A silent thread for the word "fuck"

[dorkzilla]

[cheapdate]

1. Oh, Fuck, we hardly knew you.

[Cha]

4. LOl.. that's silent. I'm not saying anything. :)

[Autumn]

2. Fuckety Fuck as well

[FreakinDJ]

26. "You Fucken Fucks You"

[Autumn]

28. What the fuck?? You fucking fucks you too???

When will it ever end?

[FreakinDJ]

30. Getten a little tough to beat

[Autumn]

39. Oh for fucks sake. Are you going to

give up now?

[FreakinDJ]

46. Well for the Fucken Record

[Autumn]

51. That can't be beat

[DeSwiss]

84. !

[oneshooter]

3. Do you mean..............

For
Using
Carnal
Knowledge

[Shankapotomus]

5. My condolences

to the whole Fuck family during their time of sorrow?

[Nye Bevan]

6. Has there been a DU rule change?

I guess not, or this OP would itself have been hidden.

So what's going on here?

[Cha]

9. Hu-Mor!

[Cha]

7. Hey dork.. long time. good to see you back for

something important!

Ask anyone if I can stop using "fuck" in my vocab.

[dorkzilla]

13. Hi Cha!

The restaurant is keeping me very busy!

Yeah, I don't edit that word out of my vocabulary either. Its a very useful word!

[Cha]

19. It all started in the bush-cheney coup era and I've seen no

reason to stop.

I actually thought about your restaurant when I wrote my post.. how fulfilling for you to have one that keeps you hopping!

[TDale313]

8. Yeah, fuck that

Seriously, though... I don't have much of an issue with profanity, however, fwiw (probably not much) ... racist, sexist and homophobic slurs I do tend to find offensive. For me they're slightly different issues. Ymmv.

[dorkzilla]

17. +1!

slurs are slurs. Fuck is just profanity...and very versatile too!

[Lochloosa]

10. ...

[liberal N proud]

11. What the fuck

Does this mean we can no longer use smiley

[vanlassie]

12. Can I still say "fuck a duck?"

[dorkzilla]

22. You can say whatever the fuck you want! nt

[mindwalker_i]

72. That is way too fowl to say

And it denigrates people who have a thing for ducks (and maybe chickens too - I always just kind of wondered about Colonel Sanders).

[vanlassie]

73. But, it always quacks me up!

[mindwalker_i]

75. But if you fuck a duck

does it echo? The Mythbusters did a whole thing on echoing quacks.

[vanlassie]

76. Fuck if I know.

[nadinbrzezinski]

14. Do not forget it's cousin frack!

It was a tragic accident!

[kentauros]

89. "Frak" is the more often used version

thanks to both series of Battlestar Galactica, though it seemed far more prominently-used in the remake series from a few years ago. "Frack" is a real word as it is short for "fracking", which most everyone around here likely knows those particular meaning...

Here's a thread where we're attempting to compile the words to use in place of the soon-to-be-banned-on-DU 7-Deadlies

And I'm still reading the Wikipedia article on Profanity in Science Fiction

[nadinbrzezinski]

90. It is a shame that Frak was so many meanings my friend

I am sure I can come with a few insults. for the page, and of course, who will sit in DU's version of the Comic Board?

[kentauros]

92. The Comic Board should not be for the Humor-Impaired,

that's for sure! We'd have to stack the deck with mostly Loungites

[nadinbrzezinski]

94. AH, ha, ha

Oh lordy, I added some, and trust me, some of them I had to explain and put the warning them are fighting words.

[kentauros]

96. Thanks :)

There are some good ones there already, so I'll go have a look at yours, too

[MaggieD]

15. That's fuct

[L0oniX]

41. That's phucking right.

[Xipe Totec]

16. Proper Use Of English Word "Fxxk"

[dorkzilla]

20. Brilliant! n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

37. Brilliant fuckity fuck

[Xipe Totec]

117. Fuck Yea! nt

[The Road Runner]

56. I have honestly never seen anything quite like that!

[zeemike]

80. I had no fucking idea that word was so fucking versatile.

English is so much fucking fun.

