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Is it fact that a cunt is involved? Or just the typical macho pig rant?
Yuk ... to those who use the word cunt as an insult in 2007 ... bad karma ink as well.

Posted by Andrezel | September 5, 2007 10:26 AM
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The letter could have been written by a Briton in which case the use of the "c" word is totally acceptable.

Posted by Sweetie | September 5, 2007 10:30 AM
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If it had been written by a Briton, every other word would've been cunt.

Posted by keshmeshi | September 5, 2007 10:33 AM
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he doesnt like picasso

Posted by Bellevue Ave | September 5, 2007 10:36 AM
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Pablo Picasso never got called an asshole. Not like you.

Posted by Ziggity | September 5, 2007 10:37 AM
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Do you think they mean that they will _literally_ picasso his face? What kind of assault charges do you get for involuntarily giving someone an awful tattoo?

Posted by Lau | September 5, 2007 10:37 AM
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"cunt" is the only cuss word with any power anymore, since it's still so forbidden (outside of the UK, where it's used as a punctuation mark or "sentence enhancer")

Posted by Cunty McCuntinstein | September 5, 2007 10:41 AM
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But in Briton isn't "cunt" almost a term of endearment?

I don't really like the word but I do love using it.

Posted by monkey | September 5, 2007 10:45 AM
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It's kind of crazy because you hear the "c" word all over British shows, but they are mostly lower brow comedies like the Royle Family. In this country it seems to be the one word that really truly will offend any and every woman. Back to the tattoo thing though.... I have a friend that is tattooed all over the place. She and her husband are rockabilly/gearhead types and the husband does tattoo work. Apparently the tattoo community is pretty cut throat so I bet if they do find who stole that book it won't be pretty.

Posted by Sweetie | September 5, 2007 10:54 AM
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There's something about the way it's pronounced in a dirty British accent (not the stuffy, Tony Blair style, but the blue collar)...it's kind of like "cuhn"...somehow the absence of the hard, definitive "t" at the end makes it less objectionable.

Or maybe they're just used to it. Regardless, I love the word...one of the few left in the English language with the power to truly offend.

Posted by Matthew | September 5, 2007 10:55 AM
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I heart cunt

Posted by opus23 | September 5, 2007 10:56 AM
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I spent 2 years living in West Yorkshire, England, where cunt is definitely liberally used as a term of endearment. When I moved to Detroit, I slipped up and used the word in conversation with an older (40ish) woman and a man around the same age... I thought their eyes were going to pop out of their heads, and it actually took me a few seconds to realise what had happened.

Moral of the story- Location, location location.

Posted by Victoria | September 5, 2007 11:09 AM
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Watch "Sexy Beast" for the definitive British use of the c-word.

Posted by Big Sven | September 5, 2007 11:10 AM
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@12 That would be really nice to live in West Yorkshire! It's very pretty there. Did you ever go to Oxenhope or Howarth?

Posted by Sweetie | September 5, 2007 11:17 AM
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ps- sort of like how "Glengarry Glen Ross" is the definitive primer on the American use of the word "fuck".

Posted by Big Sven | September 5, 2007 11:45 AM
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God save MY Cunt-ness

Bad insult except when you are getting a Royal Screw by a good top, then, it works along with other good filth muttered amid the groans and other animal noises

Just saying

Posted by kelper | September 5, 2007 11:50 AM
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After a year and a half in the UK I'm trying to popularize the use of the word here. Not much success yet. If anything it's less successful than my efforts to bring back racial slurs for white people (dago, mick, square-head, frog, etc). Seems to work okay in print though. I've called Charles a cunt fifteen or twenty times in the last month on the Slog and have yet to be called out for it.

Not that anyone reads the comments on Charles's posts.

Posted by Judah | September 5, 2007 11:54 AM
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That's because the comments in Charles's posts are usually just a bunch of cunts tossing insults at him.

Posted by povertyrich | September 5, 2007 12:26 PM
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I seem to vaguely remember a period of about two hours at a party when the phrase, "Sup, cunt?" was just hilarious. Hilarious hilarious.

Mostly 'cunt' makes decent, upper-middle class white people very very uncomfortable. And that's why it's still kinda funny, even when I'm not drunk.

Posted by Katelyn | September 5, 2007 12:46 PM
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i love the word cunt.

but i'm a big dyke.
i mean really, cunt is one of my favorite things. and the word is so sexy and powerful.

when people use it as an insult i just tend to remark that "there's nothing wrong with cunt" (this also works really well with the word pussy...)

Posted by muffdiver | September 5, 2007 1:29 PM
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by big dyke do you mean, very lesbian, or fat lesbian?

Posted by Bellevue Ave | September 5, 2007 2:08 PM
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@14- Yep, sure did. The town where I lived was rather unpleasant, sort of a ghetto redneck place, done English-style, but it was very pretty around there. Shame the country's going to hell so much, glad I got out and am now in Europe proper.

On the subject of 'cunt', can anyone think of any other really offensive words? I've been trying to think of some since I read this thread, and no luck so far.

Posted by Victoria | September 5, 2007 2:56 PM
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Christ you guys!

You're really upset at the usage of the word cunt?! I mean ... are we 12? ! Are we still in the habit of giving alleged curse words that much power and such taboo treatment?

Grow up.

Posted by Mom Patrol | September 5, 2007 3:41 PM
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@10

kind of like the kids in the hall sketch where "faggo" is the better term, as it rids us of the nasty "t" that looks like the cross that crucified our lord and savior?

(am i making that sketch up?)

Posted by erin | September 5, 2007 4:11 PM

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