[Closed] Is the C word the most offensive word

I find 'tory' quite offensive.

I find 'gears' offensive.

God

"Tax", if you're Tory.

If I really thought low of someone I'd probably call them an 'iDave', though that is probably enough to reduce them to tears...

recently, a g word other than god

(must admit, the line in Kickass raised an eyebrow, though)

whenever tony soprano dropped the c-bomb he made it sound very nasty

The word 'austerity' can kiss my £$%@>?+~#()& ^%&*^%^%&!!!! etc.

'Southerner'

Got to be the b word, Bliar.

tollah - Member
I find 'gears' offensive.

LOL

wash your mouth out project!

I hate the c word
cross bike shudders
Remember kids gears is offensnive but someone with good gear is not

I try not to use it. So it must be reaaaallllly bad.

The 'c' word can't be said with any conviction by Americans.

Or southerners.

backhander - Member
wash your mouth out project!

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apologies for the gratuitous use of the b word, as penance i may well move his book to some other dept in the capitalist bookshop.

All swear words are great, I use them all with careless abandon.

TBH, more offensive than c*** would be it's more formal relative, beginning with v..

I dont know why the c word is considered so offensive, I only really avoid it when in the presence of women or at work.

The P word as in Gary Glitter is probably one of the most offensive words, used as an insult on forums quite often to antagonise.

Its SCONE (LIKE STONE) grrrrrrrrrr!

Your Mum!

A fun book on this subject is, "Filthy English: The How, Why, When and What of Everyday Swearing" by Peter Silverton.

He says the c-word is the most offensive but the above can bring today's kids to tears.

I don't find the C word overly offensive in its own right, but it really really annoys me when people (mainly Scots) punctuate their sentences with it.
I tend to ignore anything such people say...

"The P word as in Gary Glitter"

Pretty? Thank you very much! 😳

GlitterGary - Member
"The P word as in Gary Glitter"

Pretty? Thank you very much!

Thankfully for you, you are Glitter Gary, which ain't the same as Gary Glitter. 😉

I love the c word, it's especially good when used behind the wheel of your car.

It's just a word, a tad ruder than most but just a word.

I dont personaly find it offensive as at my work (Rail industry) It's almost used as a term of endearment. That said i'd never think of saying It in front of anyone I didn't know women or children.
I dont know about Americans not being able to carry It off as Larry david always does a decent job on 'Curb'.

the 'c-word' is a term of endearment round these parts too in certain drinking establishments..

I'm going to go with peadophile..

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Don't like hearing it. Not nice.

I work in an industry where the ability to maintain hours of casual comedy swearing is considered an asset. Anybody who doesnt swear constantly is treated with deep suspicion.

i only use it to make point verbaly and you dont even have to shout when you say it, people get the drift of the C word, works better when used with the F word.

Do different to using the "p" word or "d" word. People get too upset over swearing, the most offensive things are be said with out a swear word in site. Swearing is just extra words with more vigour and punctuation, restrictions on swearing in adult environments are patronising.

The c-bomb seems to be the last taboo. I'll be glad when we finally get over this artificial "some words are offensive because we're told they're shocking" nonsense and find some things to actually worry about.

Personally i cringe on hearing the "C" word

It's my favourite word, and I find a whole range of uses for it.

From "**** off you **** I'm not cycling up that ****ing hill" through to "look at that fat **** over there" and "don't be a **** and let me borrow your cordless".

I also use it as a term of deep endearment, as in "what you looking at you little ****" when I'm talking to one of the cats, before picking him up to give him a cuddle.

If I really thought low of someone I'd probably call them an 'iDave', though that is probably enough to reduce them to tears...

envy is a terrible thing, but very funny sometimes.

ok lets see.............****S!!

As with all words, it's not the word but the intent behind it that's offensive.

I don't think paedophile is an offensive word at all, because the majority of people, helped by the gutter media, use it to mean 'someone who finds humans under 18 (or another arbitrary age limit based on country) sexually attractive (so pretty much most of us then), as opposed to it's [i]actual[/i] meaning of someone who finds prepubescent humans sexually attractive. And of course it doesn't mean someone who abuses children, merely someone who finds them sexually interesting. So calling someone a 'convicted paedophile' is as informative as calling someone a 'convicted homosexual'. Being a paedophile isn't a crime, neither is being a homosexual.

