Topic: The Poll to End All Polls (Read 21620 times)

Surgoshan · « **on:** 13 Sep 2009, 16:38 »

Maybe now everyone can stop whinging about minutia.

JD · « **Reply #1 on:** 13 Sep 2009, 16:49 »

Vendetagainst · « **Reply #2 on:** 13 Sep 2009, 16:55 »

Let's hope we don't end up fighting bloody flame wars over the possession of ten feet of thread space.

Hat · « **Reply #3 on:** 13 Sep 2009, 17:21 »

I don't like Questionable Content

Hat · « **Reply #4 on:** 13 Sep 2009, 17:21 »

I LOVE IT

Tyler · « **Reply #5 on:** 13 Sep 2009, 17:25 »

I am offended by the lack of enough black characters.

Eris · « **Reply #6 on:** 13 Sep 2009, 17:45 »

Needs more furries.

Kugai · « **Reply #7 on:** 13 Sep 2009, 21:27 »

Needs more Klingons

ysth · « **Reply #8 on:** 13 Sep 2009, 21:37 »

I prefer it when the content is less questionable.

raoullefere · « **Reply #9 on:** 13 Sep 2009, 22:54 »

Bother that. It's often not Questionable enough.

Wiregeek · « **Reply #10 on:** 14 Sep 2009, 08:15 »

needs more check boxes.

karl gambolputty... · « **Reply #11 on:** 14 Sep 2009, 10:22 »

I like it's earlier stuff more than it's new stuff.

Before it totally sold out.

I have Strip #12 on vinyl.

pwhodges · « **Reply #12 on:** 14 Sep 2009, 15:52 »

Hopefully he's planning a special edition of the first 500 strips in monochrome too.

jeph · « **Reply #13 on:** 14 Sep 2009, 18:27 »

FUCK questionable content.

Surgoshan · « **Reply #14 on:** 14 Sep 2009, 18:41 »

Quote from: jeph on 14 Sep 2009, 18:27

FUCK questionable content.

Literally? Because that could take a while. I mean, we'd have to find stand-ins for the cast, and then I thin we'd be morally obligated to buy condoms....

Please, consider the snakepit you're stepping into and don't ask us to fuck your imagination. It would take forever.

jonarus_drakus · « **Reply #15 on:** 15 Sep 2009, 05:44 »

FUCK isnt actualy a word, its an acronim

maddness · « **Reply #16 on:** 15 Sep 2009, 06:41 »

Quote from: Surgoshan on 14 Sep 2009, 18:41

Quote from: jeph on 14 Sep 2009, 18:27
FUCK questionable content.

Literally? Because that could take a while. I mean, we'd have to find stand-ins for the cast, and then I thin we'd be morally obligated to buy condoms....

Please, consider the snakepit you're stepping into and don't ask us to fuck your imagination. It would take forever.

Well, if we don't get stand-ins it's totally doable. If you only imaginatively fuck Jeph's imagination there is no need for condoms or messy clean-up afterward. As to taking forever, well, that would just be a mater of who's imagination is bigger ...

Also, as I am married, imaginary fucking could be all I'd be down for.

akronnick · « **Reply #17 on:** 15 Sep 2009, 06:44 »

Quote from: jonarus_drakus on 15 Sep 2009, 05:44

FUCK isnt actualy a word, its an acronim

On the contrary, the verb to fuck comes to us from the German ficken (to fuck) with cognates in Dutch (fokken) , Norweigein, (fukka) and Swedish (fokka.)

For unlawful carnal knowledge and Fornication under consent of the King came later, and only work with modern English, which the word fuck certainly predates

and while we're being pedantic, acronym is spelled with a 'y'.

plethora · « **Reply #18 on:** 15 Sep 2009, 07:29 »

On the contrary, there are many theories about the etymology of fuck but they are all unproven.

