Comments on: RPS Speaks Exclusively To Videlectrix*

By: qrter

qrter — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 06:48:59 +0000

I forgot I made that post, just remembered it (in a yuletide haze) and have now been re-educated.

We really do use cunt a lot more than Americans do. In that, we use it at all. It’s a step up from fuck, but not quite as big a step up as the yanks.

(I picked out your post because you’re famouslol!!!!)

I see your point, but is “cunt” used as lightly and easily as “fuck” is? I’m too Radio 4, I guess. I need a liedown.

By: dozer1986

dozer1986 — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:41:18 +0000

I thought 118 118 had expanded into video game production when I read this article!

By: Hunty

Hunty — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:51:13 +0000

Yeah, cunt’s a pretty venerable word. Chaucer rocks it out with aplomb, as per this:

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=quaint

A large proportion of streets in the UK called Grape lane or variants thereof were originally called gropecunt lane in the middle ages, because that’s where you went to do just that. Victorian sensibilties lead to the renaming.

By: Psychopomp

Psychopomp — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:05:00 +0000

I think it should be known “Gropecunt” and “Cuntsticks” are my new favorite words.

By: manintheshack

manintheshack — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:31:48 +0000

Also ‘cuntsticks’ is a nice alternative to the often inneffectual exclamation of ‘fiddlesticks’. Try it!

By: manintheshack

manintheshack — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:28:24 +0000

Orrrrrrr, they’re from another country where they speak a variant of your language. You must have a heck of a time hating words in some countries!

Yeah don’t get me started on those foreign languages… or Devon.

By: Ginger Yellow

Ginger Yellow — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:21:06 +0000

“Cunt apparently was less offensive a while back, having roads named after it (and indeed towns, if Sc**thorpe is anything to go by)”

‘Tis true. I used to live opposite a street that was called Gropecunt Lane in the Middle Ages.

By: Dinger

Dinger — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:09:11 +0000

Everyone knows that, in the English-speaking world, Australians are the undisputed masters of turpiloquy. Unless, of course, Afrikaners are worse.

By: Psychopomp

Psychopomp — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 06:56:59 +0000

Never say “What a good cunt!” about anything here. You’ll get some strange looks.

By: frymaster

frymaster — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 04:11:14 +0000

“cunt” as used by a bloke to describe a bloke (as in “alright, ya cunt?” , is an affectionate (in a manly way) form of address. Otherwise, it’s a swearword :P

By: brog

brog — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 03:23:40 +0000

Cunt seems to be used more here in New Zealand than it is in the UK. Also, “what a good cunt!” is a common compliment.

By: Mister Yuck

Mister Yuck — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:31:35 +0000

I was always under the impression that “fuck” was the worst of words here in America. I shall have to start using “cunt” more often if it is indeed more offensive.

For some reason, I just love swears. The idea of a word having the power to really piss someone off gives me the giggles.