Stupid questions

Why is the sky blue? Ask your patently idiotic questions here.

Why's it called taking a dump, when you're actually leaving one?

Why is 'abbreviation' such a big word?

Cos it's Latin.

Is cunt the worst word in the English language?

Hans ! wrote:

Is cunt the worst word in the English language?

Not according to this place below, thanks Jez.

http://jezebel.com/5987317/cunt-should-not-be-a-bad-word

By the way, using it on any female member of this site is suicidal.

It is?  

Hans ! wrote:

Is cunt the most common word in the Australian language?

Yes.

Cats always land on their feet, dropped toast always lands buttered side down. If you strapped a piece of toast buttered side up to a cat's back and dropped the cat, what would happen?

Mrs Aural Sects wrote:

Hans ! wrote:

Is cunt the worst word in the English language?

Not according to this place below, thanks Jez.

http://jezebel.com/5987317/cunt-should-not-be-a-bad-word

By the way, using it on any female member of this site is suicidal.

For some reason, it doesn't offend me like it does a lot of other women.  Probably because I've heard it used by men against men far more than against women.  And I always hear it in an English gangster accent.

To me, it means the ultimate jerk. And it's interesting that it was first used in a negative way for that. Wonder when it was first used in reference to a woman's body part.  

That said, I'd react the same way to being called cunt as I would any other name meant to be a cheap insult. I'd think the speaker/writer wasn't clever enough to express themselves.

Who's going to be the first to use Gropecuntelane as their forum moniker?


So I was reading the backlash from when The Onion tweeted something during the Oscars about a sweet little girl being "kind of a cunt, right?" and my question is, why is that racist?  It wasn't extremely funny but I can clearly see what they were trying to do - point out the exact opposite of what she is. It's funny to call sweet things evil. People do it with pets and babies all the time.

I'm maybe super stupid and naive here but why is it racist? Does that mean that every joke or insult made about black people or other non-whites is racist, not just a joke about a person? It's just cunt seems to be used as much for whites as any other colour of people. Like I said, mostly English white or black men against English white or black men. And more to mean extreme asshole than anything racist.

Blunt Instrument wrote:

Cats always land on their feet, dropped toast always lands buttered side down. If you strapped a piece of toast buttered side up to a cat's back and dropped the cat, what would happen?

Good luck strapping buttered toast to a cat's back.

Hehehe, indeed.

Must admit the reactions to The Onion's tweet is the first time I've ever heard it suggested that there's a racist element to the use of 'cunt' ... it's an 'across-the-board' insult, as far as I know.

why do we drive on a Parkway and park on a driveway?

If Christmas Jones married Shady Tree, would she take his last name?

Phantom Commander wrote:

If Christmas Jones married Shady Tree, would she take his last name?

I'm sure she wouldn't mind branching out and having a family under that Tree.

Maeve Horton wrote:

Phantom Commander wrote:

If Christmas Jones married Shady Tree, would she take his last name?

I'm sure she wouldn't mind branching out and having a family under that Tree.

Yes, family is the greatest gift.

Largo's Shark wrote:

Why is the sky blue? Ask your patently idiotic questions here.

Because it reflects the ocean?

A funny / stupid mindbender shows up in a STAR TREK novel when the crew find a centuries-old generation ship, where people live on the inside of a big ball. When an Enterprise crewmember tries to explain the idea of a planet and living on the outside of a ball, the inhabitant person is dismissive, saying gravity doesn't work that way, you'd just fly off the surface as it spun. The Trek guy thinks about it and says the reason it doesn't ... is because the planet spins in the opposite direction!

Maeve Horton wrote:

Phantom Commander wrote:

If Christmas Jones married Shady Tree, would she take his last name?

I'm sure she wouldn't mind branching out and having a family under that Tree.

Talk about Shady Tree and his Acorns!

Lotta shade under those acorns...

Not naturally grown acorns, more's the pity.

Those goddamn diamonds are phonies?

How come windmills use so much electricity to produce so little wind?

from CATCH-22:

Who is Spain?

Why is Hitler?

Why does the sun shine in the daytime? Daytime it is bright anyway.

trevanian wrote:

from CATCH-22:

Who is Spain?

Why is Hitler?

Who is your floor?