This is the answer. Whenever English speakers say ‘fuck this’, ‘fuck that’, ‘fuck [insert here]’, even a ‘fuck you!’, they’re using the word ‘fuck’ as a slang synonym for the imperative ‘forget’
I don’t know, that seems a bit above a children’s cartoon. I got in trouble for saying it in fourth grade 🤷♀️
Does anyone remember the show “My Gym Partner’s A Monkey”? They censored the word butt in the intro, and I was never quite sure if the joke was that they actually weren’t allowed to say that.
It depends on what you are trying to get across with the meme. If you don't care about being negative towards the band at all you could even remove the "Fuck" and add a question mark to make it "Imagine Dragons? Imagine Monkeys!"
'Fuck' works just fine imo but if you really have to go so PG with this particular meme then I'd have to agree with the top comment. Do a Cee Lo Green and change it to 'forget' so that you can milk that sweet, sweet, radio play time unimpeded
lol that's a difficult one.
"Radio play time" means "air time." It means a length of time where you can play your song on the radio. You can't play songs with the word "fuck" on the radio, so musicians replace it.
That comment is using "milk" as a verb. The literal meaning would be "to draw milk out of an animal's udders." This comment is using it figuratively, meaning "to get value out of something."
To "milk that radio play time" means, "get value from your song playing on the radio." They are saying that if you change the word "fuck" to a different word, you could get your song on the radio, and then get money or clout.
(Sorry if that's a bad explanation.)
It took me some time to understand it, but I got it. Thanksss
It is funny by the way, because I am asking for help struggling with such basic words and the person above crushes me with such a phrase making me feel fully lost
To "milk" can mean to get something, usually implying getting money.
You can't play swearwords on the radio, so if you get rid of "fuck" in a song and change it to "forget," you could still play your song on the radio and get paid for it.
"Milk," as a verb can have other connotations, but that's the general meaning here
There are a few songs where the original lyrics have "fuck" in them and the artist made a version where they substituted "forget" or something else for it so it could play on any radio station. Many artists do this and they are known as "clean" or "radio" versions.
This is my favorite by far. It changes the meaning a bit by removing all negative connotations. Instead of insulting the band, you're giving an alternative.
"Screw" is slightly less offensive and means the exact same thing. "Forget" is the only non-curse word I can think of that works in this context.
In English "clean" versions of media, anytime someone says "fuck," it gets dubbed over as "forget." As in, "Forget you, man!" But you can totally see from the actor's lips that he said fuck. Back in the good old days before streaming when movies had to be edited for television lol.
Forget Imagine Dragons is a good suggestion, but what I'd personally do is
"Imagine Dragons" (in quotes)
Imagine Monkeys
The quotes make it sound like you're responding to someone who told you to imagine dragons, I think it works better than "Forget"
Damn doesn’t really work here because the phrase being used means something closer to “forget Imagine Dragons”.
“Damn Imagine Dragons” sounds like you are calling them morally wrong. “Damn you!” or “damn this thing!” is what you may say to your enemy or something you don’t like for a specific reason. “Fuck that” is more dismissive.
“Damn it”, however, is most often used by itself as just a general all purpose swear word. Something bad happens, you just say “damn it”
You can’t change fuck, once something has become fuck it is impossible to un-fuck.
Because fuck is such a fucking versatile word you can just fucking put it anywhere, wherever the fuck you like, and it will fit 99% of the time
All right, I guess I just didn't get it. But now I'm curious. What is the original meaning?
EDIT: I'm down to minus three rating. I'll just delete the original. I want to see what happens to the replies when I do that.
Original meaning is: “You should stop imagining dragons for imagining monkeys is far better.” and is a joke about the band named Imagine Dragons.
So yeah, I would use forget in place of fuck to make it completely G rated, or screw to make it PG-13.
Forget
The CeeLo method.
Exactly what I was going to say!
I saw the picture before I read the title and the first thing I thought of was the kid's song "Puff the magic dragon" with those words as the lyrics.
Damn I think you’re on to something here
Okay. Let's all sing it together! 😂
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Nice 👍👍
This is the answer. Whenever English speakers say ‘fuck this’, ‘fuck that’, ‘fuck [insert here]’, even a ‘fuck you!’, they’re using the word ‘fuck’ as a slang synonym for the imperative ‘forget’
You could change it to “screw”, it makes the same meaning.
