Comments on: Surprisingly, "fargin' bastage" doesn't count.

Surprisingly, "fargin' bastage" doesn't count.

zardoz — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 02:24:03 -0800

The Profane Game. Got a pottymouth? Test your curse word vocabulary with this simple game. You have one minute to enter as many naughty words as you can. (via)

By: Jimbob

Jimbob — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 02:46:28 -0800

I was confident I would do well, but I did, well, shit. 30. Pathetic. Although I was hampered by the fact that it doesn't know many Australian profanities, and is also fairly conservative on racist terms.

By: strawberryviagra

strawberryviagra — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 02:58:52 -0800

Is 'cunt' really considered the most offensive/profane of all words? I think this is being adjudicated by a bunch of smegma crusted cunting arses.

By: Jimbob

Jimbob — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 03:03:04 -0800

I get the impression ~~seppos~~ Americans consider "cunt" the worst of all words, but it's fairly common in Britain, Australia etc.

By: strawberryviagra

strawberryviagra — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 03:05:06 -0800

As a quick aside: Which came first - this one (Alan Jones - famous Australian cunt) or this one (the most total cunt)?

By: strawberryviagra

strawberryviagra — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 03:07:00 -0800

The relevance of the above is, BTW, based on the link from the profane game for the same word (cunt). Plus, I get a kick out of typing cunt. /cunt

By: vbfg

vbfg — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 03:09:27 -0800

With all due respect to the game, yer average English numpty can swear more creatively than it can. FFS, it doesn't even know what frottage means. No self respecting owner of a washing machine doesn't know what frottage means.

By: strawberryviagra

strawberryviagra — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 03:17:45 -0800

frottage cheese n. The sticky end product of a successful act of frottage at, say, a railway station or bus stop. (via)

By: psmealey

psmealey — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 03:22:17 -0800

Fuck this fucking shit.

By: Brittanie

Brittanie — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 03:51:22 -0800

Frottage? Why the need for such a fancy word. In my day, we called it "dry humping."

By: vbfg

vbfg — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 04:06:22 -0800

Dry humping doesn't cover all the ground that frottage does though. I've achieved frottage on the upstairs deck of a bus, just from the vibrations of the engine ticking over. That wasn't dry humping. I don't think it's a fancy word either, it's just one you have to either independently discover. Few indeed are the grown ups who'll correct your English in that context.

By: Jezztek

Jezztek — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 04:11:04 -0800

I don't get it, apparently my curse words were either not curse-y enough or too unusual for it because I couldn't get above '0' after scoring 2/3rd negative points. I started with basic stuff like 'Faggotron' and 'shitcunt' and I'm quite sure both of those should count as profane...

By: kcds

kcds — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 04:13:18 -0800

"Frottage" is not a synonym for "dry humping" and is therefore not a PAW as you seem to be implying. "Frottage" has the connotation of surreptitiousness or furtiveness about it, as well it might since it usually denotes a solo, and almost by definition unwanted, act. Two people, fully clothed, trying to get off - dry humping. Pervy dude on a packed commuter train using the swaying of the train to disguise the way he grinds his crotch against the attractive stranger in front of him for his own pleasure - "frottage".

By: pax digita

pax digita — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 04:26:48 -0800

"Frottage," as distinct from garden-variety "dry humping" -- wow, the radio was right, I do learn something new every day. Thank yew MetaFilter!

By: mckenney

mckenney — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 05:37:02 -0800

Clearly these guys don't know what they're talking about. I don't want to be a winner if that means that "cockhole" and "fuckbag" aren't profane enough.

By: CaptMcalister

CaptMcalister — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 06:19:28 -0800

Humbug

By: spicynuts

spicynuts — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 07:21:22 -0800

What does it say about carwash cunt?

