Dill hole and dillweed are both pretty regular go-to name calling names.

Crimony
Cripes
Ding dangit
Good heavens
Bucket head
Dadgummit
Great googley moogley
Mother Francis
Son of a beehive
Horse pucky

A_Man_Who_Tries wrote: Sat Jan 29, 2022 10:34 am I use cuntbubble quite a bit.

I just about pissed my pants laughing at this.

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.

"Is this a bell factory? No? Then quit being a ding-dong."

GuyLaCroix wrote: Sun Feb 13, 2022 9:40 am "Is this a bell factory? No? Then quit being a ding-dong."

A thing of beauty.

I hope to have the presence of mind to use it in any upcoming highly charged confrontations.

I also really liked how "The Good Place" managed to replace expletives with things like, "fork", and "shirt." It somehow managed to not sound completely lame when you have Kristen Bell say something like, "holy forking shirtballs."

Dudley wrote: Sun Feb 13, 2022 9:57 am

GuyLaCroix wrote: Sun Feb 13, 2022 9:40 am "Is this a bell factory? No? Then quit being a ding-dong."

A thing of beauty.

I hope to have the presence of mind to use it in any upcoming highly charged confrontations.

I really love that one. It's the thing that makes my students stop screwing around.

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.

Anthony Flack wrote: Sun Feb 13, 2022 5:22 pm
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.

I don't know. Growing up in the 80's/90's words were offensive because they conjured foul things, defecating, sexuality, a bunch of puritanical pearl grabbing. Now I think people are more concerned with words that marginalize groups of people. That's a net gain in my eyes.

As far as completely losing our shit because someone said something shitty and insensitive, and putting more energy into that battle than workers' rights, or environmental catastrophe, sure. That's stupid. But sometimes I think it's a little sad in western culture that you can't get someone on board long enough to think about carbon emissions without totally alienating them because you don't think it's cool to use a slur about homosexuality. I guess what I'm saying is it's a bummer that progressives might have to handle the white grievance crowd with kid gloves or they'll leave the presentation about the end of the world.

PS, the recent splash FM Steve made commending the ICP for owning their shitty lyrics seems like a perfect example of everyone having a little courage, confronting their mistakes and then maybe everyone moves forward a little without it turning into the parody the right wing imagines it will be.

Yes but it used to be the right-wingers who were the pearl-clutchers. Leftist agitators didn't use to asterisk out words in grown-up adult writing, or speak in delicately coded language to avoid triggering a soundbite outrage. People wanted to tear down that polite, conservative facade. We used to mock the absurdity of such prudery in a world full of real atrocities. Heck a young FM steve was even contemplating naming an album after Quentin Tarantino's favourite word at one point, but then thought better of it and later started a band called Rapeman instead. It really was a different time.

For sure, some attitudes needed correcting, and people said things they wouldn't say now, but now all that fuck-you attitude is on the right and I'm not entirely comfortable with that.

We can't stop an extremist US Supreme Court from chucking the Voting Rights Act on the fire. We can't stop white supremacists from seizing power. We can't save ourselves from environmental collapse. We can't prevent genocides from happening around the world (so much for "never again"). I can't help but feel that pillorying well-intentioned people for minor offences is often just a way of deflecting from all the vast horrors that we feel helpless against.

Piling on some rando on twitter doesn't achieve anything constructive, but it makes you feel like you're doing something and it's SO EASY.