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Originally Posted by altonacke
fwiw insults including someones mother will get u in serious trouble in many european countries and im not talking about penalties given out by poker room staff. nfi why americans often seem to think its acceptable to call others motherf*****s and such
Insults about someone's mother aren't taken kindly here, either, but a) usually such comments are done in jest rather than anger, and b) motherF-er isn't really an insult about the recipient's mother.
In fact, MFer so ubiquitous as a word that it's pretty much a meaningless slur that is rarely if ever taken literally. Sort of like "son of a *****." Technically, it's an insult that references a parent, but I can't imagine many people hear it that way.