Would you (or your g/f) be offended by being called "knocked up" when pregnant?

no

why, did you get knocked up?

twice

i've only ever used the expression for either an unwanted pregnancy or pregnancy out of wedlock that results in a marriage proposal.

but I doubt there is a dictionary definition, but I can see how it would be offensive for someone who is pegnant to be referred to as 'knocked up'

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=knocked+up

well there you go, I'm not the only one.

PS: nice explanations underneath :P

wow... what classy explinations of the term.

None of them are by someone older than 15

you think the term 'knocked up' deserves a classy explanation? :P

Well, you would think if you were going to give it a proper explination that it would be done by someone with at least SOME education.

At the moment it looks like no-one over 15 bothers to log onto urban dictinary and add a description.

THEN if you want to go a step up and use www.dictionary.com

It says slang for pregnant... OWWWWWW real offensive

1 entry found for knocked up.
Main Entry: knocked up
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: pregnant
Usage: slang

I think it's somewhat offensive

I'm with Spidz. And it's meant to be offensive - get over it. You're supposed to be happily married before u start popping out kids.

haha my arguement isn't if it is or isn't offensive. My arguement was that the only back up they had for that were decriptions made up by 15 year olds :)

I am fully aware that some people find it offensive and I am not here to say "ZOMG you are wrong" :P

I bet most 15 year olds can spell argument

If I make spelling mistakes I get more attention

so what was the point of the thread?

someone called you knocked up and you were/weren't offended? or you were wondering if you should or shouldn't be offended?

spidz, to give you something to do... obviously

I bet most 15 year olds can spell argument

and descriptions

In the standard Australian venacular, Knocked up means pregnant .. nothing more nothing less

I have seen the term used with a 34 year old married mother expecting their second child.

As to wether you get offended or not, that your own business (personally getting worked up over any phrase is pointless, the meaning of the word is far more important then the spelling or even which particular word you select).

I love to suck a big dick all day long

You're a bogan from Ipswich if you can't think 'knocked up' is a better way to describe someone being pregnant.

'Jap' use to be a shortned word for Japanese. Now it's Offencive slang.
This is because of the way people used it...

Same thing happened to Knocked Up IMO.
I don't really think it's totally offencive, but then again I wouldn't find Jap offencive.
Go up to a person of Japanese decent and call them a 'Jap' and i'll bet you that you'll get slapped or atleast a dirty look.

You're a bogan from Ipswich if you can't think 'knocked up' is a better way to describe someone being pregnant.

Yes because heaven forbid you should use a non proper word in day to day life to describe a situation :P



Oh and I don't find the phrase offensive, so you guys can stop trying to put little subtle meanings in your post.

As far as I care it just means you're pregnant, so I don't see how it can be that offensive.

lol non proper word

In order to be offended by something someone says you must respect them. If you have no respect for them then there is no reason to be offended.

But onto the particular at hand, it would depend how it was said and in what context but generally no, knocked up isn't offensive.

Persay.. I thought it fitted in well

Surely the word "improper" must be printed on pregnancy tests somewhere (I'm implying instructions to pregnancy tests is the extent of your appreciation of literature)

You can imply what ever you like. It wont' make your penis grow

It's not offensive. Why would you ask Kat?

I wouldn't call it offensive. Crass perhaps, but not offensive.

I masturbate over good zingers I read on qgl, so it'll clearly make it grow ;)

It all depends how you said it, where you said it and why you said it.
In general its not offensive but if you say it to someone who got pregnant from someone that ran off, then its understandable that they would be offended, but even then its down to how you say it.

we really don't care

But you cared enough to post
awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

If i was a bizzle I wouldnt like it, it sounds like rape..

When I hear it i picture big black guys and ropes and screaming, not nice, dont use it

When I hear it i picture big black guys and ropes and screaming, not nice, dont use it

A breif excursion into the phycie of jmr.

"That filthy slut got knocked up by those 8 guys she f***ed at that party" : Offensive.

"Jill told me she got knocked up recently by her boyfriend" : Not Offensive (stating a fact).

As others have said, for a term to be offensive it must have intent behind it.

