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Who gives a crap?

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RosePetalsRose · 25/10/2025 15:07

Has anyone seen these ads advertising toilet paper?
my kids keep repeating it and saying i thought ‘crap’ was a bad word.
I've always thought of it as swearing. It is isnt it? 😂😬

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TheBewleySisters · 25/10/2025 15:29

I am a very sweary individual and broad-minded, but that 'who gives a crap' ad makes me cringe, I don't know why I find it so distasteful, but I do. I mean, I like to sing along with the much-maligned Pepto-Bismol jingle, but I turn into a purse-lipped maiden aunt at the other one.

Devilsmommy · 25/10/2025 15:15

Also a sweary fucker but don't see crap as swearing tbh

MagpiePi · 25/10/2025 15:15

I’d rather hear the word crap than the word poo, which sounds twee and childish to me.

Rainallnight · 25/10/2025 15:14

I’m personally very fucking sweary but I don’t swear in front of my kids, do consider crap a swear word, and do hate these ads.

ScrambledEggs12 · 25/10/2025 15:13

I have never seen crap as swearing.

Arlanymor · 25/10/2025 15:12

I don't really think crap is a swear word these days. Plus Thomas Crapper invented the toilet, so the fact it ever became something even remotely unseemly has always seemed very silly to me.

RosePetalsRose · 25/10/2025 15:11

Obviously crap means poo. But i didnt think swear words were allowed in daytime advertising.

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RainySundayAfternoon · 25/10/2025 15:08

Yes but that’s the point of their name 😊😊