cunt

For years I sat red-faced while Attenborough went through his motions on telly, l-ing and l-ing his way through the forests.

It was only when I was much older that that I discovered the sad truth, and in fact, have only now just worked out that "lichen" and "liken" are in fact different pronunciations of the same motherfucking word. Cunts.

(Incidentally, the guy who told me this then proceeding to piss down his trousers whilst singing "The Lemon Song" by Led Zeppelin. He was barred from my house and I never saw him again. Fuckin' lichen.)

(cunt)

Actually, I probably wouldn't say 'riddim' to my mum either because she'd look at me like I was insane, but you know what I mean.

http://www.transistor.org/personal/fort_rock/lichen.jpg

Boy, is my face red.

cunt's the only word that nobody i know (well, except for one person, but not around most people) would use casually in a sentence because it's so likely someone will be offended. its shock value is pristine.

bumbaclaart = bum cloth = asswipe
bloodclaart = blood cloth = sanitary towel (but essentially meaning same as "motherfucker")

I still think 'cunt' sounds better when a British person says it.

I think the association of meanness or stupidity with female genitalia is the taboo cause of this being such a 'bad' word.

It is, I believe, related to 'con' in French which is also a vulgar term for the vagina. 'Con' as an expletive means more stupid than mean in French, closer to the British than the American usage. As a popular epithet, it has taken on both genders. The original 'con' for males and 'conne' for females. Strange how 'con' and 'vagin' in French are masculine and how there are several slang words for penis in French that are feminine.

Language differences are fun, aren't they?

YOU CUNT!!

and you drop your scones and strawberry jam, and everyone in the room stares at each other for a bit, before she finishes her sentence with

...DO THAT!!

in an intriguing accent that makes can't sound like cunt? Anyone? No? Just me then.

Was that Election? I agree. That was probably the best use of the word "cunt" I've ever heard.

Apart from, of course, Lydon's recent I'm A Celebrity "shock" outburst. But that was fairly lame, wasn't it? I mean, Ant and Dec really are cunts, so no-one was that shocked.

How is this word viewed in Canada?

it's in the national anthem!

so i've heard.

cunto

oh cuntada

I would argue that some of the strength of the word comes merely from the hard "c" and "t" sounds of it. But I guess that's a topic for a linguist.

Being an anglophile and hearing it used by the Brits so much, I've never found it particularly offensive. I mean, in principle, it's the same as calling someone a "dick". What's the big deal?

I guess perhaps it depends on the person as to how they interpret the strength of the word, or who they've heard use it and in what situations. That will form their idea of the word, and these experiences may differ.

hacunta makunta
what a wonderful phrase

But I guess that's a topic for a linguist.

the chicago tribune's sad tale.

http://nicolestockdale.com/graphics/tribunebadword.jpg

i just love the image of "a team of high-ranking editors" tearing through piles of newspapers, pulling that section.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpDiZLrTHX4

Tipsy, can we read this article anywhere? I'm drunk and I'm coming up with nothing, please help. I can't even tell who it was written by.

it was written by lisa bertagnoli, but i've never seen the text anywhere. i think the trib did a pretty thorough job of scrubbing it. by all accounts the headline was the most provocative thing about it.

so it wasn't worth reading, it was all a bunch of hoopla, huh?

i'm well used to this word, essentially it's about as strong as 'fucker' and can be used with any number of shades from affectionate through to being the strongest term of abuse, but i wouldn't tend to bat an eyelid at it.

But the girdle behoind me at wor' is throwing it around, at high speaking volume, as if it were cuntfetti. Cunt this, that cunt, this cuntin thing, you cunt. It's a bit jarring tbh.

My favourite use in a film is by that bold cunt Begbie in Trainspotting.

"That lassie got glassed, and no cunt leaves here till we find out what cunt did it."

i stood by awestruck as an old neighbouring farmer leaned on a gate and agreed thusly with a nun about the weather being poor- "cuntish, sister" he railed, gently, "purely cuntish".

still the only obscenity that i find truly repellent

cmon over celtic way, we'll learn ya it's just a word

yeah I'm more in the celtic camp...tis the most colorful of swears

Plus it has such pedigree

"Monty you terrible CUNT!"

