Fuck and shit just ain’t cutting it anymore.

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    2 hours 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”.

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      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.

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

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    I have a good one. Once a small machine shop in my hometown had their adjustable sign say “gravely bad-boy scag” which sounds like the best insult ever, but apparently all 3 are brands of lawnmowers that they sold.

    Me and my sister still call each other scag to this day lol

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    I cannot think of anything outside of the not so humble Australian cunt for single words. That or LLMbecile ( one I heard here ).

    Though, when talking to others, a classic “Mr. Rodgers would be disappointed in you.” is always an option.

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    Few of my personal favorites: “I’m disappointed in you” “You don’t have to be your parents you know” “Is this what you do with your free time?”

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    4 hours 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.

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    3 hours ago

    You battery operated trilobite would not recognise an offensive sentence if I typed it at you!

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    4 hours ago

    Depends what you want. Gobshite. Cunt. Cretin. Wretch. Popinjay. Ne’er-do-well. Buffoon. Malcontent. Simpleton. Embarrassment.

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    6 hours 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”