So does 'bum'.Actually in the states "fanny" means something else, but it's still popular with some folks.
Actually in the states "fanny" means something else, but it's still popular with some folks.
So does 'bum'.
The F-Word was what threw me--it wasn't what I expected
What were you expecting? Is something going over my head here?
"Fud" is slang for food for food in North Norfolk.:cat:There's also cooch, cooze, fud, poontang, quim, and vag.:cat:
(I'm still within the guidelines, yes?)
:chimp:He was an expert at gorilla warfare.:chimp:
'Fud' in other use is Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt. A marketing tactic employed by IBM back in the day."Fud" is slang for food for food in North Norfolk.
The F-Word was what threw me--it wasn't what I expected-- and the K-word I had to look up. (Do you know them both?)
What were you expecting? Is something going over my head here?
I expected 'Fuck', but all the most recent references are to 'faggot'--a word that I haven't heard used in many years.
That's bizarre! Who says "faggot" nowadays*?
I wonder if there was any significance in Elmer Fudd's second name being Fudd? ..'Fud' in other use is Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt. A marketing tactic employed by IBM back in the day.
Fudd = thud? Because he was so clumsy?I wonder if there was any significance in Elmer Fudd's second name being Fudd? ..
'Tis the season for cussing and a memory of my Mother's friend from Church, whose grandmother was raised in Transylvania ('the Old Country'). Now part of Romania, it bordered the Balkans under Ottoman control for 400 years and her oath of choice was kruzitürken !
Modern translation is 'Gosh darn it' but she meant the non PC literal Crucify the Turks !
That's bizarre! Who says "faggot" nowadays*? As for the "K" word (and indeed the "Y" word you mentioned earlier) - if I had to guess, without the aid of Google, I'd suppose they referred to "Kike" and "Yid". Mind you, I'm more confident about the "Y", and only guessed the "K" because it appeared in the same sentence.
*Thinking about it, I was listening to my Brothers in Arms CD in the car today, and of course, that word does crop up in "Money for Nothing". Interesting that it doesn't usually get bleeped out on radio, but the "nigger" in Oliver's Army pretty much always does. both might be considered offensive, of course, but also, I believe that both are artistically justified in the context of their respective songs.
Pain Experiment Shows There Really Is Something Soothing About Saying The 'f' Word
Swearing is good for you. Well, kind of. A growing body of research suggests that, under the right circumstances, simply saying taboo words out loud seems to make people feel less pain – but not just any swear words will suffice, new findings reveal.
Exactly how and why the act of swearing manages to make things seem less painful remains largely hypothetical, and it's worth noting that much of the hypothesising to date in this area has been led by a single researcher, British psychologist Richard Stephens from Keele University.
Nonetheless, what Stephens has uncovered is certainly very interesting. A little over a decade ago, he and his team found that if people immersed their hand in ice water, the simple act of swearing during the experiment enabled participants to perceive decreased pain and tolerate increased pain.
Related follow-ups found that the benefits of this pain-lessening (hypoalgesic) effect brought about by swearing are constrained by how often you swear ordinarily, with frequent swearers receiving a lesser increase in pain tolerance than those who don't tend to swear as much.
The hypoalgesic phenomenon seems to transcend language barriers, and appears to be related to other oddities that alter people's perception and abilities; swearing seems to make people stronger too, and taboo gestures, in place of verbal swearing, can also have a positive effect when people are in pain. ...
Exactly! When my nephew was very young (perhaps 3), he would sit in is little car seat and listen to my sister swearing at all the drivers whose skills she deplored. Of course, when my mother the saint (his grandma) had the little guy in her own car, she was more decorous. My nephew was perhaps a bit confused when grandma didn't react to bad drivers in the same way that his own mother did. So he filled in the blanks for her. When a particularly bad driver cut off grandma, my nephew shouted "Fucking asshole!" When my mother reported this bad language to my sister, the latter took her little boy aside and explained that he was not to use those sorts of words in front of grandma because it would make her unhappy. He understood and because he loved his grandma he never used bad language in front of her after that.I recently told her that swearing has a time and place, and that it is not always inappropriate if you consider the situation and the audience.
Can't speak for anyone else but in my head there's a running commentary - what the FUCK'S he doing NOW, who's at the bloody door? what the FUCK is going on, oh just PISS off, for FUCK'S sake, what's this bollocks? etc. When I'm driving alone or cycling it might actually spill out of the gob.
When my nephew was very young (perhaps 3), he would sit in is little car seat and listen to my sister swearing at all the drivers whose skills she deplored.
Sweaty buttocks