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29 March 2006

Got a New Favorite Swear, Curse or Oath? →[More:]Lately I've been finding myself calling people who are behaving boorish, Fucknobs. It just feels good.

post by: fenriq at: 23:57 | 35 comments

addle pated, phlegm eating, lickspittle

That and:

fucktard

posted by arse_hat 30 March | 00:35

addle pated, phlegm eating, lickspittle

That and:

fucktard

posted by arse_hat 30 March | 00:36

Wow twice even!

posted by arse_hat 30 March | 00:37

"fucktard" is worth a double post!

posted by cmonkey 30 March | 00:44

Yeah, just after I posted, I lost contact. I blame intarnets storms.

posted by fenriq 30 March | 00:49

When my mom said "hells bells" it was time to head for the hills.

posted by StickyCarpet 30 March | 00:49

Fitzchucker instead of shitfucker, for the moment.

posted by Eideteker 30 March | 00:58

Lately I have liked to refer to a miscreant as a "cocksneeze"

posted by King of Prontopia 30 March | 00:58

Shitspacular!

posted by pieisexactlythree 30 March | 01:13

"Fuckhead" is one that will never go out of style for me.

posted by mudpuppie 30 March | 01:19

I'm trying my hand at aussie slang: Bloody Oath. I've almost got the pronunciation right, but not quite. Need more practice. Bloody Oath. Blooodddy Oaathhhhs.

posted by dhruva 30 March | 01:26

There's a great new Wikipedia article on Latin profanity. Interestingly, the most taboo word is landica, the clitoris.

My nieces and nephew (all around the same age) have some internal jargon that we don't all get. They actually known some ASL swears, too. Their favorite insult to each other seems to be "Partee", which I'm told is some sort of code for the N-word since it's a black family's name (how this arose, I dunno). I figure, at least this is one they won't get beat up for saying (maybe they could, still, if it's widespread ...)

Lately I've been using "cunt" a lot, mainly for media whores of the right-wing variety. And I enjoy the more creative uses of "frack" in the new Galactica (and I try not to forget "frell").

My dad is wont to uncommon constructions such as "What the shit?" They just sound wrong to me.

posted by dhartung 30 March | 01:38

May the devils damn you to the stone of dirges and their curse of curses prostrate you in sorrow.

posted by agropyron 30 March | 01:39

I like 'dicksplash'.

[Although I try to avoid using it at work where it would probably get me fired, sadly. One of my co-workers is a dicksplash of the highest order.]

posted by essexjan 30 March | 02:01

'Tits in a wigwam!' is my favoured exclamation at the moment.

posted by jack_mo 30 March | 02:53

If cunt weren't such a hurtful word towards the women in my life, I'd use it all the time. It has the same visceral hit as fuck.

Also, when I want to make an escape before they get it, "Back side of a horse" and then exit stage right.

posted by fenriq 30 March | 03:50

cock monkey

wankstain (or fuckstain)

fucktard

dick breath

asshat

posted by Rhomboid 30 March | 05:08

holy flaming shitbucket and leaping bipolars on fucking pogo sticks.

posted by moonbird 30 March | 06:04

butttrumpet

posted by sciurus 30 March | 07:20

Fucknuts

posted by tr33hggr 30 March | 07:28

I do now!

posted by mike9322 30 March | 07:58

Jesus fuck.

Jesus H. Christ on a motherfucking stick.

And all variants of frack.

posted by Fuzzbean 30 March | 08:14

fartknockers has always worked for me. as does 'what in the international shitballs...'

posted by chewatadistance 30 March | 08:50

I like throwing in a 'Zounds!' and 'Z'blood!' once in a while to shake things up.

These are contractions of 'God's Wounds' and God's Blood' and were horrible, horrible oaths during the crusades.

In China Meiville's New Curbuzon books, set in a world with an overabundance of religions, the characters will occasionally utter a Z'tail, which tickles me all out of proportion.

posted by Capn 30 March | 10:11

Fuck fuck fuck, fuck fuckity fuck. Fuckity fuckity fuckity fuck.

posted by mygothlaundry 30 March | 10:48

Dogshit!

posted by Hugh Janus 30 March | 11:51

Is "assclown" over?

posted by Miko 30 March | 12:20

I think this is my favorite so far, what in the international shitballs...', thanks chewatadistance. I'm totally using this!

posted by fenriq 30 March | 12:41

Junkslut.

I also find myself pluralizing most of my blasphemy these days: "Gods, that's ugly," and so forth. Too much Battlestar Galactica? (Or NOT ENOUGH.)

posted by Zozo 30 March | 12:49

I'm also a member of the dhartung's dad school of weird constructions. "What the shit?" Also, "Christing" as an intensifier.

posted by Zozo 30 March | 12:51

"Have a Viper!" (inspired by this movie)

I also like "Boner-biting bastard unclefucker!"

posted by sisterhavana 30 March | 13:10

Fuckberries.

Also, like Zozo, I do the pluralized blasphemy bit. (I blame Discworld and A Song of Ice and Fire).

posted by The Pusher Robot 30 March | 13:35

I like English and Aussie curses: wanker, crikey (actually, I don't think this one is bad), bloody hell, bugger, etc. They get integrated into longer curse streams: you fucking wanker, what the bloody hell, bugger me, etc.

Bonus: Jesus Christ on a pogo stick!

posted by deborah 30 March | 17:04

The current favorite at my house is now fuckless sandtwat thanks to loquacious. We shortened it some for verbal efficiency.

posted by lilywing13 30 March | 19:31

Also, that particular rant of his has helped me and a couple of good friends find our senses of humor on really crappy days. Was deemed "profane poetry" by my writer friend.

posted by lilywing13 30 March | 19:33

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