is your accent something that gets commented on alot
#136

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.
In NZ the word would not be considered rude, but it is here in the UK it seems.

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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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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!
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!

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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.

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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.

#144

As an insult a male directing that word at another male is particularly demeaning to women as it infers negativity towards the female body and a superiority of the male. Otherwise it would be a compliment
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.

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.


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Good morning my practitioner of Judaism-ish friend...something like that.
...or maybe just Rabbi (wait that might not be P.C. either).
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#147

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.

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but I wouldn't ever think about saying #5


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You've been reading "Mother Tongue" by Bill Bryson, maybe? Many of the spellings, certainly, changed in the UK but remained the same in the US - so it's US spelling that is "correct" most of the time and UK spelling that is "wrong/changed" And apparently there are pockets of people up in the Appalachian mountains who speak Elizabethan English

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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.
