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Phrases to properly express your anger?
Posted by Dave Amitri on 27 July 2011 - 8:14pm.
In the good Captains "Basket Only" thread futurenoir uses the phrase "boils my piss" to express his displeasure at using exits as entrances types in his local Waitrose. It reminded me of an ex colleague who used the similar "grips my shit" whenever something irked him. Are there any other phrases you use to express your anger at lifes little annoyances?
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Grinds My Gears is good...
Tit ends
(it gets on my)
I've a strong notion that...
...the bottomless well of mute disbelief and trampled resignation that typically characterises a given working day in an NHS hospital can only be properly expressed in Russian, which unfortunately I don't speak.
In moments of extreme anger I have been known to utter the phrase:
"In the name of c**ting Christ."
I am especially fond of this blasphemous rosary of foul language as, in common with the holy trinity, it's offensiveness is threefold, likely to upset anyone who abhors the word "c**t", the deeply religious, and those defenders of English grammer who can't abide the idea of a noun (the afore-mentioned 'c**t') being panel-beaten in a verb.
I like to spread my rage around and infect other people with it.
Could another version of the holy trinity be...
c**t, C****t and Con******ive?
Colours!!
was the first exclamation of a girl I once new at the initial onset of rage. This would then be followed by a series of colours - lighter for a mild tantrum and darker for violent, uncontrollable anger. The
darker the colour, the louder she would shout. So, it could go "Colours!! Green, Blue, BROWN, BLACK!!!". I would be on my way at Brown. Her reason for this was that she didn't like using 'conventional' swear-words and this helped get out those pent-up emotions. Fuckin' crazy!
Mr C
Thats a Magnolia....
No, not Magnolia,
I think she was a Catherine or Maria Polydorou perhaps. Deffo not a Magnolia. Maybe you should go back to the Modern Names v Old Names post with this one?
Yours aye, Enid.
Bollocks.
It's a great, multi-purpose Anglo-Saxon word and it feels good to blast out.
An American friend
favours ‘that gets on my last gay nerve’. It helps that he’s gay, and sounds just great in a Bostonian accent.
"fucks me right off"...
is commonly used by moi.
An old friend of mine used to say "oh cuntcakes" quite frequently. I rather liked that one.
This is the stuff
I will be using "oh cuntcakes" tomorrow at work, possibly if the vending machine runs out of Chunky Kit Kats again.
"Come the fuck in,
or fuck the fuck off!"
the incomparable M. Tucker.
Stolen wholesale from Viz
I tend to use a very satisfying expletive once used by 'The Parkie'
Buggerfucktwat
I shared a house for 6 years with both an Irishman and a Scotsman and had my life enriched by them in many ways.
If things went awry for the Irish lad, we'd get many variations on the musical 'Fuckety-O'. If anyone annoyed him the transgressor was invariably told to 'fuck off and boil yer hole'
The Scottish lad used 'Gettae'. As in 'Get tae fuck'
I always liked the 'Absolutely' variation
"Get Tae Falkirk!"
Or Stoneybridge
It's got a bridge and it's Stony !
(I'm an Anorak who has the box set)
my Viz favourite
Go piss up a rope fuckstick
See also
'BIG DOG'S COCK' and 'POINTY TITS'.
I have many.
Most nicked from Paul Whicker in Viz. Things still give me severe torsion of the testes, for example.
As far as rude expressions of annoyance go..
"Fucksocks!"
"Big tits!"
"Arsecakes!"
And probably a few more as well.
'Big tits!'
As an expression of annoyance?
Quite delightful. I can't wait to get annoyed again just so I can shout it out.
My first boss
used to use "that rips the fork out of my nightie" constantly, and I must say that it has stuck with me for the last 20 years. I have no idea what it means, whether the fork in question is an eating utensil or a junction, but it has just the right combination of aggression and implied smuttiness to do the trick.
SFB
Taken from Johm Martyn's Live at Leeds album, where he shouts 'shit fuck bollocks'. Used as an acronym I find it very satisfying, doubly pleased when a car I had had it as part of the numberplate.
Overheard by Bill Bryson
Works best in an Australian accent, "He was farting sparks".
Personally like the one we use the abbreviation FFS for.
Also been known to say "Tee double eff tee" at the point where annoyance becomes relief, eg. when someone has not just fucked off, but fucked RIGHT off.
"Well fuck my old boots"
Best expressed in a world-weary tone of resignation.
Also handy is "It's completely poobumwilly". Coined by my sister-in-law at the age of six as those were the three worst words she knew at the time. The exegesis of the phrase shares many of the principles outlined in previous posts.
I had a phase...
...of saying 'cunnilingus' instead of 'c**t' when used as an expression of annoyance. As though it was a mild Latin derivative that would be inoffensive....
unlike his foul-mouthed son
My dad isn't much given to swearing, so when he does, well it is, to my twisted mind, a rare and special treat indeed. We were on a scenic drive in the Burren in Clare when we hit a pothole and on inspection saw we had a puncture. My dad stared in silence at the perforated Michelin and in the low rumbling tones of an Old Testament prophet said, with measured prosody: 'The curse of fuck on you.'
I was beside myself with delight and now save this jewel only for special occasions.
I once got a thorough bollocking at work
for saying that I'd had the sort of day that sucked a wet fart out of a dead pigeon's arse. I think I pinched the expression from somewhere, but since I can't remember where and no-one else has, I claim it as my own.
I tend to refer to annoying members of the public as 'arse-wipes' or 'arse-clowns' in my more stressful moments. 'Wombat shit' is also quite pleasing to say - not sure about hearing...
Read that as
Womble Shit first. Where are my specs?
