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[tonibunny]

Do US people seriously not use the term "Wanker"?

A lovely, genteel 55 year old lady on the scoliosis support group just asked us if it was a really bad word, cos used it to describe someone in front of her attorney and he wet himself laughing in shock >:D She'd picked it up from her "friends over the pond" but didn't know what it meant....

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[das_prompt]

It's not used very often, and when it is used it's understood it's a British term. Like if we were to say bloke or chap.

Or those Canadian hosers.

[wonkyleprechaun]

yeah we dont't use it in Canada

'hoser' we use :D but not in front of our parents!

[tonibunny]

"Hoser" - haha! We don't use that. But I shall start to, because I totally believe in encouraging the development and dissemination of language (and I love swearing).

[wonkyleprechaun]

it's usually used for lazy slobs, at least where I come from.

You can check out this website eh!

http://www.coolslang.com/in/canadian/index.php

Personally I don't think anglophone or francophone is slang, they're proper words!!

[bickie26]

i've never heard it used in the states, or in american films. they don't have half as many good bad words as we do. they don't use: bugger, bollocks, twat, wanker, TOSSER (excellent word, love it) but they also don't use the C-word which i despise and can't even type.

[tonibunny]

Bollocks is a fabulous word. I didn't think Americans use Cunt either, but Mena thingybob shouts it out in American Beauty - it sounds wrong with an American accent though :D

[bickie26]

*covers eyes* i hate that word.

and they all sound wrong in an american accent. i say bugger all the time but it wouldn't sound right without the cut glass accent ;)

[tonibunny]

Sorry....it doesn't bother me, because I don't see it as insulting to females (any more than "dick" is insulting to men, or "arsehole" is insulting to anyone with an arsehole), but I can understand how other people get offended by it.

[das_prompt]

[tonibunny]

Oh I fucking love this sketch.

[sionheaney]

Hey, I recognize that! I seem to recall making das_prompt sit through Big Train several times hoping that he'd catch on it.

[tonibunny]

I love Big Train with a passion, I can watch some sketches over and over and still wet myself laughing each time :)

[toxicpixie]

It's really not something the majority of Yanks seem to pick up at all. Hurrah for Anglo-Saxon idiom!

I've developed a liking for 'twunt', recently. It's quite satisfying and not actually rude. I also like 'frak' but I blame Ronald D. Moore for that :D

Nathan, the Toxic Pixie

[tonibunny]

Aw, I got over "twunt" a couple of years ago :P "Frak" is good though.

[toxicpixie]

It really grated when I first started watching BSG; now I find myself using it in conversation!

Nathan, the Toxic Pixie

[blueice_]

this is totally besides the point but I'll say it anyway. In my dialect "frak" means coat. So the next time I'm asking my mom where my frak is, I'll be insulting her :/