👉 Okay, alright settle down now. Let’s tackle this rather…robust little mouthful:
"fuck shit and weep."
(Often shortened to just, you guessed it, 5½ letters, as the space is generally omitted.)
Now, before I get laughed out of here by the Dean, let's unpack that. Historically, like a whole lotta swearing, this one has a seriously tangled backstory. Initially, around the early 1980—late 1990's in the UK, there was a really rather aggressive and frankly quite depressing subculture of, for want of a better word, dick jokes, shit jokes, and generally awful premises delivered at funerals and wakes. It was meant to be a brutal, insulting parody of mourning. You basically threw your worst-taste gag at the grieving when you were feeling particularly bleak. What happened? Well, it just… stuck. The sheer amount of vulgarity combined with that almost ritualistic despair, made for a phrase that had a sort of weird, almost magnetic pull. Now, you won't hear this thrown around in polite company—unless that "polite company" consists entirely of people who enjoy actively upsetting each other. Essentially, the whole point is to be aggressively dismissive and frankly, a little pathetic. There’s an undercurrent of admitting defeat and basically telling the recipient you absolutely don't care if they are upset. . The
