“Fuck off is such a lovely pair of words, and even though it’s an English language phrase, it can be used virtually anywhere in the world. It’s international.

“Fuck off doesn’t mean go away, fuck off means fuck off...” ~ Billy Connelly 

Note that the Fuck in F/O is an entirely different Fuck than the one in No fucks were given. Neither is it the same as the fuck in the phrase What The Actual Fuck, nor even the fuck in fuckwit and fucktard.

This article originally ran in September 2014.

Here’s the original video on YouTube:

It’s a fucking multiplicitous and wonderful word, fuck. It and its phrases communicate SO many things beyond the literal.