would you call someone a cunt to their face

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That's it really. Some posters seem happy to bandy around the term quite happily on here but I suspect they are all talk with very little trousers IYSWIM. There are others who I am very certain could call a fanny a vagina.
So AIBU in thinking people are vey happy to type the word but out there in the real world face to face with another human being they wouldn't have the front/arrogance/nastiness to do it?

I think Chav is for more offensive than cunt
So it's cunt cunt cunty cuntychops

Towies are Charvers. Not off base at all where i am. We do not use the term Chav at all. Charver is used to describe someones style - She looked like a proper Charver the other night. It has nothing to do with what people can afford.

I agree probably where your from Chav is used to slate the LC and is offensive.

I have a pretty professional job, respected etc. I swear.. a lot. I never say that or write it, just don't like that particular word.

I use lots of others as when required by the circumstance or my mood. I too will shout 'twat' when driving.

Swearing has naff all to do with education, class etc in my view...

There is a difference between peppering sentences with swear words for no reason and us them for emphasis or effect...

I have never called anyone on MN a cunt. I dont think being on the internet is an excuse to hurl abuse at people.

However, i use the word regularly in real life. Never really in a nasty way, more for emphasis and not infront of people i know it will upset (unless they were to deserve it). I just like the word

..using..

so THOWIE are just better off chavs then? Don't really know if I get the whole chav thing. Always thought chavs revelled in being bling, bling and didn't have much taste.

I wouldn't do it on here or in real life

I occasionally use the word cunt in casual conversation, usually directed at someone I'll never meet (Gordon Brown and Cameron have had their fair share from me) but I'm not of the opinion that it's either funny to use just inanely repeat it on a forum (cunt off you cunting cuntychops...... not exactly splitting my sides sorry) or to use it in a high stress RL face to face situation.

tbh I'd feel a bit like I'd lost the argument if I couldn't articulate my feelings better than that, I've been called a cunt and it's not bothered me at all, whereas a few home truths letting me know about myself(!!) have been far more effective.

Purely personal choice tho, wouldn't judge anyone over their use of it (unless it was every second word that came out of their mouth!)

Begony - its just seems to evolve where i am. Geordie shore people are a bunch of Charvers imo. Certain styles are charverish. The young lads in expensive sports gear are charvers but so are people with money. Its not used to determine class more style. You dont have to be rich or poor to be a charver its more about clothes.

Chav is used by rich people to describe the LC in a derogitory way.

I would say to my friend dont wear that you look like a Charver, it doesnt mean she has cheap clothes on it may just mean she has too much make up on or her earrings may look a bit big.

Fifi - think the way you describe it is how I perceived 'chav' but then I don't really even say the word as I'm not sure how it's pronounced.

But then I couldn't understand people with money actually wanting to look that way, all fake tans, nails, false eyelashes, tacky, etc.

I would only do it in very extreme circumstances. I've worked on building sites, and being on MN is sometimes like hanging out with the glaswegian steelfixers.

The OP also suggested arrogance or nastiness when using that word (oh OK, its "cunt" - see, I'm not at all, as lissielou sugested, "precious").

To me, there seems to be a great deal of arrogance and nastiness expressed here. Some of you seem to to think its is acceptable - even funny - to offend people with this particular word and not to care.

I wonder if those of you who do this or - as some have said "it's only a word" - are not offended by any word said as an insult or as part of a swearing tirade or simpy overheard?

Not this again.

I would use it in an appropriate context, be it in raving fury in real life (rare), or in a joking fashion on here or similar. Why the fuck does anyone care?

It's still in the AM and I'd say I've called 3 people a cunt so far today. Although one of those was by text so not to their face exactly.

Aren't you Irish though Mayor - never heard a nation of people swear quite like the Irish - though West of Scotland scots probably come close.

OT - caught a bit of Shameless USA last night and 'fuck' was bandied about - sounded strange coming from s US show.

I've just put the phone down to a customer and yelled "you CUNT!" afterwards. Cathartic and true.

Yes. In fact, it's a term of endearment for many of my friends.

Wow I disappear to take the kids to school and slurp a very naice coffee and have to catch up on 7 pages .

There is no need for it on the internet or in RL

"Aren't you Irish though Mayor - never heard a nation of people swear quite like the Irish "

That made me laugh far more than it should have. Yes I'm Irish, we use swears as punctuation. Every person I've sworn at or called a cunt today was done so as a term of endearment or to express jealousy, one lad got djockovic (sp) in our wimbledon pool

I'd rather see, hear, and say, the words "fuck" and "cunt", than "chav", "divvy" or "retard". Right now, sexual swear words are becoming less taboo but racial epithets and terms of abuse relating to disability and mental health are seen as more offensive. A few hundred years ago, "cunt" was an acceptable word but saying "For God's sake!" was truly shocking. It's all about fashions and conventions.

Because of this, different linguistic communities have different views about acceptable language. My grandma was horrified by the word "fuck" but had some reeducation in her 80s about acceptable ways to refer to the Bangladeshi couple down the road ("NO, Grandma. You can't call them Pakis, it's offensive. And inaccurate: they're from Bangladesh, not Pakistan. No, you can't call them Bangis, either. Because you can't").

Personally, I use "fuck" and "cunt" for dropping something heavy on my foot. I don't tend to hurl abuse at people online or in real life. But I do enjoy a good swear to bring the blood pressure down when things are going badly.

"I don't tend to hurl abuse at people online or in real life. "

It's odd I swear at people a lot but i wouldn't class any of it as hurling abuse despite the fact that most of it is abusive and intended to be somewhat abusive but that is how people of my social circle tend to communicate. Slagging and abuse is really meant in a good way and sometimes the meaner you can be the funnier because you know it's meant in jest/ for shock value.

Mayorquimby, I know what you mean, and that's not hurling abuse if everyone in a social circle does it and is okay with it. I wouldn't, for example, call my best friend a cunt, even affectionately, because I am pretty sure she would find it weird and upsetting, but if you do routinely do that, and everyone's happy with that and it's how your relationship works, then what's the problem? Totally different to "hurling abuse", I agree.

The OP was about people being ruder & happier to call people cunts online than IRL, I think, and I'm probably not as rude online because it takes longer to type than talk so I have to think about it more (do excuse me if I'm not making sense, I'm on painkillers).

No, but then again I wouldn't use the word on MN either, I just don't like it. And I don't think that a part of the female anatomy should be used an as insult, especially, as spooks said upthread as the worst insult we can come up with. But as for swearing in general, fuck it, who cares?

My DH & I are extreme casual swearers, so I use the word cunt daily.