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As a kiwi who mistakenly slipped that out among friends (who were familiar with it) at a bar in the US.. Oh god.. I know.
by Mandatum 11y ago
As a kiwi who mistakenly slipped that out among friends (who were familiar with it) at a bar in the US.. Oh god.. I know.
- omegaham 11y agoThe most interesting illustration of this was John McCain calling his wife a cunt in front of reporters... and he got away with it because none of them could actually report on it due to it being so shocking and offensive. This wouldn't fly today, as people online will post anything, but in 1992, it literally did not get airtime or newspaper coverage because no newspaper would print it, and no TV network would even allude to it.
- pluma 11y agoAs a German I'm routinely confused by Americans referring to "the $initialLetter-word", especially when it's not obvious from context. I understand avoiding the "n-word" because of America's still ever-present latent racism, and I can kinda understand avoiding the "f-word" because of a schizophrenic attitude to sex based on Puritan "family values", but I'm still at a loss whenever I see all kinds of other letters of the alphabet pop up now and then with no indication what the speaker is actually trying to refer to. EDIT: Apparently HN ratelimits me whenever I get downvoted. Yay for passive aggressive auto-moderation.