BS: is the word wanker politically correct

Subject: BS: is the word w#nk#r politically correct
From: The Sandman
Date: 10 Aug 09 - 03:30 PM

should we stop using this word,because it might offend those that masturbate.

Subject: RE: BS: is the word wanker politically correct
From: MartinRyan
Date: 10 Aug 09 - 03:40 PM

Boom boom!

Subject: RE: BS: is the word wanker politically correct
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 10 Aug 09 - 03:41 PM

I'm not offended!!!

Subject: RE: BS: is the word wanker politically correct
From: Bill D
Date: 10 Aug 09 - 03:58 PM

In the USA, it's so obscure that it ain't even political, much less correct.

Subject: RE: BS: is the word wanker politically correct
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 10 Aug 09 - 04:01 PM

Well, I think it is politically correct as everyone does it irrespective of gender, colour, or religion. Not sure why it is a term of abuse really.

Bill, what, then, do you call wanking in the USA?

Subject: RE: BS: is the word wanker politically correct
From: catspaw49
Date: 10 Aug 09 - 04:07 PM

The usual term is "jack-off" although in Pittsburgh it is "Jagov"........same thing.........and to tell you da' truth, nobody who uses the term could give two shits if it is PC or not (;<))


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: is the word wanker politically correct
From: catspaw49
Date: 10 Aug 09 - 04:09 PM

BTW, its usually not used alone if you get my drift......you fuckin' jagov.


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: is the word wanker politically correct
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 10 Aug 09 - 04:11 PM

"Jack off" is surely gender specific, with the female version being "Jill off", isn't it?

Subject: RE: BS: is the word wanker politically correct
From: Lox
Date: 10 Aug 09 - 04:14 PM

Am I right in thinking that a "jerk" is an abbreviated "jerk off"?


As in "what a Jerk, he must have had his jerk off abbreviated ..."


Or am I just being creative again.

Subject: RE: BS: is the word wanker politically correct
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 10 Aug 09 - 04:16 PM

No Dick.





As I said before but it was deleted, probably because I forgot to log in.

Subject: RE: BS: is the word wanker politically correct
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 10 Aug 09 - 04:18 PM

At Sidmouth festival last week, in the Anchor Middle Bar singing sessions, I heard a version of Jones's Ale with an additional verse about a banker (thanks to Tug the Cox from Exmouth shantymen).

Kitty

Subject: RE: BS: is the word wanker politically correct
From: catspaw49
Date: 10 Aug 09 - 04:28 PM

Lox, I think you're being creative man.......The jerk part comes from the motion as do many other terms related to masturbation....whip the Bishop, tamp your tool, bop your baloney, slam your sausage, etc.

And RB.....No Jills.........I think we use jackoff in a bit more nasty way than you use wanker. Except between friends, calling someone a jackoff has nothing nice about it. If we refer to a woman with the same animosity we would probably us twat or cunt.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: is the word wanker politically correct
From: Bill D
Date: 10 Aug 09 - 04:29 PM

I'm not sure why it never caught on over here...It is rather useful as both noun & verb..(I never even heard the term until I'd been online a couple years.)
I do know that masturbation was not a common topic in MY youth...at least in the crowd I was around. About the only term I have ever heard as an adult is 'jerk-off', and it never seemed to be used in the half-kidding way that 'wanker' seems to be used in the UK. It was mostly used to refer to someone NOT present.

Subject: RE: BS: is the word wanker politically correct
From: MartinRyan
Date: 10 Aug 09 - 04:32 PM

BTW - my "Boom, boom", in the second post to the thread, related to John's original, deleted post, in case anyone's wondering! ;>)

Regards

Subject: RE: BS: is the word wanker politically correct
From: Lox
Date: 10 Aug 09 - 04:36 PM

Spaw,

I was messing a bit and went off on my own little tangent after the end of line 1.

But There was an initial point which I just about allowed to breathe, though with my imaginations foot on its throat, which was to wonder whether the term "jerk" as in "what a jerk" was derived from "jerk off" - by which I mean ... erm ... well ... you know ...

... cos you don't go round saying "what a whip" or "what a bop" ...

though maybe we should.

