This thread got fun!
So why hasn't "MF" gotten even so much as mention tonight. Geez!
Go for the deep cuts over the crowd pleasers, blah, blah, blah.
Damn hipsters
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The "MF" word definitely works. It's not one I use, but done right it can halt a conversation/argument pretty quickly.
As far as I can tell, "go suck/eat a bag of dicks" is a dude-to-dude phenomenon (I can't imagine how a female would respond to that), which could limit its usage somewhat. In that context, the image is somewhat homoerotic until you really work through the logistics of it.
Right. It's generally supposed to be another "gay"-type insult.
I don't think most women would take too kindly to someone saying that to them. My guess is a man who says that to a woman is risking being slapped across the face.
Well, let's face it - I don't call anyone assholes to their faces, usually in response to some politician or celebrity who's done or said something incredibly assholish. That's the only time I swear at someone, really. (Although I have had people yelling at me on the phone at work and had some choice words to mutter about them after hanging up.)
This is me, too. I'd NEVER have the guts to say these words right to the faces of the people I'm using them towards. I say them in the safety of friends and family, after the person I want to insult walks away. Like I said, I rarely curse offline-I feel more at ease writing/typing out my insults rather than trying to say them out loud. It always surprises my friends when they hear me cuss.
Cursing someone out in your head is fun! I use that method most often at work if I'm dealing with a pain in the ass customer. Polite smile and tone as I try and deal with them, but in my head I'm finding all sorts of ways to tell them to fuck off.
(Customer service employee of the month, yeah!)
I usually go with "asshole", or "dumbass", or the ever-fun "dipshit" if I'm insulting someone's intelligence (the last of those I save for someone who
really pisses me off. Like, say, Santorum
). I've heard a lot of the other ones people brought up here, but I've never used them myself, fun as some of them may be. Otherwise I revert to the usual "moron"/"idiot" sort of insult.