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Quote: Charpa93

The explanations for using the c word, while not really saying why its use is necessary, do help me to understand that it isn't said so much in a vile way but more in a "oh, we say that every day way."

Myself, I'll refrain.

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Charpa, my earlier comments may have been misleading. For me, the word you describe as beginning with 'c', ending in 't' and rhyming with 'hunt', is the most disgusting, disgraceful and despicable word in English, and I almost never say it when talking to my Mum.

No, honestly, I don't. I used to go on my mate's music website, ThePlasticAshtray.co.uk, and we used to moderate ourselves by substituting the word 'cake' every time we found ourselves wanting to say the C-word. Also, we wouldn't use the word 'fuck', instead preferring to use 'fruit'. It wasn't uncommon to have to call someone a "fruiting cake".

All of this is true. Go ask Fife Peterson if you don't believe me, you fruiting cake.

Monkey...I like the Fruiting cake....I'm gonna use it...see if anyone notices. They probably won't, they'll just think it's some wierd 'English' thing. Fruiting cakes!

Anyway - Lynton told me (very nicely) that I'd spelled 'coxis' wrongly. (Are adverbs going out of style or is it just on this side of the world...)


Well I did spell it like that on purpose to see if any of you were paying attention.

And the Gold Star goes to.....................Lynton.

Lady G.

Can I be book monitor Miss? Please Miss! Go on Miss!

Monkey, I also like the way you get around saying awful words. Fruiting cake really made me smile! so much better than the alternative.

For that, I won't shush you.

charpa

Easier for us to see that here, living between the two solitudes as it is called.

Victor

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Quote: victor nicholas

British vulgarity is based on sex and French vulgarity is based on the church. Something to do with national oppression they say.

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Interesting. I'd never heard that.

Trying to find out more, I found this wikipedia page on profanity.

Very amusing - It would seem Wikipedia is having problems with that particular entry which we could easily sort out here at The Spoof.

lol

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Quote: Skoob from Burnley

Steady on there Monkey Woods - As you well know, I lived in Burnley for a long time, but I'm not from Burnley.

Not that there's anything wrong with being from Burnley - there isn't. I've known some lovely people from Burnley, and a number of the people I used to hang out with are from there.

I'm from a few miles down the road.

Monkey - you're just being a cheeky malevolent monkey trying to wind me up. And it won't work.

Oh shit...it already has...

Bugger...

Regards

Skoob

I'm from Middlesbrough.

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Quote: Skoob1999

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Quote: Skoob from Burnley

Steady on there Monkey Woods - As you well know, I lived in Burnley for a long time, but I'm not from Burnley.

Not that there's anything wrong with being from Burnley - there isn't. I've known some lovely people from Burnley, and a number of the people I used to hang out with are from there.

I'm from a few miles down the road.

Monkey - you're just being a cheeky malevolent monkey trying to wind me up. And it won't work.

Oh shit...it already has...

Bugger...

Regards

Skoob

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Skoob:

Shucks, I thought you were from Hoboken New Jersey. You sure fooled me!

Here in France generally the language is something to be respected and preserved and there is a special committee dedicated to this in the Academie Francais.

Swearing of serious type would be mainly words like 'Putaine'(Whore literally but the equivalent of fuck) the versatile Merde which is equivalent to shit or bugger and varies in strength equally according to how it is said.
The other day a French footballer told the coach in no uncertain terms "Va te faire enculer chez les Greques" which literally means "Go get yourself buggered by the Greeks". Silly sounding but in general very strong and not said and does shock the public who hear it very little.

Swearing is the preserve generally of the hoi polloi in France and isn't particularly imaginative except for the Greek reference. It is considered to be a very undesirab;e taint to the language.

Like in English no doubt swearing and the words have changed in france over time. In fact in English with its chequered past we have somewhere words from all roots. Includug the religious ones such as Bloody which originally was "By our Lady" even "Gor blimey" came from "God Blind me" and Jesus wept is still present and unchanged.

In England with the flattening of the class system and the"democratisation" of language swearing seems to have become commonplace and less shocking.

In french the only equivalent of the "C" word is chatte which is indeed "Pussy" which seems to me to be on a par with lady G's "Down there" .

Nevertheless I thik I would agree that in English the word cunt would shock much more than any other.

French Canadian "Tabernacle" which even the french look upon as rather odd and quite anodyne probably forget that these are hangovers from the colonial period where the swear words of the epoch have continued because the language developed in isolation. Same with accents such as the Newfoundlanders Australians etc evolution happens and natural selection occurs by separation.

Anyway what about the word SPOON? I quite like it but have no idea why that sound should have been adopted for an eating implement any ideas?

That's why some Brits here like to speak of wank and such. It's like running with scissors for them without having mum box their ears in.

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Quote: The San Francisco Onion

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Quote: victor nicholas

British vulgarity is based on sex and French vulgarity is based on the church. Something to do with national oppression they say.

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Interesting. I'd never heard that.

Trying to find out more, I found this wikipedia page on profanity.

Very amusing - It would seem Wikipedia is having problems with that particular entry which we could easily sort out here at The Spoof.

lol

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W. C Fields used to say "Mother of Pearl" as an expletive.