Subject: RE: BS: is the word wanker politically correct
From: catspaw49
Date: 10 Aug 09 - 04:41 PM

Yeah Lox......Sorry man, I missed that. I gotta' read more for comprehension and less for speed. You may well be right on it!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: is the word wanker politically correct
From: Little Hawk
Date: 10 Aug 09 - 05:00 PM

Is the original question politically relevant? ;-) Seems to me that only a total wanker would even ask such a question in the first place. Or a jagov. As the case may be...

Subject: RE: BS: is the word wanker politically correct
From: catspaw49
Date: 10 Aug 09 - 05:04 PM

Geeziz Hawk.....What a wasted post! I thought that was a given...........

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: is the word wanker politically correct
From: Smokey.
Date: 10 Aug 09 - 05:05 PM

The term is particularly politically pertinent when applied to politicians.

Subject: RE: BS: is the word wanker politically correct
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 10 Aug 09 - 05:05 PM

Sounds like someone's polishin' the banana again to me.

- Chongo

Subject: RE: BS: is the word wanker politically correct
From: GUEST,Wilfred Penifere
Date: 10 Aug 09 - 05:08 PM

I am offended by this thread. I demand that it be closed.

Subject: RE: BS: is the word wanker politically correct
From: folk1e
Date: 10 Aug 09 - 05:14 PM

BTW, its usually not used alone if you get my drift......you fuckin' jagov.


..... isn't that an oxymoron?

Subject: RE: BS: is the word wanker politically correct
From: catspaw49
Date: 10 Aug 09 - 05:14 PM

Sounds like someone's polishin' the banana again to me.

That's why you are such a pathetic limpdick asswipe Chongo.........You don't polish a banana even if you are a dumbass chimp. You polish the knob........kriced what a dickhead.......

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: is the word wanker politically correct
From: catspaw49
Date: 10 Aug 09 - 05:18 PM

..... isn't that an oxymoron?

No....unless you're wackin' your dick at a sperm bank. Or perhaps you're trying to get your hand pregnant......

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: is the word wanker politically correct
From: The Sandman
Date: 10 Aug 09 - 05:33 PM

Wanker,is a term that is not reserved for one gender,do not forget, women masturbate as well.
So less of this sexist stuff.

Subject: RE: BS: is the word wanker politically correct
From: Andrez
Date: 10 Aug 09 - 05:45 PM

Come again ........?

Cheers,

Andrez

Subject: RE: BS: is the word wanker politically correct
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 10 Aug 09 - 05:47 PM

Wanker is a term used about men Cap'n B.. it was never directed at women

Subject: RE: BS: is the word wanker politically correct
From: Dead Horse
Date: 10 Aug 09 - 06:06 PM

I thought wanking WAS directed at women, and is frequently associated with a pc.
(Unless you are a gay male with no internet access :-)

Subject: RE: BS: is the word wanker politically correct
From: Peace
Date: 10 Aug 09 - 06:11 PM

WE elect our wankers in Canada, as do you in England. Ain't it grand?

Subject: RE: BS: is the word wanker politically correct
From: gnu
Date: 10 Aug 09 - 06:16 PM

Quite the circle jerk.

Subject: RE: BS: is the word wanker politically correct
From: Smokey.
Date: 10 Aug 09 - 06:19 PM

I thought wanking WAS directed at women

You can get thrown off the bus for that where I live.

Peace, they probably couldn't get proper jobs otherwise..
We call it 'care in the community' over here.

Subject: RE: BS: is the word wanker politically correct
From: Peace
Date: 10 Aug 09 - 06:22 PM

LOL

Did you ever read Mark Twain's remark?

"Ah, yes, Congress; that benevolent old asylum for the helpless."

Great minds . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: is the word wanker politically correct
From: Smokey.
Date: 10 Aug 09 - 06:40 PM

Very apt..

Wouldn't it be nice if they didn't force us to be cynical? Never mind, we have the music.

Subject: RE: BS: is the word wanker politically correct
From: Peace
Date: 10 Aug 09 - 06:41 PM

Got that right, Smokey.

Subject: RE: BS: is the word wanker politically correct
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 10 Aug 09 - 06:51 PM

And I thought that Chinaman who got divorced was going back to China!!!!!! He said he was going back to Wan King

Subject: RE: BS: is the word wanker politically correct
From: Smokey.
Date: 10 Aug 09 - 06:54 PM

I saw, I came, I conked out.

