Questions on the contemporary vernacular

[actourdreams]

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[mabaliciousness]

This.

Where's my Like button when I need it? :|

[mabaliciousness]

The stronger the word the more emphatically large the load? That's how it works in my mind.

I've never actually heard anyone use "assload." Sounds way awkward to me.

[sophronia_chaos]

-flails- DUDE. First year, I confronted the exact same question with my best friend in my house. I think we agreed the more profane the word preceding "load", the larger the amount. Also, we decided that adding "metric" made it bigger, i.e., a metric fuckload is bigger than a standard fuckload. It's nice to know somebody else is wondering similar things...

[actourdreams]

I agree on the metric thing, though I think it's a middle stage - a metric shitload is bigger than a shitload, a shitton is bigger than a metric shitload. I'm not sure where a metric shitton falls - redundancy, maybe.

[kuzujuk]

It must be the strength of the profanity, looking at the results, but it's funny, I hadn't thought about the relative strengths of "ass" vs "shit" before. :la