"f*** off" can be said in many 2 main ways, one being directly offensive (telling someone to f*** off) or as a statement of surprise and bewilderment.

English is a great language for subtle and not so subtle nuances in pitch, tone and body language.

But you cared enough to post
awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

Yes I post to say I don't care because I really don't care what you think I think.

But I know that you know that I know you care!

Xy is right. Good post.

A STORM IS OTW

English is a great language for subtle and not so subtle nuances in pitch, tone and body language.

f*** off f*****.

no, she wouldnt be;
but she would be upset in that i would throw her out in the street

Sif get offended about 'knocked up', it's the same as 'up the duff' or 'bun in the oven'. Would you get offended if someone said:

"Kat, you make threads which imply a personal significance to your own life but don't provide any details with said significance. Then you get snappy with people who try to suss out said significance. Either make an entire emo thread or none at all."?

It's entirely rhetorical, would you be offended if someone said that?

hahaha if I make a thread and ask a question and then give reasons as to why I asked, I get told to stop making threads about myself.

I can't win :)

Oh and no.. this is QGL.... You can get 20 different opinions from 13 different people, if I took them all on board... god help me

so why do you keep asking then?

making a thread you start yourslef about yourself is entirely acceptable, just about everyone does it. Considering they started the thread its to be expected, depending on the topic of course....

its when you take other peoples threads and make them about yourself (not always entirely your own fault) thats pisses most off I assume. sometimes its not your fault, somtimes it is. More often than not, you make a subtle post that will eventually lead back to you and claim it wasn't your intention to do so, but its obvious to all that it was.

Yeah what spidz said, it's the subtelty that - whether you intend for it to be there or not, although I've been told you are smarter than you seem so I'll go ahead and assume you put it there on purpose - gets you classed as an attention whore and annoying and thread-derailing. Feel free to post a personaly thread with some background info (just not a long endless rant with '...discuss' at the end). Also try not to bite when people like Lowgoz troll you, it takes him like 10 seconds to post some random words and like 4 pages to get the thread back on track.

So obvious that you have to explain it?

Those are terms which have no respect. Some people use them with you becuase they do not respect you at all.

If they did not dislike you then they would say 'she is pregnant' etc etc.

Nope, in fact we referred to one of my teacher's at my high school (all girl's school I might add) as Knocked Up Spice after her first trimester.

(all girl's school I might add)

Pics or lying...

:P

omg Amaya's a chick? That better not be you in your avatar :(

I can't believe you only just realised this Persay

She has 74 posts and most of them are probably worthless and neglect the fact she has boobs and I don't really look at avatars

Yes that's me in my avatar, why does this warrant sad faces?

I find it sad when people get facial tattoos. I don't believe that's you anyway, take a pic of you with a piece of paper with "<3 Persay" on it for proof

You twat it's makeup, I work corporate IT and have to look somewhat normal during the week.

Various QGLers have seen me looking like that anyway but if you're that desperate I'll take one when I get home.

Or you can visit her website and see all of her other pics

if you're that desperate I'll take one when I get home

that I am

At least you admit it.

The one thing persay does prove is that hunter isn't the biggest retard in existance... only the second biggest.

she has a website?

that not true no one can get close to hunter?

spidz you old hippy transvestite poo poo head click the www button below her post

did you have a bad day obes :(

did you have a bad day obes :(

Any day you post Persay is a bad day =)

Amaya, Had a look at your website (train wreck, have to watch etc)
Anyways, I think I actually used to know one of the chick's on your website (mayb, was long time ago) - the flash for cash chick. She used to hang out with some of the friends an I for a while when I was into the whole medievil thing.

That would be way to bizarre if it was..

Why HERMItech?

Did you lay siege to her crimson-walled castle and heav'd and curs'd and thrust fair your mighty lance twixt her dainty trunks as they rode b'neath thine, whence thou mounted her shuddering rosy-cheek'd buttock?

It should be stated that that girl was known on the goth scene as "the necromule"

Talk about train wrecks...

goth scene? this thread is an abyss!

i don't understand why pretty girls wear black lipstick and put facepainted tears down their cheeks and put on the most :((((((((((((((( face they can muster

It looks better on a webcam.

that girl was known on the goth scene as "the necromule"

Was that because despite being a 'dead root' she could take a disproportionately large load?

