Just for fun...
I grew-up with an adad who not only was in the Army, but cursed like he was in the Army. Some of my best memories are of him and me making fun of people while waiting in the car for my amother to get finished with work. I can't remember when it was OK to curse in front of him, but when I knew it was safe to say certain curse words, the two of us would sit and laugh at all the stupid things we could say about people.
Over the years, I have developed quite a vocabulary. [Nurses are known to have a few "colorful conversations" when not on the clock...]
Just for fun, are there any favorite terms our readers use to describe "moron" or "stupid idiot"? ["Dumb fuck" is my personal favorite, but that's reserved for the super-uber stupid idiot.]
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English is not my native language, so I can't share my experience without having to mention utterly unintelligeble Dutch words. That said, I do have an appreciation for the words "dipshit", "asswipe" and "wanker", though they sound completely artificial coming from my mouth.
On second thought let me give you an idea how ones appreciation of a fellow human is being expressed in Dutch:
Uitgekostekamelenkut
Uitgekostekamelenkut ...
now thats a good one...we have lots of colourful terms in Australia but niels that takes the cake.
by the way "Wanker" falls off the Australian tongue with natural ease.....
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"wanker".... that's the polite way of saying "jerk-off", correct?
My a.dad's favorite phrase was torn between "jack ass" and "stupid nigger".
Anytime I did something dumb, (like ask a question he could not answer, or do something he could not follow, in terms of logic), he'd ask me, "What are you, a jackass?", (or "stupid nigger", as the fun alternative.) I was told I took these terms too seriously... but the truth is, it wasn't just the name-calling that made me feel like dirt. I learned how words and associated treatments could make someone hit the road and leave, for good. (My amother, who never used curse-words, is the one who finally drove me away, simply because I could no longer accept the offensive way she always behaved.)
I always found it very sad (and disturbing) when all a person knows is how to treat others badly. In my mind, it reflects how that person sees his/her own family... and in some cases, that perception is far from being a funny joke.
ginger nigger
At some period in my life I spent my holidays with small group of Brits, whom I met once a year at the same camp site for five years in a row. I recall how oft the word wanker was used to express disdain towards everyone not belonging to their inner circle, but also as a term of endearment among themselves. Two of them were red heads who loved to call one another "ginger nigger". As the only Dutchman in that group I was simply an "over-optimistic bastard". Even in the south of France, they couldn't understand the sunny disposition, I am sometimes guilty of having.