Fuck off vs fuck you

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Option	Votes
American and use both terms	33
American and only use 'fuck you'	19
UK/Irish and use both terms	17
UK/Irish and only use 'fuck off'	13
Neither and use both terms	13
Neither and only use 'fuck off'	2
UK/Irish and only use 'fuck you'	1
American and only use 'fuck off'	1
Neither and only use 'fuck you'	1

― frankie t lamps baby (nakhchivan), Friday, 10 September 2010 15:05 (fifteen years ago)

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― am0n, Friday, 10 September 2010 15:07 (fifteen years ago)

"fuck yourself"

― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Friday, 10 September 2010 15:07 (fifteen years ago)

"Fuck right off"

― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Friday, 10 September 2010 15:08 (fifteen years ago)

Mainly, but not exclusively, use 'fuck off'

― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Friday, 10 September 2010 15:08 (fifteen years ago)

xxp add "go" as a prefix and you're there

― dan m, Friday, 10 September 2010 15:08 (fifteen years ago)

go take a flying fuck at the moon

― ledge, Friday, 10 September 2010 15:09 (fifteen years ago)

When I was 8, somebody told me that flipping somebody off using the 3rd finger instead of the middle finger had the secret meaning "go and stick your bollocks on electrified barbed wire".

― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Friday, 10 September 2010 15:09 (fifteen years ago)

"[go] fuck yourself" = fuck you, obv
"Fuck right off" = fuck off, obv

― frankie t lamps baby (nakhchivan), Friday, 10 September 2010 15:09 (fifteen years ago)

Scottish and only use 'get tae fuck'

― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Friday, 10 September 2010 15:09 (fifteen years ago)

^ variation on 'fuck off' obv.

― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Friday, 10 September 2010 15:10 (fifteen years ago)

"Get fucked"

― calumerio, Friday, 10 September 2010 15:11 (fifteen years ago)

I use both, but 'fuck off' more fuck often.

― emil.y, Friday, 10 September 2010 15:11 (fifteen years ago)

'Fuck you' seems nastier and more aggressive

― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Friday, 10 September 2010 15:11 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q41eoZXDb64

― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Friday, 10 September 2010 15:14 (fifteen years ago)

xp yeah 'fuck off' is usually general dismissiveness/disbelief

'fuck you/yourself' is personal aggression.

― k¸ (darraghmac), Friday, 10 September 2010 15:15 (fifteen years ago)

'Fuck off' is positively genteel

― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Friday, 10 September 2010 15:15 (fifteen years ago)

don't believe i've ever used the latter in a serious way, unless hurled at a tv during a spurs match counts

― k¸ (darraghmac), Friday, 10 September 2010 15:16 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb_qHP7VaZE

― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Friday, 10 September 2010 15:16 (fifteen years ago)

to thine own fuck be true

― buzza, Friday, 10 September 2010 15:18 (fifteen years ago)

buzza off

― am0n, Friday, 10 September 2010 15:25 (fifteen years ago)

I see you drivin' round town with the girl I love and I'm like "Fuck Off"

― dan m, Friday, 10 September 2010 15:30 (fifteen years ago)

When I was 8, somebody told me that flipping somebody off using the 3rd finger instead of the middle finger had the secret meaning "go and stick your bollocks on electrified barbed wire".

At around the same age, my dad told me this meant "hang your two titties on a barbwire fence." I was unsettled by my dad's carefree discussion of dismembered "titties."

