A Unified Theory of Fucks

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My kids have a book about “buckets” - where you can empty other buckets or fill them up.

This is the sweary adult version :-)

In Finnish there is also a nasty yet much more eloquent saying.

Well don’t leave us hanging :-)

With pronunciation please !

I can actually think about three highly idiomatic expressions, none of which translate well, and some of which apparently younger Finns neither understand any longer. The most obvious would be something along "who is given and who receives". But as said, the pun doesn't translate that well.

Please share them (also in the Finnish translation). I'd love to learn them.

Putting a word in for Jo Dee Messina's enthusiastic breakup anthem, "My Give-a-Damn's Busted" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Give_a_Damn%27s_Busted

I really want to care / I want to feel somethin' / Let me dig a little deeper ... ... Naw, Sorry, Nothin' / My give a damn's busted.

If we're putting in plugs, I'll nominate the comically jolly and rather catchy "I've No More Fucks To Give" from Thomas Benjamin Wild Esq.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8Rsretl-qQ I find myself humming it far more often that I really should.

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