You all suck (at least the good girls do)

mtabsw's Avatar
And that, my friends and business colleagues, is a heartfelt compliment.

It's always puzzled me why we say negative things with words I think are pleasurable?

Any idea why we don't say "you suck" more often in a friendly way?
You suck is another of the many phrases that typify "careless talk." I.E. "Fuck You" Why would anyone hope that someone else they disagree with get laid? It is the same thing with using "gay" to slur another man. Don't gay men mean more girls for the rest of us?
GREAT POINTS!

pssst....fuck you all! ha ha ha
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cos one origin of fuck is from "to strike" [see below]
i prefer the phrase "fuck me" better, esp if said seductively :^)

and suck might mean as in lemons.

btw, it always gets me when i see that quit smoking commercial and the "suckometer". i can think of other things that machine could measure in a more positive way :^)

[guess i'm in a lexical mood tonite]


[from my atf dictionary.com]
fuck origins - 1495–1505; akin to Middle Dutch fokken to thrust, copulate with, Swedish dialect focka to copulate with, strike, push, fock penis

usage
The use and overuse of fuck in the everyday speech of many people has led, to some extent, to a lessening of its impact as an expletive. However, the word still retains its shock value, although it is less now than it was when the critic Kenneth Tynan caused controversy by saying it on British television in 1965

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
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Word Origin & History
fuck
a difficult word to trace, in part because it was taboo to the editors of the original OED when the "F" volume was compiled, 1893-97. Written form only attested from early 16c. OED 2nd edition cites 1503, in the form fukkit ; earliest appearance of current spelling is 1535 -- "Bischops ... may fuck thair fill and be vnmaryit" [Sir David Lyndesay, "Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaits" ], but presumably it is a much more ancient word than that, simply one that wasn't likely to be written in the kind of texts that have survived from O.E. and M.E. Buck cites proper name John le Fucker from 1278. The word apparently is hinted at in a scurrilous 15c. poem, titled "Flen flyys," written in bastard L. and M.E. The relevant line reads:
Non sunt in celi
quia fuccant uuiuys of heli
"They [the monks] are not in heaven because they fuck the wives of Ely." Fuccant is pseudo-Latin, and in the original it is written in cipher. The earliest examples of the word otherwise are from Scottish, which suggests a Scandinavian origin, perhaps from a word akin to Norw. dial. fukka "copulate," or Swedish dial. focka "copulate, strike, push," and fock "penis." Another theory traces it to M.E. fkye, fike "move restlessly, fidget," which also meant "dally, flirt," and probably is from a general North Sea Gmc. word, cf. M.Du. fokken, Ger. ficken "fuck," earlier "make quick movements to and fro, flick," still earlier "itch, scratch;" the vulgar sense attested from 16c. This would parallel in sense the usual M.E. slang term for "have sexual intercourse," swive , from O.E. swifan "to move lightly over, sweep" (see swivel). Chronology and phonology rule out Shipley's attempt to derive it from M.E. firk "to press hard, beat." As a noun, it dates from 1680. French foutre and Italian fottere look like the English word but are unrelated, derived rather from L. futuere , which is perhaps from PIE base *bhau(t)- "knock, strike off," extended via a figurative use "from the sexual application of violent action" [Shipley; cf. the sexual slang use of bang , etc.]. Popular and Internet derivations from acronyms (and the "pluck yew" fable) are merely ingenious trifling. The O.E. word was hæman , from ham "dwelling, home," with a sense of "take home, co-habit." Fuck was outlawed in print in England (by the Obscene Publications Act, 1857) and the U.S. (by the Comstock Act, 1873). The word may have been shunned in print, but it continued in conversation, especially among soldiers during WWI.
"It became so common that an effective way for the soldier to express this emotion was to omit this word. Thus if a sergeant said, 'Get your ----ing rifles!' it was understood as a matter of routine. But if he said 'Get your rifles!' there was an immediate implication of urgency and danger." [John Brophy, "Songs and Slang of the British Soldier: 1914-1918," pub. 1930]
The legal barriers broke down in the 20th century, with the "Ulysses" decision (U.S., 1933) and "Lady Chatterley's Lover" (U.S., 1959; U.K., 1960). Johnson excluded the word, and fuck wasn't in a single English language dictionary from 1795 to 1965. "The Penguin Dictionary" broke the taboo in the latter year. Houghton Mifflin followed, in 1969, with "The American Heritage Dictionary," but it also published a "Clean Green" edition without the word, to assure itself access to the lucrative public high school market. The abbreviation F (or eff ) probably began as euphemistic, but by 1943 it was being used as a cuss word, too. In 1948, the publishers of "The Naked and the Dead" persuaded Norman Mailer to use the euphemism fug instead. When Mailer later was introduced to Dorothy Parker, she greeted him with, "So you're the man who can't spell 'fuck' " [The quip sometimes is attributed to Tallulah Bankhead]. Hemingway used muck in "For whom the Bell Tolls" (1940). The major breakthrough in publication was James Jones' "From Here to Eternity" (1950), with 50 fucks (down from 258 in the original manuscript). Egyptian legal agreements from the 23rd Dynasty (749-21 B.C.E.) frequently include the phrase, "If you do not obey this decree, may a donkey copulate with you!" [Reinhold Aman, "Maledicta," Summer 1977]. Fuck-all "nothing" first recorded 1960. Verbal phrase fuck up "to ruin, spoil, destroy" first attested c.1916. A widespread group of Slavic words (cf. Pol. pierdolić ) can mean both "fornicate" and "make a mistake." Fuck off attested from 1929; as a command to depart, by 1944. Flying fuck originally meant "have sex on horseback" and is first attested c.1800 in broadside ballad "New Feats of Horsemanship." For the unkillable urban legend that this word is an acronym of some sort (a fiction traceable on the Internet to 1995 but probably predating that) see here, and also here. Related: Fucked ; fucking . Agent noun fucker attested from 1590s in literal sense; by 1893 as a term of abuse (or admiration).

