to think Fireman Sam shouldn't be (very mildly) swearing??

[MrsTicklemouse]

Ok, bit tongue in cheek really, just realised I could do my first ever AIBU :o

I just nearly fell off my chair when I heard one of the characters say Bloomin' 'eck, DS is totally oblivious!

Don't get me wrong, I'm not about to start ringing points of view, I don't think DS will be scarred for life and I don't think it's a proper swear word but I do wonder if it was really necessary, although I do love a bit of hidden innuendo in kids shows!!

It was proper Fireman Sam, not the new cartoon version!

You wouldn't like Fifi and the Flowertots then.It's all "Jumping geraniums!" and "Diddly dandelions!"

The musician who played the organ at our wedding (in one of Pontypandy's namesake towns) composed the theme tune to old Fireman Sam.

I wouldn't mind a toddler running around saying Jumping Geraniums or Diddly Dandelions

I know Bloomin' Heck isn't swearing - but it's just not a nice thing to hear a toddler saying is it? There's nothing wrong with a good 'Oh no!' at that age.

sausagerollmodel I have on occasion managed to save myself from actually swearing in front of the DCs with 'fiddling flowersticks' a la Fifi

As I say the post was really in jest, I think it was the gruff voice that took me by surprise, if it had been Dylis or someone I probably wouldn't have even noticed!

My 2 year old quite often exclaims 'Mamma Mia!' at the top of his voice, which I think is from Roary the Racing car

My two go around saying "oh bonkers" when they drop something which I assumed was them mishearing me saying bollocks but then I heard it on chuggington.

don't they say Bumpers on Chugginton?

ds's favourite is cinders and ashes and Great Fires of London said in a perfect welsh accent :o

My 10 year old says Bloody Hell! quite a lot, because Ron Weasley says it, in the Harry Potter films ..... Now it's not really much skin off my nose, but I do have to remind him the outside world may not approve ..

Oh maybe

That's what I thought ChippingIn if one of the DSs (5 and 3) had said it I don't think I'd have been amused, and there is like you say nothing wrong with Oh no, or even a Fifi style comment

cryhavoc that's definitely worth a name check!

Well I remember (showing my age here ) the old Batman programmes with Burt Ward and Adam West where Robin was always saying things like "Holy goldfish Batman!" and as a child I though that was swearing.