Fuck and shit just ain’t cutting it anymore.

  • yermaw@sh.itjust.works
    24·
    6 days ago

    You could go full British. “You absolute/complete/total (any noun)”

    You absolute sponge.

    You complete brick.

    You total signpost.

    Its all in the delivery. Say it with enough malice and anything is an insult.

  • Dumbkid@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    11·
    6 days ago

    Call someone sticky, and dont use it like an insult say it like you are being genuine. If they try to hand you something shy away and be like “oh um no I’m sorry, you’re just kinda sticky” garentee that’ll leave a mark

  • Widdershins@lemmy.world
    13·
    7 days ago

    Niggard/niggardly sounds like a really, really, awful choice for a word to describe someone cheap like Scrooge. It’s not a slur it just sounds way too much like one. The use of the word is controversial despite the only connection the two words share is how they sound.

    I wouldn’t use the word around people though. Explaining how a word that sounds racist isn’t racist makes you appear to be more racist. It isn’t a slur but gets treated as if it was one.

    ✓ quite offensive

    ✓ not a slur

    X you probably still shouldn’t use it

  • Psiczar@aussie.zone
    131·
    7 days ago

    As an Australian, I would like to introduce you to a word more offensive than “fuck” while just as versatile, and that is “Cunt”.

    • daggermoon@lemmy.worldOP
      4·
      7 days ago

      Big fan of the word. I use it frequently. I also eat Vegemite and say she’ll be right. Big fan of y’all.

      • Zozano@aussie.zoneEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        Yeah nah. Do you go to the servo for smoko? Ever get some dim sims from the fish and chippery? Ever chuff down durries, while eyeing up some ranga chick squeezing dead horse on her fritters?

        • DoGeeseSeeGod@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          2·
          6 days ago

          May I please have a translation for “squeezing dead horse on her fritters”? I assume fritters is some sort of food, but the dead horse has peaked my interest.

          Excuse me my apologies, may I please have a translation for “squeezing dead horse on her fritters”, ya cunt?

          Is it glue? But you don’t normally eat glue, so my guess is mayo or ranch maybe?

          • Zozano@aussie.zoneEnglish
            3·
            6 days ago

            Dead horse is tomato sauce (ketchup)

            It rhymes.

            Fritters are deep fried, could be potato, but sometimes you get banana.

    • philpo@feddit.org
      3·
      7 days ago

      Cunt is one of the most Australian words I know. I sadly left OZ more than a decade ago,but I still get a bit of a melancholic feeling whenever I hear it.

      The fact that you can also say cunt in an positive sense is fucking funny.

      Sick cunt! And Oi cunt is always a bit of a hit and miss for someone who is not an native Australian slang speaker.

      (Oi cunt once got me thrown out of an irish pub somewhere in County Cork - when used to greet my Australian mate

      Bogan is also a word that needs much more recognition worldwide. Same as Drongo and Fair dinkum. And so many others.

  • zlatiah@lemmy.world
    12·
    7 days ago

    In a professional setting: disappointment is the strongest word I’ve ever said to someone

    Outside that? I don’t know if there is a good cutoff between slur/not slur… The one I vividly remember was old Chinese social media users (before the blockage) calling some people “Wumao” (translates to 50 cents). This is implying that the person is being a troll, and they did it because they were so pathetic that they accepted a 50-cent commission from the government to say good/bad things on the internet. Probably still the worst insult I could imagine till this day; modern equivalent might be calling someone “nice job ChatGPT” or a “Russian bot”

  • TheFunkyMonk@lemmy.world
    9·
    7 days ago

    Not a word, but my favorite recent addition was when someone told me her husband, rather than flip people off in road rage situations, just looks at them and gives them a thumbs down gesture, and it makes them so much more mad. I’ve been doing it whenever I see Cybertrucks.