The cultural difference between CUNT in USA and Great Britain (and other British Commonwealth countries).

I actually heard it used frequently in the UK when I visited in the mid 80's. It seemed at the time like a mild swear word. "So and so is a right cunt", etc.

In France it was also used in a similar way and was even a milder swear word than in the UK. "il est con" ("He's a stupid bastard", "He's a dope", etc.)

Now having lived here for the last ten years, I have to say I am astonished to have never once heard it used. Maybe times have changed and it is a lot less common now? Maybe it has become more offensive? Maybe I am moving in more professional circles?

Maybe it's worse in the USA, I wouldn't know and it's common knowledge that the US is more religious-minded than the UK, but it's definitely not just an ordinary word in the UK. It's offensive. If you used it in a job interview, you wouldn't get the job. You wouldn't use in addressing anyone you didn't know well, except to deliberately insult them. I'd never call a friend 'you cunt' because many people find it gross. Anyone claiming on Wikipedia or Quora that it's just fine in the UK is having a laugh - the equivalent of teaching some innocent to say filthy things in a foreign language.

All the following are CUNTS:

Magats

Trumpers

Trumpettes

Qtards

RepuQs

AVs

Proud Boys

Jan 6ers

Ruzzian-simp Orcs

Homophobes

Racists

well the list is much longer but you get the idea .....

"Moderate" Repubs are not quite worthy of the label, they are merely dickheads and arseholes, and eternally tainted.

That was a nice vent. Carry on. 😂🤣😁😃

PS I'd like to live long enough to see some of them get their faces eaten, 🐆🐆😯🐆🐆 sweet, sweet, schadenfreude, but it's unlikely.

Melania have terrible time to get dis Kari Lake vwhore to vwear vwig to look like beautiful Melania to sneak into pig stye at night to try pig out, so pig fall in love vwith new pig also, and Melania free to divorce vwith more money!! Melania still such fan of C vword. Describe dis Lake vwhore to a... coffee? beer? Oh Melania forget, but it describe perfect. She so nasty.

I sort of wonder if Vaxman was having a bit of a laugh when he wrote the forbidden words in ALL CAPS and pinned this thread to the top.

https://youtu.be/9cH0elKDOzs

Melania so sad. Such favorite vword for Melania, but Melania respect all things on favorite platform of information and love. Melania love to all - clams. Melania flower look like big, giant sea clam try to close.

I've got a great meme/photo to share on this topic as soon as I can send it over from my phone. (it's clean, I promise.)

Spaniard use the word "coño" the same way. And as a generic swear work like we use the F-word or "dang". I had moved back to the US for many years and was shocked when a woman called her own kid that then remembered I was back in Spain...

As so many people seem to find the aforementioned word offensive, I will cease using it on this site. From now on I will refer to each antivaxxer as a Smeghead, whether male or female. Equality and all that…

Just to add my perspective on this.

When I was in the UK in the early 90s I heard the word used frequently. More often than not it was applied to men. For example, 'so and so is a real c***', the way we would say 'so and so is a real dick' in the U.S.

It was definitely a rude word in the U.K. but in common use and not considered outrageous like in the US.

However, since I moved to the UK ten years ago I don't think I've ever heard it used even once. Maybe it is being used a lot less nowadays or maybe I just hang out with more educated people now.

I'm in Australia and someone is pulling your leg that it is a term of endearment. Maybe between bogan blokes, but not for women. It's just as nasty here as in the USA.

I hate euphemisms such as "n-word" and the use of *s or symbols in the place of letters in words that usually some authority figure made taboo to us, without logical justification, at some stage of our upbringing.

It's so pointless and intellectually dishonest as the reader instantly translates the pseudo or altered version of the word anyway. The writer has invariably communicated the same word but with some twisted sense of logic believes they have exonerated themselves of communicating an offensive word. If the altered word isn't to be interpreted that way why bother using it at all.

Get over it people. Write the real word or don't write anything at all, certainly don't use some dishonest half-measure.

The one I hate is "c$#ķsucker", I use the f word from time to time but never in public, there's enough strife out there as it is.

The words I never use are the racist pejoratives. I stopped using the C word on this site out of respect for Vax Lady. But frankly that is the best way to describe MTG. She is the most hateful, stupid, dangerous, bigot that was ever elected to Congress. The F word has lost its shock value since it is used so often. That is why I used the

C word to indicate my extreme condemnation of the person. It also indicates how angry they make me. I have a righteous anger towards Anti Vaxxers, Anti Maskers and pandemic deniers. They don't amuse me in the slightest. I consider them to be

career criminals that will never change their ways. If the corona virus was not so infectious and not so deadly, I could just dismiss them as fools. But they are spreading the virus and killing others with their failure to follow simple, inexpensive

suggestions.