Surgoshan · « **Reply #19 on:** 15 Sep 2009, 08:24 »

It's not an acronym. It's just a word, with a very, very long history.

pwhodges · « **Reply #20 on:** 15 Sep 2009, 08:36 »

Quote from: Surgoshan on 15 Sep 2009, 08:24

a word, with a very, very long history.

The OED only dates it from 1568, and another author has a citation from 1528 - so not so very long.

Surgoshan · « **Reply #21 on:** 15 Sep 2009, 09:01 »

Given that it's a bad word, and was banned in print by law for many years, rarity in print isn't surprising.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=fuck

It's at least 300 years older than that, and almost certainly older still in fact.

pwhodges · « **Reply #22 on:** 15 Sep 2009, 09:53 »

That link quotes similar dates to mine, but then says "but presumably it is a much more ancient word than that" which is by no means certain; other scholars generally agree that the proper name quoted at an earlier date is not linked to the word. There were other words in use previously which fell out of use as fuck became prevalent.

Carl-E · « **Reply #23 on:** 15 Sep 2009, 16:58 »

Quote from: akronnick on 15 Sep 2009, 06:44

Quote from: jonarus_drakus on 15 Sep 2009, 05:44
FUCK isnt actualy a word, its an acronim

On the contrary, the verb to fuck comes to us from the German ficken (to fuck) with cognates in Dutch (fokken) , Norweigein, (fukka) and Swedish (fokka.)

I always preferred "Bumpsen" (sp?) from the movie Cabaret...

Ahh, Liza... and Michael York... and Joel Gray...

Sorry, I'm back now!

akronnick · « **Reply #24 on:** 15 Sep 2009, 17:24 »

Quote from: pwhodges on 15 Sep 2009, 08:36

The OED only dates it from 1568, and another author has a citation from 1528 - so not so very long.

And the Acronym theory can only be traced to the 1960's.

jonarus_drakus · « **Reply #25 on:** 15 Sep 2009, 17:39 »

Ok, so i stand corrected or something... i guess...

One for the random thoughts file: If Apple were to make a sex-doll they should call it the "Apple iBang".

Kugai · « **Reply #26 on:** 15 Sep 2009, 20:46 »

Oh frak

bicostp · « **Reply #27 on:** 15 Sep 2009, 20:55 »

What the fuck is Questionable Content?

SGeier · « **Reply #28 on:** 16 Sep 2009, 11:27 »

Quote from: jonarus_drakus on 15 Sep 2009, 17:39

If Apple were to make a sex-doll they should call it the "Apple iBang".

And given that folks keep calling the exclamation point a "bang", this could be written as "the i!", which does have a certain web-two-point-oh feel to it.

Dliessmgg · « **Reply #29 on:** 16 Sep 2009, 12:45 »

No, that's Spanish.

raoullefere · « **Reply #30 on:** 16 Sep 2009, 22:31 »

Spanish has a certain web-two-point-oh feel to it?

maddness · « **Reply #31 on:** 16 Sep 2009, 23:46 »

¡I'm pretty sure he meant punctuation! ¿Don't you think?

raoullefere · « **Reply #32 on:** 17 Sep 2009, 09:55 »

I believe I've posted enough on this forums for you to know the answer to that question, Lady maddness: Yes, but not very well.

Kugai · « **Reply #33 on:** 24 Sep 2009, 20:58 »

The Vorlons win

scarred · « **Reply #34 on:** 24 Sep 2009, 21:28 »

Questionable Content would be way better with Kosh

Just like Law and Order

Covetous · « **Reply #35 on:** 25 Sep 2009, 05:13 »

I'm still hoping for an ending where everyone dies.

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #36 on:** 25 Sep 2009, 05:24 »

Fun to see the site's owner remarks turn into a nice debate on the origin of the word 'fuck'.

'Bumschen' , by the way.

Carl-E · « **Reply #37 on:** 25 Sep 2009, 06:04 »

Quote from: BeoPuppy on 25 Sep 2009, 05:24

Fun to see the site's owner remarks turn into a nice debate on the origin of the word 'fuck'.

