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[–] 38 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

Might I introduce you to the good old Dutch tradition of swearing with diseases?

Tuberculosis ("tering!"), typhoid ("tyfus!"), cholera ("klere"), mange ("schurft"), smallpox ("pokken") are pretty cool and acceptable. Cancer used to be common but that's rather fallen out of fashion. You can also combine it with religious swearing AND reproductive organs for a trifecta.

"Godverdetyfuskutzooi" is just a beauty, but "goddamtyphoidvaginamess" doesn't work in English.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    apparently the rudest thing you can call a Dutch person literally translates as “cancer-whore”

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago*

    Yeah, pretty much exactly true.

    using "cancer" as a swearword is considered very bad these days, so we've actually started to censor the swearing/insults down to "the c-word" meaning that "You're a C-whore" is now actually a thing people say.

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  • [–] 26 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    #why do they #talk like this #?

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  • [–] 45 points 4 months ago

    So back in the day tumblr didn't have comments. It did allow you to add tags when reblogging, so people used that instead. Of course these days tumblr does have comments, but all the good comments still get put in the tags.

    Tumblr is a special place.

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    [–] 16 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Australia has you covered

    "strewth" "mate" "maaaaate" "shit a brick" "you little ripper" "bonza" "bloody oath"

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago*

    There are actually a lot:

    • Heaven is actually from the old english word for sky (Sky is from norse instead), so "Good Heavens" can be interpreted as non religious. In fact, Heaven singular is the afterlife place, heavens plural means the vast skies and stars, so i certainly see 'Good Heavens' as irreligious.
    • Good Golly
    • Fiddlesticks!
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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    Friend of mine refuses to cuss. She makes up childish ones in their place.

    One day we were playing League of Legends and she fucked something up then said: "Son of a biscuit bean-dip mother-frito!!!" I'd never say it in place of a good "oh fuck me, then" but I will never forget it for as long as I live.

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    [–] 8 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    "Hex me purple" is the one I use when teaching.

    There is also "aww skyte" which is gibberish, but it feels right.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I guess technically "By the Nine" is a religious exclamation.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    The nine... Muses? Mothers of Heimdall? Months of childbirth? Worlds on Yggdrasil?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    The nine divines you apostate!

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Sorry you're going to have to elaborate :p

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    Anyone else who remembers this better from "Cow &chicken" correct me, but this is what I recall "dad" exclaiming:
    "Well, shave my legs and call me grandpa"

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Well I'll be a monkey's uncle!

    What in tarnation?

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

    Having swears that hit hard that aren't:

    A) homophobic
    B) sexist
    C) religious
    D) sexual
    E) body parts
    F) bigoted/slurs
    G) demeaning or punching down

    is difficult and very rare.

    I hypothesize following some of these patterns but punching up at those/that which is unethical/bad whilst avoiding immortalizing that which doesn't deserve it, for true disrespect.

    I think that by novelly correcting the common lexicon, we can attempt to redirect/rewrite values in society that need to change, by utilizing shame and rhetoric in a way that is more constructive than things like putting down healthy human acceptance, trauma, or class struggles.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    This makes sense, but I can't come up with any examples.

    I'd also like an option for sneezing. Literally every society addresses sneezing with either a religious blessing or a with for good health. I understand that this comes from illness being a threat but now sneezing is more of an inconvenience than anything. I just can't find a way to tell whatever causes the sneeze to fuck off without the sneezer taking it as directed at them.

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    [–] 4 points 4 months ago*

    I like "shit on it!" but that might just be because I recently watched Friday Night Dinner.

    "Oh shit on it. Shit on the shitting thing!'

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  • I have a bunch of these I came up with for a DND character I played for a while. Try to read this with a deep southern accent.

    Well, paddle my ass and call me a sailboat

    Well, spit in my mouth and call me a saxophone

    Well, fill me with meat and call me a sandwich

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    It's a shit fuck of a dick fight. Need to trade out fuck, I guess...

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago*

    "Shit on the fuck!" has lodged in my brain. Distinctly remember laughing at someone saying it in the r/Homestuck discord, during the premiere of [s] GAME OVER.

    Also reach for Justin Rozniak's "It's gone poorly."

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    Fuck me sideways and call me craig

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    My favourite so far is an Irish character saying "shit the bed" with a Corkish accent.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    What in the name of absolute fuck?

    Also, don't undervalue the satisfaction of going into a full Yosemite Sam litany of nonsense: "Hazzen frazzen jimpin jampin frazzle bazzle mizzen mazzen grizzle bizzle...!!!"

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Uff

    Weiß ich ja nicht

    Tja

    Machste nix

    Fick mich in den Arsch und nenn mich Jesus

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    "Bugger me with a fish fork!"

    "By the tits of my ancestors!"

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    Exclamations I used to say:
    "Big black bats!" - something to do with Batman or something?
    "Great Qubits!" - I liked quantum physics, because I didn't understand it

    Insults and exclamations I say now:
    "Eat a (some kind of weapon)!" - Fancy way to tell someone "kill yourself". Like "Eat a grenade", "Eat a gun"
    Random syllables that sound like Klingon mixed with Slavic and Hebrew - I speak none of those languages, but still say stuff like "Vzer krakh!" when I get annoyed by popups.
    "Koskenkorva!" - the Finnish vodka-like drink. I don't even drink that.

    Breaking the "non-religous" constraint, because i want to:
    "Jesus Christ in a tank!" - In response to something very surprising that I can't remember

    Saving the best for last: Captain Haddock interjections.
    "Ten thousand thundering typhoons!"
    "Billions of bilious blue blistering barnacles!"
    "Addlepated lumps of anthracite!"
    "Antediluvian bulldozer!"
    "Bashi-bazouks!"
    "Pompous popinjay!"
    "Pockmark!"

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)
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    Darwin's Beard!

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Anything can be an exclamation if you put an exclamation mark at the end! 😃

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    In Derry Girls, the girls all walked into the kitchen where there was a visiting plumber they thought was hot (he wasnt), and one said "Well, fook me sideways!" I've been using that regularly ever since.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    You can't go wrong with borrowing from Gus Chiggins, Old Prospector. "Ahhh peaches!" "Ohhh pickle juice!" "Awww cinnamon and gravy!"

    https://youtu.be/cKoIESw1tdM

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago*

    From my martial arts days: ish! It was the default thing to use when kids or visitors were present in the dojo.

    But, things line ishkabibble, googoogamooga, well spank my ass and call me charlie, or others have a great spot for things like hammering your thumb

    Oh! Shit fire and save matches

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    Fun fact: An archaic word for these is "ejaculations". Now, imagine 12 year old me, having read old British fiction from like 1700s-1800s and picking up on archaic words like that and using them in front of my peers.

    I didn't have a pleasant childhood. heh.

    Also, "golly" was mentioned as a non-religious one, but "golly" ultimately comes from "God", so… alas, it doesn't qualify.

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