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by BLKNSLVR 1294 days ago
Australian. I've heard it since I was a kid. No offence intended to those who haven't heard it at all.

It's so familiar to me that there's no thinking twice about it's use in a blog title.

I'm also sure there are more cultural phrases and terminologies that I'm not familiar with than the number I am familiar with, but the usage of them on the internet wouldn't offend me or make me feel like I was on the outer.

Piss weak essentially means you didn't even try, you gave up before you'd even given yourself a chance to actually fail.

Commonly used in the sporting arena, but also applies to children's (or childish) efforts at various things that children often don't like to properly try at.

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Hmmm. I’ve never heard it. You Aussies take after British English, so I’m not surprised. I mistakenly jumped to the conclusion you were in the US. And this was a new dangerous replicator

This reminds me of a classic Mad TV sketch: Parody of Al Jazeera, Death to America

All writing is in some form writing for _some_ audience, or an “auditor”.

However you choose to speak with your friends, the use of profanity—is ‘piss’ profane? I’d say it’s a subset whose parent term is the male/female organ—is controversial in writing. Profanity is by definition offensive, and that excludes people.

I believe we all should consider our words more carefully, and also be able to call a ‘spade’ a spade when it’s a shovel.

https://youtu.be/TS4v_kj9rw4