douchebag?
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- sublocked
when did douchebag become the new "in" insult for white people?
i see it all over the internet, and hear it come out of white people's mouths on tv, but i don't know if i've heard it in person since i was 12 or so.
fill me in.
- harlequino0
seems to hold a connection to jersey boys and anyone with popped collars
- ********0
I guess it's better than calling some a nigger.
- Oh you said whities. My bad.********
- Thee you go again.TheBlueOne
- i prefer "cocksucker". as in JazX is a cocksucker.spifflink
- uh... er.. ugh.ETM
- BANBrokenAC
- Oh you said whities. My bad.
- Mimio0
Things move in cycles.
- Particularly the wheels and peddles.Horp
- what the French call "Le Cycle du Douche"harlequino
- blaw0
Douchebag has been a solid go-to insult for decades. Perhaps people are learning to curse more frequently?
- lvl_130
yeah, it has been in strong rotation for a lot of people. i think i have to include myself in using this term to often as of late :\
- ********0
The reading I did on slavery horrified me and, I think, permanently altered my understanding of what humans are capable of. I don’t use the most lurid or sensationalistic stories in the two Octavian books – there’s no need, because the routine cruelty is more the point. But, for example, an English overseer on a West Indian plantation, discovering that his enslaved concubine was having sex with one of his other slaves and considered herself married to that man, had the man dragged before him, had another slave shit into his mouth, and then wired the man’s mouth shut. This was a literate and sophisticated overseer, one considered in the period to be very friendly with his enslaved charges, going fishing with them, building houses for his various concubines, and so on.
But what really got to me were not the individual atrocities such as this – or the ingenuity exhausted in devising tortures unnecessarily – but simply the fact that the whole society could subsist on slavery with so little real opposition. At the time of the Revolution, about one fifth of the population of America was enslaved. And by and large, those who fought for what they called “liberty” fought to keep that fifth enslaved. For example: Later in the war, South Carolina offered each new soldier in its Patriot army ranks a free slave for enlistment. And in the larger body of the Patriot army, General Thomas Sumter worked out a gradated pay scale by rank, which went from a private – for ten months of service, a private received a single adult black male – up to a colonel – each colonel received three and a half enslaved men (the half, presumably, being a woman or child).
Such people believed that they were fighting for liberty, and that “liberty” meant the right to own any property they had purchased – which included their fellow humans.
I guess what haunts me is not simply these facts about the past, but the growing suspicion that still, our leisure and our little luxuries are only possible through the exploitation of others we don’t allow ourselves to look at. We live the way we do – as the most luxurious society our world has ever known – at a murky, dirty cost we hide from ourselves. Americans account for 4.5% of the population; we absorb, annually, roughly 25% of what the planet produces. This is not a sustainable proposition. It is leading us into incredible international complications. A look at the systems in place to produce garments for us at wildly cut-rate prices demonstrates that the brutality of international slavery is far from extinct.
And the non-human costs of our lifestyle are high, too. We all know now, for example, that our consumption of oil – beyond being stupid for purely strategic reasons – is shoving us with incredible swiftness to the brink of an unprecedented climatic and environmental collapse. But we do not choose to alter our patterns, because that would be mildly uncomfortable. Some time ago, our President turned down a set of regulating protocols on emissions because he felt they would hurt American big business; he joked at the time that when the waters rose, we could just sand-bag the cities. Five years later, the city of New Orleans was destroyed. Now people are starting to take notice, but still, we don’t want to change the way we live our lives, the size of our cars or (more harmful than our automotive exhaust) the energy-use required for the way we live.
This is just one area where I see quite precise parallels in the 18th C treatment of slavery: People laughed at the absurdity of emancipation, or were horrified by the thought of it. They said arguments for freeing African-Americans were economically irresponsible. They said that people who advocated freeing African-Americans were impractical dreamers without an understanding of real business. The first Congresses were so stacked with slave-holders – or with men who profited from the industry of slaves – that no discussion about whether there was a moral basis about the continuance of slavery could be held. And so slavery persisted in this country for a hundred years from the time that Colonial Bostonians first took up their cries of “Liberty and property!” and claimed the King of England wished to make slaves of them.
- (clicks do ear at the end of this comment)Meeklo
- JazX: shut the fuck up.********
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- stop your fucking barking, this is a swear thread********
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- Meeklo0
I think the word douche came back in style, right when this guy started being on TV
Shia Le Douche- BWAHAHAHAHA. shia le douche...i'm totally stealing that and using it whenever possible.sputnik2
- I refer to this guy as "Nick Cage in Training"rocknonstop
- Horp0
Does anybody have a graph to demonstrate this claim?
- Mal0
- ********0
whatever happend to dickhead and asshole?
- anything with "head" at the end of it should only be coming from someone under 12.********
- god, that was disgusting.********
- Perv!********
- hahahahaharlequino
- anything with "head" at the end of it should only be coming from someone under 12.
- Mal0
- Horp0
We don't generally say Douchebag in the UK. Douching never really caught on over here. We say "Cunt" instead.
Is Cunt better?
- i much prefer "cunt". if you're gonna insult someone, go for the gusto.sublocked
- I prefer C U Next Tuesday, myself, but cunt workz.********
- "Cunt" has much more sting here.Mimio
- Say that at an Elle magazine staff meeting, and find out.harlequino
- I hate if a woman was to over hear me say that word. Its pretty vulgar here.ETM
- best way to ever piss a woman off...its more like a burn hereke_pmk30
- metal_leg_will0
My mother in law called someone a douche a few weeks ago - referring to her coworker I guess. I was floored but supported the effort.
I'll suggest she call them a cunt next time.
- sublocked0
^^ that's nothin. i saw an old blue TAURUS with the license plate "HY PHY" on it. an old white dude was drivin it, and he definitely was not hyphy or even crunk.
......this might need its own thread.
- ********0
Many of the words now considered most 'profane' are held to be so because they were created to insult and disparage a particular group (see pejorative terms). Some of the targets of these words have however attempted to reclaim them and reduce their power as insults. Other ethnic slurs like coon, porch monkey, tar baby, darkie (African-American), dottie (Indian/Pakistani), chink, gook (Asian), beaner, wetback, spic (Hispanic-American), guinea, wop, dago (Italian), honky, gringo, cracker (whites), heeb (Jewish), kraut (German -- used especially during World War II), sand nigger, raghead, towelhead, "rug merchant" (Sikh, or Arab in the US); and pejoratives like fattie, retard, and redneck or hillbilly aren't entirely profane at all times, but can be considered very offensive when used in the company of certain people, and not socially acceptable in polite settings or social situations.
- ********0
you might want to read that book:
