purple_kathryn
Junior Member
That's more a comment on the censors in the UK. Teenage Mutant Ninja turtles had to be called Hero Turtles originally because Ninja was too violent.Shag is seen as (far) less offensive than fuck in England (& the rest of the UK).
Cunt is the worst of the worst but most people don't know what a douchebag is here so it's just a weird American insult . More like saying twat.
Well, maybe things have changed since The Spy Who Shagged Me was released:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Powers:_The_Spy_Who_Shagged_Me
When the film was released, the title proved controversial in the United Kingdom, where the word shag is used to refer coarsely to sexual intercourse. Two sets of British TV adverts for the film existed, for showing before and after the watershed. The former was designed to air during daytime hours and only gave part of the title, (Austin Powers: The Spy Who—), before cutting off with one of a range of slightly suggestive scenes from the film, such as Austin squeezing out the contents of a massage oil bottle. The post watershed adverts, aired later in the evening, gave the full title. There were also two variations of the posters; one of them asterisked out the middle of the offending word. Other posters had named the film as Austin Powers 2.[5]
The radio version of Teenage Dirt bag blanks out the word gun & "drugs" is blanked out in Nicklebacks rockstar.
I'm not saying you can use it round your church going but it would shock her a lot less than saying fuck would.