I think the C word does it for most people.

I'm going to go with peadophile..

mmmmm, fresh green underage vegetables do it for me

Everytime I see the word paedophile I think of the hysteria a few years ago when the beying mob of ill educated Sun readers, I think it was in Portsmouth, attacked the home of someone who in fact were paediatricians, oh how truly truly pathetic it was...!

I got told by the senior nurse that we no longer use the "p-word" when referring to what are now called the children's wards and theatre for precisely that reason

[i]As with all words, it's not the word but the intent behind it that's offensive. [/i]

+1

I always assumed (probably incorrectly) all grown ups pretty much couldn't care less about swear words. They can be a wonderfully eloquant and rich part of any language. It's when they start being used deliberately to cause offensive that it's a problem.

So calling someone a 'convicted paedophile' is as informative as calling someone a 'convicted homosexual'.

Except that a 'convicted paedophile' is someone who has been convicted of paedophilia. Paedophilia involves sexual crimes against children, who under UK law, are defined as persons under the age of sixteen. It isn't even remotely simular to the sexual act between two consenting adult men. I find the thought that you apparently can't distinguish between the two, rather worrying, and rather insulting to gay men.

what ernie said and imagine you have to choose either a homosexual or a paedophile to babysit who are you picking? I suppose it does not matter as it does not mean anything troll surely.

used the c-word once in front of my mum.

"why do you hate your job so much?"

-"my boss is a ****"

"do you have to use such language?"

-"Well it does describe him most accurately, so yes"

We both laughed.

I find the term "insert letter here" word odd. As soon as somebody says it, the word they are trying so hard to avoid pops up in the recipient's brain. It's just hypocritical. Newspapers like the Independent, and presumably others, spare us from the puritanical censorship and print Wayne Rooney's (or should that be the WR name) observations in full.

But why are the things we're fondest of the foulest swear words?

I like a good swearing session with selected family and friends, usually for comedic effect or to enforce a point or strength of feeling. People who just swear as part of their normal vocabulary, I assume are of low intelligence or badly brought up. I'm not offended by swearing, just judgemental depending on the circumstances it's delivered.

Used without due context, it's certainly vulgar at best, however.....

Used in suitable context, it can be a very effective word......

Mrs STR has no objection to the word in question being used in certain environments, *cough*!

Paddy Considine's use of the C word in one of the early scenes of Dead Mans Shoes is exquisite to the extreme - powerful, effective and emotive.

In short, I think it's a fantastic word, but has to be used in the right place, otherwise it just becomes another foul and derogatory swear word. If you need to put a point across and it's justified though, no word is better.

You might all well know by now - not a lot offends me.

The f word can be used in a positive context ... F yeah it was ace. F look at the size of that it's f ing amazing etc.

The c word on the other hand remains in the realm of a proper swear word... And mighty effective it is too!

Used without due context, it's certainly vulgar at best

Surely it's when it is used in its correct context that it becomes vulgar ?

I must admit that I was a little surprised, and taken aback, when Calamity Jane dropped the 'C' bomb in [i]Deadwood[/i]. I think it was the fact it was a woman saying it that sort of shocked me a bit. Still, considering the sheer quantity of colourful profanity on [i]Deadwood[/i], it's not really surprising it got used by somebody. And Al Swearingen has to be one of the most appropriate character names ever.

ernie_lynch - Member

Surely it's when it is used in its correct context, that it becomes vulgar ?

What's vulgar about it's correct context? I suppose it depends on an individuals perception.

As a sexual word in the right environment, it can be a stimulus.

As a swear word in a highly charged environment, it's an effective means of communication.

Used flippantly to describe the quoted poster for example, it could be construed as vulgar, however relevant it may be.

What's vulgar about it's correct context?

Well I wouldn't recommend your missus uses it at her next hospital appointment with the fanny mechanic.

As a sexual word in the right environment, it can be a stimulus.

Lol!

For her or you?

