cursing in my language is way more fun.. english is so limited, it all comes down to referring to sex or genitals with a very limited set of basic words(fuck, cunt, dick)
in dutch we often use deseases, for example a common insult is 'teringlijer'(tuberculosissufferer)(tering can also be substituted with kanker, wich is cancer), but we also have some sexrelated ones, for example eikel, wich means both an acorn and the head of a penis. and there are more, like klootzak and lul.
tyfus(thyphoid) is also often referred to, and klere(cholera), now and then you also hear aids, but aids sounds not so good in curses. I did however have a friend in highschool who had a running joke of saying/yelling aids at the most random moments(he later switched to using syphilis and chlamydia)
the nice thing is that this way there are so many components that you can all combine into one curse.
under ordinary circumstances, like when I bump my toe into something, I prefer 'tering' because it has a very good sound for cursing. kanker also has a very good sound for that, but cursing with cancer is frowned upon by many people(those people see it as making fun of the sufferers of cancer), so I don't want to get into the habit of using 'kanker' as curse(also it's mostly used by highschoolkids who want to be rebellious, since it is frowned upon)
also something that I think is funny about dutch: saying 'neger' isn't really a problem here, but some of the words invented to replace it have gotten a way more negative feeling behind it. for example if I ever hear someone actually being racist against black people, they use the word 'zwarte(n)', wich is the adjective-form of black. most racism here is towards muslims though, so one of the words with the most negative sentiment behind it is 'allochtoon', wich is invented as a very politically correct term, but since every mediareport or political debate about anything involving someone non-white uses the term allochtoon(or the plural, allochtonen), it has also been adopted by people making racist statements, usually about morroccans/turks or people from the dutch antilles(well, actually they are maybe more dutch than moroccon/turkish/other, since most statements are directed towards 2nd-3rd generation immigrants, but they're still referred to as allochtoon, while an immmigrant from for example the US would technically be an allochtoon too, but would never be referred to as an allochtoon, at least, when white/european looking, but they are included in statistics mentioning allochtonen)
this has to be a joke.
