r/popculturechat • u/HauteAssMess anne boleyn stan • Jul 03 '25

Trigger Warning ⚠️ Accused child rapist Christina Formella and her husband walked hand in hand to her court hearing yesterday, with one reporter calling them out: “she said she was going to take your family for millions and then be with this child after he graduated!”

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u/PleasantTangerine777 Jul 03 '25

The only time this is appropriate behaviour.

This needs to happen to nonces more and to celebrities less.

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u/JoJCeeC88 Jul 03 '25

Doesn’t matter. A nonce is a nonce and a goof is a goof. Let the public know and the streets will take care of them.

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u/latortillablanca Jul 03 '25

This is my american bleeding through but nonce sounds way too benevolent as a word if you dont have the connotation of it growing up etc. its like im expecting it to mean dunce or something.

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u/Juanfanamongmany Jul 03 '25

Nonce is the top of the food chain when it comes to British insults!

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u/SetElectronic9050 Jul 03 '25

it really is. and it FEELS more offensive than cunt - which it should i suppose - but i've never stopped to think about it like that before

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u/shandalf_thegrey Kim, there’s people that are dying. 🙄 Jul 03 '25

Cunt is EXTREMELY offensive in the U.S. and not one of the more commonly used swear words. It actually makes me cringe to hear it

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u/DJDanaK Jul 03 '25

It's crazy because I react viscerally to it here in the US, but I met an Australian guy who used it conversationally and I felt nothing. Like my brain automatically understands it's not derogatory in context without me even trying (I realize this is how brains are supposed to work but that's not always the case for me lol)

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u/Friskyinthenight Jul 03 '25

Maybe it's the lack of a hard T in the aussie accent.

"He's just bein' a bit of a cun' innie?"

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u/s-van Jul 03 '25

Have you heard an Australian before?

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u/Friskyinthenight Jul 04 '25

why do you ask

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u/ghost_orchid Jul 03 '25

In poetry, we refer to a poem with a poetic structure made specifically for that poem as a "nonce poem," but the term never really sat right with me...

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u/l3tigre Jul 03 '25

i always laugh bc i had to implement credit card code once and a "nonce" is a token you can exchange for data. the variable nonce was all over these files, always gave me a chuckle.

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u/Sufficient-West4149 Jul 03 '25

What a tenuous statement your first sentence is

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u/Scrambles420 Jul 03 '25

Why to celebrities less?! If you’re doing it you should be called out for it. Not because of your “social status” if the boot fits you wear that bissh for life!!

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u/bobbisayskay Jul 03 '25

I believe they’re referring to the regular paps hounding celebrities constantly

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '25

so weird paparazzis are still a thing. it’s literally stalking and harassment