By: cardamine

cardamine — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 07:34:27 -0800

I was allowed "fuckwit", which has a certain elegance. I think my low score came from thinking too hard...there should be points for the creativity of those who take pride in their insults. Apparently "pissant" only sounds rude

By: vbfg

vbfg — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 08:04:56 -0800

Pissant does only sound rude.

By: vbfg

vbfg — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 08:05:40 -0800

I must admit though, "fuckwit" is one of the triumphs of swearing culture.

By: ErWenn

ErWenn — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 08:24:37 -0800

The trick is conjugation. "Fuck," "fucks," "fucking," "fucked," "fucker," "fuckers," "fuckings," etc.

By: The Bellman

The Bellman — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 08:37:51 -0800

Catastrofuck is, I think, the highest current triumph of swearing culture. Thank you once again, Jon Stewart.

By: motty

motty — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 08:39:11 -0800

Bullshit. No bullshit.

By: DreamerFi

DreamerFi — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 08:59:46 -0800

And swearing can be so useful... "Fuck, the fucking fucker is fucking fucked! Fuck!" is so more expressive than its polite equivalent: "O bother, the machine gun is jammed. Now we're in trouble!"

By: tehloki

tehloki — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:02:12 -0800

This thing's shit. It kept stripping the first letter off of every single word. Plus, it only recognizes distinct, mainstream, mono- or bi-syllabic profanities. I guess whoever wrote the program calls people "shitfuckers" and "dicklickers" all the time.. he doesn't seem to think they're profane.

By: weapons-grade pandemonium

weapons-grade pandemonium — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:07:27 -0800

Paging lalochezia...

By: pax digita

pax digita — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:38:01 -0800

There's "bullshit," and then there's the way people from Texas all the way to West Virginia can pseudomusically drawl a simple two-syllable compound word out into a third and even a fourth extra syllable -- it sounds like a perverse alleluia of sorts.

By: amyms

amyms — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:53:11 -0800

Is 'cunt' really considered the most offensive/profane of all words? I get the impression Americans consider "cunt" the worst of all words, but it's fairly common in Britain, Australia etc. I don't know if it's the worst of the worst, but yeah, "cunt" is a very profane word in America... But, profanity in the ears of the beholder... I've always been mystified as to why Brits think "fanny" is such a naughty word.

By: spicynuts

spicynuts — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:59:12 -0800

Fanny = cunt in the UK, no? I mean in anatomical terms.

By: patricio

patricio — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:00:21 -0800

'cunt' is still pretty rude in Britain, where 'fuck' is now standard parlance. I'd say that to be truly offensive you'd have to replace each 'fuck' in DreamerFi's example with 'cunt'. I reckon you could probably call someone a fuckwit in the office but not a cuntchops. amyms, if you are genuinely mystified

By: dragonmage

dragonmage — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:01:38 -0800

I'm tempted just to use George Carlin's "Five Dirty Words" monologue (which has grown exponentially since he first started using it.) Plus I'm surprised that I'm the first person to mention it.

By: amyms

amyms — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:06:10 -0800

Thanks spicynuts and patricio... I knew about the fanny definition in Britain... I meant I was mystified as to how the word "fanny" came to mean the same thing as "cunt" in two different English-speaking countries... Kind of a "which came first?" question rather than a question of definition.

By: ob

ob — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:16:23 -0800

I got 36

By: tkchrist

tkchrist — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:30:47 -0800

Note to Self: Stay off Buses in the UK.

By: LooseFilter

LooseFilter — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:31:04 -0800

I thought it was Carlin's "Seven Dirty Words", as in: Shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits. With the optional fart, turd, and twat.

By: LooseFilter

LooseFilter — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:32:56 -0800

(That routine made an indelible impression on my 15 year old brain, back in the day. It was the funniest thing I'd ever seen. My friend and I stayed up half the night transcribing his entire extended list of profanities. And yet I could only come up with 31 for the quiz....)

By: pax digita

pax digita — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:34:36 -0800

I think people are getting away with "fart" on TV in the US fairly routinely now...it's on a par with "son of bitch" or "bastard," both of which horrified my mother when she and Dad took us kids to see Patton in 1970.

