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[โ€“] Dasus 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I take "what the absolute fuck" to mean there's a platonic ideal of "fuck" and that's what they're referring to.

But this did make me want to find out the etymology of "absolute" :

https://www.etymonline.com/word/absolute

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago

(thank|fuck)you, this is going to waste my whole weekend. A visual representation of etymology, that is awesome, I guess I am one of the 10,000 today