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Unusual Dysphemism
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The opposite of Unusual Euphemism, a character replaces an ordinary phrase with an unnecessarily harsh, obscene, or crude one, either as an expression of disrespect or merely for the Rule of Funny. There are several instances in ordinary usage, but this trope is for fictional examples. Truth in Television for members of high-stress professions like emergency medicine, police work, fire fighting, and other first responders. Medical slang in particular is loaded with harsh terms that patients might find offensive and inappropriate, though doctors and staff claim that Gallows Humor helps them to cope with the reality of their jobs. Related to Black Comedy. Always takes Refuge in Audacity, and often a case of Vulgar Humor. |
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An entry on the Homestuck Kink Meme featured a description of masturbation as "FIVE MINUTES POPPING YOuR SICKENINGLY TuMESCENT OBLONG BEEF ZIT". Dirk, who this description was aimed at, responded with: "I... Don't know whether to be disgusted by that metaphor, impressed that I'm disgusted by that metaphor, or insulted by the insinuation that I'd only last five minutes?" | |
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The first episode of Coupling has Jeff (true to form) describing the girl Steve is struggling to dump as "unflushable". | |
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Dr. Gregory House gets very creative with these — except that unlike most doctors, he uses them to the patient's faces. This facility with words actually came useful in another episode, where a 13-year-old girl was experiencing complications after getting pregnant. House was legally obligated to get her parents permission to end the pregnancy, so he carefully phrased it as "she has an abnormal growth in her abdomen" and described the abortion as "a simple procedure we do here in the hospital all the time". |
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The Big Lebowski: "This is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass!", Walter says before he bashes in what is (probably) some teen's car. For context, the "fucking" was being cheated out of ransom money. | |
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Scrubs has mentioned a few Real Life examples of doctors' acronyms, like "Get Out of My Emergency Room", and QI described a few more creative ones. | |
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Dave from Homestuck's dialogue consists mostly of creative and obscene metaphors. Then later on Karkat is introduced, and he's just as bad, if not worse. | |
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Near the beginning of John Dies at the End, John calls Dave and says, "Your pimp says bring the heroin shipment tonight, or he'll be forced to stick you. Meet him where we buried the Korean whore. The one without the goatee."note Code for, "Come to my place as soon as you can, it's important." | |
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xkcd comes up with the idea of "reverse euphemisms", where "taking a shit" actually means "dropping the kids off at the pool." | |
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Roy Brown's "Butcher Pete" (featured in Fallout 3) is about Pete being a bold philanderer, but Brown avoids singing about sex by using brutal murder and dismemberment as a dysphemism. | |
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It isn't enough for The Angry Video Game Nerd to simply call a game bad - he has to call it things like "a steaming pile of goat shit" or "a bunch of putrid anal shit coming out of a rhinoceros's asshole." | |
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The Bible: In 1st Samuel and the Books of Kings, the term "one who urinates against a wall" is used in reference to males that are considered worthy of slaughter (either by God or by the future King David), equating those men to dogs. | |
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Thirty Hs mentions Dumbledore "faggarting a sun or a thousand", which in context seems to refer to sodomy. | |
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In one of the Illuminatus! series books, Robert Anton Wilson makes a Running Gag out of using the names of then-prominent feminists, religious censors and conservative Supreme Court justices as euphemisms for genitals, sex acts and swear words, arguing that they can hardly find their own names obscene and censorable. A phrase like ''I want to stick my Potter Stewart right up between your Brownmillers" takes on a whole new dimension. | |
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The Wire is full of them, usually avoiding the simple word "screwed" when graphically detailed homoerotica is an option, and re-instilling the evocative power of usually-cliché sexual metaphors by dragging them out. | |
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The notorious F.A.T.A.L. would be bad enough without gems such as "fucksticks" and "cunt-pipes". The former appears to have been removed in most of the circulating versions, but the latter is present in all editions. | |
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In The Spiral Wars, the way Hacksaws process information (preferring transmitted data to their actual senses) is compared to the way Autistic people used to think before being genetically engineered out of existence. The characters then proceed to refer to any airgappednote not being able to transmit or receive signals technology as Autistic, despite that being almost the exact opposite of the original sense they used it in. | |
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Costello's mistress in The Departed lampshades the potential unwanted implications of this kind of dialogue. After he makes several references in a phonecall to giving a detective "a whiff of my ass" so that he'll "crawl right in", he hangs up and turns to his girlfriend, who is reading a book on getting pregnant; | |
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