Thursday, February 24, 2011

Opulent Obsenity or Delightful Derision?

 *I decided to half-ass censor this for no apparent reason.
{[]}, anyone? Ever think about the words we use in ridicule, displeasure or even just leisure speak? I {[]}ing do. I'm not talking about definitions here like, {[]} = love/hate (well, sorta), [{}] = excrement, {[(|)]} = the part between your legs that makes god cry when you touch it. Everyone has an {[(|)]}. (The more you know.) I'm thinking of words like "jerk-off." That's guy's a real jerk-off. He's not really compulsively masturbating, but he can be just as annoying as someone who is. These words amuse me deeply. That mother-{[]}er. This sounds incestuous, but we know that prick's just the kind of ingrate that doesn't respect his mother despite the things she's done for him. It can also mean someone you must respect. He's a bad mother-{[]}er. Shut yo' mouth! I'm just talkin' 'bout da' Jesus. Candy-ass. Sounds delicious, you pussy. Fart-knocker. I'm really not terribly sure precisely what fart-knocker means. Some one who knocks farts? What's a knocked fart, then? Is that the sound of a fart against hard wood like at a park bench or in a church pew? "{[]}-{[]}er" is great because it means you put penis in your mouth. It's also kinda like a nicer way of calling someone queer, too. You yell, "<{[]}>!" and it sounds homophobic, like someone needs to tell you that word is offensive to gay people, kinda like the ":{[]}:" of the homosexual lexicon. But if you call someone a "{[]}-{[]}er," it's like okay, then, they suck dick, who cares? Which is funny because it's kinda rare that a woman gets called a {[]}-{[]}er, yet, well, all things considered. Which brings me to (^>]. Leaves a slight taste in your mouth when you say it. "(^>]." This word actually sounds slightly less offensive when you add other words to compound it. (^>]slop, (^>]hair, (^>]bitch, etc. Well only slightly less offensive. Then there's the racial slurs. But really most of these are just angrily naming where you think someone originates. "Where you from?! Well you're fucking THAT then!" Or you can point out what they like to eat. FRIED CHICKEN! POTATO-LICKER, BEANERS, RICERS, LIMEY BASTARD! GODDAM CABBAGE MUNCHERS! Krout. Corn-fed hick. I've always found these somewhat odd for an insult because I like these foods, too. "You fuckin' pineapple-lover, well now that I think about pineapple does sound good to me. Let's get a Hawaiian pizza, you smelly islander." I know this has been pointed out many times before but name one word that equally means "fuck". I might argue "love" as a pointed out earlier in my slang rant. Love kinda feels like fuck. I could see it as endearing. "I fuck you so much!" "Go love yourself!" "Love you, no, LOVE YOU!" Lovey-dovey, fucky-ducky. That should be on a comprehension test: "Dove is to love as duck is to ____." "Luck?" But back to my original point, to truly define fuck would require an assortment of synonyms analogous to the various meanings of "fuck". Bad, good, love, hate, sexual relations, unfair, apathetic dismay, disadvantaged, pain, pleasure, exploited, yes, no: I'm not even sure if this list is exhaustive enough. Strangely, fuck can be the opposite of itself. If fuck were given a mathematical value it would have to be the number "fuck". Yeah, well, fuck it.

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