A new taboo

Posted in Old blogger by Twenty Major on August 17th, 2006

Not so long ago you rarely, if ever, heard anyone refer to anyone as a cunt. I’m talking about other people because I’ve always been surrounded by my motley crew of cunts and have always referred to them as such.

Still, despite the amount of cunts, cuntbags, cuntfaces and cunticles that exist it’s still kind of not the done thing to refer to a woman’s furry front bottom in that way. It’s just taboo, isn’t it?

If you, in conversation said “That bloke is a complete and utter cunt” and there were some shocked faces you could say “Oh, I’m sorry for my language” and it would be passed over and maybe the prissier of the company might comment on the way home about your potty mouth but there’d be nothing more to it.

However, if you said “I was with this girl last night and she had a gorgeous cunt” it just wouldn’t be glossed over the same way. It’s all right to call someone a cunt but you can’t call a cunt a cunt (if you ladies will pardon my French) and that’s probably right because it’s a much better word to refer someone of opprobrious character than to describe a lady’s genitalia.

Is there any other word in the English language that so divides people? Some people can’t even say the word and if they do have to refer to it use that ‘C U Next Tuesday’ thing.

The only other word I can think of that is so taboo is ‘nigger’ and black people call themselves that all the time so it’s lost some of its impact (which is a good thing) and we’ve been over this one before.

Even the worst racist remark you can think of probably doesn’t come near it. Most of us can laugh them off. Call me a Paddy, a Mick, a spud eating wankhammer all you want. I couldn’t care less.

What we need is a new most offensive word in the world. If new additions can be made to the Oxford English Dictionary all the time then why can’t we invent something new and so vulgar, coarse and disgusting that in time it becomes the most taboo word in the world.

Your suggestions please…

Update: Having scoured the dictionary I came across the word ‘gleet’. It is defined as:

A watery discharge from the urethra caused by gonorrheal infection

It is a good word and I like it, you bunch of gleetfaced gleethounds.