@PurplePawprints It was sometimes funny and it’s got great value as an annoying thing to say, but as much as we loved BSG (and managed to see it through to the end), the “frak” was so fucking ridiculous it almost made us give up on the show. For fucking real. Fuckers.
@joelmw I don’t disagree, but I loved the show so much, (except for the end, ugh) that I overlook the little things that annoy me. I’d say I use “fuck” 99% of the time where it’s warranted, even in front of my own kids; the only time I substitute is around other people’s kids, or occasionally my mom.
@shahnm You couldn’t see it? Is it still broken. Meh needs to find a work around for this mayhem. I try to check the links I’m posting, but sometimes I forget. Thanks.
My grandmother uses “farkle” on occasion. Turns out, it’s the name of a dice game, similar to Pass the Pigs. What’s real fun is when my dad and uncle would started seeing who could make the other laugh more by using “farkle” in awkward ways. My uncle won when smashed his thumb with a hammer and shouted, “Motherfarkler!” My dad fell off a ladder because of the laughter.
@Kidsandliz Ah! I’ve had that in my “keep these” image/vid/gif folder for a while - couldn’t remember where I grabbed it. ~~ All credit to Kidsandliz ~~
I use both “fuck” and “fudge” depending on situation. But my favorite* swear/non-swear word is “dagnabit.”
*usually am using these words when something isn’t going to plan, so I’d rather not be in that situation and therefore not have to use any of them.
@hac i notice you also use an extra n. I think it might be dialect? I say it like “dag-NAB-it” so only one b, but you might say “DANG-nab-bit?” Kinda “pop” versus “sodapop.”
@hac i use damn and fudge less than fuck, and i use dagnabit most. I use dagnabit when around others in most situations (instead of fuck or damn or any other explitive or non-explitive). I just like the word so much; i IM it as well as say it. Fuck is most often used when alone and i stubbed my toe or my computer crashes at 11:48 when i am trying to get in a file due at noon. If someone is around and i stub toe/computer crashs (i.e. they are in earshot but they arent involved/cant help) i try to use fudge, but it doesnt always happen. Damn is more at group events, like when the Eagles were stuffing the Patriots, a la “Damn, I love Foles!”
When I was dating my future wife, her family would occasionally refer to a fork (the piece of cutlery) as a “fickle”. I eventually asked what the heck was up and found out it was because they had to invent a new term because of my wife’s inability to correctly pronounce “fork” as a toddler.
look meh, we’re not trying to increase the fudge, frick, or frak count. we’re trying to increase the fuck count. so, let’s just stick with that word, shall we?
@jimmyd103 I use “effing” or just “eff,” depending on the context. I’d prefer fuck, but I’m often in a mixed crowd and I’d rather not be the one known to constantly drop the f-bomb everywhere, because fuck if it doesn’t lose its impact from overuse.
I get mildly offended when someone uses a lame replacement for my beloved “fuck”, especially if it’s “fudge” or “eff” or “effing”, and I’m known to blurt out an admittedly inappropriate FUCK!! in response. Not nearly as inappropriate as their “effing fudge” however.
@joelmw Bro, my wife has taken to saying, “What the fuh.” Like it’s supposed to somehow be better. It grinds my gears so bad. It’s killing me, for real.
That’s all to say I totally agree. Commit to the ‘fuck’ or just avoid it entirely, for fuck’s sake.
I using the excuse I’m old. Not sure if I am, but don’t frak with my excuse.
If you can accidentally hit your thumb with a hammer and yell ‘frak’.
I’ll applaud.
Then probably curse salutations.
@rtjhnstn just did a meh search (it goes to google and searches the site “About 5,730 results (0.34 seconds)” BUT that misses all the times fuck shows up in images.
There’s a humorous issue with Google’s book-scanning technology. They seemingly forgot to account for the fact that English has changed dramatically over the past couple of hundred years. English is, of course, a Germanic language, and our current alphabet is not representative of our alphabet throughout history. Much like German, we once had (among other letters), the long s, which sat where we now would sit a single ‘s’ at the beginning of a word, or the first of a double ‘ss’ elsewhere.
