In all seriousness, the offending word is my favourite in the English language. It is also best said in a Yorkshire accent, loudly. A chapter in my novel that I'm currently struggling to write is about the word "cunt" amongst other such profanities, it needs re-writing though cos I don't think it's funny enough. It's so fookin' hard to be funny and literary at the same time, few achieve it.

Anyway where was I, oh yeh "Cunt",

I like the Libertines song 'Wot a Waster':

"Who are you bleeding anyway you two bob cunt?"

"two bob cunt" is probably the best phrase I can think of in the English Language. I like being all esoteric and abbreviataing it to 'TBC', call somebody a TBC and you're insulting them without them knowing.

Personally, the only words I am particularly offended by are racist ones (except for in the hip-hop context) and, top of the list, disablist terms such as 'Spaz', 'flid' etc.

I don't really mind racist and disablist terms when they are said without malice though, my mates call me 'spastic' and stuff as a mark of satire, I think that's pretty cool. But if someone I didn't know used those words in the wrong context, or even worse, called me one, they'd get sparked no danger.

On the subject of racist and disablist words, isn't it funny how most people view racist words as being more offensive and malignant than disablist words? People will say 'Spaz', 'Flid', 'cripple', 'Mong' etc and think that's ok but would refrain from saying racist words. I think this is stupid as racist words only relate to appearance/ethnicity whereas disablist words relate to a person's genuine problem/impediment. When I was at school a black kid made fun of the way I walked, nobody thought anything particularly bad about it, but if I turned round and called him a racist name (I didn't though, I thankfully aint like that) I'd have been the one in trouble, not him. I might have even been excluded.

Take the notion, for example, of a disabled kid and a black kid both getting disablist/racist bullied at their school. A black kid has to deal with the bullying alone, but the disabled kid has to deal with the bullying on top of and AS WELL AS actual physical/social/emotional side of having a disability. Yet the racism is popularly considered to be the worse of the two. Absurd!

I'm going off topic here, back on to music:

Ian Dury the disabled singer did a song called 'Spasticus Autisticus' in the 80s. And the sanctimonious shits at Radio 1 banned it for being offensive to disabled people, without actually asking disabled people if they were offended by it. As a person with Cerbral Palsy (where the term 'spastic' derrives from I have no problem with song. In fact I think it's genius, cos it shows up the PC Brigade for the nobheads that they are. I doubt there's a person with Cerbral Palsy out there who, knowing that Ian Dury is disabled, would be offended by it.

Anyways, rant over. I'd love this to provoke some interesting thought/discussion but I sincerely doubt anyone will read this anyway, nobody ever does read my better posts on here...