To think 'pratting around' is not swearing?

[MarioandLuigi]

DH told me off earlier when I said to DS he was 'Pratting around with his dinner'. We have a swear jar and he now I thinks I should put 50p in it.

Its not swearing is it?

Probably an area thing.

I don't see it as swearing, but at the same time I wouldn't want my kids using the word.

So I conclude it's more an 'adult' word than a 'swear' word.

How does 25p in the jar sound?

Untill recently I didn't know the word 'twat' was a swear word!!!

We seemed to use It as kids

Not swearing. Make your DH put in 50 for false arrest

Fine to me, although I might wince a little if my 5yo said it.

I think you need to put up a laminated list next to the swear jar along with the price for each particular word, so as to avid this sort of convusiomn in future:

Prat - 25p
Plonker - 30p
Arse - 50p
Bollocks - 50p
Shit - 75p
Fuck - £1

yanbu, i wouldn't class pratting around as a swear word

*avoid
*confusion

ahem, sorry.

I wouldn't class it as a swear word, and I also know someone with the surname of Pratt!

Prat actually means bottom.

I'm not sure about the laminated swear list by the jar, if I saw it as a 5 year old I'd have been tempted to pick it up read it out loud, especially since I wouldn't have known what the words meant.

YABU, not something I would say to my DS (3.5) and definitely not something I want him saying.

Ok its not the worse thing you can say but try to think if he repeats it after, you can't really tell him off for it.

Peppermint I don't think a shit should be more expensive than a Bollocks

Er, I was joking, Kaid :)

In from NE and was very shocked when I moved to London to hear the liberal use of the word 'twat'. In the NE that's the same as saying the C-word and worse then the F-word!!

I like Perpermints idea of different prices for different words.

Not swaring , but, as ds used to say "Not suitable a me!"

Call him a berk (Dh, not DS!) and see what he thinks!
If he doesn't think berk is worthy of 50p, neither should pratting around.

Our My swear jar is just for cunt, fuck, motherfucker, fuckbucket & shit, think I'd be owed a swear jar rebate if I said prat .

DS is nearly 11 and I wouldnt mind him saying it, which is my swearword benchmark :o.

Im not paying the fine. DH is only trying to catch me out as he has paid in way more than me, and its being collected soon.

a small child calling somebody a prat would probably get something said for rudeness, but using it as a verb is not swearing!

yy - like I say fannying about when he isnt getting ready for school, but I wouldnt call anyone a fanny.

I say fannying about too, its harmless enough I reckon

I've been using 'pratting' a lot lately. Also prannying. All to avoid 'fartarseing' which is obviously the verb required...

oooops I have said fartarsing too....... Need to curb my flippant tounge! I never say serious swear words but those two do slip out.... Need some code words, I do say PIA for pain in the arse

Isn't berk actually rhyming slang? From Berkeley Hunt? So it's actually v rude - a fact which would probably horrify my mum, who spent years using it as a 'safe' expletive when we were around...

LOL- I say fartarsing as well!!

Ha ha ha,

i'll call more people a berk now when I want to be rude on the sly

Ooh, I haven't fartarsed for ages! I'll start using that again!

And I agree, pratting isn't swearing at all.