Did you read a lot of indie comics in the 80s and 90s?
Because there's a very similar line in Cerebus - Church & State
Van Dyke
Van Dyke Parks, on the recent Word podcast, used the Mississippi phrase 'that really ranked my groove' to express displeasure. No idea what it means but it sounded good with a Southern drawl.
Actually
'Van Dyke Parks' works quite well.
A therapy client
of mine, who was very high up in the Church, came along with some anger issues. 'It rips the living cunt out of me' was how he described his feelings when enraged.
A religious ex-colleague of mine
if really racked off with an institution/company or person - particularly if they were con merchants would utter "Swine", or "The Swine!", which I quite like.
I've killed a man, father...
"Feck it all to HELL!"
I tend to be at my most creative when driving
Amongst my favourites
Thundertwat
Arse muppet (see also fuck muppet)
Cock smoker (see also cock strangler)
Knob shuffler (see also knob jockey)
These will often be prefaced with "you steaming" or "you raging"
The sudden vent of spleen
in the car may be identified by the guttural bawling of "you utter UTTER fucknuckle"
I'm neither ashamed nor proud to admit my ire may be easily raised, and that bad language is never far away in time of stress.
Looking up at that list, I don't think there's many there I haven't used. But I do like "bollocks". Particularly in America where its impact on my audience is lessened. I can use it in polite company.
Oh, that's going on the list
Fucknuckle - brilliant
I find wanker works quite well in the US, for much the same reasons
The phrase
cu**tybollocks was invented in one such moment in my car about 15 years ago. I try not to use it but it creeps out now and then.
First came to my attention
In the transcription of a Liam Gallagher/Policeman interface, post-Q Awards I believe.
It's a gem, that one.
Cheese bollocks
A side note on the American use of "bollocks" - a chain of "English" restaurants in the Midwest has Cheese Bollocks as an appetiser.
http://thepubs.weebly.com/uploads/5/9/4/6/5946194/northern_pub_menu.pdf
Gives us our chance to have a giggle.
After all, Americans have been pissing themselves for years at our penchant for Spotted Dick.
"Boils my goat"
works for me.
I also like to combine swearwords into one easy to use, off the cuff thing, thus:
"C*ntbuggeringarsetw*tw*nkerbreath"
It saves time.
On Vic Reeves' Big Night Out
Bob Mortimer once came out with: "You bilious, small-minded, little shrieker of a twat!"
An expression of exasperation, disbelief & occasional rage...
Fuck my tall & windy hat.
That's been salted away for future use..
Stolen, but
Feckgirlsarse works for me.
In another instance, I was trying to talk one of my staff through a procedure that he had been previously been instructed upon but had got repeatedly wrong, I finished up by saying: "C'mon Harry, you know this, when I told you this the last time you were wearing your blue jumper".
my old mum
who rarely swore and was also religious used to say when deeply enraged, or in fact just mildly incensed
(West of Scotland accent)
In the name of Christ and all that's fucking Holy.
also Jesus fucking Christ on his bike.
I think often couldn't remember the exact utterance of the time before and there were several variations. All good.
My own current favourite is utter muppetfuckwit
A friend often screams 'He/she is a c*nt. C.*.N.T. c*nt. With all the fucking letters'. In a Spanish accent. Which feels like it to adds to the drama
Geordie is wonderful for swearing in
I won't even attempt to join in being a Southern git but when it kicks off at work I am open mouthed with admiration.
But my favourite was from an ex-girlfriend from Limerick who would yell "Jesus Mary Joseph and all the FOKKING saints"
Arse...
...nal
From Emma Kennedy
via AIOTIM (aiotim) and I think Blade II
You cockjuggling thundercunt
"Crap in a Basket!"
Has always served me well in moments of extreme anguish.
My favourite from the movies is "God's Holy Trousers!" from 'The Man Who Would Be King'.
A couple
1. F*cketyf*ck always works
2. This one I cannot claim credit for, but from a good friend of mine - Showing my displeasure at someone else (usually their poor driving)..."Let your next sh*te be a hedgehog"..particularly descriptive, I think.
Chris Morris invented one of my favourites
Christ's Fat Cock!
Language!
There's an elaborately vindictive strain of verbose abuse in Salman Rushdie's marvellous early novel 'Shame' along such lines as (not an exact quote as I don't have it here, more of a pastiche) "May your syphilitic grandchildren urinate upon your pauper's grave".
I think this was Spike Milligan
May the fleas of a thousand camels infest your armpits
I used to work with a bloke in London
whose favourite was the delightful: -
" May your ears turn to ar**holes and may you s**t down your neck"
Wonderful guy!
I like:
F*ckbucket
C*ntbubble
F*cktard
BBB
Brothel Bred Bastard
I like using ones
that were made up for characters on telly to use instead of swearwords
So
You charmless nerk
Naffing hell!
Naff off!!
smeghead
goit
gwenlan
and all these
And of course Father Jack's
'Arsebiscuits'
'Feck'
etc.
Ah, a thread...
... I can really get on board with.
Lenny is correct when he says that Paul Whicker is a goldmine of creative swearing. "May the Lord have mercy on your souls, you ignorant, snivelling fuckpig" is one that has stayed with me.
From Mark & Lard: "Well, fuck my tall hat".
Billy Connolly: "Jesus Suffering Fuck" - similar in format to Cunting Christ [above].
Also, from Roddy Doyle's The Van: "Yeh poxbottle fuck, yeh!".
And cockjuggling thundercunt is from Blade: Trinity - it was on the other night. Had a bit of a splutter when I heard that.
I love swearing, me.
"Now look 'ere, young man!"
I wouldn't have argued...