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[AlohaDawg]

Believe it or not, these expressions are actually in incredibly common usage in old Blighty. No-one calls lifts anything BUT lifts here, JUST THE WAY IT SHOULD BE.

Do people say 'c-nt' in real life as much as they seem to in movies?

[Drygioni]

Depends how many fuck*ng whiny rebellious teenagers there are in the room, trying to offend the other fuck*ng whiny rebellious teenagers in the room.

[Hobot]

Do people say 'c-nt' in real life as much as they seem to in movies?

Cent?  That's what you mean, right?

I'm glad we cleared that up.

[swinehund]

Cent?  That's what you mean, right?

I'm glad we cleared that up.

I thought they used pence.
They're using 'cent' as a swear? Is this an anti-North American and the Continent thing?

[theinevitable]

last I heard, they used "cent" because of a reference to "5 percent"-- something about the revolutionary war being won by the Americans because of a 5% difference in killed-to-killed ratio. It became popular earlier in the century, as they began resenting the way the US was on the rise, and their empire was on the decline.

I believe the original full swear was "well that's just the 5%, isn't it!"

as in:

Hm. Chesterfield seems to be down by just a point, and this is the last penalty kick.
Damn! they missed it! That's just... that's just the 5% for Leeds United, then.

[miles]

C-nt?  That's what you mean, right?

I'm glad we cleared that up.

Really, Jough?  Can we make sure to filter c-nt from now on?  Think of the children!

[littlefallsmets]

Believe it or not, these expressions are actually in incredibly common usage in old Blighty. No-one calls lifts anything BUT lifts here, JUST THE WAY IT SHOULD BE.

Pfft. If you wanna play the game and pretend you're not just part of the conspiracy, that's fine.

No skin off my "bollocks" if you're having fun with us, clearly, a lot of American idiots have fallen for it and it IS funny.  I'm just sayin' that I'm onto you.

All I ask is that you level with me and admit that watching soccer is about as fun as watching two guys you've never met play Pong for three hours straight. "Oh wow... he... almost scored a point but... didn't again. That could happen, what, three or four times today, huh?"

Not that PLAYING soccer isn't fun... because, hell, playing PONG is a little fun too, sparingly.

But watching it?

Come on, you're having fun with us, pretending you're so into such A Boring Thing.

[CortJstr]

Not that PLAYING soccer isn't fun... because, hell, playing PONG is a little fun too, sparingly.

But watching it?

Come on, you're having fun with us, pretending you're so into such A Boring Thing.

Because baseball is a thrill a minute. Basically any non-scripted sport tends to be boring as hell with way too much downtime compared to the movie version.

I also didn't know that British people took the time to say "see hyphen en tee." Of course if you believe newspapers Americans say "hyphen" all the fuck*ng time.

[pmcd9]

If you c-nts start talking about fuck*ng wrestling I'm gonna lock this thread in the loo.

~Paul

[swinehund]

last I heard, they used "cent" because of a reference to "5 percent"-- something about the revolutionary war being won by the Americans because of a 5% difference in killed-to-killed ratio. It became popular earlier in the century, as they began resenting the way the US was on the rise, and their empire was on the decline.

I believe the original full swear was "well that's just the 5%, isn't it!"

as in:

Hm. Chesterfield seems to be down by just a point, and this is the last penalty kick.
Damn! they missed it! That's just... that's just the 5% for Leeds United, then.

I've alternately heard it's one of those Cockney rhyming slang things, and is meant as a slight against one's mothers' size, implying that she wears tents as dresses.

[CortJstr]

If you c-nts start talking about fuck*ng wrestling I'm gonna lock this thread in the loo.

So you know that Jushin "Thunder" Liger was suppsed to be at Lockdown to take on the X Division champion but it turns out he can't make it because of scheduling conflicts. Lame.

Also, The British Bulldog Davey Boy Smith's son just signed w/ WWE.

[theinevitable]

hmm.
a teacher (english literature) at my school says that it comes from WWII-- a reference to putting pennies over the eyes of the dead. But do they call them c-nts over there?

[pmcd9]

But do they call them c-nts over there?

Yes.

~Paul

[AlohaDawg]

hmm.
a teacher (english literature) at my school says that it comes from WWII-- a reference to putting pennies over the eyes of the dead. But do they call them c-nts over there?

How does that reference work? That's not an American thing and it's a remote european one - that tradition goes back to well before WWII.

Unless you mean the C-nt referring to the bearded clam, in which case I'm really confused about the penny and WWII.

[pmcd9]

My ex used to say, whenever she went to the toilet "I'm going to spend a penny."  When I pressed her for an explanation she said that in olden times it cost a penny to use a public toilet in England.

~Paul