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Re: Replacement Expletives

41 by Dudley
penningtron wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 7:24 pm But I'm all for anything phallic-y. I've caught myself saying dingus a lot lately, because it's kind of funny/absurd on all sides.
Me too. "Knob" for stupid people, "cock" for more offensive people, "knobskin" for even less impressive people. "Knob-end" or "bell-end" I use a lot. "Shit-wit", too - they're all reasonably affectionate. If someone REALLY deserves it, I sometimes dust off "shit-stain" but that's pretty harsh.

Is "dingus" phallic? I have a Merican friend who uses the most "gee whiz" language, and she says it all the time, so I always presumed it was above-the-belt in origin.

Re: Replacement Expletives

42 by Hairy Caul
When it comes to phallic-styled expletives, I like to use "ding-dong."

I accuse my one-year old daughter of being a "turd" a whole bunch.

My family loves to watch the kids show, "Bluey", and it has a good staple of kid-friendly expletives such as: "beans on toast!", "cheese on jam!", "biscuits!", etc.
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Re: Replacement Expletives

45 by horse_laminator
When one of our puppies is naughty, my wife often says "Oh, you're a little monkey". Not funny in itself, but the way she says it in such an affectionate way is one of those little things I love about her. Replacing any number of possible expletives.

They are little monkeys.
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Re: Replacement Expletives

50 by Anthony Flack
losthighway wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 5:40 pmThe best replacement I've heard is saying someone is being a weenie. I like that it's a vaguely phallic insult that also denotes weakness but it doesn't have the same level of zing.
How about sook? Don't be a sook. Is that etymologically offensive? Fuck even knows, probably though.

Heck, the "R word" isn't even a curse word and it's now been relegated to unmentionable status, like the C word, and the word that starts with you-know-what letter.

John McWhorter wrote an article in the NYT just the other day arguing that "the new n-word standard" isn't progress, it's absurd hypersensitivity. At a time when the left is catastrophically losing ground everywhere that actually counts, it seems like the preferred response has been to retreat into ever-smaller, entirely self-harming petty symbolic battles.

When I was growing up it was common to call somebody an egg if they were behaving obnoxiously.
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