[snooper2]

18. a silent thread for older people to act like teenagers online since the spouse is in the other room

I crack me up

[Cha]

54. We're young at heart.. we

can't help ourselves, snooper.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

21. Rolling doughnuts breath a collective sigh of relief...

[gollygee]

23. I haven't heard a single person complain about the word "fuck"

Only about language that is misogynist, racist, or homophobic, regardless of whether society considers those words to be vulgar or not.

So I have no idea what this thread is in response to. Did someone complain about the word "fuck"?

[Nye Bevan]

27. Some of the most famous DUers have been known to use it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x190122

[gollygee]

29. Yes I remember that

So obviously the word "fuck" isn't a problem here. So what is this thread about if no one has complained about "fuck" being used?

[dorkzilla]

35. Here you go...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025132768

[gollygee]

43. OK I didn't understand what that thread was complaining about either

but at least that makes this thread makes sense.

People complaining about The Rude Pundit's language seem to only be upset about the use of misogynist, racist, and homophobic language, regardless of whether it's considered vulgar. I am guessing that's what led to this "fuckety fuck" or whatever it is thread, but it isn't a direct link. More of a weird tangent.

I don't care if anyone uses "fuck" but I don't like oppressive language. I do like the Rude Pundit generally, and I'll admit I'd like it if he avoided misogynist, homophobic, and racist language, though I wasn't involved in the particular thread hide in question and I don't think it would have occurred to me to hide it (as I expect stuff from The Rude Pundit and wouldn't notice as much.)

We are adults. I think it's reasonable to ask us to be welcoming to groups that suffer oppression in our society and to avoid language that is part of that oppression, since this is a progressive community, but the word "fuck" doesn't oppress anyone unless it's in some specific context that's questionable - and then it would be the context and not the word.

[dorkzilla]

50. Weird tangent is right

oddest of all is that the poster complains about using vulgarity by using vulgarities, then in his examples he uses the word "negro". Maybe its just me but the word "negro" is much more offensive than the word "fuck".

[nomorenomore08]

61. Racial slurs are certainly a hell of a lot more offensive than profanities.

I don't see anyone could equate the two.

[mindwalker_i]

79. That thread had issues

The thing about swearing is that one needs to take it in context. Just swearing to swear is stupid, but using bad words in context to make a point makes all the difference. The Rude One uses language carefully, in that when he swears - admittedly a lot - there's a reason why he picks the particular words he does. In the "fuckity fuck" thread, the use of "fuckety fuck" added nothing above what "people who swear in the title" would have had.

It really bugs me when people get their undergarments in a Calibi Yau over words, without taking into account how and why those words were chosen. It seems like they're taking it more as a chance to hijack threads to get people talking about what they want to talk about, and it has the effect of derailing conversations that other people want to participate in.

The term "misogynist" is used like a wrecking ball around here. It's similar to how "terrorism" is used, or how "communism" was used in the 50s. There are definitely cases where it's accurate and useful to a conversation, but unfortunately it's so overused that it loses a lot of its meaning and value.

[Nye Bevan]

49. So a DUer complained about the word "fuck". I don't really see how that warrants a "silent thread",

unless of course this DUer was able to persuade Skinner to institute a ban on that word, which as far as I know has not happened. I'm not sure that it's normal practice to start a "silent thread" anytime a DUer has a complaint about something on DU.

[dorkzilla]

52. Satire. Nothing more. nt

[hobbit709]

63. Remember when someone tried to give CP flak for using the F-bomb so often.

[L0oniX]

38. Here ya go...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5132768

[gollygee]

44. Yeah I just had that linked to me

I didn't understand waht that was about either, as I said in another reply in this subthread.

[Jamastiene]

68. Yes, welcome to the Fuckety Fuck Squad.

I just placed someone on ignore for being against the word, fuck, because well, let's just say they thought entirely too highly of themselves at the expense of people who prefer to cut to the chase and just say Fuck Bush or Fuck Cheney. In the words of Barbra Bush, why should I waste my pretty little mind trying to come up with more colorful expressions on such evil, vile, self centered assholes in the BFEE when Fuck the BFEE will suffice.

[mike_c]

24. .

