I never actually got why cunt is supposed to be the most offensive word ever. Bitch is a gendered insult comparing a woman to a female dog in heat, which to me sounds much more offensive and yet is said pretty much freely. Maybe it's because some people still find the vagina a dirty subject, who knows, but things like this always seem so arbitrary to me.
I think, like most swear words, it has nothing to do with the literal meaning of the word and more the intent behind it. Being called a word like that hurts people not because they're being compared to the object in question, but because the word is basically code for "I hate/disrespect/whatever you so much I'll cross any profanity threshold just to demean you". So in a sense it's a bit tautological; it's so offensive because it's so offensive. The arbitrariness is probably why it varies from culture to culture.
As for why we take crude terms for bodily waste, sexual anatomy, and other such things and repurpose them into insults in the first place, you've got me.
edited 16th Jan '14 5:32:38 PM by Anomalocaris20
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!
Oh come on, no love for her being the only one fully willing to extort Mr. Satan?
The site
and trope page has Z plastered everywhere. I'll just go ahead and ask for a change.
And it is the abridged series of Dragon Ball Z.
Addition: That said, I honestly never noticed the thread title being wrong.
edited 16th Jan '14 8:40:57 PM by GethKnight
I'm kinda glad they played up Vegeta's Jerkass tendencies even more, it made 18 kicking his ass all the more satisfying(and hilarious) to watch.
edited 16th Jan '14 11:23:56 PM by blackyakuzu94
A lazy millennial who's good at what he does.@ unnoun
Yamcha the scar faced scrub still looked like a total lame counting how long Goku hollered in pain. Vegeta's dialogue following #18 living up to her word and breaking his arm in the next episode is just going to be downright awesome-larious in so many ways.
Loves how Piccolo and Tien continue verbally slaughtering Veggie in the background like in the last episode.
Btw whatddya guys think Mitch did to his partner on the car which Vegeta and 18 were fighting on?

It's generally treated as more taboo a word than the F-word in most places here.
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!