{"id":21,"date":"2007-08-17T20:33:14","date_gmt":"2007-08-17T10:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yewenyi.wordpress.com\/2007\/08\/17\/wanker\/"},"modified":"2007-08-17T20:33:14","modified_gmt":"2007-08-17T10:33:14","slug":"wanker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"wanker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was surprised to learn, after living here for a few years, (perhaps I am a slow learner) \u00a0that some people, at least, in Sydney think that the term Wanker means someone who has sex with prostitutes. very strange. I always use the term as so aptly described in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wanker\">Wikipedia<\/a>:\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19px\"><strong>Wanker<\/strong> is a\u00a0<a title=\"Pejorative\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pejorative\">pejorative<\/a> term of\u00a0<a title=\"United Kingdom\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Kingdom\">British<\/a> origin, common in\u00a0<a title=\"UK\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UK\">Britain<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Republic of Ireland\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Republic_of_Ireland\">Ireland<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Australia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Australia\">Australia<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"New Zealand\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Zealand\">New Zealand<\/a>, and\u00a0<a title=\"South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Africa\">South Africa<\/a>, and gaining usage in\u00a0<a title=\"Canada\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Canada\">Canada<\/a> and the\u00a0<a title=\"United States\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\">United States<\/a>. It initially referred to &#8220;one who masturbates&#8221; but has since become a general insult. It is synonymous with tosser and toss-pot. In parts of the UK the word &#8216;tosser&#8217; and its other forms have become so widespread that it isn&#8217;t generally regarded as a swear word and is socially acceptable in general conversation.<\/span><br \/>\nThough I never use the word tosser in this manner. Some people here in Sydney do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was surprised to learn, after living here for a few years, (perhaps I am a slow learner) \u00a0that some[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[2051,3987],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sydney","tag-language","tag-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}