Re: is your accent something that gets commented on alot
I was on an Open Uni forum for a course I was doing and a guy who posted 'I'm buggered' meaning he was tired, was threatened with expulsion!!
In NZ the word would not be considered rude, but it is here in the UK it seems. |
Re: is your accent something that gets commented on alot
Read the list from the ASA, first you will laugh, then you will cry. The fact that bar one, racial/religious slurs rank lower and receive fewer complaints than Bollocks! What a sad world we live in!
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Re: is your accent something that gets commented on alot
Originally Posted by Sir Denis Eaton-Hogg
(Post 7402233)
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Re: is your accent something that gets commented on alot
Number 11...hahah
Seperated by a common language... I took a picture in Walmart the other day of an item they had on sale... The Ultimate Shagger - made by Wilson sporting goods! |
Re: is your accent something that gets commented on alot
Originally Posted by mistahsinclair
(Post 7402264)
(Being Scottish) My favourite made number 1! Would make number 1 in the US too!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/0...f_n_86686.html I suspect it would top the ranking in all English speaking countries mainly because it is always 100% derogatory and demeaning to women, unlike the Male equivalents which have in some cases become almost complimentary... again strange sad world we live in. |
Re: is your accent something that gets commented on alot
Originally Posted by Sir Denis Eaton-Hogg
(Post 7402292)
mainly because it is always 100% derogatory and demeaning to women
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Re: is your accent something that gets commented on alot
Originally Posted by mistahsinclair
(Post 7402268)
Number 11...hahah
Seperated by a common language... I took a picture in Walmart the other day of an item they had on sale... The Ultimate Shagger - made by Wilson sporting goods! |
Re: is your accent something that gets commented on alot
I'd say that No 5 is considered worse than No 1 in this day and age. And quite right too. Afterall No 1 is only a rude word for a part of the body. i use No 1 all the time but i'd never use no 5.
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Re: is your accent something that gets commented on alot
Originally Posted by mistahsinclair
(Post 7402299)
Funny that...I've most often heard it directed at men, by men.
Interesting that women also direct this word at other women (and men) when they want to cause maximum offence (depending on which pubs you hang out in of course) and rarely use male orientated versions, which are not generally seen as so severe/powerful. :huh: |
Re: is your accent something that gets commented on alot
Originally Posted by mistahsinclair
(Post 7402264)
(Being Scottish) My favourite made number 1! Would make number 1 in the US too!
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Re: is your accent something that gets commented on alot
Originally Posted by Okachickima
(Post 7402379)
The use of the word "Jew" is considered swearing in Britain? How do you refer to a practitioner of Judaism?
Good morning my practitioner of Judaism-ish friend...something like that. ...or maybe just Rabbi (wait that might not be P.C. either). |
Re: is your accent something that gets commented on alot
Originally Posted by orangemirror
(Post 7402350)
I'd say that No 5 is considered worse than No 1 in this day and age. And quite right too. Afterall No 1 is only a rude word for a part of the body. i use No 1 all the time but i'd never use no 5.
It is grossly offensive, but interestingly more so within a certain generation. Some older people in the UK do not see it as that offensive, but they also tended to watch Alf Garnett and Jim Davidson 'innocently'. At the other end of the scale you will hear a lot of kids and teens using this word 'casually' between themselves, both in the US and UK, almost in an attempt to destroy any power that the word may retain by making it trivial. I suspect and hope 'that word' will have disappeared entirely from popular speech within a generation, and will be consigned to history along with the obsolete and outmoded ideas that it came to symbolise. |
Re: is your accent something that gets commented on alot
Originally Posted by orangemirror
(Post 7402350)
I'd say that No 5 is considered worse than No 1 in this day and age. And quite right too. Afterall No 1 is only a rude word for a part of the body. i use No 1 all the time but i'd never use no 5.
but I wouldn't ever think about saying #5:confused: |
Re: is your accent something that gets commented on alot
Originally Posted by orangemirror
(Post 7398264)
This might be a load of bollocks and maybe already been discussed on here. But i did hear that the American accent is similar to how people talked in Britain a few hundred years ago, and we changed the way we speak due to changes in fashion, etc.
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Re: is your accent something that gets commented on alot
Originally Posted by orangemirror
(Post 7401956)
That reminds me that when i was in Australia a guy asked me if we had Meat Pies in England. That was the first question he wanted to ask me when finding out I was English. Then he asked me if we had The Bill TV programme in England.
The TV TImes says that with a wee bit of luck The Bill should make an appearance on British TV sometime in mid to late 2010. |
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