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[–] altphoto 1 points 1 day ago

Someone hasn't been to Mexico.

[–] Naich@lemmings.world 39 points 3 days ago (3 children)

That bunch of wankpuffins wouldn't know proper swearing if it bit them in the bell end. It's all just motherfucker this and asshole that. The scrote septics have no artistry to their swearing.

[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The scrote septics have no artistry to their swearing

we've spent the last several decades or more killing artistry, creativity, imagination-- anything that involves doing something different than what we're told to do day in, day out by our owners. shareholders. even what should be the top of the pyramid for creativity--hollywood--is fucking garbage anymore. it's all remakes of shit that's already been done. sometimes already done multiple times. and the population laps it up like hogs at the trough

i fucking hate this place

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You ever sit down at home, after a long day of getting shit done and being responsible with work or family, and want to jump into 2 hours of something else entirely new? Or do you do like so many of us and scroll through a streaming catalogue and aspirationally look at the new shows and movies, finding lots of things to watch but nothing that strikes you as being the right thing to watch? Do you ever settle for something good that you know and promise yourself that you will watch something new later? That's why sequels do so well.

People are tired and just want to see something comfortable that they know. Lay off sequels. Fix society, make us all not tired, and you will see more new shit.

[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago

i never said remakes were the problem. i never even mentioned sequels. yes, the society that feeds on this garbage is fucked. i'm still going to criticize the garbage, even if it's just a symptom and not the problem

[–] canihasaccount@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Wankpuffin is actually a specific example (given within the paper) of British vulgarity considered in this study.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

My bet is that the rantallion that authored this pile of fetulent drivel only looked for language an American would recognise.

[–] witchybitchy@lemm.ee 20 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

this is just for online discourse and has no bearings on spoken vulgarity

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I would say as someone who has spent significant time in the UK, US, and Australia. That irl, people outside the US swear far more. Maybe USians are taking out their frustrations online since they don’t let themselves do it as much irl?

Well we have to be real careful because if we swear at the wrong person we get another mass shooting. Also that just happens anyway but we don’t like to identify the real reasons for that kind of thing so let’s blame swearing for a while.

[–] jonathan@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 days ago

Those silly cunts don't know where I'm from. I'd question the accuracy of it even for online-only discourse.

[–] DearMoogle 2 points 3 days ago

I wonder how they know if the post is American or from other English speakers?

[–] Floodedwomb@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's a popsci article, so.its probably bullshit.

[–] mriswith@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'd take it with a pinch of salt:

Linguists in Australia recently analyzed the Global Web-Based English Corpus (GloWbE), a massive database containing over 1.9 billion words from 1.8 million web pages across 340,000 websites in 20 English-speaking countries.

[–] CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago

Pure garbage considering much of the internet is US based.

[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Meanwhile we have to act like we don't at work and around lots of idiots who get "offended."

Fucking cunts.

[–] CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 4 points 3 days ago

Depends on the workplace. At my engineering workplace I regularly hear someone yell "fuck!" or "shit!" when something goes awry. At all my blue collar jobs people cussed like sailors just as long as customers weren't in earshot.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago

Fuck this shit. They don't know what the hell they're talking about.

[–] espentan@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Using the same word for swearing and having sex helps, I'm sure.

[–] sepi@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago

Spaniards have that too

[–] GuyFawkes@midwest.social 1 points 3 days ago

Fuck I love to fuck

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 5 points 3 days ago

Among English speaking countries. I doubt you'd beat mine if it was interlingual analysis.

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Fuck off, those cunts don't know fucking shit all about god damn swearing, for fucks sake America, you can't even say cunt correctly!

Fuck off you rat assed deep fried dingo dick having fucking cuntholes.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think it's wild that over here you can say a thousand fucks, but mutter one cunt, and you've crossed the line, but you guys use it for just about everything!

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

There's not many things that you can't call a cunt here, people are cunts, my dogs a cunt, that trees a cunt, the sun's a massive cunt

But then you've got this cunt here who I love, but that cunt there I can't stand.
Some cunt told that cunt that this other cunt called me a cunt! So fuck that cunt.

We even have a version to call kids.

Get out of here you little cunt!
What are those little cunts doin?

It's also really useful to show urgency

I'm not messing around vs I'm not messing around cunt.
Also for emergencies, some cunts just got hit by a car!

Cunt is the second most versatile word.

The problem is, you guys still think it means that horrible one. Only misogynistic weirdos use it that way.

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's slang for vagina in the US. But so is pussy, and we call people pussies all the time. It's also misogynistic because it means they act like a girl.

So, I don't know why cunt is so shunned.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 3 points 3 days ago

There are three types of people in the world. Dicks, pussies and arseholes.

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago

hell fucking yeah brudder 🇱🇷🇲🇪🇲🇾🇲🇾🗽🌭🔫🔫🛢️👮

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 6 points 3 days ago

Well... shit.

[–] passepartout@feddit.org 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

One of the strongest censorships in the western media must have helped with that.

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 2 points 3 days ago

Oh yeah, the best way to get someone to want to do something is to tell them they can't. Put up a "don't jump off this cliff" sign and you'll have them leaping off in droves because fuck that sign.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 days ago

it's only swearing if someone finds it offensive.

shit for brains authority figures would rather i call them poop for brains. doesn't really matter that i'm saying there's 8 pounds of defecate rattling around in their skulls. it matters that i said a no-no word from before the Norman invasion of england in 1066

[–] Texas_Hangover@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)
[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago

can you blame us.

[–] jenni007@lemm.ee 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Misleading title! Sorry MAGAs, the study only looked at English-speakers.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

right... because there is no way US tops eastern europe on this one haha

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 3 points 3 days ago

Not even the central Europe, kurva.

[–] jenni007@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago

Spot on! Menj a búsba!

[–] SaintOwlPizza25@lemm.ee 3 points 3 days ago

Fucking number one

[–] mriswith@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

More, but worse.

[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

You're God Damn, Mothr Fuckin' right. Ain't No Shit head, Cock suckin', pussy ass cunts gonna Bastardize Our Record... Dick.

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)
[–] sepi@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago
[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)
[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 1 points 3 days ago

Yet they [bleep] every [bleep] [bleep] those [bleep] 'muricans!