But the problem is, that this letter, ‘ſ’, looks oddly like an ‘f’. And Google failed to account for the fact that historical texts have letters that modern texts do not. All this to say, if you ngram search ‘fuck’, you get a weird spike in the early 1800s:
…not due to an excess of swearing, but to a misinterpretation of the word ‘suck’.
@f00l Oh, I love language, and while no particular instance comes to mind, I reference the ngram viewer fairly often. Even just within the scope of creative (or, semi-creative) writing, I often feel like getting some historical sense of a word provides useful subtext… Be that etymology, or how a word has waxed and waned in popularity.
I have learned that if I’m actually looking for words with esses in them in texts predating, say, 1820, I need to add variant spellings to my search terms that include efs instead.
Shut the front door!
@Comedian we love the Sheriff on “Supernatural” who uses that one.
Effin’
If I can’t say the real thing I follow BSG protocol and use “Frak”. So Say We All.
@PurplePawprints
@PurplePawprints Frak! I didn’t see your BSG before posting mine. Frak!
@mfladd
@PurplePawprints Am I the only one who had to look up BSG? Frak.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frak_(expletive)
@sligett What the FRAK?
@PurplePawprints
Nope.
@sligett Aww, that makes me sad. I hope a binge session is in your future (not the 70s version though. Ick).
@DVDBZN Nope, what?
/giphy confused
@PurplePawprints It was sometimes funny and it’s got great value as an annoying thing to say, but as much as we loved BSG (and managed to see it through to the end), the “frak” was so fucking ridiculous it almost made us give up on the show. For fucking real. Fuckers.
@joelmw I don’t disagree, but I loved the show so much, (except for the end, ugh) that I overlook the little things that annoy me. I’d say I use “fuck” 99% of the time where it’s warranted, even in front of my own kids; the only time I substitute is around other people’s kids, or occasionally my mom.
For The Good Place fans there is only one answer, and it is “fork.”
@mossygreen @katylava
Naturally.
If it’s worth saying, it’s worth fucking saying right.
/giphy accept no substitutes
@djslack Looks like the guy without a shirt has done this before.
dagnabbit!
I was going to pick a different one, and then Meh trolled me with the fridge comment. Damn I’m easy to manipulate…
@shahnm is it bad enough to call it battermeh?
@Kidsandliz I think it’s just mehnipulation…
My favorite one is “fuck”
@spitfire6006006 i wholeheartedly agree.
Frell
@rand3y How did this one not make the list?
@rand3y @rework exactly! what kind of dren is this? some fahrbot drannit leaves the draddest one - Frell - out of the poll? hezmana!
@mfladd Fixing it for you…
@shahnm You couldn’t see it? Is it still broken. Meh needs to find a work around for this mayhem. I try to check the links I’m posting, but sometimes I forget. Thanks.
Frick and Frak are to top votes. We know what shows the Meh crowd watches.
@hchavers Gold Rush? Scrubs?
Mediocrebot. Farkin’ up polls, one at a time.
My grandmother uses “farkle” on occasion. Turns out, it’s the name of a dice game, similar to Pass the Pigs. What’s real fun is when my dad and uncle would started seeing who could make the other laugh more by using “farkle” in awkward ways. My uncle won when smashed his thumb with a hammer and shouted, “Motherfarkler!” My dad fell off a ladder because of the laughter.
@simplersimon The Farkel Family was immortalized on ‘Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In’.
I don’t get the curse replacements. Fuck if I’m alone or in company I can say it in front of, or nothing if I’m not.
/giphy fuck
Accurate depiction mehtizens.
@Oneroundrobb this could’ve gone a whole other direction
Fuck.
Fuckin’ happy that the mehristocrats don’t Bowdlerize our posts.
The only substitute for the word fuck is the word fuck.