To avoid derail on the Onion thread I thought I'd revive this one, given the hoopla over their tweet of the word re the Oscars.

A nice piece here from brilliant Aus TV journalist Tracey Spicer:

http://thehoopla.com.au/cunt-there-it/

It's used in "Bridesmaids" and "This is 40", basically the same joke: Woman calls kid one.

Actually, is it the same woman?

use it to refer to friends (allo u ole cunt), enemies (he's a fucking cunt - tho more rarely - it seems too dignified), myself (Christ I'm such a cunt/useless cunt etc) and in return am referred to by it (all right, cunty? and one friend tends towards the particularly voluble salutation often at some distance of CUNT!

situations and objects can also be cunty or a right cunt.

oh of course there is also something being a "cunt's trick", and in fact I am standing on the euston road writing this on my phone like "a right cunt".

Oh, and it was on Dave last night (the RGervaise thing, not the TV channel). Entirely in context.

Cunty is only to be used as a descriptor relating to that of the actual reproductives iirc, tough or unwelcome situations are best described as cuntish *tips cap to fizzles*

No mention of cunted on this thread?

not used cuntish before - I like it. feels appropriate to considered evaluation of a situation. "rather cuntish".

Tom D - god yes. absolutely cunted last night, and for kicking something, usually a ball, v hard.

Actually, is it the same woman?

! that you can't tell the difference in comedic talent btwn Mann and Wiig

Oh, and it was on Dave last night (the RGervaise thing, not the TV channel).

?

I assume he means "Derek"?

still my favourite use of the word;

In a 1958 interview in The Paris Review, Terry Southern asked Green about his inspiration for Loving. Green replied, "I got the idea of Loving from a manservant in the Fire Service during the war. He was serving with me in the ranks, and he told me he had once asked the elderly butler who was over him what the old boy most liked in the world. The reply was: 'Lying in bed on a summer morning, with the window open, listening to the church bells, eating buttered toast with cunty fingers.' I saw the book in a flash."

My fave: I saw Lush live in 1993 and as shoegaze bands are wont to do they didnt speak or really look at the audience the whole gig.

Just before the final song in the encore though some twat shouted "Miki! Sharsss yer tits!"

She paused. Looked up with a VENOMOUS expression on her face. Snapped "get fucked, you cunt". Then they kicked into "Babytalk" and tore the house down.

What does this mean, to "sharsss"?

j/k

good enuf for chaucer, good enuf for me

ward fowler otm; my english professor told me that one

there's a great rap track on a mix rev posted that has a refrain of

yes, i like cunty / but this bitch dramatic with a capital D

i think from the context of the mix it comes from a gay or drag scene in which cunty denotes a superior attitude not a million miles away from swag?

has anyone read this? http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1580050158

apparently muscio argues that it comes from an honorific term for the female ruler of a country and became vulgar through a sexist conspiracy

In ancient writings, the word for "cunt" was synonymous with "woman," though not in the insulting modern sense. An Egyptologist was shocked to find the maxims of Ptah-Hotep "used for 'woman' a term that was more than blunt," though its indelicacy was not in the eye of the ancient beholder, only in that of the modern scholar. (Walker, 1983, 197)

intersting mordy thks

Oh, I read that when it came out. I feel like it was huge at the time.

i'm well used to this word, essentially it's about as strong as 'fucker' and can be used with any number of shades from affectionate through to being the strongest term of abuse, but i wouldn't tend to bat an eyelid at it.

But the girdle behoind me at wor' is throwing it around, at high speaking volume, as if it were cuntfetti. Cunt this, that cunt, this cuntin thing, you cunt. It's a bit jarring tbh.

― diafiyhm (darraghmac), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 15:22 (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

referenced individual just recognised a contemporary of ours and yelled the obv word at him across a packed Dublin bus, he thought I'd like to know

lol