since the rule thread really didn't address this

Good call

No F word, no N word

Cracker is allowed, cause I like that word.

But any word in reference to pop culture is fine

Eg

We are intelligent people here, derogatory words will just alienate the offender from the community. No one likes a c word.

Oboe?

Wait, which F word do you guys NOT want here?

French?

That's one for the ladies

Well I was thinking that. It can go by the fellas/those folk with baws too since their genitals are implicated in the term also.

Of course, that would then bring into debate words like "cock" and "dick" and those are fine and male sexuality isn't really threatened or objectified nor as political an issue (we're doing pretty well, us men) nor is it a directly sexual insult (fannybaws doesn't even make sense; men are quite into their own phalluses anyway so calling and calling a man a dickhead, idgaf) so nah, fuck 'em, I will happily call men penises 'til the end.

Tho I think you could say "prick" is questionable, perhaps, what with it playing into tropes of masculinity and the penis symbolising power and that stuff and to put someone down with it a bit ~ but as I said, we men have things pretty good so it's not so bad.

Naw, I'm inclined to say that's just as bad. Fannybaws is inclusive, (essentially) everybody is included and no one group is being victimised or something pertaining to them used as the insult. Though I do appreciate that it can possibly cross the line, so that's why I asked if my regional term (which I'd rarely use, despite it being a great sounding word) is a-ok by the community's standards. I think your term might go farther toward being offensive (certainly if you were to call someone that word! otherwise it's just a crude name but I guess that's not my place to say if that is offensive!), but idk, that's just me.

I thought I made it up. :(

yeah, that's pretty much where I'm at. Which is shame because they're great swear words, right? If they weren't loaded with such awfulness they'd be up there with the best.

Our (Glaswegian, need I say...) English teacher back in high school delivered a half lecture on what makes a good swear word and said that the C-word, and the sound of it, is the best but that it's such a terrible word we ought not to use it. I think "fuck" works the same way, that's a great swear word with that "u" sound.

Tbf I can't think of a time when I've had to use the C-word, never mind substitute it. I'd rather call them something less offensive or be mean with non-sweary words.

I mean, people use it as a term of endearment here so idk. (Scottish attitudes not just to swearing but to language as a whole are fascinating)

That one's quite situation specific, tbf.

Well colour me learned, Alan-P!

wow this thread is educating me