MetaFilter posts tagged with FUCK

Hasta la vista, Gertrude Chataway.

goodnewsfortheinsane — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:56:54 -0800

Veto is a four-letter word (google quickview, here's the PDF):.Governor Schwarzenegger of California, at odds with the state legislature but ever the poet, vetoes Assembly Bill 1176 with a nice little acrostic.

NSFW the NSFWing NSFW.

Shepherd — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:40:20 -0800

Van Morrison loses it on stage. An analysis by Geoffrey K. Pullum Just one of about a billion reasons I love Language Log. Language Log is much loved on MetaFilter. Quite a bit, actually.

All the swear words from The Sopranos

HuronBob — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:08:56 -0800

Every Swear Word from The Sopranos there is nothing left to be said, other than NSFW...

Oh, for F-bomb's sake

Tehanu — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:36:43 -0800

The current FCC case [PDF] before the U.S. Supreme Court presents a fascinating dilemma for the judges: how do you respectfully discuss the legality of profane words in the nation's highest court? And for reporters: how do you report on the specifics of the case? It seems decisions vary across publications: NYT, Washington Post (reg req), LA Times, Wall Street Journal, Slate, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, AP, McClatchy. As for the judges themselves, they opted to allow only substitute terms. PDF transcript with word count at bottom. Background.

Y'a un «fuck» qui s'ennuie en maudit..

zenzizi — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 08:12:57 -0800

Culture en péril - In these Canadian election times and in response to the recent Culture cuts from Conservatives - three of the best Quebec talents in music, theater and humor join forces and hit back hard (lol) with a highly satirical imagining of the replacement program (captioned).

Planet Earth Parody

mathowie — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:27:02 -0800

Fuck Planet Earth. The extreme beauty of the popular Planet Earth series comes alive with this comedic bit that simply repeats the F-bomb to great effect. (filed under: so stupid it's hilarious)

The shrimp and the cabbage are very intimate.

hindmost — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 12:47:59 -0800

Language log has uncovered the reason for the inappropriately common appearance of the word fuck in English translations on Chinese signs. One more Chinglish phenomenon explained.

1898 baseball cursing policy, amply illustrated

LobsterMitten — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 16:17:13 -0800

"In terms of language, it is also the most offensive official Major League baseball document that we have ever seen." An auction house obtains a one page letter sent to baseball players in 1898, outlining the league's new anti-cursing policy. Includes lots of examples of the kind of language that is not allowed. Nervous auctioneers not sure how to exhibit it. Purely of historical interest, naturally. It says at the bottom of the document "may not be mailed - must be delivered by express". I wonder if it couldn't be mailed because of its obscene content?

What The Fuck?

BeerFilter — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:43:48 -0800

Why We Curse. An article by Steven Pinker, exploring the roots of modern "dirty words" and the psychohistory of how and why we use the expletives we use. All on one page: What The F***?

Is Wolfowitz on his way out?

chunking express — Tue, 15 May 2007 07:37:42 -0800

"If they fuck with me or Shaha, I have enough on them to fuck them too." The World Bank opted to fuck with Wolfowitz anyway.

Jilted Fuck

dios — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 08:17:17 -0800

As an interesting follow-up to the excellent post about Fuck law from last year, a controversy is brewing about the article's scholarly merit. Brian Leiter issued his Most Downloaded Law Faculty Rankings and excluded Ohio State and Emory because their "presence in the top 15 was due entirely to one provocatively titled article by Christopher Fairman who teaches at Ohio State and is visiting at Emory; without Fairman’s paper, neither Ohio State nor Emory would be close to the top 15." There has been some dispute over Leiter's omission of the two faculties on that basis. Fairman weighed in on the issue with his new article Fuck and Faculty Rankings.

The All-Fuck Lebowski

maryh — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 13:01:00 -0800

"The word "fuck" and its variations were spoken 281 times in this movie." Video, sound, wildly NSFW. Like, happy Friday, man.

Packard Jennings wants you to do bad things to your job.

loquacious — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:27:49 -0800

Job? Fuck it. from Packard Jennings. Also, A Day At The Mall. (Mildly NSFW due to cartoon nudity and copulation. But, screw it, y'know? via.)

Fuck law

dios — Wed, 31 May 2006 10:52:08 -0800

Fuck law.

Jill Carroll has been released unharmed

stilgar — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 05:21:54 -0800

"She was released this morning, she's talked to her father and she's fine" Jill Carroll has been released and is safe. [newsfilter]

The War on Christmas

MarkO — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 08:55:19 -0800

Fuck Christmas. Via del.icio.us.

Photos of signs strategically altered with stickers bearing the best word ever.

bk — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 13:55:58 -0800

"Please don't FUCK the pigeons." You'll never look at signs the same way again.
_{(probably nsfw - but I guess I already blew that...)}

I'll see you in MetaTalk, supak!

Quartermass — Sun, 27 Feb 2005 14:11:30 -0800

Is your favorite swear word losing its potency? Stock up on some new ones with the Swearsaurus, a "vast array of swearing, profanity, obscenity, blasphemy, cursing, cussing, and insulting in a massive 165 languages"

Fuck it-the game

ColdChef — Fri, 27 Aug 2004 21:15:36 -0800

Fuck it ...the word game

fucking

reklaw — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 09:47:20 -0800

Have you heard of Fucking? In Austria? According to Wikipedia, Fucking's sign is "the most often stolen street sign in Austria". Despite the cost of constantly replacing the sign, however, residents of the small village thankfully refuse to change its name.

F-Worded on the Radio

wendell — Fri, 05 Mar 2004 09:07:01 -0800

Screw Howard Stern. But Save Sandra Tsing Loh!
The radio culture wars have claimed an unlikely victim, and an unlikely victimizer (America's favorite NPR station, KCRW).

FCC trying to ban the word fuck

johnnydark — Wed, 14 Jan 2004 05:06:46 -0800

Your tax dollars at work. The Republican congress and the FCC, who evidently have nothing better to do, want to waste time banning the word fuck from all radio and broadcast television.

How To Attract The 18-34 Crowd: Say

MiguelCardoso — Sat, 22 Nov 2003 14:17:53 -0800

Oh fuck! Are you interested? Let me guess: you're 18 to 34 years old, right? Oh it's a dandy little word, for sure. But is it enough? Here's yet another brilliant marketing idea dreamt up by the 35-50 ~~thoroughly fucked-up Texan~~ reader-research crowd! [Via Arts and Letters Daily.]

the demise of the fuck

the fire you left me — Wed, 22 Oct 2003 17:39:44 -0800

Further verification that fuck is fucked. The gradual emasculation of a word once obscene.

Effing C.C.

sixpack — Wed, 08 Oct 2003 11:37:47 -0800

This is really, really f------ brilliant. The FCC says the f-word is OK on network TV, as long as it doesn't refer to the sexual act. Naturally, some groups don't like dirty talk. Is this a sea change in the level of discourse, or is the FCC finally acknowledging that it's useless to protect kids from our favorite four-letter word? (Second link is a .pdf file.)