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
Kiss my ass! People say that like it's such a horrible thing! My ass is sweet!
netman's Avatar
Kiss my ass! People say that like it's such a horrible thing! My ass is sweet! Originally Posted by Reese Foster
Ms. Foster, I don't have first hand experience, but it sure does looks sweet.





This is my pic I sent to a friend.......and the caption was

"FUCK ME"


That's what I was saying...perfectly. I've heard a few new friends liked it. I must have it posted somewhere else...but I added it to the pics gallery on my smugmug.
flexywun's Avatar
Kiss my ass! People say that like it's such a horrible thing! My ass is sweet! Originally Posted by Reese Foster
agreed; sweet enough to be an avatar i say.
agreed; sweet enough to be an avatar i say. Originally Posted by flexywun
Stang1965's Avatar
Kiss my ass! People say that like it's such a horrible thing! My ass is sweet! Originally Posted by Reese Foster
Any Time Baby!!! I would do it all Day if I had a chance!!!


Kiss my ass! People say that like it's such a horrible thing! My ass is sweet! Originally Posted by Reese Foster
I know that is TRUE!!! YES!!! I'm one of the Lucky Ones!!!
mtabsw's Avatar
Kiss my ass! People say that like it's such a horrible thing! My ass is sweet! Originally Posted by Reese Foster
Mmmmmhmmmm

Plan on it... Soon
pmdelites's Avatar
Kiss my ass! People say that like it's such a horrible thing! My ass is sweet! Originally Posted by Reese Foster
it sure is!!! even after my one visit, i joined the "reese is sweet!!" fan club.

Mmmmmhmmmm
Plan on it... Soon Originally Posted by mtabsw
mtab, i'll make sure not to cut in front of you. just dont cut in front of me.
mtabsw's Avatar
mtab, i'll make sure not to cut in front of you. just dont cut in front of me. Originally Posted by pmdelites
I'm so small, and so short-cycled - you'd never even notice any additional mileage.


This is my pic I sent to a friend.......and the caption was

"FUCK ME"


That's what I was saying...perfectly. I've heard a few new friends liked it. I must have it posted somewhere else...but I added it to the pics gallery on my smugmug. Originally Posted by tntangie

NO FUCK YOU! Yes I would...er...did.

Now to that nastiest of all nastiness "MOTHERFUCKER". A much despised and misunderstood word, it really doesn't apply to an act but to "extremes", such as:

Hot as an MF
Cold as an MF
Mean as an MF
etc.....................
Ms. Foster, I don't have first hand experience, but it sure does looks sweet.



Originally Posted by netman

What can we do to fix that?