The words we use in extremis to descibe noxious individuals are important. All we in the UK can seem to use is the F word, the C word, the S word, without embellishing the lattere with a terminal 'e'. Leaving aside Shakespearian or Churchillean invective, I feel the US have got it right with the full-length expression 'SOB'. It simply rolls off the tongue. Britons, should we adopt it? Americans, what are your views?
2007-07-28 11:30:40 · 7 answers · asked by ? 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
Hmm, I'd be very careful about adopting anything American..Look at 'em wrong & I could end up hanging up by thumbs at Guantamo Bay! Sorry, let's return to the question.
Extremis? I don't think so mate! Where I grew up it was two ***** & a **** a sentence & no one actually died (look up extremis!)
Noxious? Well ok but who do they poison other than themselves.
Shakespeare, the supreme English genius, without peer in my opinion, didn't use modern taboo words, so , as you say, leave it out.
Churchill? The monster? Do you or any of the people who voted him "the greatest Englishman" a couple of years ago actually know anything about him? YOU must do Foggy, so you're putting us on. Please accept this reply in that light...but I can't recall him telling us cunts to go **** ourselves either.
The Yanks SOB certainly rolls off the tongue & is a ripe insult. It ***** a man off by insulting his mother. Not in the least original, but effective. The modern equivalent "motherfucker" is much less effective, just insults a man. So we move on backwards eh?
Personally, I prefer the Anglo-Saxon, barring the occasional SHITE of course.
Hope you get some Amercan replies, but I think your words are too long. More than 5 letters & you're a ************* son of a *****. Apart from being a limey **** eh?
2007-07-29 11:28:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A really good piece of invective contains no swear words but is very descriptive. teachers of teenagers used to have the knack as I well know from my schooldays. I can remember listening with awe as my English Teacher poured scorn on a very badly behaved and stupid boy ( not me I did not gain any honours such as that. I was often badly behaved sometimes stupid but never or rarely at the same time )
2007-07-29 03:54:49 · answer #2 · answered by Scouse 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ya I play that. Styles Of Beyond are pretty damn good, but rarely heard over here. You can probably tell I'm more of a LosAndoner than a Londoner, dude.
British born and bred, with skate punk veins.
If you're wondering where I got off topic there, it was with SOB. They're hip hop, anywho.
Son Of A B*tch is already widely used round here anyways. Dunno what part of the UK you're at, but if it isn't a common phrase there, I narrow it down to Oxford and Buckinghamshire. lol.
My favourite yank insult has to be 'motherf**king crack-wh*re' though.
2007-07-28 13:46:42 · answer #3 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I say! Steady on, Chaps!
Cheese-eating Surrender-Monkeys
I loved that one!!
Not as pithy as "Frog B**t**ds" But Good!
I once heard:
"Cotton-Pickin, Chicken-Pluckin, C*ck-Suckin, MotherF**kin, Limey-B*st**d."
It rolled off the tongue very well!
2007-07-28 13:00:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
SOB sounds like a 70's movie...why on earth would we use an expression that is outdated and pointless?
2007-07-28 11:37:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've always been a fan of f*g, f*ggot, prick, imbecile, damnit (when I say it it's one word not 2). I actually had a penpal from kent that I learned a few choice words from. If I wanted to string them together I might say "damnit you imbecilic, f*g/got"
2007-07-28 11:52:38 · answer #6 · answered by Joya 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To adapt another countrys way of speaking wouldnt make us British anymore would it ?
2007-07-28 11:40:20 · answer #7 · answered by Mark T 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