'Bumschen' , by the way.

Thank you. Never took German, and it's hard to look up stuff like that. Ya skazal tolko po Russkie. And very badly, at that.

Heranje · « **Reply #38 on:** 06 Nov 2009, 00:30 »

Quote from: akronnick on 15 Sep 2009, 06:44

Quote from: jonarus_drakus on 15 Sep 2009, 05:44
FUCK isnt actualy a word, its an acronim

On the contrary, the verb to fuck comes to us from the German ficken (to fuck) with cognates in Dutch (fokken) , Norweigein, (fukka) and Swedish (fokka.)

For unlawful carnal knowledge and Fornication under consent of the King came later, and only work with modern English, which the word fuck certainly predates

and while we're being pedantic, acronym is spelled with a 'y'.

What ARE you talking about? Fukka is not a Norwegian word. I am Norwegian, I would know. Pretty sure that Swedish word is wrong to, but I wouldn't bet on it. Where you lot would say "fuck", we use the swearword "faen" or "faen ta", derived from an old word for Satan. Some people also use the loanword "fuck", with the English pronunciation.

Dliessmgg · « **Reply #39 on:** 06 Nov 2009, 01:58 »

Quote from: BeoPuppy on 25 Sep 2009, 05:24

Fun to see the site's owner remarks turn into a nice debate on the origin of the word 'fuck'.

'Bumschen' , by the way.

It's bumsen. No caps and no ch. A Bumschen would porbably be a small fuck. (The noun, not the verb.)

raoullefere · « **Reply #40 on:** 06 Nov 2009, 07:05 »

Quote from: Heranje on 06 Nov 2009, 00:30

Quote from: akronnick on 15 Sep 2009, 06:44
Quote from: jonarus_drakus on 15 Sep 2009, 05:44
FUCK isnt actualy a word, its an acronim

On the contrary, the verb to fuck comes to us from the German ficken (to fuck) with cognates in Dutch (fokken) , Norweigein, (fukka) and Swedish (fokka.)

For unlawful carnal knowledge and Fornication under consent of the King came later, and only work with modern English, which the word fuck certainly predates

and while we're being pedantic, acronym is spelled with a 'y'.

What ARE you talking about? Fukka is not a Norwegian word. I am Norwegian, I would know. Pretty sure that Swedish word is wrong to, but I wouldn't bet on it. Where you lot would say "fuck", we use the swearword "faen" or "faen ta", derived from an old word for Satan. Some people also use the loanword "fuck", with the English pronunciation.

Sigh. How many times must it be said: nobody, I mean nobody, (according to the last edition of the OED, this still stands) really knows where fuck came from. Actually, Heranje, English had a fair bit of Scandinavian rammed down its throat by Cnut the Great et. al., but no one has managed to tie fuck to that, either. Clearly someone should build a wayback machine to try to work this out, but no one has fucking time, nor the right set of priorities.

Heranje · « **Reply #41 on:** 06 Nov 2009, 11:15 »

...I was not trying to say where fuck comes from. I was simply telling akronnick that fukka is not a Norwegian word, nor is anything resembling it. And I'm aware that English has a lot of loanwords from the scandinavian languages. In fact, old viking accounts of trips to England said plainly "they speak norse there". Which they probably didn't, but it was close enough that the English could speak their language and the vikings could speak their language and they both understood.

Also, hello Jeans!

It's always fun to find Norwegians on the old interwebs. xD We are few and far between.

Watched Pot · « **Reply #42 on:** 06 Nov 2009, 12:16 »

Quote from: Heranje on 06 Nov 2009, 11:15

Also, hello Jeans! It's always fun to find Norwegians on the old interwebs. xD We are few and far between.

I am not Norwegian but I did live in Trondheim for a few months. It is a great country.

Carl-E · « **Reply #43 on:** 06 Nov 2009, 12:17 »

Quote from: Heranje on 06 Nov 2009, 11:15

...We are few and far between.

Except, of course, in Norway.

But even there, you're not very dense!

Surgoshan · « **Reply #44 on:** 06 Nov 2009, 13:55 »

Quote from: Heranje on 06 Nov 2009, 11:15

...I was not trying to say where fuck comes from. I was simply telling akronnick that fukka is not a Norwegian word, nor is anything resembling it.

Then you might want to edit the wikipedia page on fuck.

Patrick · « **Reply #45 on:** 06 Nov 2009, 14:05 »

Just because "fukka" is not in Bokmål or Nynorsk doesn't mean it wasn't in an archaic Norwegian dialect. There's plenty of archaic words in the English language alone that nobody would recognize unless they were a linguist or somesuch. Considering that Norwegian has two standard written forms, and that they're both pretty much compiled of the older dialects from the 19th century and before, a lot of the vocabulary of the older dialects would've necessarily been made obsolete. So while you may be right that it's not a modern Norwegian word, I don't see why that rules out Norway as a possible origin for the English word.

Heranje · « **Reply #46 on:** 06 Nov 2009, 14:51 »

Quote from: Watched Pot on 06 Nov 2009, 12:16

I am not Norwegian but I did live in Trondheim for a few months. It is a great country.

It is very pleasant.

I haven't been to Trondheim, but I have friends who study there. I've heard it's nice!

Quote from: Carl-E on 06 Nov 2009, 12:17

Quote from: Heranje on 06 Nov 2009, 11:15
...We are few and far between.

Except, of course, in Norway.

But even there, you're not very dense!

Nope! 4,5 million people in a country that, if you flipped it around, would cross all of Europe and end in Italy.

We like our space.

Quote from: Surgoshan on 06 Nov 2009, 13:55

Then you might want to edit the wikipedia page on fuck.

Eh, no. I don't have any actual sources, just a native's knowledge of the language (as it currently is). Plus, editing wikipedia pages is intimidating - it's basically the same as claiming I know the truth.

Quote from: Patrick on 06 Nov 2009, 14:05

Just because "fukka" is not in Bokmål or Nynorsk doesn't mean it wasn't in an archaic Norwegian dialect. There's plenty of archaic words in the English language alone that nobody would recognize unless they were a linguist or somesuch. Considering that Norwegian has two standard written forms, and that they're both pretty much compiled of the older dialects from the 19th century and before, a lot of the vocabulary of the older dialects would've necessarily been made obsolete. So while you may be right that it's not a modern Norwegian word, I don't see why that rules out Norway as a possible origin for the English word.

That is a good point.

I was mainly reacting to the way akronnick made it sound like it was a current Norwegian word, and thought "Hey, this is something I know things about! I must correct this FATAL ERROR!" I will admit that I'm not an expert on the ancient language, though, so it sounds perfectly plausible that it could have come from there. Suppose I should have considered that, or at least made more clear what I was correcting.

Binary · « **Reply #47 on:** 06 Nov 2009, 14:52 »

Quote from: Surgoshan on 06 Nov 2009, 13:55

Then you might want to edit the wikipedia page on fuck.

Best of luck with that.

All_¥our_Bass · « **Reply #48 on:** 06 Nov 2009, 22:04 »

It needs more desu.

raoullefere · « **Reply #49 on:** 08 Nov 2009, 01:47 »

Quote from: Heranje on 06 Nov 2009, 11:15

In fact, old viking accounts of trips to England said plainly "they speak norse there". .

Cynical me wonders if that was before or after the rovers put the smackdown on the locals.

I.E. They speak Norse there…now.

Actually, I suppose it depends on how close to Old Frisian, the closest language to Anglo-Saxon, Norse is. I know they're from the same general family (Germanic?), but that's about it.

About fuck: sometimes I wonder if a time traveler did go back and, at last, frustrated, told a local, "I'm trying to find where the fuck this word comes from...oops."

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