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  • See You Next Tuesday. It doesn't work, it's half homophone and half acronym.
    • That's the point, it's supposed to be at least mildly difficult to decipher. The idea being that you can say it and it might take those around you just a bit longer to get it. Or something.
      • Just say "cunt" and be done with it. Takes like .2 seconds as well.
    • Unfortunately, See You In Tea doesn't make sense.
      • If you slightly change your accent you spell cunt, just like the way If You See Kay works.
  • How come it's considered the height of sexism to call a woman a cunt but it's perfectly acceptable to call a man a prick or a dick?
    • Where you live it might be perfectly acceptable, but where I live, telling somebody "You're such a prick!" is considered a bit rude.
    • I didn't mean it isn't considered to be an insult, but women seem to get angry about being called a cunt because they think you are defining them by the only part of their body that a sexist male would care about: the vagina. Nobody seems to care about men being defined by their genitals.
    • There isn't a how or why of it. It's just true. Transgress this taboo at your peril. Go ahead and try.
    • It's not sexism, certainly not in the UK. 'Cunt' is seen as one of the worst swear words there is regardless of who it is aimed at - a work with 'Dick' in it can easily be PG, a work with 'cunt' in it is automatically at least 15. And what makes one word rude and another not is largely culturally determined rather than by logic anyway; really speaking being called a 'cunt' or a 'dick' is about as insulting as being called a 'nose' or a 'lung'
    • Maybe it also has something to do with the fact the Dick is a legitimate shortening of Richard for some reason, so using it as an insult isn't as effective.