The equivalent of certain expletives
Tuesday 18th January, 2011 - 6:02pm with 0 comments
I don’t know what constitutes the phrase ‘fuck off’ these days, but for some reason, ‘I’m sorry, I cannot help you’ is supposed to mean ‘fuck off’.
Supposedly, by the same principle, ‘I can’t make it to class today’ is the equivalent of ‘fuck off’.
Instead of running your tongue over your teeth and cussing, you breathe the truth and nothing but the truth… what point is that? Surely when you want someone to piss off, you’d likely tell them so. Even in the politest way, ‘please leave me alone’. That could mean ‘fuck off’ just as much as ‘fuck off’ itself. But let’s put this into perspective. You don’t need to immediately assume that someone is angry at you, I guess.
But given a certain scenario… let’s say, you’re trying to talk to a friend.
Your friend says ‘I’m reading’. Well, you knew that, obviously. So maybe you didn’t try to talk to them in the first place, knowing they’d be disturbed if you were to talk to them while they are reading. And for someone like me, when someone interrupts my reading, I’m less than pleased.
But let us assume the following. You’re sitting on the train next to a friend, your phone rings mid-chat. You end up talking to your cousin who is asking you to buy him a packet of cigarettes on your way home. You will never buy cigarettes (some personal choice, which is irrelevant to this scenario), and eventually, after a heated argument, you hang up and sigh. Your friend is unoccupied, so you start ranting and telling them about this brainless cousin of yours.
All of a sudden your friend says, ‘I’m thinking about dinner’, as if to say… as if to say… woah.
You can either 1) Assume they are angry at you, just cease talking, or 2) Well I don’t know, what the fuck is wrong with this person, HOW THE FUCK CAN I TELL THAT THEY’RE THINKING, MUCH LESS ABOUT DINNER?
FUCK YOUUUUUUUUUUU. HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO FUCKING KNOW —
Posted on: Tuesday, January 18th, 2011 at 6:02 pm
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