Calling @carl669 This thread is for you.
@shahnm
https://www.threadless.com/product/6035/careless_whisker
@shahnm This is one of my all time favorite GIF images. Every time I see it I laugh. “Fuck this thing in particular” So good
@MagnaVis Ditto!
@shahnm Hey you stole that from me on the original fuck count thread!
@Kidsandliz Ah! I’ve had that in my “keep these” image/vid/gif folder for a while - couldn’t remember where I grabbed it. ~~ All credit to Kidsandliz ~~
@thismyusername - “Frack to frack episodes”
Fart.
My favorite F bomb replacement is FUCK!
Fudge. Only because of A Christmas Story.
/giphy ralphie
@#$%
@TheFLP I still haven’t figured out how to pronounce that.
@TheCO2 Sounds exactly like you swallowed a pig.
FORK! Holy forkin shirt balls
@ragingredd It’s nice to see you come from a good place.
@rtjhnstn i truly is a good is a good place
,
Fuk.
None. I don’t swear, nor do I use replacements for swear words.
@DVDBZN What the fuck is wrong with you?!?
I use both “fuck” and “fudge” depending on situation. But my favorite* swear/non-swear word is “dagnabit.”
*usually am using these words when something isn’t going to plan, so I’d rather not be in that situation and therefore not have to use any of them.
@mollama big “dangnabbit” fan here too. The only question is - two b’s or one??
@hac i notice you also use an extra n. I think it might be dialect? I say it like “dag-NAB-it” so only one b, but you might say “DANG-nab-bit?” Kinda “pop” versus “sodapop.”
@mollama ah, yes. I guess I see it as an extension of the replacement term “dang” for damn. Why I feel like replacing damn though… mystery.
@hac i use damn and fudge less than fuck, and i use dagnabit most. I use dagnabit when around others in most situations (instead of fuck or damn or any other explitive or non-explitive). I just like the word so much; i IM it as well as say it. Fuck is most often used when alone and i stubbed my toe or my computer crashes at 11:48 when i am trying to get in a file due at noon. If someone is around and i stub toe/computer crashs (i.e. they are in earshot but they arent involved/cant help) i try to use fudge, but it doesnt always happen. Damn is more at group events, like when the Eagles were stuffing the Patriots, a la “Damn, I love Foles!”
@mollama how’s this for an explanation (and timing)? Seems we’re both right, and both wrong according to some. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-does-dagnabbit-mean?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=984223f05a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f36db9c480-984223f05a-66482441&ct=t(EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_3_16_2018)&mc_cid=984223f05a&mc_eid=d3527a3634
“Feck” from Father Ted
@lowearthorbital ARSE BISCUITS!
/giphy father jack
I like “fu-“, ah wait, that’s the original. Well, probably “fu—“, err, that’s still the original… Guess I’d better have some coffee.
There was no option in the poll for “fornicate” (or “fornication”).
Oh, intercourse the penguin!
-MPFC
@Cetega Well, actually ‘Frig’ really does mean ‘fornicate’.
@Cetega @OldCatLady @macromeh
Not really sure what’s going on…
@PlacidPenguin - There’s a penguin on top of the television set:
@PlacidPenguin - [Penguin on the telly][1]
At 4:23.
When I was dating my future wife, her family would occasionally refer to a fork (the piece of cutlery) as a “fickle”. I eventually asked what the heck was up and found out it was because they had to invent a new term because of my wife’s inability to correctly pronounce “fork” as a toddler.
In high school (a LOOONG time ago), it was ‘fig newton’ (You have to say while you look in a mirror)
look meh, we’re not trying to increase the fudge, frick, or frak count. we’re trying to increase the fuck count. so, let’s just stick with that word, shall we?
@carl669
/giphy preach
@jimmyd103 I use “effing” or just “eff,” depending on the context. I’d prefer fuck, but I’m often in a mixed crowd and I’d rather not be the one known to constantly drop the f-bomb everywhere, because fuck if it doesn’t lose its impact from overuse.
