I just can't think of a word that adequately replaces clusterfuck. Suggestions?

12/19/2011 4:18:00 PM

during more formal meetings where i work, folks will just say "cluster" and everyone understands

[Edited on December 19, 2011 at 4:19 PM. Reason : so idk why we don't just say "clusterfuck"]

12/19/2011 4:19:15 PM

train wreck.

Next.

12/19/2011 4:19:22 PM

logjam is the closest I can think of, but nothing compares

12/19/2011 4:19:25 PM

clusterfudge

12/19/2011 4:20:29 PM

H8R nailed it

12/19/2011 4:20:58 PM

Quote :

" BIG O MESS"

12/19/2011 4:21:29 PM

Partner here says FUBAR, new hire who served told him he shouldn't use that term so freely, partner tells him to fuck off

12/19/2011 4:21:51 PM

ClassicMixup

[Edited on December 19, 2011 at 4:40 PM. Reason : .]

12/19/2011 4:40:29 PM

quagmire

boondoggle

12/19/2011 4:54:48 PM

Imbroglio

12/19/2011 4:56:29 PM

Charlie Foxtrot

12/19/2011 4:59:33 PM

quagmire, morass, impasse

12/19/2011 6:14:34 PM

2012 GOP Primary.

12/19/2011 6:17:42 PM

^lol

12/19/2011 6:18:10 PM

Klatypus just got trolled by the Trollking.

12/19/2011 6:26:33 PM

?

12/19/2011 6:28:53 PM

conundrum

^ pryderi would fuck up a wet dream

[Edited on December 19, 2011 at 6:32 PM. Reason : wet dream]

12/19/2011 6:31:22 PM

circlejerk

[Edited on December 19, 2011 at 6:36 PM. Reason : ruckus, orgy, mess]

12/19/2011 6:34:55 PM

I just love my little entourage of haters.



[Edited on December 19, 2011 at 6:39 PM. Reason : ...]

12/19/2011 6:36:57 PM

my favorite:

Monkey fucking a football

12/19/2011 8:20:28 PM

I usually go with "cluster of ducks".

12/19/2011 8:21:17 PM

FUBAR

though thats not really a noun

12/19/2011 8:22:36 PM

Mongolian Cluster.

12/19/2011 9:15:58 PM

fubar?

I'm Krallum and I approved this message.

[Edited on December 19, 2011 at 9:17 PM. Reason : did not read thread]

12/19/2011 9:17:19 PM

clusterfunk

12/19/2011 9:29:39 PM

cluster hump

12/19/2011 9:42:49 PM

I am sorry, but I thought it was funny. Clearly a company would not put sexist remarks in their pants if they were not a joke.

Quote :

"It all started when the Daily Telegraph‘s Digital Media Editor Emma Barnett found a pair of her boyfriend’s pants while she was cleaning her house. The pants’ large white tag caught her eye, and a closer look caused her to tweet a photo of its washing instructions on Monday: In a post for the Telegraph, Barnett picked apart the tag’s sexist message, writing: “Even the language — ‘Your Woman’ — presupposed some kind of Neanderthal mentality from my boyfriend, an unwilling shopper after some affordable chinos — preferably not lined with sexist imperatives.” Live Poll These pants are... The pants come from British discount brand Madhouse. She reached out to the company, who were slow to reply, though they eventually responded that they had no clue the tag read as such. This seems pretty unlikely — someone at Madhouse had to have given the text the okay. (A message Wednesday on the Madhouse homepage says the web site is "closed for maintenance work and will be back online shortly." Hmmm, sewing new labels on all their pants, perhaps?) Barnett’s thoughts on the matter echo our own: If the comment had been remotely funny — I would have been the first to laugh and shrug it off — as it really wouldn’t have bothered me enough to photograph it, tweet it, and then write about it. But it was the lack of any implied humor and the horrible surprise of such an incongruous message hidden away inside some trousers, that left me just plain stunned."

/afuckinglightheartedfunny

3/7/2012 9:29:37 PM

a clusterfuck

3/7/2012 9:31:25 PM

I mean, it seems she discovered this while doing his laundry, so.....

3/7/2012 9:34:07 PM

Fuck PC and use clusterfuck.
However, if you must tone it down you can us all the previous suggestions an I'll add another:
goat-rope.

Looks like we just made a thesaurus entry for clusterfuck.

3/7/2012 9:36:10 PM

^^ THREAD WINNAR

[Edited on March 7, 2012 at 9:37 PM. Reason : dang it]

3/7/2012 9:37:12 PM

Quote :

"I mean, it seems she discovered this while doing his laundry, so....."

lol.

3/7/2012 9:52:32 PM

clusterwhoops

3/9/2012 1:19:33 AM

The word you're looking for here is "gagglefuck."

3/9/2012 1:45:56 AM

Ive said clustermess before

3/9/2012 3:01:44 AM

When my subordinates have created a clusterfuck I tell them so. When my boss has done it I call it an "area of opportunity."

3/9/2012 7:04:42 AM

+1 for Charlie Foxtrot.

I was around 6 when my grandfather told me the real meaning behind the phrase he used to describe Thanksgiving & Christmas. Foxtrottin' Alpha.

3/9/2012 7:15:17 AM

I'm a fan of gaggle. Even when I'm not trying to be PC.

Also, 90% of the suggestions in this thread are arguably more offensive in a PC environment than clusterfuck.

3/9/2012 8:27:18 AM

This term and the majority of phrases in this thread are used on a regular basis in the infantry and i would imagine most of the military

This was one of the reasons i loved the military, being "PC" simply ment you had to piss eveeyone off equally

[Edited on March 9, 2012 at 8:39 AM. Reason : k]

3/9/2012 8:36:05 AM

"clusterfuck" is such a dumb, overused phrase

3/9/2012 9:45:52 AM

Cluster whoopee

3/9/2012 11:40:41 AM

Quote :

"logjam is the closest I can think of, but nothing compares"

3/9/2012 11:46:33 AM