I’ve been watching a lot of Ricky Gervais on Netflix, After Life and his stand ups, and the word, not one I will use, isn’t quite as jarring as it was before. He uses it a lot!

Mmmm... Melania favorite vword.

The c-word is so taboo where I come in western Canada that my middle class, white, female self was not exposed to it as a cuss word until I was in my early forties, I kid you not.

(My uncle referred to one of my brothers as a ‘cheap c*nt’. I had no idea you could combine those words together. And lest you think I led a sheltered life, I lived in a logging camp for three and a half years.)

Say what you want about the c-word, for some of us it is shrouded in a massive taboo. Seeing the c-word in print shakes me like casual talk about making out with a cousin.

mmmm.... I dunno about that. Seems to be appropriate in certain instances such as this one:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mqwOrVzVmwQ

As someone who has worked with victims of domestic violence for many years, I'd like to share a gentle reminder that there are people (young and old) in the world with simple triggers to very traumatic situations.

It is not always easy to be mindful of other people's hidden pain, but if one asks us not to say or do something that affects them negatively, is that really so hard to do?

We are all doing our best in this crazy world. 💖💕💖

I do not assume to know anyone else's personal reasons in this particular situation, nor do I need to.

Canadian-American here so I have a bit of the same aversion to the c-word although it doesn't offend me as much as it used to. I have always been partial to the word, "twat", instead as it sounds funnier and isn't as likely to offend.

I'm not Australian, I'm North Carolinian. And around here, it's a fact that if there's ever been a qunt, it's Qonald Qunt(DoubleQ). All his worshippers, Quntlets.

Not sure Qunts, or Quntlets would be a fair description for SAV'ers who can't, er, keep qunt out of their mouths and off their keyboards, but, maybe. The key characteristic of a Quntlet is the inability to think rationally, rather follow the ravings of the Qonald. Maybe, the SAV'ers, when using the term Qunt, are thinking about Qonald. Or, maybe it's like a secret handshake, in "I'll say "Qunt" and the other Quntlets will tip their hand so I'll recognize them.

Also, I'm going to go underground, selling plastic Qonald Qunt(DoubleQ to the initiated) pinkie rings, because plastic DoubleQ pinkie rings is the closest equivalent to the logic of Qunt I can think of that cost less than 10 cents to mass produce.

I hope I've clarified everything for everybody, or at least one thing for one body.

As a child in the Uk, the word bloody was regarded as offensive,whilst bastard,fuck and the c word were regarded as extremely offensive. During my life(I’m in my early 50’s now), those first 3 words do not have the shock element they once had. And even the impact of the c word has lessened.

I remember watching a tv programme, maybe about 10 years ago, which was about what the most offensive words used in UK were. A lot of what were deemed as the most offensive words, related to discriminatory terms. These referred to racist, sexist, and anti disability words.

Well the Brits are the ones who started with the English usage of the word, so I trust that they understand its meaning better than the rest of us. Maybe they're just a little more grown up.

It might take the US another 250 years to get the Puritan Christian Panties untwisted out of our collective asscrack. But we'll all be dead by then, so it won't do anyone here much good.

Depends on context in Australia.

G'day cunts is quite normal and endearing.

But it can certainly be derogatory if you take aim.

Swearing and nudity are no big deal here.

I sometimes find substitutes for vulgarities, and it can have a much funnier effect. I have been known to call dead MAGAts “Impoverished Maternal Fornicators”, for example.

I loved when the Scottish people did some payback to LOSER45 for his lies and awful golf course boondoggles that never employed a 10th as many as promised and were more than likely money losing money laundry depots. I used to hate the word, but understood it was used differently there and came to appreciate its use (until I got banned a few times) Being Vaxxlady has to put up with the trolls and spammers, the bickering and much more... and is so good at it we rarely see it happening, I do hope people take the broad hint and stop using it.

As this is a safe space where Vaxxlady will dare not tread, once again thanks to the Scottish and British people for rejecting LOSER45

VaxMan,

It's such a small ask in my opinion. I have been known to use that word like a Brit at times, only toward men for some reason. Not saying it on here is quite simple. My vocabulary isn't so limited.

Your final paragraph sums up my feeling on the rude and whining C**** as well.

Btw, I'm still here 😘

-Meg

I think language must evolve, given globalisation. The situation in Europe is bringing new pejorative words into use. "Orc" is one and there are others such as "khuylo(khuilo)",

I grew up in Ireland and the C-word was quite common. I now live in Scotland and I am impressed by how the Scots have integrated the word into their language. My friend, after being ‘shushed’ by her boyfriend, said “Nae cunt tells me tae shush!” In Scotland you would call someone a fanny if they’re being a dafty. The body part that fanny refers to in the US is not the same body part as in the UK. In the UK a fanny is a cunt, not an arse. An arse is also a good name to refer to someone if they’re being an eedjit.

Fair enough! It is kinda awesome to be able to debate on the topic!