June 20, 2008

  • Is there a specific epithet, slang term or curse word that you absolutely cannot stand?

    I like curse words and epithets.  Use them all the time, especially the racial ones.  They are after all only words.  They are colorful and useful when metaphorically describing something, but they shouldn't be over used or they lose their rhetorical impact. 

    I suppose if I were to be specific I don't hate the words so much as the intent behind the words.  Usually the intent is out of ignorant carelessness as if the words "shit," "shitty," "fuck," "fuckin'" were punctuation in sentences.  To those untermensch:  go read a book, get some civilization, pull up your pants & tie your shoes, stop tagging, etc.  Join the rest of us homo sapiens sapiens; neanderthal behavior may be fun, but it is sooo last ice age. 

    I don't mind it if people thoughtfully and deliberately use bad words or epithets as long as I can use them back to offend or to entertain.  After all fair is fair.  If hispanics call all asians "chino," then asians have every right to call all hispanics "Mo Xi Ge ren (or whatever versions other asians have--I'm Chinese/Taiwanese, by the way for you snickering Mo Xi Ge ren peasants, that's different than Korean or Japanese)."  Right?

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