True, but that's still seen as somewhat vulgar.
It is, yeah, but it’s more acceptable to say “screw that” instead of “fuck that” from my experience.
Screw is a word you would put into a children's cartoon to seem edgy, without saying anything that would really offend anyone.
I don’t know, that seems a bit above a children’s cartoon. I got in trouble for saying it in fourth grade 🤷♀️ Does anyone remember the show “My Gym Partner’s A Monkey”? They censored the word butt in the intro, and I was never quite sure if the joke was that they actually weren’t allowed to say that.
What the screw
Forget would also work
It depends on what you are trying to get across with the meme. If you don't care about being negative towards the band at all you could even remove the "Fuck" and add a question mark to make it "Imagine Dragons? Imagine Monkeys!"
screw imagine dragons, to hell with imagine dragons, forget imagine dragons
What word *can I* change “f*ck” to?
Oopssss.. didn't even notice that. Thank you for correcting me
No worries💜
Change “f*ck” to “fuck”. Easy.
I might use the phrase, "To Hell with".
To heck with!
Idk why this was downvoted, it is correct.
To heck with the downvoters!
Enough with…
If you want that slightly Yiddish vibe!
I think "forget" works best here.
don't is pretty good but this is one of very few cases it would work it
This actually would be the best replacement for this particular context imo.
Screw
Apes! Imagine apes. Chimps are not monkeys.
Screw, stuff, and forget could all work here
Intercourse
You mean "fuck"?
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'Fuck' works just fine imo but if you really have to go so PG with this particular meme then I'd have to agree with the top comment. Do a Cee Lo Green and change it to 'forget' so that you can milk that sweet, sweet, radio play time unimpeded
Now explain what "milk sweet radio play time" means
lol that's a difficult one. "Radio play time" means "air time." It means a length of time where you can play your song on the radio. You can't play songs with the word "fuck" on the radio, so musicians replace it. That comment is using "milk" as a verb. The literal meaning would be "to draw milk out of an animal's udders." This comment is using it figuratively, meaning "to get value out of something." To "milk that radio play time" means, "get value from your song playing on the radio." They are saying that if you change the word "fuck" to a different word, you could get your song on the radio, and then get money or clout. (Sorry if that's a bad explanation.)
It took me some time to understand it, but I got it. Thanksss It is funny by the way, because I am asking for help struggling with such basic words and the person above crushes me with such a phrase making me feel fully lost
sorry lol, not my intent :)
In your defense, I had to read the phrase a couple times before I got it. It's a complicated turn of phrase even for native English speakers!
To "milk" can mean to get something, usually implying getting money. You can't play swearwords on the radio, so if you get rid of "fuck" in a song and change it to "forget," you could still play your song on the radio and get paid for it. "Milk," as a verb can have other connotations, but that's the general meaning here
There are a few songs where the original lyrics have "fuck" in them and the artist made a version where they substituted "forget" or something else for it so it could play on any radio station. Many artists do this and they are known as "clean" or "radio" versions.
Don’t
This is my favorite by far. It changes the meaning a bit by removing all negative connotations. Instead of insulting the band, you're giving an alternative.
Don’t
Chimps aren't monkeys.
That’s where the imagination comes in
I think you answered your own question in the title of your post.
"Screw" is slightly less offensive and means the exact same thing. "Forget" is the only non-curse word I can think of that works in this context. In English "clean" versions of media, anytime someone says "fuck," it gets dubbed over as "forget." As in, "Forget you, man!" But you can totally see from the actor's lips that he said fuck. Back in the good old days before streaming when movies had to be edited for television lol.
Arctic Dragons💀
Screw
Ask the Mormons. They're great at creative cursing.
I am afraid of them, huh
Shpadoinkle (From Trey Parker's semi-historically accurate "Cannibal: The Musical.")
“make love to”
never change the word fuck, its usually in the right place
"Screw" would be my choice
Forget
I'll imagine an infinite number of monkeys on infinite typewriters...