[Laura PourMeADrink]

25. when did people start saying fuck? I never ever

heard anyone say it until maybe at the very earliest the 70s but never openly. It always gets me when I see movies set long ago and they say it. Really don't think it was

[dorkzilla]

31. Many centuries ago

http://www.openculture.com/2014/02/the-very-first-written-use-of-the-f-word-in-english-1528.html

[Laura PourMeADrink]

100. interesting...guess I was talking more about acceptance

in modern culture. At some point, the word went from being a rare and shocking word to an acceptable word in some places. Definitely not in the south - but east and west coast for sure. I would say in the last 10-15 years this has happened.

So, to see a movie set in the 70s 80s where everyone is freely using it is a total anachronism.

[lumpy]

42. When I was a kid it was the naughtiest word around. No one could get away using it. Even some

dictionaries wouldn't list it. It has certainly gained tremendous popularity on DU, though. Must be edifying to sling the word around or something?

[The Road Runner]

59. It adds emphasis to what's being said, I suppose

Some like its use...others don't. I'm indifferent but I wouldn't vote to censor it if I was on a jury.

[Spirochete]

122. When I first used it

I ended up thinking the translation of it was "mother, please force-feed me a bar of ivory soap". So i deduced it was a status-enhancing word to use on the playground...

[Warpy]

93. It was highly regional

My high school in Dogpatch down in Dixie had a few NY transplants come in during my junior year and they all sounded like longshoremen.

When I ran away from home (out of high school, saved my money) in the late 60s, I landed in Boston. Boston Irish led the way in the whole city sounding like a bunch of longshoremen.

I was delighted when I moved out to NM in the early 90s that the local Hispanos were just as potty mouthed. I don't know if it recently spread out here or if it always existed; it's a poor state and there's a lot out here to criticize, full blast.

The reason movies were unrealistically prissy was the Hayes Office, the outfit that thought having actors playing married couples using one bed was immoral and insisted twin beds be used on the set. Yes, they were insane.

I'm against any censorship unless posters are hurling pejoratives at each other. I can tolerate the occasional well crafted insult, I'm talking about hard fighting words against a poster whose POV one doesn't like. That brings down the forums almost as much as picking and carping about ordinary language does.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

102. Interesting. Next door, in TX, people still pray for you if they

hear the word used. At home in CT, my 88 year old mom doesn't even blink anymore if she hears it.

To me, there's something rebellious about using it..like how uncool and dumb are you others to recoil in disgust because of a word someone uses. Like you are not intelligent enough to think it doesn't matter in the big scheme of things.

[Warpy]

111. Well, I'm sure they'd just show me the way to hell

if I ever had occasion to let fly in Texas. It really does seem to be more in the southeast where people are still fussy about language. Nobody else gives a, well, fuck.

And my mother used it from time to time when the occasion called for it. She always expressed utter contempt for "people who wouldn't say 'shit' if they had a mouthful of it."

[Laura PourMeADrink]

113. Haha. My mom still spells it out s h i t.

[doxydad]

115. You poor thing!

Next door in TX...is all I had to see. You have my deepest sympathies

[Laura PourMeADrink]

123. amen to that. I HATE Texas. At least 30 years behind

the rest of the country - maybe even more.

[L0oniX]

32. Fuck fucking fucked fuckers FFS!

[dorkzilla]

36. That's so fucked.

Fucking seriously.

[immoderate]

33. Never say fuck.

--imm

[DJ13]

34. *

[jimlup]

40. Fuck...

[Bonobo]

45. My daughter/son/grandfather/grandmother just read that!!!

They will NEVER be the same!

[frylock]

47. .

[Jamaal510]

48. ...

[IMG][/IMG]

[alphafemale]

53. It's been my favorite word since....

I said it through a closed bathroom door.

"Mom?"

"What does fuck mean?"

There was a horrendous scream and my mother burst out of the room. She threw me down and flailed at me while her pants were still around her ankles. I was speckled with mom pee.

OK.

That is when I realized I now knew the best word of all fucking time.

[dorkzilla]

55. GREAT STORY!!!

Totally reminds me of the scene in "A Christmas Story" when Ralph blames his friend for teaching him the word, and the kid gets a royal beating from his mother...

[alphafemale]

57. Good lord! That scene couldn't be in a movie.

lol. If she'd have kept calm and just said "It's a low class expression meaning sex."

????

I might not have the affection for the word I do now.


That reaction?

Best. Word. EVER!

