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Strong Language
@stronglang.bsky.social
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Sweary stuff about swearing from a group of linguists, lexicographers, and language lovers. Strong Language blog: https://stronglang.wordpress.com
Skeets by @sesquiotic.bsky.social & @stancarey.bsky.social
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Screenshot from Reddit page r/PetsWithButtons, user Pamlwell: My cat has started to use “vacuum” as a curse word. Basically the title. | gave him a “vacuum” button because the vacuum is stressful for him and I wanted to be able to clearly communicate that the vacuum was going to happen and let him know “vacuum all done.” He definitely knows what it means because when the vacuum is running he will push “vacuum” repeatedly and also add “nervous” in there too. But now he has started spamming vacuum after I tell him no, like he is using it as a curse word. For example, he will ask for “snackie” when we JUST got done with snackie and I will say “snackie all done" and then he will go spam the vacuum button. Yeah, ok bud, I hear you loud and clear that you feel "vacuum" about “snackie all done.” Or he snuck a lick from the end of my spicy curry dish (I did not authorize this, | looked away for ONE second), I could tell he regretted this (spicy), and then he went and pressed “snackie vacuum.” Yeah, ok bud, that snackie made your mouth feel “vacuum”. I don’t know what I'm asking really, just commiserating. I guess maybe he needs a "mad" button?
November 18, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Sweary cartoon by Graeme Keyes, with nice use of grawlixes/obscenicons
Single-frame, black and white cartoon showing an angry crowd at the Ryder Cup, which a sign calls "Derider Cup". They're waving U.S. flags and shouting profanities, shown as "F**k you!...", "@★!*", "@★💀! fatso", and "☠".
October 2, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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FTA: Sweary maps 2: Swear harder. @stancarey.bsky.social presents @jwgrieve.bsky.social's heat maps of swearword use in the USA
stronglang.wordpress.com/2016/03/22/s... #maps
Heat map of the USA for the word "fuck". It's deep red all along the east and west coasts and the southern border states. Deep blue inland, and mixed (yellow, light blue) along the border with Canada.
September 25, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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"Fabian Hurzeler has revealed the X-rated English expression which has raised German eyebrows after his crash course in changing-room chat."

The Brighton Argus, however, will not reveal that expression to its readers 🙄 www.theargus.co.uk/sport/252278...
But there must be words or expressions he has picked up within the working environment of a football team? He picked out one particular four-letter word, commonly used in English and not for use in a newspaper, and added: “I think it is not the best phrase to use but I think I really adapted to this. “In some moments I caught myself saying these things. “Sometimes German friends look at me and say, ‘Since when do you say this?’. “Sometimes I say it when I am frustrated or annoyed with something. “That is something I have really got used to during my time here.”
June 11, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Happy Giant Phallus Shaped Iceberg Floating In Conception Bay of Dildo, Canada Day to all who celebrate
Screenshot from LiveScience. Headline: Giant phallus-shaped iceberg floating in Conception Bay surprises residents of Dildo, Canada. By Stephanie Pappas, published May 2, 2023. A phallus-shaped iceberg hovered off the coast of Dildo, Newfoundland in Conception Bay before collapsing. [Photo of the iceberg from overhead. It's big and blue, with chunks at its base, like elongated testicles.] A penis-shaped iceberg floated by the town of Dildo, Canada, which isn't too far from the city of Spread Eagle and the town of Placentia.
May 2, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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by Joan Cornellà
Single-frame comic by Joan Cornellà. A smiling man stands beside a huge white switch on a yellow wall, with "FUCK" written just above it. The switch can be turned to "OFF" or "OFF". The man has a blue shirt and neat black hair, his hands are on his hips, and his eyes are black circles that give a vaguely sinister vibe.
April 22, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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That's top shelf in my book
A very messy set of shelves with dictionaries from many languages, and, on the top shelf, resting on two dictionaries, a framed cross-stitch that says FUCK IT
June 12, 2024 at 9:36 PM
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cross-stitch that says FUCK IT over a row of flowers
October 3, 2023 at 2:19 AM
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Advertise your account with just one image
A rough ceramic shotglass stamped with SKEET held up in front of a bookcase full of dictionaries and language books and topped by a framed cross-stitch of the words FUCK IT
September 10, 2023 at 2:22 AM
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OK, fuckers, it's time to party.
A rough-looking ceramic shot glass with the word SKEET stamped on it roughly
August 17, 2023 at 1:52 AM