , a noble word that has been with us as long as english. I hate this censourus aspect , so lets praise fuck and along w. it cunt ( the cu used to be a general prefix for women , cf queen) , cock ( because frankly penis sounds stupid and dick sounds juvenile), piss ( for similar reasons)

― anthony, Monday, 28 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Its rude.

― Pete, Monday, 28 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i was under the impression that these words were not considered rude until the victorians came along? that god was a far more shocking word at that time. in ackroyds london the biography (i think) there is a reference to a gropecunte lane, this was its proper name so must have been acceptable at that time?

― gareth, Monday, 28 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's a filthy discusting & sickening word, and if you keep on using it, you may not meet the one of your dreams. :( Unfortunately there are so many of you out there and maybe you deserve each other? Well that would save the better more polite ones for the rest of us :) Good trade eh Pete? :)

― Gale, Monday, 28 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But if you never use it you'll never fuck the one of your dreams will you?

― Ronan, Monday, 28 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If you don't mind me asking Gale, why do you think it is "a filthy discusting & sickening word"?

― DG, Monday, 28 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

nought all, except when used in conxion with the spice girls...

― goeff, Monday, 28 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

it's not the word, it's how you use it.

― chris, Monday, 28 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'd rather say fuck than blaspheme! It's not suitable in every context, though, like in Velvet Goldmine, where the characters say "for fuck's sake!" all the time. That's a stupid phrase.

― Maria, Monday, 28 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am not etymologically elitist. The word "fuck" isn't more or less unnerving than "cow" or "guitar" or "four-wheel drive." It is YOU who put the moral weight on the word, not the word itself.

What the fuck is wrong with "fuck?"

I mean, you do it or want to do it, your parents did it (hence...YOU), dogs do it, et all.

― As random, Monday, 28 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I find the F word . Very crude for lack of a better word. Especially when we all get called names using the same ignorant F. word and it isn't very lady like to use said word. To top it off, how many of you men like women to constantly use that word? Be honest! Would you bring them home to meet your family? I for one wouldn't have appreciated my sons to bring someone home that used that lang. It was bad enough my X used it every seconed word he spoke and I got really fed up with it.

― Gale Deslongchamps, Monday, 28 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/T-Shirts/wlodek/fuck.jpg

― Kodanshi, Monday, 28 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, I wouldn't say it around my friends' parents. Or my own, for that matter. It's silly, but there's a social taboo against it and it's simply easier not to say it in some company and not risk offending them.

― Maria, Monday, 28 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nice one, Kondashi.

― Nicole, Monday, 28 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

my reaction was "ooh, pretty colors."

― Maria, Monday, 28 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Thee only thing I have against it is that charvers tend to pepper their speech w/it, and ANYTHING THAT CHARVERS LIKE AUTOMATICALLY MUST SUX0R.

― Norman Phuck, Monday, 28 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

don't bite my style kodanshi!

― ethan, Monday, 28 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Fuck" went dirty somewhere during the 11th and 12th centuries, really, as did "shit." English is a collision of Romance roots (via French) and Germanic roots (via Angles and Saxons); after the Norman Invasion of England, during which the French lineage essentially became the island's elite, Romance words became fancy-highbrow ("excrete," "intercourse") whereas Germanic words became coarse and common ("fick," "schiesse").

This is also why we use Germanic words for stock animals but Romance words for the meat they provide -- your "low-class" Germanic "barbarians" were raising it, and your monarchal Frenchmen were first seeing it on a platter. Hence swine becomes pork (porc), sheep becomes mutton (mouton), cow becomes beef (boef). English -- almost without fail, and almost a thousand years later -- associates Germanic words with earthy laboring "coarse" ideas and Latenate words with airy intellectual "refined" ideas.

― Ni~|suh, Monday, 28 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ethan, to quote Overkill:

http://www3.airnet.ne.jp/~vzr04461/album/Fuck%20You%20And%20Then% 20Some.jpg

― Kodanshi, Monday, 28 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hi Gale, If I brought home a girl, my parents would say, "What the fuck?"

― goeff, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hi Geoff, Why is that? Must be your parents are very young, and perhaps not too educated? Why did you make that remark?

― Gale Deslongchamps, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't think my parents would mind if I brought home a young lady who had no qualms with swearing. Their priorities:
Dad: embarassing me
Mum: encouraging the thought of GRANDCHILDREN for her.

― DG, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I believe that would be because he fucks guys, Gale.

― Josh, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)


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