― Mormons come out of the sky and they stand there (Abbbottt), Friday, 10 September 2010 16:14 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sZoGJCo3Dc

― HOOS' THE BOSS (ken c), Friday, 10 September 2010 16:15 (fifteen years ago)

i cannot give the finger using my third finger, just tried

― k¸ (darraghmac), Friday, 10 September 2010 16:20 (fifteen years ago)

Third finger is the most useless of all possible fingers imo

― jesper olsen twins (NickB), Friday, 10 September 2010 16:23 (fifteen years ago)

1st > thumb > middle > pinkie > 3rd

― jesper olsen twins (NickB), Friday, 10 September 2010 16:24 (fifteen years ago)

good for the 7th in barre chords tbf

― k¸ (darraghmac), Friday, 10 September 2010 16:24 (fifteen years ago)

Don't get all jazz chords on me man

― jesper olsen twins (NickB), Friday, 10 September 2010 16:26 (fifteen years ago)

pfft cmon man the BEATLES used 7th all the time milquetoast chords imo

― k¸ (darraghmac), Friday, 10 September 2010 16:28 (fifteen years ago)

There you go, it's a milquetoast digit

― jesper olsen twins (NickB), Friday, 10 September 2010 16:28 (fifteen years ago)

case proven i guess

― k¸ (darraghmac), Friday, 10 September 2010 16:30 (fifteen years ago)

I've always found Joe Pesci's "Your mother sucks big fuckin' elephant dicks" from Raging Bull to be very evocative. (And, for emphasis, his "You got that?")

― clemenza, Friday, 10 September 2010 16:49 (fifteen years ago)

no one in america uses "fuck off"

ok unless they post to british message boards

― max skim (k3vin k.), Friday, 10 September 2010 18:05 (fifteen years ago)

actually, that is pretty common in my experience (midwestern us)

― mh, Friday, 10 September 2010 18:08 (fifteen years ago)

NZ/Canadian, use both.

First is usually reserved for whatever inanimate object is making me angry/frustrated, ie try to pick up a penny three times and miss each time, fourth time miss again, "Oh, fuck OFF". Also works for strangers who are pissing me off but are out of earshot, ie in traffic and such.

Second is directed at a specific person during a serious argument. Usually emphasize the first word.

― franny glass, Friday, 10 September 2010 18:21 (fifteen years ago)

'Fuck off' VERY popular in the Midwest US. Although waters muddled by my friend's English dad who became a presence in my life at the beginning of my 'swearing years' - he swore like a particularly inventive posh trooper and we were happy to copy every last phrase.

― trollin' with the homies (suzy), Friday, 10 September 2010 18:28 (fifteen years ago)

"maybe fuck yourself."
-staff sgt. dignam

― pun gent (another al3x), Friday, 10 September 2010 19:36 (fifteen years ago)

i use "fuck off" "fuck you" and "stick it up your jacksie"

― i am giving you the caesar salad of compliments (Nijoli), Friday, 10 September 2010 19:38 (fifteen years ago)

Dr W1ld insisted it was spelled JAXY.

― trollin' with the homies (suzy), Friday, 10 September 2010 19:42 (fifteen years ago)

English and use both, also "fuck right off", "get tae fuck", "go take a flying fuck at yourself", "fuck you and the horse on which you rode into town" etc

― Shit Cat and Party (Noodle Vague), Friday, 10 September 2010 19:50 (fifteen years ago)

Dr W1ld insisted it was spelled JAXY.

― trollin' with the homies (suzy), Friday, September 10, 2010

apologies

― i am giving you the caesar salad of compliments (Nijoli), Friday, 10 September 2010 19:51 (fifteen years ago)

good for the 7th in barre chords tbf

??? You mean the pinkie right? Third finger should be on the 5th.

― wk, Friday, 10 September 2010 20:20 (fifteen years ago)

said upthread but "fuck you" is so much more direct, "fuck off" is like saying "shut up" or "go to hell", it's more passive (albeit only a little).

But it's a phrase that can, at the point of tempers boiling, start many a fights. That's the downside of it (especially being that I'm a non-violent person who hasn't ever really been in a brawl).

