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RE: Your Ass and You
April 18, 2015 at 3:38 pm
Arse used to be a bit rude! It's interesting how some words have slid down from mildly offensive to almost commonly used. Now you have to really give it some just to get a rise out of an old lady on the bus.
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RE: Your Ass and You
April 18, 2015 at 3:39 pm
(April 18, 2015 at 1:59 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: (April 18, 2015 at 11:23 am)Iroscato Wrote: I have never felt any great connection to my donkey. He is there to transport my goods, and that's it. You can't get too attached to pack animals.
My 'arse' on the other hand...
The word 'arse' is bogus. It was conjured by people who are afraid of non-nonsensical 'bad words'. It is in the same category as 'shite' and 'darn'. There are plenty of words in most languages with multiple meanings. No need to invent new ones.
Indeed. Go Blow Jesus Out Your Arse just doesn't cut it.
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RE: Your Ass and You
April 18, 2015 at 3:43 pm
(April 18, 2015 at 3:39 pm)Minimalist Wrote: (April 18, 2015 at 1:59 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: The word 'arse' is bogus. It was conjured by people who are afraid of non-nonsensical 'bad words'. It is in the same category as 'shite' and 'darn'. There are plenty of words in most languages with multiple meanings. No need to invent new ones.
Indeed. Go Blow Jesus Out Your Arse just doesn't cut it.
Yeah, just like Clint Eastwood saying, "Go ahead, make my day" or the terminator saying, "Fuck you, asshhole" just wouldn't come across the same way in French.
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RE: Your Ass and You
April 18, 2015 at 5:13 pm
You're a fucking asshole for putting this in the philosophy section.
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RE: Your Ass and You
April 18, 2015 at 5:17 pm
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RE: Your Ass and You
April 18, 2015 at 5:58 pm
(April 18, 2015 at 3:01 pm)robvalue Wrote: Hmm... Didn't the arse come before the ass? Isn't ass a bastardisation?
America is just a cheap knock of England, after all Words have "u" in them people! It won't bite! What are you trying to do, cut down on RSI?
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RE: Your Ass and You
April 18, 2015 at 6:10 pm
(April 18, 2015 at 3:43 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: (April 18, 2015 at 3:39 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Indeed. Go Blow Jesus Out Your Arse just doesn't cut it.
Yeah, just like Clint Eastwood saying, "Go ahead, make my day" or the terminator saying, "Fuck you, asshhole" just wouldn't come across the same way in French.
I suppose "va te faire foutre, encule" or "ta mere sucre Le penis d'animaux" would be too precise for the American ass.
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RE: Your Ass and You
April 18, 2015 at 6:18 pm
(April 18, 2015 at 5:13 pm)bennyboy Wrote: You're a fucking asshole for putting this in the philosophy section.
That is a legitimate criticism. I did consider the the Humor section but I thought the widespread phenomena of people self-identifying with their asshole was a valid philosophical issue. Even if not one's brain or heart, why one's asshole? Why not one's liver, kidneys or pancreas?
Can you imagine Arnold's classic line in, "The Terminator" changed to, "Fuck you, left kidney." It just doesn't have the same ring to it. Why the preoccupation with one's ass?
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RE: Your Ass and You
April 18, 2015 at 6:22 pm
(April 18, 2015 at 6:18 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: (April 18, 2015 at 5:13 pm)bennyboy Wrote: You're a fucking asshole for putting this in the philosophy section.
That is a legitimate criticism. I did consider the the Humor section but I thought the widespread phenomena of people self-identifying with their asshole was a valid philosophical issue. Even if not one's brain or heart, why one's asshole? Why not one's liver, kidneys or pancreas?
Can you imagine Arnold's classic line in, "The Terminator" changed to, "Fuck you, left kidney." It just doesn't have the same ring to it. Why the preoccupation with one's ass?
Fuck you dickwad Works just as well.
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RE: Your Ass and You
April 18, 2015 at 6:24 pm
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(April 18, 2015 at 6:10 pm)Chuck Wrote: (April 18, 2015 at 3:43 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: Yeah, just like Clint Eastwood saying, "Go ahead, make my day" or the terminator saying, "Fuck you, asshhole" just wouldn't come across the same way in French.
I suppose "va te faire foutre, encule" or "ta mere sucre Le penis d'animaux" would be too precise for the American ass.
Well not being a polyglot, I don't know. That's part of my research.
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