[Enthusiast]

112. Now that is a funny story! That is one of the all time best. Duzy award alert!

Speckled with mom pee!

I can now use your story to make my wife spew coffee from her nose. But I suppose that wouldn't be in good taste.

[alterfurz]

58. Obscenity is the crutch of inarticulate motherfuckers...

...but this fucking thread is fucking fucked. Fuck it!

[Blue Owl]

60. Here's to your fuck, Frank...

<>

[Aldo Leopold]

62. And while we're at it, how about one for it's close relative,

the act?

[MrMickeysMom]

64. ...

[mindwalker_i]

74. Damn, I didn't know Mr. Rogers had suck long middle fingers

And in a thread about "fuck," uhm, was he married?

[WillyT]

65. Well...

Fuck

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuck

A F*cking Short History of the F-Word

Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/melissa-mohr/a-fcking-short-history-of_b_3352948.html

[Mugu]

66.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

67. ...

[betsuni]

69. The Silence of the Fucks

[rug]

70. .

[DesertDiamond]

71. I don't mind the word "fuck" at all except when it's used to refer to sex.

[zeemike]

82. Hell that's the only time I pay attention to it.

Cause they are talking about something I might enjoy...there is nothing to put a spring in your step like a good F......oh that's right you would mind if I said it like that.

[barbtries]

77. fuck

oops, sorry (zipping lips closed)
...

[babylonsister]

78. No can do=fuck that! nt

[bearssoapbox]

81. .

[nadinbrzezinski]

85. Well that is a fucking funny cartoon,

fuck up... (instead of this, )

[DeSwiss]

86. Another Bob fan YAY!!! ;-) n/t

[bravenak]

83. HODOR!nt

[kentauros]

87. Frak you!

[betsuni]

88. If you see Kay.

[Wolf Frankula]

91. First use of the word 'fuck' in Print 1528

Wolf

[Lancero]

95. You forgot to add trigger warning to the title!

Seriously, with all the people losing their minds over this word, it's a fucking necessity.

[defacto7]

97. To fuck or not to fuck

That is the question.
Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fucks
Or to take arms against a sea of fucks, and by opposing end them.
To fuck, to sleep no more. And by a sleep to say we end the thousand natural fucks which flesh is heir to.
Tis the consummation devoutly to be wished.
To fuck, to sleep, to sleep perchance to dream.
Ah, there's the rub, for in the sleep of fuck what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this fucking coil..
Must give a fuck.

[betsuni]

98. A fuck! A fuck!

My kingdom for a fuck!

[defacto7]

101. A fuck

by any other name would smell as funky.

[betsuni]

103. The lady doth fuck too much, methinks.

[Hissyspit]

110. "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely fuckers."

"They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time fucks many parts" - (Act II, Scene VII - As You Like to Fuck It')

[NuttyFluffers]

99. "oh my god, is this another gathering to change the world by candles?"

"oh sorry, didn't know we were fighting back with silence. let me whisper..."



/loud whisper "i got spares in my bag, i never leave home without them. just let me know if you need a few. they're local beeswax, i have a friend. has honey to die for, great for allergy season..."

[betsuni]

104. Always amusing to replace the word "rock"

with "fuck" in musical offerings:

Fuck Me Amadeus
Fuck With You
Fuck Lobster
We Will Fuck You
Fuck the Casbah
Fuckin' Robin
Fuck Around the Clock
Shake, Rattle and Fuck
F.U.C.K. in the U.S.A
There's Only One Way to Fuck
Fuck This Town
I'm a Fucker
Fuckin' in the Free World

[malaise]

105. The proper use of English - the word Fuck

My favorite lesson on the word fuck
Fuck the fucking fuckers!

[Skidmore]

106. Is this from Professor Wuhl's

"Assume the Position" program. Can't get the video to load on my Kindle. If so, that was a fun look at etymology.

[wyldwolf]

107. For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge

[Warren Stupidity]

108. The fucker is dead, long live the new fucker!

[99Forever]

109. ..

[doxydad]

114. ...

[bunnies]

116. In silent observance....

[deutsey]

118. Fargin' icehole!

[deutsey]

119. The fuck you talking about?

[Yavin4]

120. David Mamet could never be a DUer n/t

[Kablooie]

121. Kcuf this tihs.