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Buggery Fuck
Jan. 14th, 2002 03:21 pmThe way that people are affected by language is a source of constant amusement to me.
The Register has an article on the new me.uk domain names. Part of it reads:
Bugger.me.uk, love.me.uk, and kiss.me.uk have all been snapped up.
There are others too - as you can well imagine - but a sense of decency prevents us from printing them here.
Now, I can only assume that they mean "fuck.me.uk". Which leads me to wonder why "fuck" is considered more obscene than "bugger". One of them means to have sex in the 'ordinary' way, the other means to have sex anally. Now, should the acts be described, photgraphed, filmed or performed in a live setting then buggery is far more likely to elicit protest than simple fucking is.
So why is it that the word is so much less offensive?
Answers on a postcard to the usual address.
The Register has an article on the new me.uk domain names. Part of it reads:
Bugger.me.uk, love.me.uk, and kiss.me.uk have all been snapped up.
There are others too - as you can well imagine - but a sense of decency prevents us from printing them here.
Now, I can only assume that they mean "fuck.me.uk". Which leads me to wonder why "fuck" is considered more obscene than "bugger". One of them means to have sex in the 'ordinary' way, the other means to have sex anally. Now, should the acts be described, photgraphed, filmed or performed in a live setting then buggery is far more likely to elicit protest than simple fucking is.
So why is it that the word is so much less offensive?
Answers on a postcard to the usual address.