Are there no smegging Red Dwarf fans on this smegging smeg of a website?
For compound usage I like “melon farmer”, which I got from the TV edit of Repo Man.
The TV edit is so famous it was included on the Criterion Collection Blu-ray of the movie.
@craigthom Reminds me of the TV edit of Half Baked
‘What was that thing we used to eat back in the day? Oh yeah, pudding!’
(The real line is something starting with ‘pu’ that they couldn’t have legally bought in the convenience store they were in… classic edit…)
I used to use the term '“mucker” for the implied incestuous compound swear.
@rtjhnstn
There’s no replacement for the original!!! Unless you’re talking about Red Dwarf then Smegging is an acceptable alternative.
Occasionally I’ll use freaking hell, never just the word freak. Unless I’m talking about someone.
I prefer to curse, if I can’t curse, I’ll usually stay silent or just say something like, holy hell or oh my god.
@RiotDemon I believe the phrase rhymes with clucking bell.
@rtjhnstn but holy hell just sounds sillier!
http://babylonbee.com/news/local-father-invents-47-new-cuss-words-putting-christmas-lights/
(Satire)
I don’t know what the cuss we’re all talking about.
@MagnaVis Are you cussing me?
@sanspoint Love it.
/youtube A Complete Clustercuss
I get mildly offended when someone uses a lame replacement for my beloved “fuck”, especially if it’s “fudge” or “eff” or “effing”, and I’m known to blurt out an admittedly inappropriate FUCK!! in response. Not nearly as inappropriate as their “effing fudge” however.
/giphy FUCK
@joelmw
@joelmw Bro, my wife has taken to saying, “What the fuh.” Like it’s supposed to somehow be better. It grinds my gears so bad. It’s killing me, for real.
That’s all to say I totally agree. Commit to the ‘fuck’ or just avoid it entirely, for fuck’s sake.
I using the excuse I’m old. Not sure if I am, but don’t frak with my excuse.
If you can accidentally hit your thumb with a hammer and yell ‘frak’.
I’ll applaud.
Then probably curse salutations.
So what is the word usage count?
@rtjhnstn just did a meh search (it goes to google and searches the site “About 5,730 results (0.34 seconds)” BUT that misses all the times fuck shows up in images.
There’s a humorous issue with Google’s book-scanning technology. They seemingly forgot to account for the fact that English has changed dramatically over the past couple of hundred years. English is, of course, a Germanic language, and our current alphabet is not representative of our alphabet throughout history. Much like German, we once had (among other letters), the long s, which sat where we now would sit a single ‘s’ at the beginning of a word, or the first of a double ‘ss’ elsewhere.
But the problem is, that this letter, ‘ſ’, looks oddly like an ‘f’. And Google failed to account for the fact that historical texts have letters that modern texts do not. All this to say, if you ngram search ‘fuck’, you get a weird spike in the early 1800s:
…not due to an excess of swearing, but to a misinterpretation of the word ‘suck’.
@brhfl Well, “suck” might have been swearing as well? I mean, they didn’t have vacuums, right?
@brhfl
That’s great stuff.
Is that an interest of yours?
@f00l Oh, I love language, and while no particular instance comes to mind, I reference the ngram viewer fairly often. Even just within the scope of creative (or, semi-creative) writing, I often feel like getting some historical sense of a word provides useful subtext… Be that etymology, or how a word has waxed and waned in popularity.
I have learned that if I’m actually looking for words with esses in them in texts predating, say, 1820, I need to add variant spellings to my search terms that include efs instead.
/giphy swear jar fuck
@meshneiarin
/giphy chris prat middle finger
@meshneiarin Okay, that’s not what I was going for at all, but I like it too much to change it.
/giphy goat fuck
@somf69 ummmmm, what exactly were you hoping for? I mean, this is funny and all, but…
O.O
I like frag from Shadowrun, but these days with all the FPS players out there, it would be misinterpreted.