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What I find particularly amusing about these Spanish obscenities is the way that you can string them together to obtain bonus points and make them even more offensive.

For example you can progressively go from:

"Me cago en (something)" (for example, "la leche")

To:

"Me cago en tu puta madre" (very offensive)

To:

"Me cago en la boca de tu puta madre" (extremely, incredibly offensive)

You can also neatly sum up the idea of shitting on the entire universe at once by saying:

"Me cago en todo lo que existe"

English insults strike me as positively bland in comparison.
 
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English insults strike me as positively bland in comparison.


die laughing hey Greguito, i could not agree with you more die laughing

for your last one above, i prefer ..."me cago en todo lo cagable" eeker

("i shit on everything shitable") eeker eeker

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Wasn't it Chiquito de la Calzada who said: "me cago en tus muelas", pretty sick image if you visualize that.
In Cuba there's a good one that follows that vein too: "me cago en el coño de tu madre", I know, we're so sweet. eeker And for anyone going that way, that is as insulting as it sounds, you hear that being said and it will be followed by the sound of a fist connecting with a face, so don't go around telling people that unless you want to be beat up.
And madsue, I think the difference in what your son said had more to do with it being a direct personal insult than using bad language. If a student tells me that my class is a "coñazo" (big c*&#), he's using bad language but he's not insulting me personally and directly, he's just saying that my class bores him to tears. However, if he tells me to go to "la mierda", even though the word itself is less offensive, it is a personal insult and I would be a lot more offended and consider it very disrespectful, either from a student or from anybody who treated me that way, unless I had said something worse first wink
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