The C word
 

I was just wondering how people felt about the C word (******).

I used to find it totally unacceptable and would be quite shocked if I heard it used but in recent years I have become desensitised to it.

It started with attending a showing of The Vagina Monologues. The audience was divided into two and we had a ****** shouting competition in order to reclaim the word. It was great fun! :D

These days, I hear it reasonable regularly and it doesn't shock me at all.

Yesterday, I was having a discussion with some girls and one used the C word when describing an ex colleague. One of the girls was so shocked and turned bright red. She couldn't believe it had been used and said she had never heard it used by a woman. It started a discussion on it and opinions were divided.

What's your opinion?

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Personally I don't have a problem with it - it is just another swear word, albeit a very powerful one.

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The only time this word is totally acceptable is when it slips from the lips of Richard Gear in an Officer and a Gentleman.

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Working with blokes all the time I hear the word used quite a lot. Most of them get embarrassed if they know I've heard them say it :lol:

Personally I tend to call people ankles - lower than a c*** :lol:

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I swear like a trooper but that's one word I would feel very uncomfortable saying. It doesn't bother me to hear it said now (like you, I've become desensitised to it) but I wouldn't use it.

I was the same about the tw*t word, but that's because where I grew up that word was on a par with the c word - Himself, who grew up in the South, didn't think it was any worse than bugger!


Mind you, I still can't/don't/won't swear in front of my mother.

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I hate it, think its the worst. But I hate swearing...

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Loathe it, but I also don't swear other than to say the occasional bu**er - which out here is not really swearing.

If you are using swearing as general punctuation, (ie in every sentance,)then it loses its impact. It should be saved for those special moments when it is really necessary- much more shocking, and cathartic for the person using it.

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I like it but I reserve it for special occasions.

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Apart from using the term ankle, I also use poodle as I don't really swear much either. My older kids swear more than I'd like but no where near as much as some of their cousins whose parents swear a lot. The young spark doesn't really swear either, but will ask you to tell him whether a particular word he's heard is a swear word or not :lol:

But given enough provocation I will swear - a driver who nearly crashed into me on a roundabout was called a p**ck which is about as bad as I get. So I have to ask is p**ck more acceptable than ****** :confused:

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Only cvn75 would use it.

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I don't like the word but if I use it, always with heavy irony, and directed to a man...and even then I joke about it.

I would never use it in front of a woman.

I occasionally swear in conversation - again - with loads of irony and it's clear that I've messing around - I don't get aggressive with it.

I swore a lot more as a teen.

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I use it all the time.

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I saw it on a bumper sticker yesterday:
Can Do's A Can't
In reference to our illustrious leader Campbell 'Can Do' Newman. Obviously Can't was spelled with a u:o

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Me too. No problems with it at all.


S

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I think Dreamy and I were seperated at birth. These are my feelings exactly. (well, except for tw*t which isn't a swear word where I'm from)

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Thinking about it, I swore a lot, and aggressively, in my teens/ early 20s. I have a video we made at 17 with some mates and every other word is one...my mother turned around to her friend and said 'These boys have a very limited vocabluary don't you think?'

I think what changed was going to work in an office environment and being around much more polite people. I definitely don't use the C word, and to a lesser extent the F word nowhere near as much - but I also have young kids..

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Does she work here? :D

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It's a great swear word, but only in relation to guys. Calling a women that is not cool.

Americans are shocked when they hear Aussies/Poms/Saffas using the word freely.

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Yeah, I think it's a cultural thing. In North America twat and wanker are not considered swearing where in UK they are. Some words we use are strange to Aussies/Poms/Saffas. For instance I use "****ing the dog" all the time. It basically means doing nothing but one of the girls I work with thought it was really offensive.

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:eek:

Can you give us the context? Like..."yeah...it was too hot so I just stayed at home all day ****ing the dog"!?

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"My wife came home early and caught me ****ing the dog..."


S

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:D

Actually it should probably be "My wife came home early and caught me ****ing the dog, eh..."

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Pretty much. The conversation would go something like this...
"So, what did you do at work today?"
"Meh, not much. Just sat around ****ing the dog all afternoon."

It's along the same lines of if I'm having a particularly lazy day I'll say I just sat around looking pretty all day. Not quite the same effect, but means the same thing.
No, that would just be wrong.

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I hate to use it.... used it a lot more when I was younger and reckon it's the swear word with the most effect.

Re Kids and swearing... I reckon that the younger generation... whatever group they full under are swearing a lot less in everyday conversation than ten years ago.

I notice this because there is a 10 year age difference between our first two kids and our younger two... I never hear my 15 YO son and his mates swearing when they talk between each other... my 18 yo daughter and her mates swear a bit .... whereas 10 years ago their older two sisters as the same age where swearing in almost every sentence... I reckon we're on the cusp of a new conservatism amongst the young. Could be the Muslim influence.

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I can say hand on heart it is a word I have never used and probably never will. I rarely swear as it is, there is no real need to.

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A big word for a big situation, used any other way is either not necessary or going to start a fight. Never to be used in front of a lady although i've heard it spoken by plenty.

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I don't swear much but not out of any moral outrage. I just cannot understand how particular words are offensive in themselves. It's possible to be just as offensive without swearing.

If someone swears in a different language would you be as offended? How would you even know? I could write lots of non-English swear words here and who would object?

It seems that some people think you should be offended ("a big word") but that says more about them than me.

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Ch33sy cu?!

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I think it used to be viewed as THE worst swear word and it was usually ONLY men that used it. Nowadays it's used all the time , and I see it as a funny word now. :lol:

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I can and do swear with the best of them....and in my work I hear plenty of swearing:ohmy:

However that is a word I rarely use and do not really like to hear.....but I really do not know why:confused:

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I hear it a lot at work - we regularly get called 'Captain Cook ******s!' :lol:

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What animal has a ****** in the middle of it's back?

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Completely unacceptable.

Unless used to describe Phil Collins. ;)

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What about Mrs T?

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cock cock cock

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:rofl:

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What,not cuddly chops copper:blink:

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Don't like it at all. It's crass and common and I was brought up crass and common!!!!

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My kinda chick:wub: