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Originally posted by Grybs:
**Ok, let's try this:
You're an ******* .
Did that offend you?
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Even if you meant it, I would hardly be offended, because I only take offense to people whom I deeply respect and they disrespect me. I would be amused, if anything, if people whom I did not respect at all insulted me.
This gets really complicated because the insult itself may drastically change a person's view of another, so one whom I respected may not be so well respected by me if he swore at me (and meant it) uncreatively for no good reason in any perspective.
Also, I may actually gain respect for someone whom I would otherwise disrespect if he insulted me creatively. That is, if he was funny or brought up painfully true points in criticism.
My point is... it's not the word that offends (or it shouldn't, IMO), it's how it is used and by whom, and the circumstances under which it is said. Heck, it is easily possible to offend someone to the extreme using no foul slang language at all.
Insult really is an art, and is not as simple as using a 4-letter word (well for me at least, it is).
"Ah, go shove it up yer pineapple and prefix a nacho, you salad-dressing lemon monkey." 
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(This message has been edited by Toothpaste (edited 08-15-2000).)
