Is calling someone a daffodil offensive?

[Ianonabike]

Assuming the forum swear filter works on titles, that's going to sound like a strange question. It comes from the last line of this post.

It could also be taken as a more general question about offensiveness. What counts in your book?

 

[briantrumpet]

It's something you only do to really good friends.

On internet forums, if it's calling other posters that, it's a easy block.

(PS, FWIW, if you want to get around the filter, you just add an accent so that ârsehole doesn't come out as peanut.)

 

[Ian H]

Perhaps we're all just a bunch of narcissists.

 

[briantrumpet]

Perhaps we're all just a bunch of narcissists.

Did you have a light bulb moment?

 

[Ian H]

Did you have a light bulb moment?

On reflection, possibly.

 

[Evil_Breakfast]

Some top quality punning going on here!

Perhaps we're all just a bunch of narcissists.

Did you have a light bulb moment?

👏🏻

 

[C R]

Perhaps we're all just a bunch of narcissists.

I think the correct plural would be narcissi.

 

[briantrumpet]

ařsehole
aršehole
arsêhole
arseȟole
arsehôle
etc.

 

[Evil_Breakfast]

I think the correct plural would be narcissi.

👏🏻

 

[All uphill]

I try not to use cûnt at all; not because I have a problem with swearing (I'm all for using the full range of expression our language gives us).

I don't use it because I don't go along with the use of a term for female genitalia as abuse. I would be happy to use it as a term for someone who is warm, deep and rather wonderful, but I think that would be misunderstood.

I prefer 'gobshite' for someone who spouts nonsense, 'shoot' for someone who is deeply unpleasant.

 

[Pblakeney]

I would be happy to use it as a term for someone who is warm, deep and rather wonderful, but I think that would be misunderstood.

I have overheard it used in those terms in Glasgow.
Not sure if that counts as English language though.

 

[Ian H]

I think the correct plural would be narcissi.

That would be flowers, not cúnts.

 

[Ianonabike]

When it comes to confounding the swear filter I'm going to stick with changing the colour of a letter, though I admire the elegance of using a 'j' for the 'i' in shit.

 

[Xipe Totec]

When it comes to confounding the swear filter I'm going to stick with changing the colour of a letter.

peanuts
Bastards
farking daffodils
And pricks.

Arseholes
Bastards
Fucking cunts
And pricks.

Edit: That works. Will adopt in future, far easier than trying to remember the unicode for an umlauted letter.

 

[Xipe Totec]

And to answer - it's all contextual, I swear a lot, because I'm juvenile & find it funny. But if I'm calling you a cunt, it's probably because you're acting like a cunt, and therefore I think you deserve to be called a cunt.

So basically if you don't want to be called a cunt, don't be a cunt. You daffodil.