― Bo Jackson Cruise Control (San Te), Friday, 10 September 2010 21:36 (fifteen years ago)

I'm a big fan of "up yours", underutilized imo

― dan m, Friday, 10 September 2010 21:44 (fifteen years ago)

i usually say "Eat a Dick" or tell someone to eat my frozen piss cubes

― Bo Jackson Cruise Control (San Te), Friday, 10 September 2010 21:51 (fifteen years ago)

"Fuck the fuck off" is my usual variant, always towards inanimate objects / other people out of earshot.

― the same relation to machines as that which machines have to man (Matt #2), Friday, 10 September 2010 22:10 (fifteen years ago)

I predict there will be no votes for UK/Irish and only use 'fuck you' or American and only use 'fuck off'. Except there probably will be now, by lying bastards trying to wind me up.

― Running the Gantelope (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 10 September 2010 22:20 (fifteen years ago)

xpppppppp
oh man, I really want to Life of Brian now
that scene was hilarious. I forgot all of it

― false prophets talk in metaphors (CaptainLorax), Saturday, 11 September 2010 00:37 (fifteen years ago)

I only "Fuck you" to my computer.

― Not the real Village People, Saturday, 11 September 2010 00:47 (fifteen years ago)

"fuck off" mostly, but occasionaly "fuck you" in my best/worst Matt Damon Boston accent or followed by a "fuckball".

― a cankle of rads (Gukbe), Saturday, 11 September 2010 00:51 (fifteen years ago)

go fuck a duck

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 11 September 2010 01:10 (fifteen years ago)

ladies and gentleman, Neil Simon

― Bo Jackson Cruise Control (San Te), Saturday, 11 September 2010 04:31 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

american and both, but probably "get the fuck outta here" more than either.

― a tenth level which features a single castle (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 23:44 (fifteen years ago)

I never say "fuck you" but I'm quite prone to a good "aww, fuck off", with optional "right" after the curse. My current favourite is "cunt off ya fuck" because its so barbaric and blunt and great for expressing anger with.

― get the fuck out of my mouth (boxedjoy), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 08:27 (fifteen years ago)

hmm, citation needed?

I just washed a Hat!

― Mark G, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 08:29 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

"both terms" is the clear winner - huge UK&Irish/US divide though (duh!)

American and only use 'fuck you' 19
UK/Irish and only use 'fuck you' 1

UK/Irish and only use 'fuck off' 13
American and only use 'fuck off' 1

― pissky in the jar (onimo), Thursday, 16 September 2010 12:31 (fifteen years ago)

UK/Irish and use neither.

― Mark G, Thursday, 16 September 2010 12:36 (fifteen years ago)

Fuck off

― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Thursday, 16 September 2010 12:40 (fifteen years ago)

only time i say fuck you is when i'm singing rage against the machine or that song about tim howard

― HOOS' THE BOSS (ken c), Thursday, 16 September 2010 14:15 (fifteen years ago)

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FZbVkQt9JRw/SxWP3eR1QoI/AAAAAAAAAFg/I0_Gx0JBgHc/s1600/Gene+Kelly--Singing+in+the+rain.jpg

― Zeno, Thursday, 16 September 2010 14:18 (fifteen years ago)

ten years pass...

I use both, but to me, "fuck off" is a harsher version of "oh, shut up", whereas "fuck you" is an actual, like....attack.

basically if you told me to fuck off I might get angry but in the sense that you were trying to shoo me. if a stranger says "fuck you" to me, I might want to throw elbows (note I said "want", I haven't been in a fight since I was 15).

― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Friday, 27 November 2020 06:06 (five years ago)

man, you sure do post a lot

― the burrito that defined a generation, Friday, 27 November 2020 06:20 (five years ago)

you get FPed a lot

― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Friday, 27 November 2020 06:25 (five years ago)

Quantity and quality!

― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Friday, 27 November 2020 06:26 (five years ago)

adding "literally" doesn't change the meaning of "fuck off" much but it sure does to "fuck you," i assume

― slugbuggy, Friday, 27 November 2020 10:19 (five years ago)

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