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    #61
    There's a world of difference between finding the analogy acceptable or humorous than the real life event anything but horrific.

    I honestly don't see much difference from the use of the term "buggered" or "****ed" to describe something that's broken.

    I did find the Cascarino/holocaust thing highly distasteful though, but that's cos it referred to a specific event/chain of events (even if the term is a more general one, that's what most people think of when it's used).
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      #62
      people enjoy getting buggered and ****ed.
      dave of mutilation

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        #63
        Originally posted by little dave hedgehog View Post
        people enjoy getting buggered and ****ed.
        I was going to say that those are usually consensual whereas rape is not, but your response is far more poetic than I could have managed.

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          #64
          Knew someone would say that, but that's not the case when they are destroyed is it? How does a person or an object like being ****ed or even broken?

          If you're gonna map facets from each example from source to target (as per literature above), I would argue the 3 examples are broadly similar, it's merely that the more violent/upsetting facets of the buggered & ****ed examples are less salient to our minds as they have been utillised within the language for so long. However, they still exist.
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