Arctic Monkeys
Arctic Dragons
In this context, “forget” works well
Forget
Forget, screw, or change the word order
Anyone have this image without the words as a monkey enjoyer this is a potential profile picture for me.
Screw
"Forget"
I've started spelling it with a y. I might double the f and pretend to be Welsh.
To hell with
train
Frick
“Bugger”
Frick
Dispose, is one of the funnier ones.
“Toothbrush”.
Forget, screw, nevermind
Screw
screw
Disregard is a fun one in this situation
Screw
Bun
Fri*k
Forget
Literally my phobia
What the fork
Forget
No more might work but “to hell with” and “forget” are better choices
“Never mind Imagine Dragons” would also work (but is way more polite to them).
As an Australian, the appropriate replacement would be cunt.
Unfortunately there are too many idiots in this world that we do not have to imagine monkeys.
“frick” it’ll make it funnier i promise
Frick, screw, forget
"Screw" is pretty common
As very common in Ireland, ànd familiar to viewers of "Father Ted", you could replace it with "Feck".
Forget Imagine Dragons is a good suggestion, but what I'd personally do is "Imagine Dragons" (in quotes) Imagine Monkeys The quotes make it sound like you're responding to someone who told you to imagine dragons, I think it works better than "Forget"
Forget. But you have to also change monkeys to apes.
the most accurate answer is probably "damn"
You already did.
Screw
Snoregasim
Frack or fork
Screw
Sod? Though not sure its still used by everyday people anymore!
Came here to say this! Definitely works in Britain if you don’t want to be very crude.
Funny word "sod", cos you are right its softened version of fuck, but wonder if it comes from sodemy / sodimite?
It does originally, but I don’t know how many people know it anymore or use it intending that meaning. Kind of similar to “damn it.”
Thank you all! Would you say that "damn" would also work here? If not, when to use "damn it"?
Damn doesn’t really work here because the phrase being used means something closer to “forget Imagine Dragons”. “Damn Imagine Dragons” sounds like you are calling them morally wrong. “Damn you!” or “damn this thing!” is what you may say to your enemy or something you don’t like for a specific reason. “Fuck that” is more dismissive. “Damn it”, however, is most often used by itself as just a general all purpose swear word. Something bad happens, you just say “damn it”
Will keep in mind, tnx🙌
Damn doesn't really work the same way as fuck. You say Damn it when something bad happened, fuck is more versatile ig
Okay, thank you !🙌
It'd change the meaning, but imo it makes it funnier by adding the "damning" aspect.
No it doesn't work. 'Forget' is probably your best option here.
frick
Stuff
I like using fork instead of the f word
Screw, cancel
cancel has a drastically different meaning. It wouldn't really work here
Disregard
Nevermind
Not a word, but maybe, "Give up on"?
Frick
Sex
Disown? Pooh-pooh?
Snub!
Frick
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frak
Feck Imagine Dragons
To the Devil with.
Beshrew.
Frick
Scorn
You can’t change fuck, once something has become fuck it is impossible to un-fuck. Because fuck is such a fucking versatile word you can just fucking put it anywhere, wherever the fuck you like, and it will fit 99% of the time
copulate
Buick
frak
Frick
Heck
This doesn't really work. People will sometimes use "heck" in this way, but it's very jokey. In general, "heck" is a euphemism for "hell," not "fuck."
Heck that bullshit
[relevant xkcd](https://xkcd.com/75/) (note to english learners: don't use the word in that comic unless you know what you're doing lol)
impregnate
I normally with nonsense words like "what the schminkle" or "kablamo that person" something along those lines
Change Disregard Forego Alter Off goes Away goes Why No Not Rip My condolences to Moving on from There's a lot imma stop tho
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none of these work at all, let alone retain the original meaning.
All right, I guess I just didn't get it. But now I'm curious. What is the original meaning? EDIT: I'm down to minus three rating. I'll just delete the original. I want to see what happens to the replies when I do that.
Original meaning is: “You should stop imagining dragons for imagining monkeys is far better.” and is a joke about the band named Imagine Dragons. So yeah, I would use forget in place of fuck to make it completely G rated, or screw to make it PG-13.
"THOU ART ENOUGHET OF THEE"
Eh? I am done with English, seriously
nah im just stupid this isnt even english
Then okay, hahah