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More new "Fucks" $65(Cdn) each (including postage.) Titles & descriptions in alt-text. DM if interested (more to come.)

Great line on Morning Ireland (It Says In The Papers) this morning - “officials from his time in the Northern Ireland Office, when asked to describe Mandelson, used one-word descriptions starting with the letters w, f and even c”. @rteradio1.bsky.social

#MandelsonEpstein #Mandelson

It's a great opinion by Judge Ana Reyes (and sound on the law—Noem was too busy posting to follow even the basics of the statute). Worth a read, and don't skip the footnotes.

“I agreed the fuck out of it” Last year, in my post on the line from The Martian, “I’m going to have to science the shit out of this,” I took a look at the more general pattern of “VERB the TABOO TERM ou…

FTA: @benzimmer.bsky.social is going to verb the taboo term out of this one stronglang.wordpress.com/2016/02/11/i...

January linkstack New newsletters, a new print magazine (!), the AI naming crisis, and more.

January links! Credits: @mashedradish.bsky.social @marthabarnette.bsky.social @paperairplane.pub @stancarey.bsky.social @stronglang.bsky.social @grammargirl.bsky.social & more! fritinancy.substack.com/p/january-li...

Family’s Euphemism For Genitals Really Weird

Family’s Euphemism For Genitals Really Weird https://theonion.com/family-s-euphemism-for-genitals-really-weird-1819575047/

My Latin speaking peeps: @shadowspar.bsky.social was looking for a good Latin equivalent of "fuck around, find out" and this was my attempt, but I know it's not perfect; who's got better?

Oh, shit! Shitting shit it! 14:06 S01E03 Art October 8 1999

Fuckin' NYT robbin' me of my royalties

Espionage Novels That Give a Fuck about Profanity A couple of years ago, people I know were talking about the Apple TV series Slow Horses, the television version of Mick Herron’s Slough House novels. I love espionage novels, and I like espionage t…

Check out the Strong Language blog posts about the Slow Horses' major-league sweariness. He delves into Herron's books, but the TV show does a pretty great job of bringing the books to life, including that aspect.
stronglang.wordpress.com/2025/07/09/e... with two other posts after this one.

YouTube video by Lambrini Girls Lambrini Girls feat. Peaches - Cuntology 101 (Peaches Remix)

Here's one for the @stronglang.bsky.social mixtape www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7Em...

Another freaking f-word I never fully adopted freaking as an intensifier, euphemistic for fucking, partly because I swear fairly freely, and maybe also because fecking was available in my Irish English dialect. But I like…

Can you freaking believe that "freaking" is almost 100 years old? @stancarey.bsky.social salutes a popular euphemism:
stronglang.wordpress.com/2026/01/22/a... #swearing

Back in my young and foolish ESOL teaching days, I developed a lesson on the grammar and semantics of swearing. I still think it was probably the most useful lesson I taught but oddly enough I only managed to deliver it once

Another freaking f-word I never fully adopted freaking as an intensifier, euphemistic for fucking, partly because I swear fairly freely, and maybe also because fecking was available in my Irish English dialect. But I like…

Another freaking f-word. New post for @stronglang.bsky.social about "freaking" as a euphemistic intensifier: stronglang.wordpress.com/2026/01/22/a... 🐦🐦

Pardon my French: Lewd language lessons in Henry V In terms of plot, Shakespeare’s The Life of Henry the Fifth (Henry V) is fairly straightforward: invading France after making a claim on French territories, a vastly outnumbered King Henry (Harry) …

FTA: quant à Shakespeare, @mashedradish.bsky.social n'en a rien à foutre stronglang.wordpress.com/2016/02/05/p...

as fuck – Strong Language Posts about as fuck written by Nancy Friedman and lalonde

I've been on @stronglang.bsky.social's AF/as fuck beat for quite a while now.

stronglang.wordpress.com/tag/as-fuck/

John McWhorter on "FAFO," with a shout-out to @jessesword.com. | cc @stronglang.bsky.social messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/rend...

CNN graphic censoring the “bull” part of “bullshit” - “b*llshit”

CNN graphics put the asterisk in the wrong place, it appears…

This censorship malarkey is fuck*d

When fucks get real What the fuck has become so commonplace that, as our own Nancy Friedman pointed out, marketers are no longer shy about alluding to it. But its ubiquity has meant a loss of its former power, and we’…

FTA: @ivacheung.com asks "What in the very specific fuck?" stronglang.wordpress.com/2016/01/29/w...

With apologies, but...

Shite Christmas

The Filthy Word That Filmmakers Swear By (Gift Article) How directors and writers striving for a PG-13 rating have learned to ration the use of a four-letter obscenity.

"Even as the F-word has proliferated on smaller screens, a rule from the 1980s that limits its use in PG-13 movies has endured, influencing the way some filmmakers write, shoot and edit." | cc @stronglang.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Sign advertising Zoom evening classes. Evening is crossed out in red and SUCKING DICK is written in its place

I’m listening

FTA: @fritinancy.bsky.social talks about fcuking branding stronglang.wordpress.com/2016/01/27/w...

Swearing makes you stronger!

Richard Stevens (of the "swearing makes you more resistant to pain" study) is back, with a study showing that swearing helps you release your inhibitions and give it your all.

Attn @stronglang.bsky.social

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you should be allowed tell one person to fuck off each day without them getting mad

If you can’t fly it, fuck it, or eat it, piss on it A guest post by Karyl Krug, MA, JD, Esq. Ever since the publication of Tom Wolfe’s book The Right Stuff, people the world over have thought that “screw the pooch” is a phrase commonly used by Ameri…

FTA: A guest post from Karyl Krug. FUBAR? FIGMO. Fox Oscar. stronglang.wordpress.com/2016/01/15/i...

A colloquial Russian equivalent to “mind your own business” is тебя не ебут, ты не подмахивай. It means “you’re not getting fucked, so don’t wiggle your ass.”

bank statement..Jaysis. If I ever go for a loan, I’ll have some job explaining that’s a charity shop and nothing more..