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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago (3 children)

That bunch of wankpuffins wouldn't know proper swearing if it bit them in the bell end. It's all just motherfucker this and asshole that. The scrote septics have no artistry to their swearing.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The scrote septics have no artistry to their swearing

we've spent the last several decades or more killing artistry, creativity, imagination-- anything that involves doing something different than what we're told to do day in, day out by our owners. shareholders. even what should be the top of the pyramid for creativity--hollywood--is fucking garbage anymore. it's all remakes of shit that's already been done. sometimes already done multiple times. and the population laps it up like hogs at the trough

i fucking hate this place

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You ever sit down at home, after a long day of getting shit done and being responsible with work or family, and want to jump into 2 hours of something else entirely new? Or do you do like so many of us and scroll through a streaming catalogue and aspirationally look at the new shows and movies, finding lots of things to watch but nothing that strikes you as being the right thing to watch? Do you ever settle for something good that you know and promise yourself that you will watch something new later? That's why sequels do so well.

People are tired and just want to see something comfortable that they know. Lay off sequels. Fix society, make us all not tired, and you will see more new shit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

i never said remakes were the problem. i never even mentioned sequels. yes, the society that feeds on this garbage is fucked. i'm still going to criticize the garbage, even if it's just a symptom and not the problem

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Wankpuffin is actually a specific example (given within the paper) of British vulgarity considered in this study.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

My bet is that the rantallion that authored this pile of fetulent drivel only looked for language an American would recognise.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

this is just for online discourse and has no bearings on spoken vulgarity

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I would say as someone who has spent significant time in the UK, US, and Australia. That irl, people outside the US swear far more. Maybe USians are taking out their frustrations online since they don’t let themselves do it as much irl?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Well we have to be real careful because if we swear at the wrong person we get another mass shooting. Also that just happens anyway but we don’t like to identify the real reasons for that kind of thing so let’s blame swearing for a while.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Those silly cunts don't know where I'm from. I'd question the accuracy of it even for online-only discourse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I wonder how they know if the post is American or from other English speakers?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Fuck this shit. They don't know what the hell they're talking about.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's a popsci article, so.its probably bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'd take it with a pinch of salt:

Linguists in Australia recently analyzed the Global Web-Based English Corpus (GloWbE), a massive database containing over 1.9 billion words from 1.8 million web pages across 340,000 websites in 20 English-speaking countries.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Pure garbage considering much of the internet is US based.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Meanwhile we have to act like we don't at work and around lots of idiots who get "offended."

Fucking cunts.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Depends on the workplace. At my engineering workplace I regularly hear someone yell "fuck!" or "shit!" when something goes awry. At all my blue collar jobs people cussed like sailors just as long as customers weren't in earshot.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Using the same word for swearing and having sex helps, I'm sure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Spaniards have that too

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Fuck I love to fuck

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Well... shit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Among English speaking countries. I doubt you'd beat mine if it was interlingual analysis.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

One of the strongest censorships in the western media must have helped with that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Oh yeah, the best way to get someone to want to do something is to tell them they can't. Put up a "don't jump off this cliff" sign and you'll have them leaping off in droves because fuck that sign.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

it's only swearing if someone finds it offensive.

shit for brains authority figures would rather i call them poop for brains. doesn't really matter that i'm saying there's 8 pounds of defecate rattling around in their skulls. it matters that i said a no-no word from before the Norman invasion of england in 1066

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

hell fucking yeah brudder 🇱🇷🇲🇪🇲🇾🇲🇾🗽🌭🔫🔫🛢️👮

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Fucking number one

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Misleading title! Sorry MAGAs, the study only looked at English-speakers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

right... because there is no way US tops eastern europe on this one haha

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Not even the central Europe, kurva.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Spot on! Menj a búsba!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

You're God Damn, Mothr Fuckin' right. Ain't No Shit head, Cock suckin', pussy ass cunts gonna Bastardize Our Record... Dick.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

More, but worse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

can you blame us.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yet they [bleep] every [bleep] [bleep] those [bleep] 'muricans!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Someone hasn't been to Mexico.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)