By: spicynuts

spicynuts — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:37:22 -0800

I think that the potential of "twat" has been seriously untapped. There's a vast resource there for an enterprising young person. Maybe I can get someone started: twatknocker

By: wfc123

wfc123 — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:40:18 -0800

"Bum" gets you negative 1 point.

By: wfc123

wfc123 — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:44:18 -0800

If you say "cunt" in the states, people will look at you like you are some kind of escaped mental patient.

By: ob

ob — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:46:36 -0800

OK now that I've got 58 I'm done

By: sharpener

sharpener — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:49:10 -0800

I would be much better at this game if it was voice-activated. My typing sucks.

By: Muddler

Muddler — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:06:39 -0800

I'm rather fond of recockulous, but it isn't in the game's dictionary.

By: The Great Big Mulp

The Great Big Mulp — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:26:00 -0800

They really should accept "cumdumpster".

By: vbfg

vbfg — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:35:19 -0800

If you say "cunt" in the states, people will look at you like you are some kind of escaped mental patient. As I said on a different thread recently, though I forget which, in the UK it is quite common to use it as a term of endearment. You would need to be genuinely ggod frinds I think, but it is definitely possible: "Now then me old cunt" would be a fairly common greeting. I think my favourite corruption of a swear word into something inoffensie though has to be the transformation of "fuck off" into something akin to "very", i.e.: "That's a big fuck off building". Top quality swearing imo.

By: ClanvidHorse

ClanvidHorse — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:00:01 -0800

'Wankstain' is a fave, 'bawbag' another, 'fannybaws' too, all Scottish swearwords refused by the machine. I heard this classic the other day (after a rough tackle in a game of five-a-sides), "What the fuck do you think yer up tae? You wouldnae get a job on a ghost train yan ugly cunt!"

By: Sparx

Sparx — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:04:01 -0800

Wot? No Badger-fingerer?

By: frogan

frogan — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:13:35 -0800

What's hysterical about this is that in my line of work, I recently had a need for a list of profanities for filtering software. I had a difficult time finding a good one. I didn't think to make it into a game where people could continually be sending me new ones.

By: Webbster

Webbster — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:43:07 -0800

I use Roger's Profanisaurus and the Insultmonger's Swearsaurus (images NSFW) when I need some fcukinspiration.

By: Banky_Edwards

Banky_Edwards — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:59:56 -0800

Wow, my curse-fu is really weak these days. Back when I drove a cab regularly, all my friends noticed that my day-to-day speech started sounding like "Deadwood" outtakes. I seem to have drifted back to normalcy with my desk job...damn it! Also, in what universe is "frottage" a profane word? It might refer to a naughty concept, but the word? I don't think so.

By: Smedleyman

Smedleyman — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:46:00 -0800

Carkfum

By: vbfg

vbfg — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:04:41 -0800

Also, in what universe is "frottage" a profane word? It might refer to a naughty concept, but the word? I don't think so. What makes it not a swear word? It has double the requisite number of letters?

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:00:39 -0800

Aw, shit.

By: cardamine

cardamine — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:38:07 -0800

Is 'cunt' really considered the most offensive/profane of all words? Yes. I think my favourite corruption of a swear word into something inoffensie though has to be the transformation of "fuck off" into something akin to "very" I admire this too. Doesn't make much sense though, and you wouldn't use it in front of the parents.

By: ArkhanJG

ArkhanJG — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:25:57 -0800

Bah, the bloody tossers don't even recognise cumsucker or shitcock. Nor muff, fanny, pubes, felcher, bugger or the basic knob or bonk! They really need to brush up on their British profanity.

By: spish

spish — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 20:44:07 -0800

it didn't like cooch... as in Britany's cooch is all over the Internets. lame, i want to find out how I did against all you fuckers. it looks like someone's attempt at leaning Flash.