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09 June 2006
Worst name ever - or the very best? H&M names mens jeans "c*nt lick".
Where's Hugh Janus!? I showed this fit sliq image to my ad-people mailing list and they all started talking about Hugh's name. Too funny! Are your ears red Hugh? No? Anything else then?
This is pretty funny - and obviously a great way to attract Swedish women, wherever you find yourself in the world! That, and your STR8 Masculine Body Spray (aka "perfume").
Speaking of awful names, though, I swear that the worst name ever for underwear is Sloggies. omg. Like a combination of sloppy and soggy. Ew!
Sloggi makes me think of damp underwear that's really baggy and saggy in the crotch. And the cotton is really thick, like...triple layer. And when you walk, the thickness and the dampness causes major upper thigh and crotch chafing.
I once tried to include "cunninglingus" among "activities I enjoyed" in an alternative weekly personals ad (the regular section). They wouldn't let me and were annoyed. So was I.
Why are we still calling it "the c word?" Have we not evolved to the point where we can just say the C word? Saying "the [anything] word" makes me feel 8 years old.
It always reminds me of that joke, where a guy keeps stating "I feel great" throughout the day, and everyone he meets keep telling him that he don't look so good. in fact bad. Terriblle. Like shit. Finally he's at the doctors, the Doc searches through a medical book for symptoms, mumbling: "...feels great, looks like shit.... hmm feels great, looks like shit... Oh! I know - you're a cunt!"
I actually don't care much for the word 'dick' either, oddly. 'Cock' sounds better. And when it comes to an activity as pleasant as cunnilingus, 'pussy,' works better than 'cunt.' Not a moral objection, just an aesthetic one. I call stupid people 'cunts,' all the time.
Well that's exactly my point. (I can't believe I'm having this discussion.) But cock = cunt and dick = pussy. Word power wise. I think the first set of words is perferable, if you are trying to make an impact.
I think 'cunt' only sounds bad because we treat it as if it sounds bad. In truth, it was a perfectly normal word for the girl parts in Old and Middle English. I'll agree that it sounds a little more direct than 'pussy' or whatever else you may like, but I think it's analogous to 'cock' - where one works, the other should, too. To me, it's all in how you treat the word and how comfortable you get with using it.
Dabitch, that joke was funny. (Though I don't think c-words actually look bad at all. The genitals of both sexes are, erm, acquired tastes. They look funny those first few glimpses, sure. Then for the rest of life, they just look pretty appealing).
What's wrong with "Woowoo" and "Weenie"? it's not like we're back in the dark ages, when we had to use harsh, ugly words to refer to our sin places. These days we take joy in our bodies and our language should reflect that. "Hoohah" and "Diddlewinky" will do me just fine, thank you.
Here I am, dabitch! My ears weren't burning but my brain was, all morning, with worky bullshit being lumped on me by the incompetent and lazy (and higher-ranking). I hate my job, and sometimes it bleeds over into my self. I think I'm gonna bail at lunch.
Interestingly, in recent years I've found it increasingly sexy to call the parts by their actual names: breasts, penis, vagina, whatever. Talk about taking terms back...lots of people, myself included, used to sneer at these so-called 'cold' and 'clinical' words. But instead, it now seems kind of fun to just directly call 'em what they are. Yeah, this is what we've got and what we're doin'. And there you have it.
I disagree, Meeks. Nothing is more sexually charged in a pre-bedroom moment than saying "I really want to put my hoo hoo dilly in your woo woo bajingo and make with the boinkety-boink! (or alternatively the honky tonk badonkadonk).
This worked wonders for me in pre-school. I guess you're right - everything old IS new again.
I say call it whatever you like, just allow me, like twice a year, to call a particularly deserving person a "daffy twat" and I'll back up all this ding dong and hoohah and whathaveyou.
I actually use the real (clinical) words more often than anything else.
Just the other day my husband was lounging around in his boxers, when something slipped the crib... and I responded by saying "Don't try to scare me with your big penis". I think he got the message.
You know, it occurs to me that I don't know how (or, more precisely, am not comfortable) talking "dirty" in bed. I don't think I've ever used a strong slang word for sexual anatomy during sex.
Sigh. Here I am, Mr. Sex-Positive and all, but this is what comes of learning all about sex, from books and such, when you're only 8.
Okay, now I'm sure someone is going to make fun of me.
I don't talk dirty in bed, kmellis... It's not a requisite thing, as far as I know. Also, I kind of chuckled at the lucy/lysistrata joke, but since lysistrata was mostly about withholding sex, it was only medium-funny.
I like dirty talk before anything physical starts, but not so much in bed. Distracting. But say, a fairly specific offer while you're driving or doing the dishes or what-have-you? Oh yeah.
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