Persay, for a second there I thought you were in.. but I see no picture... there there..

Talk about train wrecks...

yup, that sounds like her (an the crowd I was hanging out with WAYYY back then...)

I wonder if any of em ever went on to doing anything productive with their lives?

meh.. Don't care =)

I <3 goths that hang in the city :)

No idea how this thread ended up where it did, but in a vain attempt to get back on track, I have to quote from the work of Heath Ledger in his epic masterpiece "10 Things I Hate About You"...

"Who knocked up your sister?" :-)

Kat you dont deserve to be knocked up, more like knocked out.

f*** up sand n*****

^^lol

^lol

f*** up sand n*****

couldnt have said it better myself

I was coerced into attending a baby shower once. She was only doing it to try and prove to her girlie friends that she had me under her thumb. I didn't want to go and quite pointedly brought this to her attention, (s'kay, she had large dark sunglasses so it all ended up ok).

Anyway's, despite telling her twice, that I thought it would be a bad idea for me to attend I was forced to tag along anyway (something about some deal of not pressing charges??).

So, under protest I go along thinking how much this sucks when get this epiphany!

I pretend to be this completely thumb printed hen pecked potential husband until my inevitable opportunity presents itself....

When all the pressies were being dished out was dating at the time, the wench pulls out this little red dress for a present.

Without missing a beat, I reach over all smiles an effected "ga ga" noises, deftly ripping the outfit off the coat hanger in front of all these chicks and placed the coat hanger in one hand, the red dress in the other grinned an with a wink said
"There ya go love, just what the doctor ordered, it’s the deluxe edition see, even comes with a bandage's conveniently coloured so you don't get squeamish about all the blood!

As I walked out onto the patio to join the couple of other luckless lads, you could have heard a pin drop ;P

Well.. actually, it was a coat hanger I heard getting dropped, either that or that other funny sound objects make as they're embedded into a wall just near your ear...

Needless to say, I never had to worry about attending any more dumb ass baby showers

aha it's team douchebag redneck nerd and pill popping midget raver.

The inbreeding is certainly obvious in your family.

f***heads.

am i reading correctly, is hermi a f***** who hits women?

and tells them to get a home abortion at their own baby shower too!

If you're not man enough to simply say no and have her accept that, then you ARE henpecked as you put it. Pussy whipped.

edit: for the record I call bs but whatever

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^^ mwhahaahaha
I like the way you focus on the innuendo with the the sunnies instead of the abortion gift at a baby shower (which was what the yarn was about)...

poor poor spidz..
He get married an now he's all politically correct an s***

pussy..

You didn't know?

spidz beats his wife with a keyboard.

*shrug* hitting females is lame (unless they decide to get in a ring with you), and the abortion joke unfunny.

And not hitting females is not political correctness, its the law. And that law applies to hitting anyone.

well, that went badly

and the abortion joke unfunny.

How can an abortion joke NOT be funny???

you hate sport and you think hitting women is funny. Are you SURE that you're a man?

http://images.ausimages.com/upload/2005-09-30/PYSCHOTech.jpg

^^^^ Need I say more?!

Abortion joke + pregnant woman + baby shower = not funny

lol @ at made up psycho pic again.

you hate sport and you think hitting women is funny. Are you SURE that you're a man?

Your right, perhaps I should update my sig I got off a Saturday morning Hercules cartoon around 6 years ago..

How bout

Female Circumcision is no joking matter. Nip it in the bud NOW!

Sounds like someone sodomised a few too many kittens when they were younger...

I never touched kitten...
I hear she's not of legal age so *no touchy*

*shrug* hitting females is lame (unless they decide to get in a ring with you), and the abortion joke unfunny.

And not hitting females is not political correctness, its the law. And that law applies to hitting anyone.

Sounds like Obes just went off on a god damn tangent.

Sounds like Yzearg forgets when he's replied to a thread or not

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=knocked+up

heh

That was the worst bump I have ever seen... specially since that was post #5

Pregnant out of wedlock, Bearing a bastard child.
"i knocked up some irc slut"

i just found the new editions quite amusing