I don’t disagree, but it’s difficult explaining to Americans how “you have a head consisting of the congealed semen and other matter scraped from underneath someone’s foreskin” is only a mild insult.
Particularly when with a decent proportion of them, you first have to explain what a foreskin is.
Well “smeg” is just from Red Dwarf but “smegma” is an actual word, and that’s where they got the word from. They needed a futuristic swear word - Lister can’t be someone who doesn’t swear, but this was 1980s BBC - and they came up with that.
Prat Div Twit Twerp Smeghead
Are some other mild ones that I don’t really hear anymore
I don’t disagree, but it’s difficult explaining to Americans how “you have a head consisting of the congealed semen and other matter scraped from underneath someone’s foreskin” is only a mild insult.
Particularly when with a decent proportion of them, you first have to explain what a foreskin is.
wait. wait. wait. wait. wait. wait. smeg is an actual word. its not just from red dwarf???
Well “smeg” is just from Red Dwarf but “smegma” is an actual word, and that’s where they got the word from. They needed a futuristic swear word - Lister can’t be someone who doesn’t swear, but this was 1980s BBC - and they came up with that.
still. I was not even aware of its root word connotation. thanks for the insight.