In Scotland it can actually be a term of endearment.
"Isn't that Billy over there at the bar?"
"Aye, you're right it is. He's a good cvnt Billy"

Well I wouldn't recommend your missus uses it at her next hospital appointment with the fanny mechanic.

But then that wouldn't be in the correct context, would it - or not at least my perceived view of the correct context anyway.

Oh, and she doesn't visit the fanny mechanic.

And just out of interest ernie - do you have a Mrs?

@ Maxray - both 😉

And just out of interest ernie - do you have a Mrs?

No, she gave me the elbow 'cause I kept going on about her ****.

she doesn't visit the fanny mechanic.

He comes round ?

Lol 😉

Hahaha! Does a fanny mechanic use screws? Does he utilise big tools? Does his workshop have a back door? Etc, etc, ad nauseum - I could literally go on all night....

My father in law finds it endlessly amusing to insert the word 'whooring' into sentences, e.g., "The rain's hoorin' bad the day" (said in an Aberdonian accent). Actually, I do too.

its one of mrsconsequences favourite words

i hardly ever use it, but then i still cant bring myself to swear in front of my parents out of respect even though they both swear like any other normal adult.

fanny mechanic

it had better not be Gavin from auto glass coming to fill her crack with "special resin"

I use the male c-word all the time, and once had a great conversation with a feminist and realised there was no decent reason that the female c-word is any more offensive, so I use that when I want to too.

I find the term "insert letter here" word odd.

STW does it. TBF, I understand that a lot of corporate firewalls/net nanny programmes will block access to websites that have thrown a few F!s and C!s in it. Presumably in the old days it was prudishness/customer preference but now there's also a reason to not use it so that all your potential customers can access your website.

I see to remember getting a week on the naughty step from here for "attempting to evade the swear filter". Instead of writing the word that rhymes with cluck, I had prefixed the letters -ark with an f (or something similar). 🙁

When I was backpacking through queensland, australia, the 'c-word' was often times used by the locals there as a term of endearment much to the amusement of my mates and I.

Yeah it's bad and all, but it isn't half satisfying calling someone whose annoyed you in some way one.

There was a TV series about words a few years ago and they had an episode on the c word. Germaine Greer encouraged it's use.

A had a gf who never swore except when excited when she would gently encourage me to f her c.

f her c = feed her crisps?

Swearing is all about creating shock. It's therefore best to avoid too much of it lest the impact is reduced. A good potty-mouthed rant from somebody who rarely swears is much more effective than it would be from someone who swears with every other word. For that reason the c word should be stored up for maximum effect when it is needed. If it's used regularly we risk a swear word arms race in the search to recover that lost shock-value. I shudder to think where that would lead.(Although p-flaps is a personal favourite).

Are crisps iDave compatible?

I dont find any words offensive.

Its actions that matter - words are just too flexible and simply ignored.

It does seem quite irrational that some can be considered more rude than others.

I understand that a lot of corporate firewalls/net nanny programmes will block access to websites that have thrown a few F!s and C!s in it.

Leading to "the S****horpe problem."

Even if you swear all the time it's easy to change the tone so people know the difference between friendly swearing and nasty swearing.

I used both the "c" word and the "mf" word on Sunday when my pedal parted company with its axle half way up a hill at Glentress.

Somtimes gosh darn just doesn't cover it!

(must admit, the line in Kickass raised an eyebrow, though)

Especially when said by an eleven year old girl 😕

Somtimes gosh darn just doesn't cover it!

To paraphrase Billy Connolly,

"if you can give me a non-sweary alternative to f- off, I'll gladly use it. It certainly isn't 'go away'."

(must admit, the line in Kickass raised an eyebrow, though)

Especially when said by an eleven year old girl

You know I really never understood the problem with that especially when the scene immediately following said expletive shows the same eleven year old slaughtering a group of drug dealers. No one ever seems to have a problem with that.

the thing about the c word is that, yes it's pretty offensive to just about all the women i've evr meet - but -

there are times when only the c word will do

lol at whoever reckons southerners are rubbish at using it. Londoners make it an artform, particularly south of the river !

c**t is a term of endearment or an abusive term:

Aye, he's a good c**t

See him, he's a pure c**t.

depends on the usage..