Subject: RE: BS: is the word wanker politically correct
From: Joe_F
Date: 10 Aug 09 - 09:14 PM

Smokey:

There was once an old man of great fame,
Who, when asked how he did with a dame,
    Said, "In order to please her,
    I reversed Julius Caesar:
...."

Subject: RE: BS: is the word wanker politically correct
From: Smokey.
Date: 10 Aug 09 - 09:23 PM

Priceless! Thank you.

Subject: RE: BS: is the word wanker politically correct
From: GUEST,Wilfred Penifere
Date: 10 Aug 09 - 11:11 PM

I note that my urgent protest against this thread has not been heeded, and not even remarked upon! I am more offended than ever. I plan to contact the owner of this offensive site and insist that something be done. You have all been warned. I will not rest until I get a full apology and a retraction from those who have offended me.

Subject: RE: BS: is the word wanker politically correct
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 10 Aug 09 - 11:15 PM

Y'all can keep using 'wanker,' because it means something.

But I don't want to hear anymore about anything being 'politically correct.' What does 'politically correct' actually mean? I'm waiting.




















See? Nobody knows what it means. It's just something that wankers use to get people upset. Give it up!

Subject: RE: BS: is the word wanker politically correct
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 10 Aug 09 - 11:39 PM

If you'd lived in Spain in the 1500's, Leeneia, or in Germany in the late 30s and 40s or in Pol Pot's Cambodia, you would've found out FAST what it means. It means "You either talk the way we want you to and ACT the way we want you to...or face the consequences." The consequences can vary some accordin' to the agenda and attitude of whoever's in charge, but they ain't usually all that pleasant. A somewhat lesser consequence could just be to get socially ostracized by people and lose yer job and yer career. This is what usually happens to people who ain't considered too politically correct in what is thought of as a modern "democracy".

It has happened to folksingers too. The Johnson administration didn't consider Buffy Sainte-Marie to be politically correct at all, and she got no airplay in North America for 10 years, courtesy of government agents who went around to all the radio and TV stations.

Every society has its own means of shuttin' up people who don't kowtow to the official line of the day, whatever it may be. Some societies go a lot farther than others in that respect, but the basic intention is similar...to silence those who do not obey and conform to what Big Brother has decided upon.

The politically correct can be found on either the Right or the Left. It always has been that way, probably always will be. Scoudrels are not defined by their cause or their specific political affiliation, they are defined by their character.

- Chongo

Subject: RE: BS: is the word wanker politically correct
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 10 Aug 09 - 11:43 PM

'Scuse me. I meant to say "scoundrels", not "scoudrels".

Subject: RE: BS: is the word wanker politically correct
From: meself
Date: 10 Aug 09 - 11:52 PM

In Canada, I've only heard the terms (noun & verb) used by musicians in reference to lead-guitar players I mean other musicians who take lengthy solo breaks that are considered to be more self-indulgent than musical.

Subject: RE: BS: is the word wanker politically correct
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Aug 09 - 12:35 AM

I guess this thread answers the question about the name of a French or German town where the tourists all want their photos taken in front of the road sign into town. It was an item on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me on NPR last Saturday. The quiz included a bit about two towns: one town had a name implying sex, and the other had a name implying masturbation.

Subject: RE: BS: is the word wanker politically correct
From: Smokey.
Date: 11 Aug 09 - 12:35 AM

In England we have the term 'a load of old wank', which is used similarly, but by no means exclusively in a musical sense.

Subject: RE: BS: is the word wanker politically correct
From: Peace
Date: 11 Aug 09 - 12:42 AM

"'Scuse me. I meant to say "scoundrels", not "scoudrels"."

What about us scoudrels?

Subject: RE: BS: is the word wanker politically correct
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 11 Aug 09 - 01:35 AM

Sorry! I did not mean no disrespect to you scoudrels. Keep in mind I use a lotta double negatives, and you won't get me wrong.

- Chongo

Subject: RE: BS: is the word wanker politically correct
From: Peace
Date: 11 Aug 09 - 01:40 AM

You are beginning to sound like a politician. GOOD work, Chongo.

Subject: RE: BS: is the word wanker politically correct
From: Will Fly
Date: 11 Aug 09 - 05:41 AM

Used to be in a band (many years ago) called the Plankspankers - named thus simply because the young lead guitarist's name was M.S. Bates...

Subject: RE: BS: is the word wanker politically correct
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 11 Aug 09 - 06:21 AM

Was he Mr Bates or Master?