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Quote: Charpa93

Monkey, I also like the way you get around saying awful words. Fruiting cake really made me smile! so much better than the alternative.

For that, I won't shush you.

charpa

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A term used by my mum's gran to describe something and avoid usig naughty words was "Cussed humbugging fair hateful!"

This thread's a load of old bollocks.

Regards

Skoob.

A spoon is a utensil consisting of a small shallow bowl, oval or round, at the end of a handle. A type of cutlery (sometimes called flatware in the United States), especially as part of a place setting, it is used primarily for serving. Spoons are also used in food preparation to measure, mix, stir and toss ingredients. Present day spoons can be made from metal (notably flat silver or silverware, plated or solid), wood, porcelain or plastic.


Anyway, my Mother-in-law was Scottish, lovely woman, and her cussing was,

"Good Gordon Highlanders".

My brother, (atheist turned Jehova's Witness) tells me that even Gee! (Jesus), Crimes! (Christ), Gosh! (God), and other words I've used in front of him....ALL have connections to the Bible and are therefore Blasphemous.

My answer to him. Jesus Christ! What the hell CAN I say?

We're still talking!

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Quote: Lady Godiva


My brother, (atheist turned Jehova's Witness) tells me that even Gee! (Jesus), Crimes! (Christ), Gosh! (God), and other words I've used in front of him....ALL have connections to the Bible and are therefore Blasphemous.

My answer to him. Jesus Christ! What the hell CAN I say?

We're still talking!

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Tell him to Fuck off.

That should get rid of him.

Mind you, I have heard Catholic friends say,

"Jesus, Mary Mother of God!"...but then...they could be praying.

Anyone know where 'I'll be jiggered' comes from?

Maybe it's the posh person's version of 'I'll be buggered'.

I once told a class of Grade 7 & 8 students the true origins of the words 'Brown noser', because I was fed up with hearing them call each other 'Brown noser' or 'Browner'....this was when I was supply teaching 'French'in a local Catholic School. A friend's son was in the class and was one of the main 'culprits'.

They let out a collective 'Yewwwwwwww!' when I explained the origin of this phrase...but I bet they said it on a more regular basis after my little 'lesson'. (Wicked I am...wicked!)

I never professed to be a 'sweet old lady' Hey! Less of the 'old', she said, talking to herself yet again.

Fergus, I was typing whilst you were posting......and I bet you didn't even feel a thing.

'Fuck off' will probably be OK with him.

"Go forth and multiply" would probably be a definite No No....as I do believe it is in that bible book thingy.

Lady G.

OK.


Tell him Blyan Lobson is returning to Middlesborough as the new manager for next season.


Just watch the fucker crumble.

Me bruvver doesn't follo' footie! He only follows Jehova. I follow footie though....boo hoo! I want the Boro back in the EPL. Any chance????

Theres always a chance.


Million to one chance,

Not a chance in hell,

Chance would be a fine thing....

Who the cunting fuck is Jehovah?

Is it something to do with Monty Python's Life Of Brian?

That stoning bit with the women wearing false beards?

Been down the pub, so you won't get much sense out of me, I'm afraid.

Not that you ever did.

Regurgitations

Skoob.

OK.....All I can say about the Boro then is Fruiting Cakes!

D'you know...there was a certain satisfaction in saying /typing that......Ahhhh!


Just a thought....

@Lynton, why is 'favorite' spelled the American way in the title of this thread....????

Oh Skoob...isn't that sweet, we were typing 'together'.

Jehova is a figment of someone's imagination.

Don't give it a 2nd thought.

By the way, that pink elephant you are seeing IS REAL...don't panic Skoob. I've called the paramedics.

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Quote: Lady Godiva

OK.....All I can say about the Boro then is Fruiting Cakes!

D'you know...there was a certain satisfaction in saying /typing that......Ahhhh!


Just a thought....

@Lynton, why is 'favorite' spelled the American way in the title of this thread....????

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LC Favorite - Pandering to the yanks and not wanting to let them divert us by mentioning the difference - this thread is already meandering! But just for you FAVOURITE aren't I kind to you?

PS please no group typing between you and skoob or fergus it is unseemly and frightens the horses!

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Quote: Lady Godiva

I'm from Middlesbrough.

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I'm not.



Thank fuck.

I mean, "thank fruit".

I've been there though. Or "Burrer", as the locals like to call it. As I remember, the letter 't' does not exist in Burrer. They conducted a search, but one could not be found. They called it off after seven hundred years, and now they use the letter 'd' instead.

Nice people though. And the climate is lovely. So is the scenery, if you like industrial sites belching out noxious fumes into the atmosphere. Or is that China I'm thinking of (dangling).

Oh, I'm sure it's very nice. Better than Dudley, anyway. The nightmares still come fairly frequently, you know. I wake up screaming, sometimes laughing, sometimes ... well ... I can't really tell you what I'm sometimes doing. Suffice to say Dudley is still with me, lurking at the back of my mind, preying on my subconscious, in the dark recesses of my brain.

"How am ye?"

"Orroight!"

"Yow ay gowin t' de markit, am ye?"

"Now, am off to de Jobcentre t' get me wages!"

and so on.

Frightening.