God bless the goddamn Onion

A lot of people liked the L-Word...

the c-word dialogue in this thread

I definitely don't count The L Word.

:)

I definitely don't cunt The L Word.

hahaha

http://i50.tinypic.com/2a6mnva.png

oh pleeeease rmde 4ever

lol

Am I supposed to laugh at the absurdity of the statement? Am I supposed to look at my daughter and think, wow, it would be really really funny and smart if someone jokingly called her the c word? How ironic.

Some people are more ironic than others........ life isn't fair but isn't that ~the opposite of what u expect~ ◑.◑

True or false: the c word in the UK is as common as "motherfucker" is here, and the word "motherfucker" is as rare there as the c word is here.

(Apparently true, if Sting's '80s concert doc is to be believed).

the people who're maddest about it (among whom, nobody'll be surprised to learn, are people I dig a lot and consider friends) are going into the "an apology is not enough!" mode which is social-justice-web for "I'm glad to have another thing to talk at length about"
haha this is so otm

this tweet was shitty and all but salon.com having like three cover stories on it seems like overkill

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, February 25, 2013 6:28 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

a t-bomb in re the c-bomb

I throw the c-bomb around like the f-bomb...Mr Veg FREAKED the first time I said it, which was weird & amusing. I had no idea how verboten it was til I clocked his horrified look.

I thought the tweet was kinda funny. Ill-advised more than anything. Some of the reaction I understand...the rest of it is just ott handwringing to me, but whatever.

wish i could post this here:

http://www.thecomicstrips.com/store/add_strip.php?iid=85085

this tweet was shitty and all but salon.com having like three cover stories on it seems like overkill

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, February 25, 2013 6:28 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

4 at last count

lol JD

they're just thrilled they found something to cover that isn't lena dunham, unhappy mothers, or JFK

ironically, the people who are overdoing the reaction to this actually are being cunts

*thread now gets interesting*

;)

:D

True or false: the c word in the UK is as common as "motherfucker" is here, and the word "motherfucker" is as rare there as the c word is here.

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, February 26, 2013 5:14 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

US English bleeds into UK English way more than vice versa (that dumb BBC article a while back notwithstanding) so that probably isn't precisely accurate but close enough

the in-my-head stat (based obviously on deep and scientific research) I have is that 90% of the time in the UK, an individual being called a cunt will be a man; 90% of the time in the US, a woman

yeah, they effectively mean different things. "mean" - express or whatever.

Cunt is def ~the worst word~ in Eng (Scotland is a diff matter) but in the right context it wouldn't raise an eyebrow. I think a man calling a woman a cunt is still pretty verboten here. Other situations, it's not taboo enough that you can't use it jokingly between friends, but has enough power that you can use it and mean it and it's effective

It's not the reason the tweet sucked though, if the Onion had used "bitch" instead it'd have been just as awful

everytime i think of the us use of it, i'm reminded of that alleged john mccain freakout at his wife.

US usage of it always makes me think of Patrick Bateman for some reason

anyway, wd the poor kid probly have been unaware of this if the commentocracy hadn't gone crazy blogshit over it?

that's the environment in which it was released tho, regardless of whether it's perceived as good or bad, it was clearly designed to get a reaction.

oh i think it was v crass don't get me wrong i'm just noting the amplificatory properties of concern commenters

Ehh, every joke is designed to get a reaction, I'm not sure that in the place the writer was at, it was supposed to ignite the internet.

Motherfucker is used quite a lot in the UK, but if it's a white person saying it then 80% of the time they're consciously thinking of Samuel L Jackson while they say it.

yeah, it wasn't so much joke not designed to get reaction, more onion + twitter + cunt + child = c'mon. but agree that noisy fussing has never done any good whether its yr local rotary club or the twitterglob.

Lex otm about English usage of the word. I use it too much day to day I think.

Are Americans REALLY touchy about it? That bit in Curb when the guy has therapy because Larry calls him a cunt etc.

Definitely. It is seen as much cruder and shocking than it seems to be anywhere else. Not sure of the reasoning behind it.

The American pronunciation is much more...forceful?

omg "most beloved *unt" episode is all-time

seconding the poster up there a little saying they'd like to read an article (book even?) about the history/geography of its taboo-ness

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=znYJXIw2UKw

all you need to know

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znYJXIw2UKw

I called my co-worker a cunt last week. Not to her face but to another co-worker/friend because I was angrier at her than I can remember being at anyone else in recent time. The friend I said it to got all offended and said she hated that word so I had to apologize and explained that I rarely use it and then I felt bad. There's my super interesting cunt story for you.

Do not take that last line out of context please.

c-word here almost as shocking as n-word. In some situations, more shocking, which is perhaps why it's making a resurgence. Shockers gotta shock, etc.

I'd say that British people use 'pussy' less frequently than 'cunt'. Somehow, the blanket US dread of the word does not cover my mom's house - where we say it A LOT to annoy my sister.

There's a ballot poll somewhere in here.

Are You Being Served? has probably killed 'pussy' for another generation or so yet.

I never knew how bad "cunt" is supposed to be because NOBODY ever says it, because it is that bad.

kind of think that this is a word if used in an actual sexual context would be dirty enough to actually still be dirty

there are some words tha t people feel very emotional about - like fuck - but why - the future will be fucky - fuck will finally be allowed in all places

kind of think that this is a word if used in an actual sexual context would be dirty enough to actually still be dirty

Yeah. Try prefacing it with the word "boi."