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I suppose that is part of my point.

I am not Aussie.., and admittedly, I don't use the word cunt too often, yet I still believe that there are a variety of contexts in which cunt could use the expression as a kind of endearment - in the aussie fashion, even if neither I nor my audience is aussie. 

Of course, if the tone or context is not right, women would be more sensitive than men to a descriptive usage directed towards them as endearment, unless in the context it is obviously a true descriptive statement that fits behavior, could even be humorous to really make the point.

I was thinking specifically of Kraft Singles, Velveeta, etc.
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I keep trying to explain to people here that the Cheez Whiz sold in Canada is different from what is sold in the USA.

A few years back they stopped putting real cheese in Cheez Whiz in both places but The Canadian government wouldn't let them use the name despite spelling it "Cheez". They felt it was misleading to consumers. Kraft relented and started putting real cheese back in for the Canadian market.

 

wait wat. surely 'cunt' is pejorative in all flavours of English bar some Aussie banter?

A nice Indian chap was once showing me round his town. True story.
He kept saying how good the 'semen factory' was for the local economy.
'Oh yes, almost all the men of the town work at the semen factory.'
'Oh yes, we supply most of the state with our high-quality semen'.
and so on.
Eventually we passed a huge dusty plant with lorries going in and out, giant buildings and noise.
and a massive sign saying 'Ashok Cement Co. Pte Ltd.'
Ah, I said, Cement!. Yes, he said looking at me like I was slow beyond words. This is our famous semen factory.

I still believe that calling you a cunt could be a good thing, even though, from my personal perspective, there seems to be a quite a bit of "me too" over-sensitivity about that word in some places... Also, from my perspective, a bit of oversensitivity about the use of retarded.  

So, even apart from cultural differences, context and intent matters too.

That's because gentlemen use tableware made of silver not stainless steel, and proper linen napkins not paper serviettes.  

In Mexico, "servilleta" is used for both linen napkins and for paper serviettes. No class distinctions there.

Here in Canada "napkin" is used for both the table linen and for a feminine hygiene product. Sometimes the former is used as the latter in an emergency.  

Bon appetite!
https://www.hg.org/legal-articles/food-fraud-and-commonly-mislabeled-foods-31388

officially, you can have as little as 5% cocoa in "chocolate" (in US); in EU it is 25% at the minimum.
What's the rest/filler? I don't know exactly.

maybe youre thinking of what is actually labeled "cheese food" or something like that for the fake stuff here in the usa.

food labels have gotten better in the usa but they still mislead as much as possible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-speaking_world

258 mil native english speaking in US,
60mil in UK
25 mil in australia
19 mil in canada

So, by this stat 258/360=about 72%, so I don't get your lamentation of us vs "them".
72% is not americanism, it is a majority and the rest is region-specific, sorry.

Re the offending "goofball", NOBODY uses it in US to describe pedophiles as others told you already.
"Goofball" is mostly associated with Disney character "Goofy", which pics were posted above.

In addition to meaning "silly" it was also used to describe a drug 60-100 years ago, but NOT anymore.
I have no idea where you are getting this.

Like 'cutlery', 'serviette' is not a word for the English gentleman, but for his servants until they know better. He would say 'knives and forks' or 'silver' and 'napkin'.

How To Get On In Society by John Betjeman

Phone for the fish knives, Norman
As cook is a little unnerved;
You kiddies have crumpled the serviettes
And I must have things daintily served.

Are the requisites all in the toilet?
The frills round the cutlets can wait
Till the girl has replenished the cruets
And switched on the logs in the grate.

It's ever so close in the lounge dear,
But the vestibule's comfy for tea
And Howard is riding on horseback
So do come and take some with me

Now here is a fork for your pastries
And do use the couch for your feet;
I know that I wanted to ask you-
Is trifle sufficient for sweet?

Milk and then just as it comes dear?
I'm afraid the preserve's full of stones;
Beg pardon, I'm soiling the doileys
With afternoon tea-cakes and scones.

https://twitter.com/coindesk/status/1104814205960679426?s=19

Actually a lot of those words are actually just what the rest of the world calls things rather than using Americanisms.

Serviettes are serviettes in England, Kenya, Mexico, Canada, and most English-speaking countries around the world. Only Americans call them "paper napkins".

Bacon from the back (loin) of the hog is called "back bacon" in most places. Only in the USA is it called Canadian bacon. Some Canadians call it "peameal bacon". The Brits often call side bacon "streaky bacon".

Only in the USA is synthetic cheese-like garbage called "American cheese". The rest of the world calls it "process cheese".

In most of the world "football" is played with the feet, not the hands. Exceptions are Canada and Australia.

Funny language, English.
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As for the word "goof" meaning a lowlife, it's apparently used in the USA as such (although perhaps mostly in prison) but with a slightly narrower definition.

Here in Canada it is used for pedophiles, informers, rapists and other unreliable or undesirable scum. In the USA it seems to be used mostly to describe pedophiles who prey specifically on young boys.

Aren't words fun? 

https://twitter.com/EvanJRichard/status/1104816849592770566

Ledger demonstrating five different attacks against Trezor right now. #MITBitcoinExpo

more Trezor analysis/venom in today's Block Digest https://youtu.be/4HAkDG6pNo0

Unacceptable.
We need you strong and healthy.
No more parties till $10k.
Even then only a small one.
sleep. healthy food. exercise. hodl. repeat

These days
I am going out too much
I am attending parties too much
I am eating too much
I am having less sleep

Personally I have no problem with this, I mean that everything is susceptible to being hacked and almost every day there is news of this type.
My keys, wallet.dat,s and paswords everything is out of line.

Good to have goals.

Exactly... a self-portrait of Ibian.      

Fair enough.  I still don't really see any problem with my usage.. and even calling someone goofy tends to be a lot nicer than calling them stupid or retarded.. but anyhow, I suppose it can depend upon context, too.

From your link and explanations, I recognize that in certain circles such an expression could be misunderstood.. but it still seems kind of niche.. so I still don't see why anyone here should get MOAR offended by either my past usage in the way that I had attempted to use it or my likely continued future usage of such term based on what appears to be kind of obvious general usage. 

Sure, as I already suggested, there already exists a kind of intention from me to be aggressive with such namecalling and to insult by the common usage meaning of "goofball" or whatever other variant that I was using that had "goof" as the root word... and further, as many of us recognize, there is already an internet culture that causes some kinds of name calling that would less likely take place in the meat space - especially if the parties are expecting to have a continued relationship with someone.   

In the meat space, we might be able to engage in avoidance or just not be in the same circles with certain ideas... also, sometimes in the meat space trollers will frequently get shut down fairly quickly by the whole group too, if they were to start spouting out political and racial agendas in a group that is talking about bitcoin, for example.

Many of us likely realize that on the internet, sometimes, there is a need to be more assertive in certain circumstances to make a point.. and of course, there is discretion there, too, and the dynamics on the internet are different from the meat space, too.  Of course, sometimes on the internet, we will be kind of stuck with each other, which also might happen in certain meatspace circumstances as well, for example relatives at a christmas party, a wedding, a funeral, a picnic or some other similar family gathering.

Use multiSig wallet or hardware wallet. I sleep without worry. zzzzzzzzzzzz